This Week's Stories:

• Pixel 4 is all about photography: Annie Leibovitz, Marc Levoy, and astrophotography
• With the Pixelbook Go, Google puts style over substance
• Google Nest Aware is the best panopticon money can buy
• Google Stadia hopes that controllers shaped like knife handles will make you want to game
• Abbey Road is the Beatles' best album. Fight me!
• Google is all about Ambient Computing
• Facebook + politics = BFFs 4evah
• Issa Ray on Google Assistant
• What is the next phase of Ambient computing? Presence
• Things Google killed this week: Daydream, Clips, and Works With Nest
• UK gives up on its attempt to block porn
• Huawei, staggering under US sanctions, reports 25% sales growth over last year
• Fortnite Chapter 2 takes video game marketing to the next level
• The Vatican launches a click-to-pray rosary

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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• This Week's Stories
  • Why TWiT was down
  • Pixelbook Go is for Stadia
  • What should we do about Hong Kong?
  • Facebook vs truth in politics
  • Andy Rubin's new phone makes us feel uncomfortable
  • California legislates IoT security
  • Dark Mode comes to Maps, Books, Duo, Voice, and Play Store

• Picks of the Week
  • Leo's Tool: Social Security Cards Issued by Woolworth
  • Jeff's Number: How much is the internet worth to you? The Fed wants to know.
  • Stacey's Thing: Orchestra Provisions Cricket Spices
  • Ant's Stuff: Patient Hopes Gene-Editing Can Help With Pain Of Sickle Cell Disease
    

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

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This Week's Stories

• Jeff thinks Dark Mode sucks!
• Google Translate is being used to send people home at the border
• Google news snippets are being censored in France
• What do ISPs lose when Google implements encrypted DNS in Chrome?
• Car crash detection on upcoming Pixel devices will be incredibly helpful
• Pixel Buds may finally be receiving a refresh
• Microsoft surprised everyone with the Android-based Surface Duo
• Microsoft also showcased the new Surface Buds
• Stacey discusses her favorite announcements from the Amazon event last week
• Project Jacquard continues with a few new jackets by Levi's
• Kamala Harris urges Twitter to drop Trump's account

Picks of the week

• Jason's Tool: Recorder
• Jeff's Number: Google can drink
• Stacey's Thing: PlantNet
• Ant's Thing: Airline Pilot Guy

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

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This Week's Stories

• Whatever happened to Patch?
• Amazon announces Echo in everything from earbuds to glasses to ovens
• Do we trust Amazon?
• Pixelbook Go looks underwhelming
• Quantum Supremacy Achieved
• Google wins the right to be forgotten case
• Chrome update crashes Avid on Macs
• ChromeOS 77 is here
• Facebook Horizon will go nowhere
• Facebook buys CTRL Labs
• Facebook says politicians can say anything
• Pop-up criminals busted
• ImageNet Roulette
• The Texas Instruments graphing calculator monopoly

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Sonos Move
• Jeff's Number: FAANG stocks lost $58b in value after Trump smashed technology
• Ant's Thing: Coffee house back home with a message
• Kevin's Stuff: YouTube series. On Python. From... MICROSOFT?!?

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Kevin Tofel

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This Week's Stories

• Pixel 4 event confirmed for October 15th, may include Pixelbook 2
• Facebook announces its final rules for the Oversight Board.
• Facebook Portal wants to take over your TV
• Facebook wants to trademark the word "Book"
• Google uses AI to diagnose skin cancer
• Google launching new Nest Wi-Fi router with Google Assistant
• Banning face recognition: pros and cons
• Check out Triangulation #400 twit.tv/tri/400 for a great interview with the man behind San Francisco's face recognition ban
• Google Fi Unlimited
• Pixel 4 in Coral- or is it Cheeto?
• Pixel 4 camera will feature astrophotography
• The Last Apple Keynote
• Government to Google: let employees talk about salary
• Richard Stallman quits MIT and FSF
• What if all the proposed tech regulations passed? Jeff Jarvis has the ultimate dystopian view

Tips and Picks

• Leo's Tool: Write with Transformer
• Jeff's Numbers: Wearable chair, save 50% on Pixel 3
• Stacey's Things: Funko Advent Calendar: Marvel 80th Anniversary, Woodinville Whiskey Co.
• Ant's Wholesome Stuff: Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Next Week

• Kevin Tofel will be on TWiG next week with a look at what we are expecting from the Pixelbook 2, so come back next week, or Subscribe at TWiT.tv/subscribe so you don't miss it.

