Mar 10th 2021
This Week in Google 602
Random Penguin House
NFTs and creators, Google Empathy Lab, FLoC and cookies, Twitter reinvention
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mathew Ingram,
Trey Ratcliff
- What the heck are these NFTs all about?
- $10K for a virtual shoe? NFTs are here to create more sneakers you can't get
- Performance artist eats $120,000 banana duct-taped to wall, calls it 'delicious'
- After journalist complains about harassment women face, famous male journalists encourage more harassment of her
- NYU study: far-right misinformation is more engaging
- Inside the Google Empathy Lab
- Burger King's terrible tweet
- Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
- Google flags higher ad rates in France, Spain after digital tax
- Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
- Google hosting Cloud Next ‘21 conference in October, virtual/physical format not yet set
- Mobile World Congress says it will be in person in Spain in June
- For Creators, Everything Is for Sale
- Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you
- Twitter working on overhaul of Tweetdeck
- Twitter is Reinventing Itself
- Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets
- Russia moves to slow Twitter's speed after protest row
- Twitter sues Texas AG, claiming retaliation for Trump ban
- Texas governor wants to ban social media from banning
- A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House
- Camera-based Google Fit heart & respiratory rate tracking rolling out to Pixel
- Google Voice won't forward texts to outside #s anymore
- Google gives Chrome Android hub for its birthday
- Google Chrome moving to 4-week update cycle for faster feature rollouts
- Google Photos’ new advanced video editor starts rolling out
- Google Meet breakout rooms can now be set up before calls using Calendar
- Google TV ‘kids’ profiles’ arrive on Chromecast this month w/ parental controls, time limits
- Android Auto split-screen support begins rolling out for vehicles with wide-screen displays
- Follow our podcast': Apple Podcasts to stop using 'subscribe'
- Internet Archive Scholar launched
- Stanford AI Index
- Arby’s Has an Answer to Plant-Based Meat: A Meat-Based Carrot
- T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers
Picks:
- Mathew: Four year anniversary of this epic interview
- Mathew: Man builds video-rental store in his basement
- Jeff: Ending the Civil Journey
- Jeff: Pandemic blamed for plummeting birthrates across Europe
- Ant: Adobe Max Dates announced (virtually).
- Ant: Super Resolution Feature from Adobe Announced
- Ant: Story pissed me off, but there's a personal spin
- Leo: Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
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Links
- $10K for a virtual shoe? NFTs are here to create more sneakers you can't get
- Performance artist eats $120,000 banana duct-taped to wall, calls it 'delicious'
- After journalist complains about harassment women face, famous male journalists encourage more harassment of her
- NYU study: far-right misinformation is more engaging
- Inside the Google Empathy Lab
- Burger King's terrible tweet
- Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Google flags higher ad rates in France, Spain after digital tax
- Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
- Google hosting Cloud Next ‘21 conference in October, virtual/physical format not yet set
- Mobile World Congress says it will be in person in Spain in June
- For Creators, Everything Is for Sale
- Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
- Twitter working on overhaul of Tweetdeck
- Twitter is reinventing itself: interview with head of product
- Twitter tests undo
- Russia moves to slow Twitter's speed after protest row
- Twitter sues Texas
- Texas governor wants to ban social media from banning
- A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House - The New York Times
- Camera-based Google Fit heart & respiratory rate tracking rolling out to Pixel
- Google Voice won't forward texts to outside #s anymore
- Google gives Chrome Android hub for its birthday
- Google Chrome moving to 4-week update cycle for faster feature rollouts
- Google rolling out advanced video editing features
- Google Meet breakout rooms can now be set up before calls using Calendar
- Google TV ‘kids’ profiles’ arrive on Chromecast this month w/ parental controls, time limits
- Android Auto split-screen support begins rolling out for vehicles with wide-screen displays
- Follow our podcast': Apple Podcasts to stop using 'subscribe'
- Internet Archive Scholar launched
- Stanford AI Index
- Arby’s Has an Answer to Plant-Based Meat: A Meat-Based Carrot - The New York Times
- T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers - WSJ
- Four year anniversary of this epic interview
- Man builds video-rental store in his basement
- Ending the Civil Journey
- Pandemic blamed for plummeting birthrates across Europe
- Adobe Max Dates announced (virtually)
- Super Resolution Feature from Adobe Announced
- Story pissed me off, but there's a personal spin
- Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos