This Week in Google (Audio)

Tik Tok+Microsoft+Trump, Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Here's everything Samsung announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2020 X PRIZE $1M Next-Gen Mask Challenge We spend as much time on the Pixel 4a announcement as Google did. Twitter hack "mastermind" arrested: 17-year-old Florida teen had access to all your Twitter info. Why Trump is mad at Tik Tok, and why Microsoft wants to buy them Why Tik Tok videos are the most important artform of 2020 The growing use of Instagram as a news source Samsung is still pushing Dex with a Microsoft integration Bye, Bye Bixby - Samsung doesn't mention it at Unpacked 2020 as its founder leaves the business and Google moves in Here's everything Samsung announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2020 More 5G bandwidths are on the way Twitter patches bug in Android 8 and 9 versions of the app TIL: Animals lick their fur to get Vitamin D Get rid of gas: chew better and season with epazote Why Google bought a big chunk of ADT The Google Changelog: Yahoo kills community captions | Nearby Share | RIP Google Play Music | Google Camera 7.5 | Google live-captioning Google Pay digital bank accounts | new Gboard suggestions | Free Stadia Pro games | Don't talk about Pixel Club! Google offers $10 million bond Picks of the Week: Leo's Tool: Avocado Mask and Shirt from Abrazos in San Miguel De Allende Stacey's Thing: BraveTarts Jeff's Numbers: 1/3-1/2 of biz travel will go away because Zoom Ant's Stuff: Inexpensive photo hack Karsten's Mask: 3D Printed Mask with Filters - comes custom printed in many colors Zak's College Fund: Analogue Pocket on eBay Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/twig LastPass.com/twit monday.com/TWIT

Antitrust Hearings, We Rate Zuck's Zoom Bkgd, Google Extends WFH to July 2021 Rating the Zoom backgrounds of the tech titans With all the competing political concerns, what should the government do with big tech? Google wants Samsung to drop Bixby. Could Google and Samsung team up to make the perfect Android phone? Google says its employees can stay home until July 2021. Are you ready for another year of quarantine? Google gets its own international cable Staceysplaining the Quantum Internet The Google Changelog: Message emoji reply | Motion Editor | Store price matches | The Matchup | YouTube's Summer of Movies CES will be online-only in 2021 Snooker World Championship has smaller balls Streaming takes over the Emmys Robots take the fashion world by storm AI employee fools Russian design firm Samsung Note 20 coming August 5th All Dogs in Shenzen will be microchipped by the end of the year Woz sues YouTube over bitcoin hack Tech to keep Alexa from spying on you Leo's Tool: Vocodes. Vocal playground. Stacey's Thing: FOOT SPA!!!! Jeff's Number: Mackenzie Scott giving away $1.7b Ant's Stuff: Faded Words Karsten's Mask: Uvex Bionic Face Shield: Whether you're facing down Karens in the line at Starbucks or Federal thugs in Portland, the Uvex Bionic Face Shield is your best bet for full face protection. Karsten got his at National Tool Warehouse. Cheaper option: Amazon now selling its in-house-designed face shield at cost - CNET Karsten also loves Ben Heck and got to produce him for half a second at Revision 3. Here is Ben's AutoMask. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT1 monday.com/TWIT

Twitter hack fallout: some verified Twitter accounts are still down Zuckerberg pinkie swears that he doesn't have a deal with Trump Softbank wants to sell ARM - will Nvidia buy it? Tesla's next gigafactory will be built in Austin Twitter bans thousands of Q-Anon accounts Google's camera wizard goes to Adobe How Linotype worked Canon EOS R5 review FTC Facebook Antitrust Giphy drama Eric Schmitt wants to start a university for artificial intelligence coders Cisco's Indian caste system discrimination suit EU voice assistant antitrust suit Electric clocks in Europe are falling behind - time to mine bitcoin Google Changelog: authenticated logos | Shoploop | Google Maps Bikeshare | Life in a Day Smoked Queso recipe from Meat Church Tik Tok might move to America Picks of the Week: Stacey's Thing: Camera mount for a telescope Jeff's Numbers: Amazon is the #1 US Advertiser: $7b spent Ant's Pick 1: Lexicon Valley Podcast Ant's Pick 2: Trumpatine - Trump tweets read by Emperor Palpatine Karsten's mask 1: Fiber Optic Light-Up Mask Karsten's mask 2: 10 popular masks everyone is buying on Amazon Karsten's mask 3: These "movie monsters" face masks are the coolest way to stay safe and support a good cause Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: monday.com/TWIT Zendesk.com/twit GetRoman.com/TWIG