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

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• 48 States and 2 territories investigate Google over antitrust accusations.
• Amazon and antitrust: how much control do these giant companies have over us, and how much do we get back in return?
• Pixel 4 leak full videos
• New Pixel 4 features
• Pixel 4 Motion Mode and Portrait Mode
• Pixel 4 pricing rumors
• Apple Watch 5 shows how far behind Android Wear has fallen
• Will we get a new Pixelbook in October? Do we need one?
• Dogs with sticks
• Instagram privacy issues
• Facebook Dating launches in America
• MIT Media Lab tries to crawl out from the Epstein wreckage
• HiQ vs LinkedIn on public scraping
• Samsung Fold Hits Korea
• Hong Kong Protesters crowdsource a new national anthem

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

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This Week's Stories

• Android 10 arrives for Pixel phones
• YouTube pays $170 Million to settle child privacy complaints
• Google secretly gives your personal data to advertisers using cookie syncing
• Ad tech will destroy podcasting as we know it
• Half of all state Attorneys General probing Google
• Social Media #ChickenSandwichWars wipe out US chicken supplies
• Google Sidewalk Labs teams up with Ontario teachers to finance infrastructure projects
• USB 4 - a standard, or a "standard"?
• XKCD.com hacked!
• Are filter bubbles real, and does Google abuse them? (No and no)
• Facebook tests hiding likes
• Dorian tweets
• Are Chromebooks dying too young?
• Jack hacked! Hitgirl too! Twitter responds by killing SMS tweeting.
• Gmail can now warn co-workers not to send you email while you're on vacation

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: YourThings from Georgia Tech and UNC
• Jeff's Numbers: Project Jaquard's $877 Backpack Strap, and $70 off Facebook Portal

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This Week's Stories

• Android Q: No Dessert for You
• Levandowski indicted for Google self-driving theft
• Should you buy a Pixel 3a or wait for the Pixel 4?
• Google and Dell team up on an enterprise laptop
• How WYSIWIG was named
• Google moves Pixel 3a manufacturing to Vietnam
• Google bans internal politics
• YouTube Kids preschool content filters
• Facebook tightens transparency rules for political ads
• You have the right to be surveilled
• The new privacy fundamentalism
• Copyright maximalists ruin intellectual property
• Harvard freshman denied entry to the US for other people's social media posts

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tools: r/MaybeMaybeMaybe, RIP KFOG
• Jeff's Numbers: Google's big tent roof, Google's plan for San José
• Stacey's Thing: New York Times Mexican Martini Recipe
• Mathew's Stuff: Reddit Randonauts

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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This Week's Stories:

• The WeWork IPO is a harbinger of recession
• IKEA's IoT Future
• Deepfakes: don't believe your eyes
• Nest Cameras' Green Light is Always On
• Goodbye Works With Nest, Hello Google Home
• The Ballad of Dev Null
• Google Nest Hub Max coming September 9th
• The All-Google IoT home
• The Media Lab Epstein Connection
• Impossible Whopper is not Keto-Friendly
• Oldest continuous webcam is going dark
• So is nola.com
• A majority of Google searches lead to no clicks
• Google did not shift votes to Clinton

Picks of the week:

• Jeff's Number: Google's plan to clean up Hanger 1 on 101
• Stacey's Thing: Phyn
• Leo's Reminder: You don't have to worry about Instagram taking your photos
• Karsten's Fan Video: Jeff Jarvis the Chromebook Guy by Ziv Zulander

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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This Week's Stories

• The difficult past 3 years at Google
• Rivals angry at Google's EU search engine auction
• Google's next anti-trust complaint: job search
• Incognito mode cat and mouse
• Pixel boss moves up at Google
• Did you own an OG Pixel? Here's how to get $20!
• How will the Pixel 4's Soli radar work?
• Pixel 4 to have 90hz display
• Bill Nye hawks Chromebooks
• Android Q back swiping kerfuffle
• Unionizing YouTube
• The privileges of popularity on YouTube
• Facebook wants to be your source for news (again)
• Fighting over Section 230 press
• Google Maps AR navigation comes to more phones

Picks of the week

• Stacey's Thing: Don't buy the Echo Auto
• Jeff's Number: 1619
• Jason's Thing: JBL Link Bar

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Jason Howell

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