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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September 04, 2024TWiG 784: Trochilidine Vigor - Elon Relents, Internet Archive Loses, Pennies
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov's Indictment Thrusts Encryption Into the Spotlight

Elon Musk, Tesla (TSLA) Beat Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin 'Pyramid Scheme'

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny

Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla — and they might tow it

NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools

Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp

AI's impact on elections is being overblown

AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient

Anil Dash: How Oprah will screw up the AI story

The winners of Michigan's 2024 "I voted" sticker contest

Diggnation 2.0

Android Has Five New Features Out Today

Google Removing Poor-Quality Android Apps From Play Store to Boost Engagement

Google Clock rolling out new Timer Starter widget

Google renames TensorFlow Lite to LiteRT, TensorFlow brand remains

YouTube debuts new parental controls aimed at teens

The Secret Inside One Million Checkboxes

Carbonara in a can? Chefs get shirty but Heinz is unrepentant

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 45min
August 28, 2024TWiG 783: The Cat in the Hat - TikTok Lawsuit, Billionaire Cities, Pixel 9 Demo
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France

TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl's death, US court rules

Chick-Fil-A Hatches Plans For Streaming Service

Also: New York's Largest Hospital System Is Setting Its Sights on the Entertainment Business

RE Fast Co new town story" The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down

How activists derailed Big Tech billionaire's dream city in California

Thoma Bravo's Realpage Sued by US in Rental Collusion Case

Google Keep rolling out AI-powered 'Help me create a list' on Android

Pixel 9 demo

Google Wallet now works for California driver's licenses

Google TV has added a few more new free channels

Google Chat adds support for IFTTT integrations

Google finally lets you record phone call audio in the US, but only on the Pixel 9

Google Pixel 9 launches 'Adaptive Touch,' improves screen sensitivity while wet, etc

'Megalopolis' Cuts Ties With Marketing Consultant Behind Trailer Debacle; Fabricated Critic Quotes Were Generated By AI

OpenAI Shows 'Strawberry' AI to the Feds and Uses It to Develop 'Orion'

Printful for hats

wyze birdfeeder

The Unbearable Slowness of Being

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 31min
August 21, 2024TWiG 782: Yassified - Google Vs. Epic, Fake Reviews, AI Warfare
Epic judge says he'll 'tear the barriers down' on Google's app store monopoly

Google's AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die

OpenAI signs multi-year content partnership with Condé Nast

Deal in california

xAI's new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes

Google threatened tech influencers unless they 'preferred' the Pixel

The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews

Palantir's Alex Karp Talks About War, AI and America's Future

Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can't It Make a Profit (And How Can It)?

Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?

2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster

Google went public 20 years ago—what your $1000 investment would be worth today

Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming's capital city

More than 30 tech companies have pitched A.I. tools to political campaigns for November's election. The campaigns have been wary.

Russia's AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says

Gmail can turn 'rough notes' into a full draft with Gemini 'Polish'

Google's Stunning New Android AI Feature Instantly Locks Phone Thieves Out

I tried Google's Pixel Screenshots and it's everything I'd want an AI feature to be

Early hands-on with Google Pixel 9's AI Call Notes reveals disappointing restrictions

Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in popular Android apps

Trap

Where have all the Burners gone? Shops catering to Burning Man brace for slow season

Inside the opulent world of six-figure kids birthday parties in Silicon Valley

TikTok Parrot is 'attention hog' and smart as human toddler, owners say

Paris 'n' pals need this

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 19min
August 14, 2024TWiG 781: But Officer, I'm a Podcaster! - Pixel 9 Camera, Gemini's New Voice
What Google rivals want after DOJ's antitrust trial win

DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win

Gemini Live is the best AI feature I've seen so far from Google

9 things to know about Pixel 9 cameras

Jeff thread against incumbent media

Google's Gemini Live AI Sounds So Human, I Almost Forgot It Was a Bot

Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM

Texas judge steps aside in Elon Musk's X case against advertisers

An incredible life and career

AI is a bad word to consumers

Weekend Welcomes Two New Reporters: Josh Koehn and Paris Martineau

Schmidt blames remote work for company's struggles

'Ultimate wife guy' or 'yikes'? Mark Zuckerberg reveals 7ft statue of wife

How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America's podcast boom

Hello, goodbye: the rise and decline of the celebrity video-greeting app Cameo

MSCHF: Our Cow Angus

WCBS is no more

Cable TV biz crumbles

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 17min
August 07, 2024TWiG 780: Aggiornamento - Google's Monolpoly, X Sues GARM, AI Dentist
Google (GOOGL) Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search Engine on Phone Browsers

Will Google's historic monopoly lawsuit be the death knell for Mozilla and Firefox?

Scoop: X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM

Don Lemon Sues Elon Musk Over Canceled X Deal - The New York Times

Disney, Fox and Warner Sports Streamer Venu to Launch at $42.99/ Month

Why I'm Joining The Bluesky Board To Support A Vision Of A More Open, Decentralized Internet

Bloomberg's Risky, Embargo-Breaking Evan Gershkovich Scoop

Canadian news engagement down significantly one year after Meta's ban: study

thecanadianpressnews.ca

Google pulls Olympics AI ad 'Dear Sydney'

X officially kills its San Francisco HQ, will relocate to South Bay

Google is set to supercharge Google Home with Gemini intelligence

'The Godmother of AI' says California's well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem

AI dentist performs first procedure on human patient

Without Zuckerberg money, limited private funding available for elections

Neil Gorsuch Highlights Aaron Swartz As An Example Of Overreach In Criminal Law

Amazon Pushes Fast Delivery Into Rural Areas in Challenge to Post Office

tulip.computer

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

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2h 20min
July 31, 2024TWiG 779: White Friend in a Box - Galaxy Fold, AI Aided Gymnastics, Top 10 Podcasts
Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It's Still Losing Money.

