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Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, Ant Pruitt, and their guests talk about the latest Google and cloud computing news.

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03.29.2023 TWiG 709: The Egg From Hell - Twitter VIPs, ChatGPT Impact, TikTok Ban Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing 'Risks to Society' Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and their impact on humanity The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a ...
03.22.2023 TWiG 708: That Ain't Cheesecake - Google BARD Rollout, TikTok Ban, Adobe Firefly A TikTok corner just for Stacey (h/t @[email protected]) DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography Review Archive Team to Backup DPReview Stacey's AI Tweet The Age of AI has begun Bill Gates Leo Gets BARD Google Bard Sign-up Looking at New Midjourney ...
03.15.2023 TWiG 707: Heartlessness As a Service - GPT-4, T-Mobile buys Mint Mobile, Biden's TikTok demand, Gowalla returns OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model. Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run. T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal. OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model (again). Grammarly adds ChatGPT-like AI to create text ...
03.08.2023 TWiG 706: What's This Dot Here? - Facebook AI model leak,YouTube swearing rules, Google IO 2023 Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired? FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names. Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher. YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized. Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC ...
03.01.2023 TWiG 705: I Was Merely Fluffing - TikTok ban coming to the US? ChatGPT Windows 11 taskbar, Twitter job cuts 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 ...
02.22.2023 TWiG 704: Ensconced in Felt - Section 230 in the Supreme Court, Google from the inside, Meta "verified" Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why. Quick Debrief on the Gonzalez v. Google Oral Arguments. Cathy's Amicus brief. Supreme Court Wrestles With Suit ...
02.15.2023 TWiG 703: Spicy Autocomplete - writeGPT, Privacy Sandbox, Musk's Twitter firing, Radio Garden Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it. Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first. Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a $100 billion loss in ...
02.08.2023 TWiG 702: Lion Around - Shift Happens Kickstarter, ChatGPT powered Bing, Google Bard AI, Bret Taylor Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary. Matias Tactile Pro. I Tried Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same. Google unveils its own ChatGPT-like AI chatbot. Bret Taylor starts AI company; Google VP joins. Twitter ...
02.01.2023 TWiG 701: Bring Me a Leaf Blower - ChatGPT and Bing, Samsung Unpacked 2023, Clear Calling demo, Artifact AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch 'TV Show' Is Peak Absurdity. ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big. Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees. Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First ...
01.25.2023 TWiG 700: Impecunious Mods - Google job cuts, ChatGPT malware, To Leslie, AmazonSmile to close Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs. Interview with Richard Hay. Google Slashes Jobs at Incubator Area 120 as Part of Cuts. Meta to Reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts. AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces. Mastodon founder has a ...
01.18.2023 TWiG 699: Blame it on the Tesla - Google to SCOTUS, Google Images Twitter Auction Complete Twitter is blocking third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific Sawyer Merritt on Twitter: "Boston Dynamics shows of their robots latest skills Tesla staged 2016 self-driving demo, says senior Autopilot engineer Twitter admits it's breaking third-party apps, cites ...
01.11.2023 TWiG 698: Hands Off My Pound Cake! - ChatGPT Microsoft investment, Tesla crashes, FAA outage, Afroman raid Stadia player count hinted at by Destiny 2 figures. The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony. KSK Key Signing Ceremony (16 Jun 10). Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT. OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, ...
01.04.2023 TWiG 697: Don't Track Me, Bro - CES 2022, Meta EU mega-fine, facial recognition arrest, Shift Happens This Device Will Not Let You LOL Unless You Mean It. The Mutalk Microphone Seals Your Voice In Virtual Reality. Bird Buddy's new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different bird species. Roku Is Now Making Its Own ...
12.28.2022 TWiG 696: The Best of 2022 - Some of the most memorable moments from throughout the year How Has Google FAILED at Messaging So Badly? MORAL PANIC!!! Hair and makeup. FLoC Is OUT, Topics Takes Its Place. Some Dude Hacked North Korea. Mazda Infotainment Systems Bricked By Radio Station. Facebookers Now Called Metamates. A Painful Looking Keyboard. ...
