The Best of This Week in Google from 2019!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories

• Google, Apple, Amazon, Zigbee, and others join to make universal IoT standard
• Motherboard has it out for Ring
• Google wants to beat Microsoft and Amazon in the cloud by 2023
• "Hey Google, that wasn't for you" deletes what you just said
• California AB5 will kill the gig economy in 2020
• Facebook says it already complies with California's new consumer privacy law
• Facebook funding independent content oversight board with $130m
• USDA drops Wakanda as a free trade partner
• New Orleans narrowly avoids ransomware nightmare
• Never cross Greta. She wins vs. German rail company
• The US swipes Snowden's book profits
• Top 10 apps of 2019
• ICANN may block the sale of .org to Ethos Capital
• The Far Side is coming back

Picks of the Week

• Jeff's Thing: Beddr SleepTuner
• Ant's Thing: Be mindful of your holiday lights
• Stacey's Thing: SmartDry wireless laundry sensor

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• YouTube Rewind and Google's 2019 Year in Search
• Google Glass Explorer Edition gets its final update
• Magic Leap isn't there yet
• Twitter funding decentralized social media
• Fortnite vs Google, The Information vs Apple
• Pixel Feature Drop
• Google AI weather-based alarms
• Verizon is shutting down emails of archivists trying to save Yahoo Groups
• Spotify's 2019: podcasts, podcasts, podcasts

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Thing: First community of 3D printed homes
• Ant's Thing: When The Fire Alarm Goes Off At 3:30 AM
• Stacey's Thing: Philips Hue Sync Box

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• Goodbye Larry and Sergei
• What "Other Bets" should Google kill?
• Google's biggest challenge for the next 10 years: the death of advertizing
• How would you break apart Google?
• Fired Google employees sue
• Everything you need to know about Amazon re:Invent
• Amazon's AI Composer isn't quite there yet
• Everything else you need to know about Amazon re:Invent
• AWS is Amazon's real business
• Facebook turns to AI to deal with awkward Thanksgiving conversations
• Is Peleton sexist?
• RIP Lil Bub
• Stacey gets super nerdy about T-Mobile's new 5G launch

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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This Week's Stories:

• New Google ad policy
• Alphabet reboots its robotics program
• Facebook buys VR studio behind Beat Saber
• Amazon reportedly has plans for bigger cashier-less supermarkets in 2020
• Alexa has new emotions and speaking styles
• Twitter has plans to kill dormant accounts
• Killer new musical instrument from Artiphon
• Massachusetts State Police is the first Law Enforcement Agency to use Spot, a robotic dog.

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Popular and horrid Thanksgiving side dishes
• Stacey's Thing: Hue Smart Button

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This Week's Stories:

• Leo and Ant's Pixel 4 review: it's a decent phone, why does everybody hate it?
• The love/hate pendulum swings for tech
• PayPal Buys Honey for $4 Billion
• TWiT.community and Jimmy Wales' "Facebook Killer" are the future of social media
• Tik Tok CEO says China isn't controlling him
• Stadia launch underwhelms
• Google's Project Nightingale stirs our privacy fears
• Google cuts Friday meetings
• YouTube creators: the FTC is coming to get you!

Picks of the Week:

• Jeff's Number: Google's Black Friday Sale
• Ant's Good Thing: Lawton Swann's Clemson Sports Talk Podcast
• Mathew's Stuff: Greedo shouted Maclunkey!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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Today's Stories

• Google employee fired for leaks
• Google secretly gathering healthcare data for "Project Nightingale"
• Google ponders political ads: should it be like Facebook or Twitter?
• Is YouTube going to take down your content for not being "commercially viable?"
• Do you want a Google checking account?
• Phil Schiller's Macbook vs Chromebook comment highlights America's growing wealth imbalance and education failures
• Nest Mini vs Home Mini: tiny changes, huge improvement, same price?
• Google and Twitter fail the anti-vax ad test
• Flo and Ant explain why you don't need to upgrade to the Pixel 4

Picks of the Week:

• Jason's Tool: Disney+
• Ant's Good Thing: Three Nine Four Five portraits
• Flo's Thing: "How to Mess Up Your Life by Trying to Use iMessage on an Android Phone"
• Mathew's Stuff: Brave Browser

Hosts: Jason Howell and Ant Pruitt

Guests: Florence Ion and Mathew Ingram

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This Week's Stories

• Hacking Alexa with Lasers
• Google's open-source security chip
• Google Nest Max uses sonar to know when you are nearby, tells you the weather
• Google buys FitBit
• How Ring tracked your kids on Halloween
• Google Employees protest Google's climate change stance; Google invests in green startups
• Trading Gutenberg for Porn
• Kevin Tofel's 3000-Word Pixelbook Go Review
• What tech from the 2010s changed your life?

Tips and Picks

• Jason's Tip: From BillBoling on TWIT.COMMUNITY: "This is for Jeff and others that would like to get to 'Recent' within the Assistant search bar. Click or touch the 'G'. Click or touch the 'G' again in the upper left. In the bottom options bar click or touch 'Recent'. You will then find all the recent pages or links you went to in the recent past."
• Jeff's Number: Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline
• Stacey's Thing: Neeo Remote from Control4

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This Week's Stories

• Should Jason Howell delete all his old emails?
• Breaking News: Twitter bans political ads
• Google struggling with transparency issues
• Google will buy Fitbit: will this save WearOS?
• Moto 360 will relaunch in 2019
• Apple gains in wearables, loses in iPhones
• Advances in hearing aids
• Google earnings
• Amazon Fresh makes grocery delivery free for Prime Members
• Stacey explains Google's BERT "Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers"
• Carriers gang up to serve RCS
• Jason Howell's Pixel 4 Review
• Google brings .new to the web
• Andrew explains .new
• Ant's modeling pictures
• Google Maps the Kincade fire
• Google finally kills flash
• Facebook News tab includes Breitbart
• Netflix tests variable speed
• Hellvetica is the evilest font

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Twinkly lights
• Ant's Inspirations: Breast Cancer Awareness Month and North Carolina Central University's Nothing But the Arts
• Jeff's Numbers: The Internet at 50, How much time @Jack spends on Twitter, and The Precautionary Principle
• Jason's Tool: Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

Guest: Andrew Allemann

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This Week's Stories

• Google Nest Mini Unboxing
• Nitpicking the Pixel 4
• Why Soli radar is the Pixel 4's most important feature
• What we were promised with Soli vs what Google delivered
• Unlock Samsung Galaxy S10 with any thumbprint
• RIP Phone VR
• UK Pixel 4 in cereal boxes
• Google confirms it has reached quantum supremacy
• Elon Musk Tweets using SpaceX's Starlink satellites
• Google Fi gets "dual connect"
• Android slowly gets less fractured
• Remembering the Nexus
• Teasing the Motorola Razr

Picks of the Week

• Jason's Tool: Material Design 2019 awards last week: 4 apps to check out if app Design is your bag
• Jeff's Number: # of Uber riders who tip
• Stacey's Thing: I paid for Nike Training Club Premium and here's what I think
• Ant's Stuff: Triangulation was outstanding the last two weeks

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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