Jul 28th 2021
This Week in Google 622
Rocket to Hawaii
Alphabet earnings, Facebook Metaverse, Blizzard protest, Mystery Soda Machine
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Marks
- Alphabet crushes Q2 earnings estimates as Google Cloud cuts losses, grows 54%
- Sundar Pichai: Fall Pixel line showcases Android 12 & ‘deep tech investments,’ touts long-term strategy
- Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11
- How Google Cloud plans to kill its ‘Killed By Google’ reputation
- Why is China smashing its tech industry?
- NYC to Shanghai in 40 minutes: SpaceX’s goal for point-to-point space travel
- Galène videoconference server
- Facebook announces Metaverse product group headed by Instagram VP Vishal Shah
- Who will own the metaverse?
- The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite
- Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest
- State AGs will appeal loss in Facebook case
- Facebook to limit ads children see after revelations Australian alcohol companies can reach teens
- Bezos offers to cover $2 billion in exchange for NASA contract
- Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices
- Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV
- Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X
- Mystery Soda Machine
- Privacy Sandbox Timeline
- Faster and more efficient phishing detection in M92
- Google Drive will let you block other users to stop potential harassment
- Here’s what that Google Drive “security update” message means
- Google Assistant rolling out ‘Fast checkout’ shopping, powered by Duplex on the Web
- ‘Backup by Google One’ is Android’s new unified backup system
- YouTube creators can now apply to test the Stadia Crowd Play Beta
- Android Studio Arctic Fox is now available w/ Wear OS pairing and Jetpack Compose
- Google's vision of Android development is finally realized with Jetpack Compose 1.0
- Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from a subscription news app, Brief
- Twitter pilots a new shopping section for brands
- Twitter posts fastest revenue growth since 2014 in pandemic rebound
- Twitter reveals a surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate
Picks:
- Jason - My LIkes playlist in YouTube Music
- Leo - YouTube TV for Olympics in 4K
- Kevin - John Peel sessions
- Kevin - Hyperland by Douglas Adams
- Ant - Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter
- Ant - Some Disagree and I Get it, But...
- Ant - I can't stop laughing at this
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Links
- Alphabet crushes Q2 earnings estimates as Google Cloud cuts losses, grows 54%
- Sundar Pichai: Fall Pixel line showcases Android 12 & ‘deep tech investments,’ touts long-term strategy
- Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11
- How Google Cloud plans to kill its ‘Killed By Google’ reputation
- Why is China smashing its tech industry?
- NYC to Shanghai in 40 minutes: SpaceX’s goal for point-to-point space travel
- Galène videoconference server
- Facebook announces Metaverse product group headed by Instagram VP Vishal Shah
- Who will own the metaverse?
- The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite
- Activision Blizzard Employees Are Walking Out in Protest
- State AGs will appeal loss in Facebook case
- Facebook to limit ads children see after revelations Australian alcohol companies can reach teens
- Bezos offers to cover $2 billion in exchange for NASA contract
- Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices
- Olympics Broadcaster Announces His Computer Password on Live TV
- Elon Musk confirms Tesla will not offer a regular steering wheel on new Model S/X
- Mystery Soda Machine
- Privacy Sandbox Timeline
- Faster and more efficient phishing detection in M92
- Google Drive will let you block other users to stop potential harassment - The Verge
- Here’s what that Google Drive “security update” message means
- Google Assistant rolling out ‘Fast checkout’ shopping, powered by Duplex on the Web
- ‘Backup by Google One’ is Android’s new unified backup system
- YouTube creators can now apply to test the Stadia Crowd Play Beta
- Android Studio Arctic Fox is now available w/ Wear OS pairing and Jetpack Compose
- Google's vision of Android development is finally realized with Jetpack Compose 1.0
- Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief
- Twitter pilots a new shopping section for brands
- Twitter posts fastest revenue growth since 2014 in pandemic rebound
- Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate
- John Peel sessions
- Douglas Adams - Hyperland
- Nine Nasty Words by John McWhorter
- Some Disagree and I Get it, But....
- I can't stop laughing at this