GINORMOUS TWITTER HACK Elon Musk, Obama, BillGates, and other verified Twitter accounts hacked in bitcoin scam All verified Twitter accounts shut down Zoom debuts a $600 all-in-one videoconference device Alabama is the only state not investigating Google for antitrust Twitter partner Dataminr sold Black Lives Matter protest surveillance to police Facebook might ban political ads - is this a good idea? Amazon shows off Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that automatically checks you out Google Ngram gets a huge upgrade Why Tik Tok is winning, and why it is dangerous US cyber attacked Russian trolls in 2018 Google's ATAP invents a remote control for your smart home Eric Schmitt's secret summer camp Apple wins $14.5 Billion Irish Tax battle on appeal Roman roads as a subway map The Google Changelog: Gmail integrates Meet, Chat, and Docs | Google Photos adds recent photos filter | Google Lens shortcut | Google Fit adds YouTube Playlists | 15 Years of Google Earth | Zoombombing protection for Google Meet Leo's Tool 1: WindowSwap Leo's Tool 2: Leo's mask fitters arrived! Stacey's Thing: 9 Words Formed by Mistakes Jeff's Number 1: Quibi lost 90% of free subscribers Jeff's Number 2: Disney+ signups increased by 641% due to Hamilton Ant's Stuff: BTS Ant's COVID-19 Regs Karsten's Mask: Bluetooth-connected face mask that can record conversations, amplify the wearer's voice, make phone calls, transcribe speech into texts and translate Japanese speech into 8 different languages. Leo's Mask: UVMask: Real-Time UV-C Filtration & Purification Face Mask Jeff's Mask: Martyn Percy shows off a mask by Cecilie Birk Dehli Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: twit.cachefly.com

Google details its new "Works With Google" smart home program and IoT partners Google briefly mentions its partnership with Apple and Amazon to develop a new IoT standard - details still to come MacOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM are both ARM implementations, but are they compatible? Will Windows be able to run on Macs? Twitter stock goes crazy over the possibility that Twitter will add a subscription service How will schools open in the fall? Facebook's subscription service The Bezos future: do we really want Amazon to take over everything so Jeff Bezos can send us to space? Walmart will launch an Amazon Prime competitor later in July Rethinking late-stage capitalism Google Changelog: RIP Pixel 3a, Loon Internet in Kenya, traffic lights in Google Maps, Google Fiber in West Des Moines Iowa, Android 11 Beta 2, YouTube TV price hike Tech titans vs journalists and writers vs social media: cultural aggression online The mystery shopper who is leaving behind dozens of shopping carts has online merchants flummoxed Japan bans screaming on rollercoasters Fraunhover creates a new h.266 VVC codec to shrink video files even more - but Google won't use it US might ban Tik Tok, Tik Tok leaves Hong Kong Uber requires masks for drivers and riders Gina Trapani was way ahead of her time: Wave and a revolution in document creation Ghost kitchens: how Covid will change our culture and our parking lots University of the People: how education will change in the future Leo's Tool: Project Audio for GitHub Stacey's Thing: Eufy Video Doorbell 2k Jeff's Number: Ben Evans Slide 18: 40% of heterosexual couples met online Karsten's Mask: Need a mask that works with FaceID? Order a custom mask of your lower face! Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Section 230 FAQ, Social Media Bans, CCPA What the F is Section 230? US Senate waters down the EARN IT Act (but it still sucks), and more Section 230 news Section 230: history repeats itself Parler starts banning users YouTube, Reddit, and Twitch ban accounts What should Facebook do about content moderation? Zuckerberg will meet with advertisers over ad boycotts Twitch bans President Trump Tik Tok is doing some super shady stuff; India bans it. Buy the game developed by the CIA! The first innocent person arrested using face recognition All the ways police are using tech to track protestors California Consumer Privacy Act now in force - here's what it means to you Cook, Pichai, Bezos, and Zuckerberg meeting congress for anti-trust hearings US Supreme Court rules that generic website names can be trademarked Microsoft closes its retail stores Who pivoted better, Netflix or Microsoft? Google quires smart glasses company North Watch TWiT's coverage of the Google's smart home event July 8th YouTube TV raises its price to $65/month Ant's Thing: Hand on Tech: SENNHEISER MKE 400 REVIEW - Shotgun Mic for DLSR/Mirrorless Cameras Ant's Thing 2: Peck of the week Jeff's Thing: Popup pods for a safe office Jeff's Number: When it's cold outside, it's hot on Twitter Mike's Stuff: Trust and Safety Professional Association Mike's Stuff 2: Trust and Safety Foundation Karsten's Mask: Techdirt's YouTube Takedown Mask Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mike Masnick Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code TWIT LastPass.com/twit

