Google owes Oracle $8.8 Billion Dollars. Apple and Google fight over the classroom. Should everyone stop using Facebook? Should everybody stop using Twitter? Should everybody start using Google Plus?

• Stacey's Thing: Nest Hello Doorbell and Nest X Yale Lock
• Mike's Stuff: Lenovo Mirage Camera with Daydream
• Jeff's Number in Absentia: 5.5 GB

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Mike Elgan

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Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Google News Initiative will fight fake journalism. Uber self-driving car not at fault for killing pedestrian. Congress passes SESTSA/FOSTA. The city that banned bitcoin mining.

• Jeff's Number: Amazon is #2
• Stacey's Thing: Alexa Kids Court
• Leo's Tool: Samsung My BP Lab

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Leo's Pick: Samsung Galsxy S9

Stacey's Thing: Laurastar Smart Iron

Jeff's Number: Google removed 3.2b bad ads in '17

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Android P Developer Preview gets its release. Google sells Zagat to The Infatuation. How the Defense Department is working with Google to train AI to analyze drone footage. Why Google might be working on hypersonic drilling. Facebook is trying to determine the difference between satire and fake news. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asks for help in addressing the effects social media has on the world. The Amazon Echo is laughing at its owners, literally.

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Jason Howell

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What is Vero and why should you delete it? Google Clips takes pictures you wouldn't. Amazon buys Ring. Waymo takes you for a ride. Google and the Right to Be Forgotten. YouTube brings back Logan Paul. Google betas Flutter. Facebook and ther death of Little Things. Net Neutrality is officially over - now the real fight begins.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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Conspiracy theories arise online and off about the Florida school shooting. A Twitter bot purge significantly reduces the follower counts of conservative users, but Twitter claims it's not political. Google removes the 'view image' button from search results to appease photographers, and a federal judge says that embedding a tweet can be a copyright infringement. Has Google become too big? Plenty of examples featured in a New York Times article suggest that Google has been trying to suppress competition, prompting some critics to say the government should step in. Edible Arrangements also goes after Google because its competitors show up in search results. Google AI can now predict heart attacks through an eye scan.

• Jeff's number: 1,226,247, the number of people who signed the Change.org petition to revert to the old Snapchat.
• Kevin's pick: Secure Shell for coding on Chromebooks
• Joan's pick: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

Guests: Kevin Tofel and Joan Donovan

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Google brings AMP to email, smart replies to messages, ad blocking to Chrome, and warnings to insecure websites. Cryptocurrency mining comes to Salon and 4200 other sites. Pixel Visual Core comes to Facebook and Snapchat, but not Google Camera. Logan Paul off YouTube - for now. Facebook loses the youngs.

• Kevin's Stuff: Beaker Browser and Fritter

• Jeff's Number: 280 character wedding vows

• Stacey's Thing: Mango Mirror

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Guest: Kevin Marks

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The Superbowl commercials were ok, but Elon Musk's Tesla in space is the best ad ever. Nest is no longer separate from Google. Viacom buys VidCon. Alphabet's big tax bill kills company profits. Google's new Twitch competitor. Zuckerberg's mea culpa birthday message. RIP John Perry Barlow.

• Leo's Picks: Why Paper Jams Exist and Google Motion Stills AR Mode
• Jeff's Number: Wired abandons banner ad model they invented, goes behind a paywall
• Stacey's thing: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

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• Stacey's Thing: Texting with Alexa
• Jeff's Number: Google I/O May 8, Facebook F8 May 1-2

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Montana and Burger King want to save Net Neutrality. AT&T seems to want to as well. Google I/O puzzle reveals the 2018 conference date. Google Play sells audiobooks. YouTube won't let stars say bad things about Google. Facebook sends out a news survey and invents a new unit of time. First Amazon Go shop opens. Twitter loses another exec. Don't call the Vine replacement "Vine 2." Indian good morning greetings are eating the internet. ICOs explained.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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