This Week in Google 729: Waffle Party - a podcast by TWiT

• Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more


• Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time


• Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising


• Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices


• Google using AI to generate key points in web pages


• Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results


• YouTube cracking down on videos promoting ineffective cancer cures


• Google Photos getting AI-powered auto-generated titles and organization


• Google Slides enabling presenters to draw and annotate while presenting


• Changes coming to YouTube Shorts, including blocking links to combat spam


• Google's hotel for employees during COVID now offering discounted rates as they push back towards in-office work


• California allowing self-driving cars to operate in San Francisco 24/7, leading to traffic jams


• Google eliminating many of its private label consumer product brands due to poor sales and distrust


• Internet Archive being sued by record labels for digitizing and hosting out of print 78rpm records


• Update on researcher Joan Donovan's firing from Harvard and new role at Boston University


• Proposal for new rules regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act


• Analysis of surveillance capitalism and its effects on society


• Discussion on public distrust of medical institutions and ""elite"" doctors


• Speculation on Elon Musk's erratic behavior on Twitter including visiting Mark Zuckerberg's house


• Review of the movie Oppenheimer and how its portrayal connects to the ethical dilemmas of technology


• Several lighter topics including bollards on Twitter, introducing grandparents to TikTok, and AI-generated poetry

Picks:

• Stacey - Homey Pro


• Jeff - She introduced Grandpa to TikTok


• Ant - Better Smartphone Photography with Lisa Carney at Donner Lake


• Ant - In-Person or Online: How You Can Support Maui Wildfire Relief

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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