June 16, 2021

This Week in Google 616: Leave It to Beaver

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2 hours 16 minutes

Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden

Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps

Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects

Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody

Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android

Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience

Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome

Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV

YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle

You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto

New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation

Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds

Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July

The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee

Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means

Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions

Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews

TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube

Picks:

Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine

Ant - Lupin on Netflix

Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday

Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott

Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

Joan - Meme War Weekly

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Joan Donovan

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June 16, 2021

This Week in Google 616: Leave It to Beaver

Listen Later

2 hours 16 minutes

Can Disinformation Be Stopped?

Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden

Proposed antitrust bills would ban Apple from preinstalling its own iOS apps

Regulator v regulator: German government cooperates with Google on health boxes; media regulator objects

Google Workspace and Google Chat are officially available to everybody

Google adds E2E RCS encryption to Messages, emoji mashup suggests, and more for Android

Google Meet adding second screen 'Companion Mode' experience

Google abandons experiment to show simplified domain URLs in Chrome

Google letting Fiber TV box customers upgrade to free Chromecast with Google TV

YouTube TV giving subscribers free TiVo Stream 4K or Chromecast w/ Google TV amid Roku battle

You can now add a Coinbase card to Google Pay and pay in crypto

New York Senate Passes Electronics Right-to-Repair Legislation

Using Facebook Actually Reduces Ethnic Tension, New Study Finds

Prince's 'Welcome 2 America,' an Unreleased Album, Is Due Out in July

The web's source code is being auctioned as an NFT by inventor Tim Berners-Lee

Bitcoin Taproot upgrade: what it means

Twitter is eyeing new anti-abuse tools to give users more control over mentions

Amazon blames social media for struggle with fake reviews

TikTok takes over the top sponsor spot at VidCon, edging out YouTube

Picks:

Ant - Auntie Bev on TikTok: @yourtimeyourshine

Ant - Lupin on Netflix

Ant - Congress passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday

Jeff - Seeding by Ceding by MacKenzie Scott

Joan - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore

Joan - Meme War Weekly

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Joan Donovan

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

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

udacity.com/TWiT offer code TWIT75

untuckit.com and use code TWIT

att.com/activearmor

...more