March 01, 2023

This Week in Google 705: I Was Merely Fluffing

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Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn't Addressing The Actual Problem.

U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.

Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.

All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.

YouTube's new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.

Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.

Planning for AGI and beyond.

You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.

Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.

Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.

YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.

In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.

Elon Musk's defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.

Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.

Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth's pre-seed funding.

Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.

Google Chrome's new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.

Google Keep's new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.

Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.

Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.

Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.

Google's bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.

Gmail's client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.

Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.

Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different.

Picks:

Jason - Artifact for Android.

Jeff - Jeff with teenage look filter.

Ant - New Affordable Amaran COB S-Series Lights.

Ant - How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordon.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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March 01, 2023

This Week in Google 705: I Was Merely Fluffing

Listen Later

3 hours 2 minutes

Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn't Addressing The Actual Problem.

U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.

Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.

All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.

YouTube's new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.

Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.

Planning for AGI and beyond.

You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.

Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.

Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.

YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.

In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.

Elon Musk's defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.

Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.

Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth's pre-seed funding.

Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.

Google Chrome's new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.

Google Keep's new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.

Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.

Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.

Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.

Google's bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.

Gmail's client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.

Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.

Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different.

Picks:

Jason - Artifact for Android.

Jeff - Jeff with teenage look filter.

Ant - New Affordable Amaran COB S-Series Lights.

Ant - How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordon.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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

Sponsor:

fastmail.com/twit

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