TWiG 609: Put Garlic On My Shopping List - Google and Apple earnings, Dogecoin, Basecamp drama, Google IO '21 - a podcast by TWiT

from 2021-04-28T22:03:03

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  • Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms

  • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies

  • Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1, up 46 percent

  • Google Fiber coming to another Utah city

  • Sundar Pichai talks about COVID in India

  • Google's Oscar commercial

  • Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks

  • Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban

  • Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers

  • 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

  • What really happened at Basecamp

  • YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue

  • Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

  • Comic unapologetic about putting garlic on fans shopping lists

  • Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel

  • Google Fi marks 6th birthday with new 'Simply Unlimited' plan that lacks 'Unlimited Plus' extras

  • Google-run Android Earthquake Alerts System is now providing warnings in first two countries

  • Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command

  • Google Photos for Android rolling out new 'Sharpen' and 'Denoise' editor tools

  • Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command

  • YouTube adds even more video resolution controls and options on mobile

  • It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia's 172 games

  • Kevin Tofel: Looks like I'm going to be a GT Yellow Jacket

  • What Old Tiktok-ERs Look like (by Ant)

  • Be Mindful Of The Dance Moves You're Doing On Tiktok

  • Pichai teases 'significant' announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal

  • Google posts I/O 2021 schedule, starting with Sundar Pichai keynote on May 18 at 10 a.m

  • Samsung unpacks its Galaxy Book Pro, Pro 360 and more

  • Amazon sees 'positive outcome' in FCC's SpaceX satellite ruling

  • Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life

  • Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42

  • Introducing Immersive View, A Fun New Way to Meet

  • 90s Kids Guide to the Internet

  • WaPo reports on brain interfaces with a touch of moral panic

  • She never returned a VHS of Sabrina and 20 years later faced a felony

  • Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL

Picks:


  • Stacey - Ember Mug

  • Jeff - Oscar Viewership Rises To 10.4M In Final Numbers

  • Ant - I Finally Created an NFT (Why not?)

  • Ant - My Newest Short Film

  • Ant - Photo Pursuit: Stories Behind the Photographs


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