12.21.2022 TWiG 695: The Airing of Grievances - Point-E, Public Domain day 2023, IoT and consent, John Carmack Life Expectancy by occupation for people with a wikipedia page. How Influencers Hype Crypto, Without Disclosing Their Financial Ties. OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? ...
12.14.2022 TWiG 694: The Fifty Shades of Stacey - Manu Cornet talks Twitter and art, Microsoft's Activision deal, Goblin Mode "I thought I'd been hacked. It turned out I'd been fired": tales of a Twitter engineer. Elon Musk booed by crowd after Dave Chappelle brings him on stage at comedy gig. How Manu feels about the Twitter debacle. Did Manu ...
12.07.2022 TWiG 693: The Best Part is the Grease - ChatGPT demo, Twitter HQ bedrooms, Neuralink animal abuse, TikTok best of the year, ChromeOS 108 The founder of Craigslist on giving away his money, whether billionaires should exist, and why so many of our plutocrats lose their mind. S.F. officials investigating allegedly illegal bedrooms at Twitter HQ, as Elon Musk criticizes Mayor Breed. Sam Altman: ...
11.30.2022 TWiG 692: Alex Stamos - Is TikTok a threat, Twitter's Chinese porn spam, 2024 election disinformation Introducing Alex Stamos. Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests. How did Alex get into security? Alex's Joe Sullivan story. How COVID impacted teens and social interaction. The mechanics of Apple's CSAM scanning. How do we integrate security ...
11.23.2022 TWiG 691: Maureen and Bab's Tea Room - Leap second, FTX deepfake, Musk vs Swisher, Post.news, Alexa struggling I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It. Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs. Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok. Elon Musk and Twitter: a masterclass in moving fast ...
11.16.2022 TWiG 690: Search For Hardcore - FTX celebrity fallout, Musk's Twitter purge, goodbye Protocol, palette.fm Larry David, Tom Brady, Stephen Curry, Other Celebs Sued Over FTX Crypto Exchange Collapse. Stars Likely to Be More Careful in Ads After Lloyd Bridges Case. Taylor Swift ticket meltdown sparks outrage about Ticketmaster's power. Elon Musk says the new ...
11.09.2022 TWiG 689: Rusticated and Rectified - Blue vs grey checkmarks, Meta layoffs, FTX Binance collapse, Google One VPN Twitter vs Mastodon. Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts. Here's how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks. identi.ca Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees. Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Empire ...
11.02.2022 TWiG 688: Hundo Milo - Musk takes over Twitter, FCC says ban TikTok, Roblox virtual clothing class Elon Musk is negotiating his new Twitter fees in real time with Stephen King. Ad giant IPG advises brands to pause Twitter spending after Musk takeover. Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year. Twitter discontinues ad-free articles for ...
10.26.2022 TWiG 687: Rabble Rousing - Inside Planetary and Scuttlebutt, Mr. Beast, Shutterstock AI imagery, Chief TWiT Interview with Rabble. How Odeo turned into Twitter. What did Rabble do before Odeo? What did Rabble learn at TXTmob that came over to Twitter? Why Jaiku was so cool. What did Rabble work on at Yahoo from Uruguay? What ...
10.19.2022 TWiG 686: Indoctrinized and Radicalated - Ye to buy Parler, Musk's absolute Twitter control, Bluesky roadmap - Kanye West is buying 'free speech platform' Parler. - Court blocks Texas social media law from taking effect. - Musk Will Have Absolute Control Over Twitter, Documents Show. - I have seen the frightening future of spam. It is ...
10.12.2022 TWiG 685: Only on Thursdays - Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel Watch, Meta Quest Pro, Passkey support, Google Looker Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown. Communia Copyright recommendations. Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts at $899. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro review: Should you ...
10.05.2022 TWiG 684: Like a Shiny Tic Tac - Pixel 7 Phone, Elon Musk & Twitter Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster 'Likely Cheated' More Than 100 Times Matter is now official Twitter vs. Musk trial remains on schedule, judge says Here are some of the cringiest revelations in the Elon Musk text dump Just before ...
