Total Ant (Audio)

This Week in Google 729: Waffle Party


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  • Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more
  • Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time
  • Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising
  • Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices
  • Google using AI to generate key points in web pages
  • Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results
  • YouTube cracking down on videos promoting ineffective cancer cures
  • Google Photos getting AI-powered auto-generated titles and organization
  • Google Slides enabling presenters to draw and annotate while presenting
  • Changes coming to YouTube Shorts, including blocking links to combat spam
  • Google's hotel for employees during COVID now offering discounted rates as they push back towards in-office work
  • California allowing self-driving cars to operate in San Francisco 24/7, leading to traffic jams
  • Google eliminating many of its private label consumer product brands due to poor sales and distrust
  • Internet Archive being sued by record labels for digitizing and hosting out of print 78rpm records
  • Update on researcher Joan Donovan's firing from Harvard and new role at Boston University
  • Proposal for new rules regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
  • Analysis of surveillance capitalism and its effects on society
  • Discussion on public distrust of medical institutions and ""elite"" doctors
  • Speculation on Elon Musk's erratic behavior on Twitter including visiting Mark Zuckerberg's house
  • Review of the movie Oppenheimer and how its portrayal connects to the ethical dilemmas of technology
  • Several lighter topics including bollards on Twitter, introducing grandparents to TikTok, and AI-generated poetry
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    • Jeff - She introduced Grandpa to TikTok
    • Ant - Better Smartphone Photography with Lisa Carney at Donner Lake
    • Ant - In-Person or Online: How You Can Support Maui Wildfire Relief
    • Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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