This Week in Google 605: Sausage Fingers - a podcast by TWiT

from 2021-03-31T23:10:07

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  • How a full moon and a 'huge lever' helped free Ever Given from Suez canal

  • Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom

  • LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival, too

  • Spotify enters live social audio with acquisition of Locker Room

  • The Unofficial Twitter Spaces FAQ

  • Discord's new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now

  • Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It's Now Valued at $1 Billion

  • Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

  • Google testing Memory as add-on to assistant: combination of to-do list, notes app, reading list, Pinterest

  • Google Stack, to organize your (paper) documents

  • Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files

  • Don't shun Dr. Google — researching mysterious symptoms online is actually a good idea, study finds

  • T-Mobile is betting big on Google's Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and more

  • HoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion deal

  • Google canceling April Fools' Day jokes for the second year in a row

  • Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility

  • Amazing Icelandic volcano drone footage

  • Twitter's 'unofficial mayor' Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment

  • You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango

  • Facebook sets reopening date for S.F., Bay Area offices, with no free food and no transit

  • Google: Some workers are likely to return to U.S. offices in April

  • Periscope shuts down today

  • Socially distanced dance troupe

  • Sources: Google's next wireless earbuds are the 'Pixel Buds A'

  • Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps

  • Google Meet extending 'unlimited' video calls for free Gmail accounts to June

  • Google TV rolling out 'Kids Profiles' to Chromecast now

  • Say "Hey Google..." to the new Fiat 500 Family

  • YouTube tests hiding dislike counts in response to targeted campaigns, improve wellbeing

  • Verizon will shut down its 3G network in 2022

  • I Like That The Boat Is Stuck

Picks:


  • Mike - Hey World

  • Mike - AeroPress Go

  • Mike - ImprovedTube

  • Jeff - SHARGE: World Smallest 65W 3-Port Laptop & USB Wall Charger

  • Ant - I Created Some Lightroom and Capture One Presets


Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt


Guest: Mike Elgan


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