09.28.2022 TWiG 683: Finnish Foliage - Douglas Rushkoff interview, AI powered turret, Amazon hardware event, NASA DART Interview with Douglas Rushkoff. How Rushkoff discovered the topic for his new book. Survival of the Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind. When Rushkoff decided to write the book. How billionaires define "winning" How do WE create ...
09.21.2022 TWiG 682: Click the Clickah - Framework Chromebook, Amazon NFL, Spotify audiobooks, AI and Getty Images Framework's new Chromebook is upgradable and customizable. Yes, there's a Framework Chromebook, but... YouTube's 'dislike' and 'not interested' buttons barely work, study finds. Why Figma is Worth $20B And Other Observations From The Adobe Acquisition. Getty Images bans AI-generated content ...
09.14.2022 TWiG 681: Drop, Cover, and Hold On - Matt Mullenweg interview, Pixelbook cancelled, floppy disk shop Interview with Matt Mullenweg. Stable Diffusion Finally Released To The Public. Did you know in the beginning what you wanted to do with Automattic? How do you feel about Twitter's Bluesky initiative? How has Wordpress survived the blogging winter? What ...
09.07.2022 TWiG 680: Failure as a Feature - Pixel 7 Pro event, EU regulates updates, Twitter Edit, Android 14 satellite Google announces October 6 event for Pixel 7, Watch - 9to5Google Google confirms Pixel 7 series will run on new 'Tensor G2' chip Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone Pichai Says Google 'Pro-Competitive,' Sees Vibrant ...
08.31.2022 TWiG 679: Conglomeratized! - Age Appropriate Design, Snap layoffs, Twitter Circle, Animal Translators California Senate Passes Three Awful Bills For The Internet; Will Newsom Sign Them? 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online' Senator Klobuchar's Latest Bad Idea: Letting Smaller Journalism Outlets Demand Payments For Links. Elon Musk ...
08.24.2022 TWiG 678: Podcast Legend Having Lunch - Twitter Security, Annie Leibovitz, AI Art Former security chief claims Twitter buried 'egregious deficiencies' Masnick on Mudge & Musk Who is Newton Minow? Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can't photograph Black women AI Image Generators Compared Side-By-Side Reveals Stark Differences A Tool That Monitors How ...
08.17.2022 TWiG 677: Clemson Salmon - Android 13, Amazon's football deal, USB Rubber Ducky Google launches Android 13, rolling out now to Pixel phones. Android 13 changelog: A deep dive by Mishaal Rahman. Pixel 6 series can't go back to Android 12 after updating to Android 13 due to security vulnerability. Google Pixel 7 ...
08.10.2022 TWiG 676: The CB of the 80's - Amazon buys iRobot, Musk sells Tesla shares, Samsung Unpacked Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 4 lets you do more while it's closed. Wear OS is getting a revamped Play Store and offline Google Maps later this year. Political Chips by Ben Thompson. Biden signs $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. ...
08.03.2022 TWiG 675: The Quibi Button - Instagram reverts, CHIPS Act, Roku's button problem, Batgirl movie Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why. Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri Need You All to Stop Being Big Babies. Wrong number' text message scams are surging. CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US ...
07.27.2022 TWiG 674: Happy Leap Schmear - Tech earnings tanked, Instagram changes, TikTok in China, leap second Alphabet misses on earnings and revenue for second quarter. Google earnings signal company weathering slowdown better than expected. Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for 'intense period'. Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok. Introducing ...
07.20.2022 TWiG 673: Swipe Right For Schmuck - AR Glasses Beta, ChromeOS Flex, Dall-E waitlist, Netflix earnings Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses. Not paywalled: Google reportedly pauses hiring for two weeks to 'review our headcount needs'. TikTok Begins Layoffs as Part of Potentially Far-Reaching 'Reorganization' Plan. HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook PC. New Pixelbooks were ...
07.13.2022 TWiG 672: Lamination From the Heart - Twitter sues Elon Musk, Ev leaves Medium, Juul ban, World Emoji Day Twitter sues Elon Musk, Ev leaves Medium, Juul ban, World Emoji Day Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/672 Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig cachefly.com
07.06.2022 TWiG 671: The Cake Is a Pie - 25 Years of Google Search, EU Regulation, GPT-3 AI British Government Gone Rogue Google closes data loophole amid privacy fears over abortion ruling Google on women's data after Roe EU regulation passes: The DMA and DSA just got real Common Crawl What is Web 3 and the Decline of ...
