• Kevin Tofel has the Pixel 3 XL, and gives us his first impressions. #1: Best. Photos. Ever.
• Pixel Slate: should you dump your laptop and get this?
• Google Home Hub: simplifying the smart home.
• Facebook Portal: now Facebook has a camera that can follow your every move.
• Everything we now know about Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story
• Google+ is dead. Could anything have saved it?
• Amazon kills bonuses, discriminates against women.
• Essential's next act: a phone that send AI-written texts for you.
• Netflix buys its own studio.
• The heroes archiving the internet.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: The illegal food economy on Facebook
• Kevin's Stuff: Anki Vector Robot
• Stacey's Things: Suggestic precision eating app and Party Down on Starz

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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• 20 Years of Google
• Google Assistant gets a makeover
• Instagram "reality"
• Assassin's Creed streaming in Chrome
• So, so many leaks
• US DOJ vs CA on Net Neutrality
• "AI written" ads

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Pick: Won't You Be My Neighbor
• Mike's Thing: Lite Apps List
• Mathew's Stuff: Tim Berners-Lee's new company

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mike Elgan and Mathew Ingram

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• A sneak peek at the Nocturne Pixelbook tablet
• Chrome 69's "forced login" will be optional in Chrome 70
• Tech giants want federal privacy laws
• Splitting the Internet between China and the US
• Instagram and WhatsApp founders on why they left Facebook
• Big changes to Google search, Messages, and Maps
• What is a "Minimal Turing Test," and how can you beat it?
• Oculus Quest brings wire-free VR to your face for $399
• Amazon is taking over the Internet of Things

Picks of the Week

• Kevin's Stuff: Pi Hole and free Back in the USSR demo
• Stacey's Things: The Constant Consumer and Find My Android

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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• Pixel 3: Black, white, mint, and pink?
• Google Home Hub leaks
• October is going to be a huge month for new phones: Google, Samsung, LG, OnePlus, and more
• Google remotely changes setting on Pie phones
• Google Smart Reply wants to spread the love
• Android is coming to a car near you
• Google and T-Mobile team up to solve 911 location tracking
• New Mexico sues Google for collecting data on kids
• Google employees quit over China plans
• Path is shutting down

Picks of the Week

• Ant's Stuff: Hurricane Florence relief
• Jeff's Number: half of all calls will be spam by 2019
• Jason's Tool: Bouncer

Hosts: Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis

Guest: Ant Pruitt

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• Inbox is out.
• Google's October 9th event is official.
• Pixel rumors: is there a 3rd, let-to-be-leaked phone?
• What does "reasonable IoT security" mean to California lawmakers?
• Alphabet's Loon floating internet takes flight in a new test.
• Breitbart vs Google
• Is Qualcomm's new Android Wear chip too little, too late?
• USB-C headphone dongles are still awful, now a bit more expensive.

Tips and Picks:

• Kevin's Tip: Use a security key with your Chromebook with every log-in
• Stacey's Thing: Brilliant Switch
• Jason's Tip: How to activate multilingual support in Google Assistant

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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• Big Government takes on Big Tech; Google sits it out
• Pixel 3 hits the FCC, and the back of a taxi
• Hoping for a Pixel Watch? I have some bad news...
• Google vs the URL
• Amazon: the Buzz Aldrin of Trillion dollar companies
• 20 years of Google

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Lumos Sleep Mask
• Mathew's Stuff: Twitter becoming more "conversational"
• Jason's Tool: Google Titan security key

Hosts: Stacey Higginbotham and Jason Howell

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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• Trump says Google is unfair, warns that tech companies "better be careful"
• FCC can legally redefine competitive broadband markets to include services you can't actually get
• Google France Surrenders its Google+ Page
• Want to Buy a Black Market Ukranian Pixel 3 XL?
• Fortnite Creator Angry that Google Blabbed About Security Flaw
• IGTV Struggles to Grow
• CHANGELOG: Doodle 4 Google winner, helping vets find jobs, Google Go can read text out loud, Mini stickers for Gboard

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Smart Olive Bottle
• Leo's Tool: Dumb Squeeze Bottles
• Jeff's Number: LTE for Pixelbook 2

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.

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• Data and Society's Joan Donovan tells us how to stop online hate.
• Leo explains why Google's location history tracking policy is a big deal.
• Google is working on its own Amazon Show competitor.
• NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its AI systems.
• At the Hot Chips conference, Google's Pixel Visual Core and AMD's chip roadmap are all the rage.
• Facebook wants to rate how trustworthy you are to fight fake news
• Changelog: new Google Fit and some good news
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Pixel 3 XL - in Russian!
• Google's Shortwave could change podcasting forever.

Picks of the Week:

• Joan's Stuff: Antisocial Media by Siva Vaidhanathan and Custodians of the Internet by Tarleton Gillespie
• Stacey's Thing: Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel
• Leo's Pick: Apple History on Triangulation

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Joan Donovan

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• Twitter gives Alex Jones a Time Out.
• Keeping Google from tracking your location is more complicated than you'd think.
• The return of the Google Changelog!
• Samsung's Galaxy Home smart speaker is also a Weber grill SmartThings hub
• 8.8.8.8 is 8.
• Fortnite is on Android, but not on the Play Store: how not to download malware.
• Facebook lays out the new media reality.
• Black Hat and DEF CON show just how easy it is to hack voting machines.
• Verizon will debut 5G home internet in 4 cities while thumbing their nose at Net Neutrality.
• Windows 10 may be coming to Chromebooks.

Picks of the Week:

• Stacey's Thing: The Feather Thief
• Jeff's Numbers: FB raised $300m for 750k charities with birthday fundraising, and $999 for Rotimatic
• Leo's new TWiG theme: Tiger Rag by Lous Armstrong and The Mills Brothers

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.

Sponsors:

• Android Pie hits Pixels and Essential Phone.
• New Pixel 3 images and video leak.
• Google's China dillema
• Should Leo buy the Magic Leap?
• Does Facebook want your bank info?
• Silicon Valley's war on Alex Jones.
• Is Ajit Pai still evil?
• Stacey's Things: June Oven and Anki Vector
• Jeff's Number: Your baby's first wordsa could be "OK Google."

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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