This Week in Google (Audio)

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It's not just Google. This Week in Google hosts, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau, cover all of Big Tech every Wednesday. Listeners tune in for thought-provoking and entertaining conversa... more

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November 13, 2024TWiG 794: License to Prune - Zuck Jams, Claude + Palantir , Banjo Toss
Mark Zuckerberg just released his own NSFW version of 'Get Low' in a tribute to his wife

Mattel Mistakenly Lists Porn Site on Packaging for 'Wicked' Dolls

The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off

Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue

Bluesky adds 700,000 new members as users flee X after the US election

Matter 1.4 tries to set the smart home standard back on track

Google's learning

OpenAI Shifts Strategy as Rate of 'GPT' AI Improvements Slows

Microsoft, A16Z AI manifesto: AI for startups

Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal

Randy Travis's beautiful baritone was lost. AI helped him sing again.

Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work

YouTube is testing music remixes made by AI

I Spoke Only to Chatbots for 24 Hours. Who Needs Human Friends?

Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

Chris Wallace Quits CNN to Pivot to Streaming, Podcasting

Nicholas Carlson, the former top editor of Business Insider, is starting a new company that will focus on video.

Lena Dunham to write Sam Bankman-Fried movie for Apple

Banjo Toss, the game

After years of trying, Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to Wonder for $650M

Research suggests people are getting more bored

Times New Dumbass font

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 31min
November 06, 2024TWiG 793: The Aftermath - The Effect of the 2024 US Election on Tech
Tech in the new Admin

TikTok Sees Trump Victory As App's Best Hope

Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump for 'extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory'

Elon Musk says Trump win is just the start of his political ambitions

Silicon Valley is officially grieving over Trump but quietly gleeful over a possible tech deal resurgence

The Crypto Industry's Spending on the Election Pays Off

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

NYTimes Games for the strike

Florida Access Network

WebCheck

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guests: Emily Forlini and Mike Elgan

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2h 14min
October 30, 2024TWiG 792: 5 to 10 People at your Door - Alphabet Earnings, RIP Foursquare, McFlurries
Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why

Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content

Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely

Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record

Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth

More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines

RIP Foursquare

Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'

LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally

Masnick on Elon Musk Events

TikTok founder becomes China's richest man

The Age of Cage

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 49min
October 23, 2024TWiG 791: There's a Pony In There Somewhere - C2PA, Character.ai Lawsuit, Polish AI Radio
Requiem for Raghavan

Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin

Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now

Google will block election ads after polls close

LinkedIn is News Publishers' New Best Friend

People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes

Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas

Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand

Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide

On-device AI could make apps obsolete

Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law

Controversy after Polish radio station replaces human presenters with AI

Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot

Elvis Found Alive

Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Nathan Freitas

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2h 41min
October 16, 2024TWiG 790: Invalid URL Removed - Internet Archive Hack, Wordpress Drama
YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video

Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition

Citizen pruners

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

LLMs don't do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Google adds new features for Pixel along with Android 15 rollout

October Pixel Drop: Helpful enhancements for your devices

Google Shopping is getting an AI upgrade as Alphabet looks to monetize investments

Google Shopping's getting a big transformation

The latest Gboard beta lets you switch between Roboto and Google Sans fonts

Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin

Google Messages gets a new feature that makes it easier to keep private

TikTok executives know about app's effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

Joe Trippi starts a social network: sezus

Short-selling company goes after Roblox to profit

Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China

Defector: Year 4 in review

Doritos to open first restaurant

AI - generated restaurant via Taylor Lorenz

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 55min
October 09, 2024TWiG 789: Mauritius Compliance - Satoshi Unmasked, End of .io, Megalopolis
More than a dozen states sue TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed to addict them

Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto unmasked: Will HBO reveal who really made the cryptocurrency?

How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain

OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers

Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI Who Expressed Alarm Over the Technology, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics

Paris Megalopolis review

The Wordpress saga

Justice Department weighs fixes for Google search monopoly

Google's response

U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store

Why Caroline Calloway Is Staying Put in Sarasota for Hurricane Milton

When Cell Service Is Down, You Can Send iPhone Texts via Satellite

A Google Doc of 2024 Events

Beer can artwork accidentally thrown in bin by staff member at Dutch museum

First a statue. Now Zuck designs a minivan for his wife.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 37min
October 02, 2024TWiG 788: Sausages in the Mist - CA AI Bill, OpenAI's Future
OpenAI Is A Bad Business

Are We Now Living in a Parasite Culture?

