Summary: <p>This Week's Stories</p><ul> <li> Should Jason Howell delete all his old emails?</li> <li> Breaking News: Twitter bans political ads</li> <li> Google struggling with transparency issues</li> <li> Google will buy Fitbit: will this save WearOS?</li> <li> Moto 360 will relaunch in 2019</li> <li> Apple gains in wearables, loses in iPhones</li> <li> Advances in hearing aids</li> <li> Google earnings</li> <li> Amazon Fresh makes grocery delivery free for Prime Members</li> <li> Stacey explains Google's BERT "Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers"</li> <li> Carriers gang up to serve RCS</li> <li> Jason Howell's Pixel 4 Review</li> <li> Google brings .new to the web</li> <li> Andrew explains .new</li> <li> Ant's modeling pictures</li> <li> Google Maps the Kincade fire</li> <li> Google finally kills flash</li> <li> Facebook News tab includes Breitbart</li> <li> Netflix tests variable speed</li> <li> Hellvetica is the evilest font</li> </ul><p><br>Picks of the Week</p><ul> <li> Stacey's Thing: Twinkly lights</li> <li> Ant's Inspirations: Breast Cancer Awareness Month and North Carolina Central University's Nothing But the Arts</li> <li> Jeff's Numbers: The Internet at 50, How much time @Jack spends on Twitter, and The Precautionary Principle</li> <li> Jason's Tool: Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier</li> </ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/stacey-higginbotham">Stacey Higginbotham</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a></p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> <a href="https://domainnamewire.com/" target="_blank">Andrew Allemann</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="http://zapier.com/TWIG">zapier.com/TWIG</a></li> <li><a href="http://WWT.COM/TWIT">WWT.COM/TWIT</a></li> </ul>