Apple shifts to its own chips - will Google? The fastest computer in the world runs on ARM Apple Silicon Macs won't run Windows in Boot Camp iOS 14 takes the best features of Android - widgets, calls, picture-in-picture, etc. What comes after Zoom? Pixel 4a coming in July - maybe even July 7th Sergey Brin's secret disaster relief squad Amazon Kills the Dash Wand Amazon wants Live TV, NBC launches Peacock Twitter wins Devin Nunes' Cow suit Mike Masnick's Bad Section 230 Takes Jeff Jarvis's proposal to stop passing dumb tech laws Reminiscing about The Site Leo's Tool: Hey Email Ant's Thing: Photo Quest by Rick Sammon Jeff's Numbers: First decline in Google ad revenue because Covid, Amazon and Facebook ad revenue still up Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: GetRoman.com/TWIG LastPass.com/twit expressvpn.com/twig

Watch Stacey's Machine Learning on the Edge Conference! Watch Leo on Alex Lindsay's Office Hours! Leo buys a $75,000 Boston Dynamics Spot robot Google puts Juneteenth on Google Calendar, creates a racial equity task force Google did not demonetize The Federalist Conservatives want to limit Google's and other social media's Section 230 protections Facebook and Instagram will let you block political ads, help 4 million people register to vote How to record Twitter audio clips Twitter removes Chinese, Turkish, and Russian propaganda accounts How the CIA was hacked in Vault 7 Google tries to fight Zoom by adding Meet to Gmail Adobe Flash will finally die this year Why T-Mobile was down, and what the FCC will do about it Why the Internet Archive bought a record store US no longer in top 10 internet speed countries eBay executives send journalists roaches and a pig mask Leo's Tool: Bellus 3D Printed Mask Guards Stacey's Thing: The End of October by Lawrence Wright Jeff's Numbers: 21 years ago investment in Google Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: WWT.COM/TWIT1

Amazon bans police use of their face recognition tech for 1 year Android 11 public beta: how to install it Collapse OS: a post-apocalyptic operating system US Space Force could lose trademark to Netflix Space Force Google shipped 7.2 million Pixel phones in 2019 Pixel Buds get a fix for the wrong problem Google sued for sucking up data about you Google+ is shutting down for real this time Googlers have to eat box lunches, no gym, no sleep pods Google Wing drones bring books to children DuckDuckGo CEO says Google is in anti-trust trouble Protest organizers are using Google Docs Jeff Jarvis' letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook "Dear Class of 2020" highlights How 2020 is like 1968 Bon Appetit apologizes, Conde Nast dithers Twitter makes Juneteenth a permanent company holiday Nascar nixes Confederate battle flag Why the NFL should apologize to Colin Kaepernick in private Get Doom and Doom II for free on your Chromebook Amazon sues former employee over a non-compete clause Twitter: read that article before you retweet it Twitter starts verifying people again - if they are COVID scientists Jack Dorsey gives $3 mil to Colin Kaepernick's org No encryption for free Zoom users so they can cooperate with the police ACLU sues Los Angeles for tracking scooter users Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian quits, asks to be replaced by a black man. Reddit replaces him with Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Jeff gets a Taco Bell care package CES 2021 is happening in-person. Would you go? Google delays Android 11 beta event out of respect for Black Lives Matter protests YouTube drops the 3rd season of Cobra Kai, pivots away from scripted TV Facebook employees walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to stand up to Trump Snapchat stops promoting Donald Trump over his tweets Here's how much money Donald Trump spends on Facebook More people are complaining about Pixel Buds AT&T says HBO Max will not count towards data caps, but Netflix and Disney+ will The German newspaper that is delivering beer, shoes, bread, and office supplies to people sheltering in place Elon Musk is taking a break from Twitter Netflix buys Grauman's Egyptian Theater so its features can win Oscars Italian prosecutor demands the banning of Project Gutenberg's collection of public domain books over copyright infringement. Publishers sue the Internet Archive for online book lending. Here's a better way to borrow e-books. Third Pixel Drop fixes your battery, improves Recorder, and makes bedtime better Google's new AR tool makes social distancing easy Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco California's anti-freelancer law under attack Switzerland: companies must pay rent for their employees who are working from home Google employees get a day off on May 22nd Twitter labels Trump tweet about mail-in-ballots "Get the facts," Trump threatens to shut down all social media Half of the tweets calling to "reopen America" are made by bots Pixel 4a not coming out until July 13th We are strip-mining the US economy, especially in the news business Google launches a podcast about Google CBS buys Some Good News, but won't get John Krasinski Prime Day moving to September Amazon launching local podcasts. Everybody else is launching podcasts, as well US court rules that FBI can't look at your phone's lock screen without a warrant Electric Taste Machine Electric Smell Machine Magic Leap stays alive, gets $350 Million- Google discontinues first Google Home Taco Bell doesn't want to pay Quibi for their ads, because nobody is watching HBO Max launches today, to the confusion of everyone What kind of Zoom user are you? Every Zoom user, illustrated by cats Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit expressvpn.com/twig

