TWiG 470: Sparkle Vamps




This Week in Google (Audio) show

Summary: <ul> <li>Data and Society's Joan Donovan tells us how to stop online hate.</li> <li>Leo explains why Google's location history tracking policy is a big deal.</li> <li>Google is working on its own Amazon Show competitor.</li> <li>NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its AI systems.</li> <li>At the Hot Chips conference, Google's Pixel Visual Core and AMD's chip roadmap are all the rage.</li> <li>Facebook wants to rate how trustworthy you are to fight fake news</li> <li>Changelog: new Google Fit and some good news</li> <li>Everything you ever wanted to know about the Pixel 3 XL - in Russian!</li> <li>Google's Shortwave could change podcasting forever.</li> </ul><p>Picks of the Week:</p><ul> <li>Joan's Stuff: Antisocial Media by Siva Vaidhanathan and Custodians of the Internet by Tarleton Gillespie</li> <li>Stacey's Thing: Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel</li> <li>Leo's Pick: Apple History on Triangulation</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/stacey-higginbotham">Stacey Higginbotham</a></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="http://joandonovan.org/" target="_blank">Joan Donovan</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://try.digitalocean.com/performance/?utm_source=thisweekintech_twig&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=ThisWeekInTech%7CPodcast%7CPricePerf_100">do.co/twig</a></li> <li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://RocketMortgage.com/Twig">RocketMortgage.com/Twig</a></li> </ul>