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