Why didn't IoT predict COVID-19 and how it can help in the future Zoom vs StreamYard vs HopIn.to vs Whereby vs ZoomCast Google bans Podcast Addict for hosting COVID podcasts - back now Super Spreaders and Covid-19 Spotify buys Joe Rogan podcast for $100 Million New York Times builds its own ad network Apple and Google release coronavirus contact tracing API Google is making a new Nest Hub Max interface for Senior Centers Facebook launches Shops to compete with Amazon and Rooms to compete with Zoom Amazon gives T-shirts to all the employees whose pay they are cutting Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for $3.4 billion Rumor: Amazon will buy JCPenney First species discovered on Twitter eats millipede genitals Twitter tests a way to limit who can reply to your tweets Google tests touch-sensitive headphone wires Google Buds vs Galaxy Buds vs Surface Buds Google fights back against accusations that it has cut diversity programs IFA will be live this year - 5,000 attendees only USA vs Huawei vs Apple B8ta launches Shopsafely.co to rate retailer safety Protocol is the new GigaOm The new work-from-home calculus - when will big tech workers go back? Microsoft Build news: RTOS, Fluid Framework, and Azure supercomputers Picks of the Week Leo's Tool: Hugo Leo's Tool 2: SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator Stacey's Thing: Level Lock Stacey's Thing 2: Machine Learning at the Edge Virtual Conference Jeff's Number: WeWork value falls from $47b to $3b Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: expressvpn.com/twig

How to Work From Home Forever Zoom fatigue is a real thing Twitter employees can work from home forever - do you want to go back to the office? Google employees are charging their shelter-at-home lunches to their expense account Pixel shake-up - top members of the Pixel team have left Google Jarvis' Pixel Buds are still busted - and now so are Jason Howell's Pixel Buds will get feature drops Jeffrey Katzenberg blames Covid-19 for Quibi's failure Google Meet captions are incredible Jeff interviews the voice of Steak-Umms Taco Bell Quarterly - Taco Bell Poetry Can Facebook possibly regulate itself? Google's Sidewalk project in Toronto is canceled Facebook's new American Edge pro-tech advocacy group Amazon hired 175,000 new workers to deal with COVID order spikes Amazon's new Kindle Fire Netflix and Amazon Prime win the streaming wars Hamilton coming to Disney+ July 3rd Uber tries to buy GrubHub Australia wants Google to pay for news snippets Doomscrolling Luminary podcast network raises another $30 million to burn France gives platforms one hour to remove pedophilia and terrorism-related content Picks of the Week Leo's Tool: Scunthorpe Sans - A s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically Stacey's Thing: August Wi-Fi Smart Lock Jeff's Numbers: 1.8m people pretend to be ants on FB Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: WWT.COM/TWIT

Pixel Buds Problem, Pew Die Pie's YouTube Deal New Pixel Buds have a major problem Elon Musk and Grimes' baby X AE A-12 Governor Cuomo appoints Eric Schmitt to COVID panel Does technology help education? What lessons are we learning from distance learning? Apple/Google contact tracing API sample code Bruce Schneier: contact tracing apps have absolutely no value PewDiePie gets an exclusive YouTube deal Some Good News, YouTube, and Facebook hold online graduation ceremonies Facebook announces 20 members of its oversight board Serena and Venus Williams' Mario Tennis match Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay .org sale called off Tik Tok is a hard place to make money Wink moves to a subscription model New Sonos speakers New York shuts down the subway for the first time ever Twitter will warn you before you send a vulgar tweet Tom Cruise and NASA will make a movie in space Picks of the Week Leo's Tool: Jukebox Stacey's Thing: Level Lock Jeff's Numbers: Zoom is worth more than all US Airlines Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: LastPass.com/twit

Elon Musk vs Coronavirus, Facebook and Oprah's Virtual Graduation Elon Musk: "FREE AMERICA NOW!" Colleges worry they will go out of business if they stay closed in the fall. Is Zoom the answer? What we don't know about Coronavirus is as important as what we do know - how media needs to improve Mark Zuckerberg tightens his control of Facebook Jeff Bezos back to day-to-day operations at Amazon Apple/Google virus contact tracing API launches today Facebook and Oprah hold a virtual graduation ceremony for the class of 2020 Berkeley Students recreate campus in Minecraft Google requires all advertisers to verify their identities Yale Law Journal: advertising is obsolete in the information age Google Meet is now free for all Waze tests lane advice Google kills Shoelace, the social network nobody knew about Picks of the Week Leo's Tool: Sourdough Discard Recipes Mathew's Thing: Boston Dynamics' Spot helps COVID-19 patients Jeff's Numbers: Cotter dog derby Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Mathew Ingram Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: eero.com/twit code TWIT