This Week in Google 646: The Opposite of Long Covid - a podcast by TWiT

• Taco Bell launches Taco Lover's Pass subscription nationwide with 30 days of tacos for $10.


• You can safely ignore Web3 by Mike Elgan.


• Web .0000012 by Jeff Jarvis.


• My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike.


• Signal: New year, new CEO.


• Casey Newton: How Signal is playing with fire w/untraceable financial transactions.


• 'Second time lucky?' FTC's case against Facebook can move forward, federal judge rules.


• After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful.


• Why Apple's iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble.


• Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won't say why.


• Samsung Electronics to Unveil Exynos 2200 AP on Launch Day of Galaxy 22.


• Cat on a hot satellite dish: Elon Musk's Starlink antenna hits surprise problem.


• Why is Zynga worth a whopping $12.7 billion? (Hint: It's not FarmVille).


• 500M Avira Antivirus Users Introduced to Cryptomining.


• Wordle - A daily word game.


• Google loses Sonos patent case, starts stripping functionality from speakers.


• An open letter to YouTube's CEO from the world's fact-checkers.


• Worst of CES: Right-to-repair name and shames terrible tech.


• Third-Party Software for Teslas Can Be Hacked, German Teen Says.


• E3 shifts to online-only event because of Omicron concerns.


• About 70 S.Korean attendees of U.S. tech show test positive for COVID-19.


• US man claims his penis has shrunk due to rare Covid side effect.


• When Axel Webber Was Rejected from Juilliard, TikTok Stepped In.


• Marques Brownlee: My Pixel 6 Pro has slowly gotten so buggy since launch in October that I can no longer recommend it at $900.


• Google rolling out Android 12L Beta 2 for Pixel phones.


• Google details changes to Speaker Group controls & device setup following Sonos ruling.


• Pixel Launcher 'At a Glance' widget gains doorbell camera previews, more.


• Now you can learn what's new in each Google Play system update for Android.


• Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more.


• The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism.


• The Athletic: Good for the Times, a potential disaster for local news.


• "Aw, screw it": LAPD cops hunted Poke?mon instead of responding to robbery.


• We're Giving Wyze Person Detection to All Users at Whatever Price You Want.

Picks:

• Mike - Chatterbox is the only smart speaker that meets EDUCATIONAL and PRIVACY standards


• Jeff - Most populous time zone


• Leo - Morgan Stanely out with quite the note on the idea of the mobile metaverse


• Ant - A great time on Behind the Shot TV with Steve Brazill and Don Komarechka


• Ant - #hardhead Modeled for Me and Jefferson Graham at Balmy Alley

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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