Taylor Lorenz, Chronicler of Digital Culture, Will Start Own Newsletter

Twitter's value in freefall: Fidelity cuts estimate by whopping 79%

Masnick: Gavin Newsom Vetoes Terrible AI Bill 1047, But Brace For Something Worse

Google showcases bizarre double-sided Japanese keyboard, which it won't sell — the keyboard uses a Möbius strip as its foundation

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Emily Forlini

Guest: Ed Zitron

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2h 45min
September 25, 2024TWiG 787: We Hear for You - Meta Connect, Altman's Manifesto
Stanley Is Releasing Collectible Tumblers Every Day This Week to Honor Different Decades of Barbie

EssilorLuxottica extends smart glasses partnership with Meta

Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into 'god mode' with latest AI post

AI conversation about Jeff's book

The Paris show

Exclusive: Meta's AI chatbot to start speaking in the voices of Judi Dench, John Cena, others, source says

Google TV adds several more free channels including The Bob Ross Channel

YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

Google's passkey syncing makes it easier to move on from passwords

New Cloudflare Tools Let Sites Detect and Block AI Bots for Free

Google Photos is getting a redesigned video editor

Google's Gemini AI might soon appear in your corporate Workspace

Google Earth AI eliminates clouds

Ahead of Gemini coming to Google Buds, Hey Google & Voice Match Settings Change on Headphones

Quote Origin: I Had Exactly Four Seconds To Hot Up the Disintegrator, and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough

Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because 'Generative AI Has Polluted the Data'

Comedian John Mulaney brutally roasts SF techies at Dreamforce

Marques Brownlee says 'I hear you' after fans criticize his new wallpaper app

Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk's SpaceX for trespassing

McDonald's touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened

Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers

Introducing HP Print AI, Industry's First Intelligent Print Experiences

The 90s Executive Yes Man

More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 8min
September 18, 2024TWiG 786: Now That's a Wikifoot - OpenAI o1, Flappy Bird, Instagram for Teens
Google Wins Fight to Scrap $1.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Ads

Exclusive: Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers, sources say

Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes

Age verification AI for teen users...?

House panel advances Kids Online Safety Act despite pushback

The Battle to Ban Screens From School Now Includes Chromebooks and Tablets

Trump Rolls Out His New Cryptocurrency Business

How crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator

Ex-MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Conspiracy After Taking Plea Deal

Inside Elon Musk's Mushrooming Security Apparatus

Elizabeth McCafferty was offered £6,000 for images of her bare feet after they appeared on a fetish website without her consent.

The 'feral 25-year-olds' making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok

Apple's new iOS 18 upgrade doesn't fix the 'green bubble' problems

Discord launches end-to-end encrypted voice and video chats

Why OpenAI is Hiding its Reasoning Model's 'Thoughts'

Calif. Gov. Newsom Says He's Worried About AI Bill

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line

Can AI Really Replace Salesforce and Workday?

Mr. Beast's playbook

Google Photos now lets you flip your photos and videos horizontally

Google Chrome getting one-tap notification unsubscribe, starting on Pixel

YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google's AI video model

Google Photos is getting a new 'Ultra HDR' editing option

Finally!! Google Slides adds multi-monitor support for presentations

Chromebook acting weird? Try Google's new ChromeOS 'Sanitize' tool – a lighter, friendlier fix than the full-wipe 'Powerwash' feature

The Office in Oz

Ig Nobels

The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

Guest: Molly White

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2h 23min
September 11, 2024TWiG 785: Froganize Your Phone - DIY Medicine, WayMo Safety, Software Tethering
"Right to Repair for Your Body": The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results

AI and transportation

WayMo safety data

What Kermit the Frog Showed Me About AI

Kermit post

There's a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren't we using it?

Stacey asked the FTC to help with bricked IoT devices

Android Digital Wellness

NotebookLM's new "Audio Overview" turns your notes into a mini podcast

Mapping ships sunk in WW2

Leviton Humidity Sensor Switch

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Mikah Sargent, and Stacey Higginbotham

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1h 59min

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