Craig Newmark stops by

Galaxy fold unboxing

We know almost everything about the Google Pixel 9 series already

A Few Blockbuster Podcasts Are Making All the Money

Friend in a box

US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules

The gymnastics world braces for an AI future

NASA will shut down NASA TV on cable to focus on NASA+

W3C Slams Google U-turn on Third-Party Cookie Removal

Senate passes the Kids Online Safety Act

Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L

Follow Ant's ZDNET stuff

Scots brat

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Craig Newmark

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2h 30min
July 24, 2024TWiG 778: Wet and Winded - Prime Day Injuries, Broken Goo.gl Links, Brat
Craig Newmark and pancakes

After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome

Amazon's Prime Day causes worker injuries, Senate probe finds

Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage

Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts

Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS

NYT vs OpenAI

Google's goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025

Deadpool and Wolverine are Google's first Easter eggs in Circle to Search [Gallery]

Google's Alphabet Inc. doubles down on robotaxis, committing another $5 billion into Waymo

X replaced the water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason

CNN attempts to answer the question: What does it mean to be brat?

An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Rolls Over. The 'Hotdoggers' Are OK.

The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk's X

Mark Zuckerberg says he's "more comfortable" with new appearance after AI interview

Google wants to steal Ray-Ban maker from Meta for Gemini smart glasses

"Ignore all previous instructions"

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

Taylor Lorenz: We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.

Stolen Buttons

Succession comes to life

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 51min
July 17, 2024TWiG 777: Victim of Affluence - AT&T Hack, Google Pixel 9 Leak, TikTok Exorcisms
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of "nearly all" customers in new data breach

AT&T (T) Hack Is Part of Snowflake (SNOW) Customer Cyberattack Campaign

Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks

Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC

This Is The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, And It's Not Slowing Down

EU accuses Elon Musk's X of deceptive practices over blue "checkmark"'

Mercedes-Benz's 400kW EV chargers are coming to Starbucks

FTC Fires A Warning Shot At Eight Companies Over 'Right To Repair' Violations

Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers

Google in talks to buy Wiz

Google switches to selective indexing

Google reportedly offered EU cloud firms over $500 million to continue antitrust case against Microsoft

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $27 million mansion is a 'lemon' with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges (with video tour)

Taboola to sell ads for Apple

The New Satanic Panic: Exorcism in the Age of TikTok

Kenya's biggest protest in recent history played out on a walkie-talkie app

OpenAI's AGI progress chart

Samsung's new AI image generating tool is a little too good - The Verge

Giant Google Pixel 9 leak reveals the Fold, faster charging, battery, and more

YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI radio in testing

Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results

Gemini on Android just got a lot more useful on the lock screen

OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say

Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation | VentureBeat

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Founder, Is Found Guilty of Fraud

Drone conquers Everest

The Planets Today

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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2h 53min
July 10, 2024TWiG 776: The Geese of God - Fusion Dealys, Esports World Cup, NGL Ban
'We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral

ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034

AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care

Google brings new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra hands-on: ultra déjà vu

Galaxy Z Fold 6 launches for $1,899 with wider displays

Esports World Cup: Riyadh Offers Bigger Prize Than PGA

Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users

2024 Zero-Click Search Study: For every 1,000 EU Google Searches, only 374 clicks go to the Open Web. In the US, it's 360.

FTC bans anonymous messaging app NGL from hosting children

Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon

A new Illinois law will force influencer parents to compensate their children for appearing in social media content

THERE BUT FOR THE GEESE OF GOD

Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM

Cutting Board Designer

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau

Guest: Molly White

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2h 22min
July 03, 2024TWiG 775: Chocolate Creme Filled Donuts for the Soul - SCOTUS Decisions, Meta's Oversight Board, llama.ttf
In Content Moderation Cases, Supreme Court Says 'Try Again' – But Makes It Clear Moderation Deserves First Amendment Protections

In The NetChoice Cases, Alito And His Buddies Are Wrong, But Even If They Were Right It May Not Matter, And That's Largely Good News

Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

Supreme Court will take up case on porn age verification laws in Texas

What SCOTUS just did to broadband, the right to repair, the environment, and more

Threads turns 1

Meta's Oversight Board, a model for the internet, is in limbo.

Why We Filed A Comment With Facebook's Oversight Board

The White House will host a conference for social media creators

Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers

llama.ttf

Bruce Bastian, BYU alum-turned-tech pioneer and equality advocate, dies at 76

Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web

Chinese AI models storm Hugging Face's LLM chatbot benchmark leaderboard — Alibaba runs the board as major US competitors have worsened

Perplexity's grand theft AI

Google emissions jump nearly 50% over five years as AI use surges

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI

Tech Industry Wants to Lock Up Nuclear Power for AI

Tim Wu Is Out Of Control

Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new 'byline' feature

Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch

This week's news on human cells

110 new languages are coming to Google Translate

Google Keep now lets you use two accounts side-by-side in split screen

the NYC Dept of Transportation Instagram

Calculus Advice Poem

The Material

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Cathy Gellis

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2h 46min

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