06.29.2022 TWiG 670: Stacey's a Spy! - Google Reacts to Roe v Wade Decision, Instagram AI, Netflix Ad Strategy Tech companies already changing HR policies in response to landmark Roe v. Wade decision Online Privacy Becomes Critical If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned Here's Google's letter saying employees can relocate to states with abortion rights Facebook says 'incorrect enforcement' ...
06.22.2022 TWiG 669: Mommy Made Me Match My M&Ms - GPT-3, Musk talks to Twitter, Meta Avatar store, VidCon, Amazon drones The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Trust by Hernan Diaz. City on Fire by Don Winslow. Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis. The Newspaper Axis: ...
06.15.2022 TWiG 668: Boca de Dragón - Sentient AI, Gates says crypto is a sham, Meta AR glasses, Floppotron 3.0 The Google engineer who thinks the company's AI has come to life. DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt! Nonsense on stilts. Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla's Autopilot system. Musk to address Twitter employees for ...
06.08.2022 TWiG 667: Scuds Off the Bow of Sullivan - Twitter bots, NY Right to Repair, meme stock trading fix, USB-C in EU Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook's Meta. In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk's demands for data. Texas AG launches investigation against Twitter for allegedly misreporting fake bot accounts. @TwitterBlue: Available now in Top Articles—a new way to find even ...
06.01.2022 TWiG 666: No Country for Old Lobsters - Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta, Texas social media law, resist crypto Sheryl Sandberg leaving Meta after 14 years. Zuckerberg: It's the end of an era. After 14 years, my good friend and partner Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as COO of Meta. Elon Musk asks all Tesla employees to come back ...
05.25.2022 TWiG 665: Apes of Wrath - Missing Bored Apes, DuckDuckGo and MS trackers, Veecon, digital driver license 21 killed in Texas elementary school shooting. Beto O'Rourke disrupts news conference on shooting. The Problem With The Otherwise Very Good And Very Important Eleventh Circuit Decision On The Florida Social Media Law. And Now The Copia Institute Tells The ...
05.18.2022 TWiG 664: Slothtoberfest - Twitter doubles down, big tech fights Texas HB 30, Google's new Bay View HQ Elon Musk Says His $44 Billion Twitter Deal Is 'On Hold'. Twitter turns the tables on Musk, will "enforce" merger. Texas HB 20: Tech asks SCOTUS to stop Texas social media law. What is the likelihood of HB 20 being ...
05.11.2022 TWiG 663: Bill of Attainder - Google IO, Hawley's copyright bill, Texas social media law, Keyboardio Atreus Google IO, Hawley's copyright bill, Texas social media law, Keyboardio Atreus Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mike Masnick For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/663 Sponsors: eightsleep.com/twig Codecademy.com promo code TWIG cachefly.com
05.04.2022 TWiG 662: Made With Lard - Twitter earnings, Google IO preview, Airbnb WFH policy, T-Mobile home internet Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout. Inside Twitter's emotional Friday all-hands. Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk's takeover bid. Google previews I/O 2022 schedule, 'What's new' keynotes, and ...
04.27.2022 TWiG 661: Oligarchs At the Gate - Musk is buying Twitter, Alphabet's disappointing earnings, typeset nerdery Elon Musk: There's a reason no smart buyer already purchased Twitter. Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation. Musk Not Allowed to Disparage Twitter When Tweeting About $44 Billion Deal. Elon Musk buys Tesla a pounding Chinese ...
04.20.2022 TWiG 660: Welcome to Poundtown - Netflix slows down, Libs of TikTok, Insteon fizzles, future of Twitter Netflix slowdown a sea change for streaming. Netflix Says 100 Million+ Non-Paying Households Use Shared Passwords. @KarlBode: I always enjoy watching one-time innovators, now huge and successful, pivot to turf protection. Elon Musk Wants to Buy Out Twitter (TWTR) in ...

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