May 5th 2021
This Week in Google 610
Honey I Shrunk the Carters
Google's privacy robot, more Stadia departures, Google IO predictions
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Google offices upon return: Privacy robot bubble walls, individual air, box lunches, no shuttles
- How Basecamp blew up
- Google Is Saving Over $1 Billion a Year by Working From Home
- Pichai teases ‘significant’ announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
- Apple hires an ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings
- Google Nest Hub shows up at Bluetooth SIG running ‘Fuchsia 1.0’
- Google announces ‘Pixel Buds A-Series’ in inadvertent unveil
- Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
- Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts to Launch Its Upgraded Starship Prototype Rocket
- Google's next Pixel phone could hop on the ultrawide bandwagon with Samsung and Apple
- Chromebooks dominate the global PC market to 275% growth, with HP leading the charge
- Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World
- Oversight Board's decision on Trump
- Jarvis thread on the decision: they punted
- Florida is set to ban 'deplatforming' by tech companies
- Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned
- Facebook to give $5m to local journalists covering communities
- Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ in FCC’s SpaceX satellite ruling
- Twitter acquires Scroll, a big deal for its pay strategy & for the news industry's post-ad strategy
- New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs
- Yahoo and AOL, Early Internet Pioneers, Are Sold to Private Equity Firm
- John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”
- The computers are getting better at writing
- Gary Vaynerchuk: NFT is the next Amazon
- Dogecoin Co-Creator Sold All His Coins For Just Enough To Afford A Used Honda Civic In 2015 — Now DOGE Is Bigger Than Honda
- Sony ditches DSLRs, moving the camera industry beyond film-era designs
- Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters
- It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia’s 172 games
- Google Assistant Will Now Finally Be Able to Say Your Name Correctly
- Google Is Bringing a Google TV-Like Experience to Android Tablets
- YouTube begins testing time-linked comments on videos
Picks:
- Jason - UAD Apollo Twin X
- Jeff - Matrix mold for the letter H
- Ant - Panfurware Music for Creators
- Ant - FLOSS Weekly's SSI and DEMOSCENE Discussion
- Ant - Younger #Hardhead Beats His Older Brother
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Links
- Google offices upon return: Privacy robot bubble walls, individual air, box lunches, no shuttles
- How Basecamp blew up
- Google Is Saving Over $1 Billion a Year by Working From Home
- Pichai teases ‘significant’ announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal.
- Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings
- "Big Fuchsia news at IO incoming? Google Nest Hub shows up at Bluetooth SIG running ‘Fuchsia 1.0’ "
- Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
- Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts to Launch Its Upgraded Starship Prototype Rocket
- Google's next Pixel phone could hop on the ultrawide bandwagon with Samsung and Apple.
- Chromebooks dominate the global PC market to 275% growth, with HP leading the charge
- Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World
- Oversight Board's decision on Trump
- Jarvis thread on the decision: they punted
- Florida is set to ban 'deplatforming' by tech companies
- Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned
- FB to give $5m to local journalists covering communities
- Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ in FCC’s SpaceX satellite ruling
- Twitter acquires Scroll, a big deal for its pay strategy & for news industry's post-ad strategy
- New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs
- Verizon offloads Yahoo, Aol for $5b
- John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”
- New Yorker: The computers are getting better at writing (AI mimicking writers' style)
- Gary Vaynerchuk: NFT is the next Amazon
- Dogecoin Co-Creator Sold All His Coins For Just Enough To Afford A Used Honda Civic In 2015 — Now DOGE Is Bigger Than Honda - Ho
- For Ant: Sony ditches DSLRs, moving the camera industry beyond film-era designs
- Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters
- It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia’s 172 games
- Google Assistant Will Now Finally Be Able to Say Your Name Correctly.
- Google Is Bringing a Google TV-Like Experience to Android Tablets
- YouTube begins testing time-linked comments on videos
- Apollo Twin X
- Panfurware Music for Creators
- FLOSS Weekly's SSI and DEMOSCENE Discussion
- Younger #Hardhead Beats His Older Brother