This Week in Google 624: The Ladies' Menu - a podcast by TWiT

from 2021-08-11T20:49:43

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  • Apple's Mistake – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

  • The End Of Ownership: How Big Companies Are Trying To Turn Everyone Into Renters.

  • Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas.

  • Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 announced with S Pen support and water resistance.

  • Samsung breaks the triple-digit barrier w/ Galaxy Z Flip 3 priced at $999.

  • The Galaxy Watch 4 injects Samsung's capable hardware with Google software.

  • Giving kids and teens a safer experience online.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Suspended by Twitter After 'Fourth Strike'.

  • YouTube's algorithm is not radicalizing people according to a study by leading scholars.

  • Salt_Hank on TikTok.

  • End of the line for Uber.

  • Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Four: Uber Loses Another $6.8 Billion.

  • Google Pixel 5A Launching Later This Month at $450.

  • Google Launches Program To Hire More People With Autism.

  • Google reportedly planning a new Silicon Valley campus with a hardware center.

  • Google Fiber ending TV services in Austin, Atlanta; concentrating on internet service.

  • YouTube, Google Launch New Protections for Kids Under 18.

  • Google prominently adding Air Quality (AQI) info to Nest Hub, Hub Max in the US.

  • Google rolling out Android 12 Beta 4 for Pixel phones with 'Platform Stability'

  • Google is adding an interactive periodic table to search.

  • Google Home 2.42 adds Nest Cam/Doorbell support, preps setting per-Device DNS and ADT.

  • YouTube for Android now lets you skip video chapters with a two-finger double-tap.

  • TCL announces new 6-series and 5-series TVs with Google TV instead of Roku.

  • Tweetshelf, alternative to Nuzzel.

  • Twitter AI bias contest shows beauty filters hoodwink the algorithm.

Picks:


  • Stacey - Filtrete Smart Air Purifiers

  • Jeff - Pompeii's fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public

  • Ant - Adobe's Rising Stars of Photography

  • Ant - My Amazon Driver is Better Than Yours


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