This Week in Google 659: Keeping Up With the Higginbothams - a podcast by TWiT

from 2022-04-13T21:11:08

:: ::


  • Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06.

  • Twitter reverts change that left blank spaces in place of deleted embedded tweets.

  • How does Kevin Marks code his website?

  • Elon Musk Sued Over Delay in Disclosing Twitter (TWTR) Stake.

  • Elon Musk cancels town hall with Twitter employees after declining Twitter board seat.

  • In major reversal, Elon Musk won't join Twitter board.

  • Ukrainian power grid 'lucky' to withstand Russian cyber-attack.

  • TikTok's Russia strategy: Censorship, loopholes and propaganda.

  • Internet 'algospeak' is changing our language in real time, from 'nip nops' to 'le dollar bean'.

  • The mystery of ⍼, a Unicode character of unknown purpose.

  • How to Protect Children From Big Tech Companies.

  • Gilbert Gottfried Was the Voice of Clippy.

  • Big Tech Is Pouring $925 Million Into Carbon Removal.

  • Intel sets 2040 net zero goal for carbon emissions.

  • Amazon's IMDb TV changes its name to Freevee.

  • CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000 daily users.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Security Costs $26.8 Million for Meta.

  • Google quietly launches its awaited 'Switch to Android' app on iOS.

  • Google Fi drops prices for its unlimited plans and adds more data.

  • Google now lets you search for things you can't describe — by starting with a picture.

  • Google joins Samsung in working with iFixit on a self-repair program.

  • Latest Android 12 QPR3 Beta includes fix for Dirty Pipe exploit on Pixel 6.

  • DALL·E 2 can create original, realistic images and art from a text description.

  • New York's NFT vending machine.

  • Newmark puts $50 million into "cyber civil defense".

  • Roomba sucks up dogs tail.

  • 10 Audiobooks Narrators You Need To Follow on TikTok.

  • How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur.

  • Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal.

  • The Sandman: Book of Dreams by Stefano Massini.

  • The Lehman Trilogy.

  • Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart.

  • The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

Picks:


  • Stacey - Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

  • Jeff - Shein $100b valuation

  • Kevin - ElectricityMap.org: Carbon intensity energy map

  • Kevin - indieblog.page: Random indieweb page

  • Kevin - Web3 is going just great

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham


Guest: Kevin Marks


Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.


Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit


Sponsors:

Further episodes of All TWiT.tv Shows (Video)

Further podcasts by TWiT

Website of TWiT