This Week in Google 614: Swipe Down For Frog - a podcast by TWiT

from 2021-06-02T22:02:25

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  • Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

  • New UK Cookie Guidance changes everything

  • Google diversity head in 2007: Jews have 'insatiable appetite for war'

  • Trump blog page shuts down for good

  • Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs for IoT security bolstering

  • Google gets enthusiastic green light for a multi-billion-dollar San Jose campus

  • Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily

  • Google Nears Settlement of Ad-Tech Antitrust Case in France

  • Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup

  • YouTube Says It Paid Out $4 Billion to Music Industry Over Past 12 Months

  • Amazon Introduces Tiny 'ZenBooths' for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers

  • Cannabis stocks rally after Amazon endorses legalization

  • Amazon Faced 75,000 Arbitration Demands. Now It Says: Fine, Sue Us

  • Pennsylvania police chief charged after threatening citizen over critical Facebook posts

  • Fall River police officer suspended for Facebook post after Derek Chauvin verdict

  • Philly police officer fired over Facebook posts reinstated

  • Orange County deputy suspended over TikTok videos

  • A California teenager pushed a bear off her property in the wildest TikTok video

  • Chrome OS 91 rolling out: Nearby Share launch, app notification badges, and more

  • Chrome for Android adds a built-in screenshot tool and editor in the Share menu

  • Apple TV app is now available on all Android TV devices, too

  • Google Search adds fabulous Pride Month Easter egg

  • Google rolls out 'Weather Frog' clock to Nest Hub and Hub Max

  • Google Meet web redesign rolling out now with full availability in June

  • You can now quickly present Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to ongoing Meet calls

  • Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion

  • The NFT market bubble has popped and we've got the charts to prove it

Picks:


  • Stacey - A Memory Called Empire

  • Jeff - A Rural-Urban Broadband Divide, but Not the One You Think Of

  • Jeff - Thomas Baekdal Naomi Osaka thread

  • Ant - Why Netflix's New Series High on the Hog Is a Must-Watch

  • Ant - Halston on Netflix

  • Ant - The CHAMP is HERE


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