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May 05, 2021TWiG 610: Honey I Shrunk the Carters - Google's privacy robot, more Stadia departures, Google IO predictions
Google offices upon return: Privacy robot bubble walls, individual air, box lunches, no shuttles
How Basecamp blew up
Google Is Saving Over $1 Billion a Year by Working From Home
Pichai teases 'significant' announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
Apple hires an ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings
Google Nest Hub shows up at Bluetooth SIG running 'Fuchsia 1.0'
Google announces 'Pixel Buds A-Series' in inadvertent unveil
Stadia product head John Justice has left Google
Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts to Launch Its Upgraded Starship Prototype Rocket
Google's next Pixel phone could hop on the ultrawide bandwagon with Samsung and Apple
Chromebooks dominate the global PC market to 275% growth, with HP leading the charge
Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World
Oversight Board's decision on Trump
Jarvis thread on the decision: they punted
Florida is set to ban 'deplatforming' by tech companies
Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned
Facebook to give $5m to local journalists covering communities
Amazon sees 'positive outcome' in FCC's SpaceX satellite ruling
Twitter acquires Scroll, a big deal for its pay strategy & for the news industry's post-ad strategy
New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs
Yahoo and AOL, Early Internet Pioneers, Are Sold to Private Equity Firm
John Swartzwelder, Sage of "The Simpsons"
The computers are getting better at writing
Gary Vaynerchuk: NFT is the next Amazon
Dogecoin Co-Creator Sold All His Coins For Just Enough To Afford A Used Honda Civic In 2015 — Now DOGE Is Bigger Than Honda
Sony ditches DSLRs, moving the camera industry beyond film-era designs
Wide-Angle Oddity: Giant Bidens Meet Tiny Carters
It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia's 172 games
Google Assistant Will Now Finally Be Able to Say Your Name Correctly
Google Is Bringing a Google TV-Like Experience to Android Tablets
YouTube begins testing time-linked comments on videos
Picks:
Jason - UAD Apollo Twin X
Jeff - Matrix mold for the letter H
Ant - Panfurware Music for Creators
Ant - FLOSS Weekly's SSI and DEMOSCENE Discussion
Ant - Younger #Hardhead Beats His Older Brother

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell
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2 hr 23 min
April 28, 2021TWiG 609: Put Garlic On My Shopping List - Google and Apple earnings, Dogecoin, Basecamp drama, Google IO '21
Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies
Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1, up 46 percent
Google Fiber coming to another Utah city
Sundar Pichai talks about COVID in India
Google's Oscar commercial
Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks
Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers
4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
What really happened at Basecamp
YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue
Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
Comic unapologetic about putting garlic on fans shopping lists
Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel
Google Fi marks 6th birthday with new 'Simply Unlimited' plan that lacks 'Unlimited Plus' extras
Google-run Android Earthquake Alerts System is now providing warnings in first two countries
Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
Google Photos for Android rolling out new 'Sharpen' and 'Denoise' editor tools
Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
YouTube adds even more video resolution controls and options on mobile
It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia's 172 games
Kevin Tofel: Looks like I'm going to be a GT Yellow Jacket
What Old Tiktok-ERs Look like (by Ant)
Be Mindful Of The Dance Moves You're Doing On Tiktok
Pichai teases 'significant' announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
Google posts I/O 2021 schedule, starting with Sundar Pichai keynote on May 18 at 10 a.m
Samsung unpacks its Galaxy Book Pro, Pro 360 and more
Amazon sees 'positive outcome' in FCC's SpaceX satellite ruling
Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life
Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
Introducing Immersive View, A Fun New Way to Meet
90s Kids Guide to the Internet
WaPo reports on brain interfaces with a touch of moral panic
She never returned a VHS of Sabrina and 20 years later faced a felony
Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL
Picks:
Stacey - Ember Mug
Jeff - Oscar Viewership Rises To 10.4M In Final Numbers
Ant - I Finally Created an NFT (Why not?)
Ant - My Newest Short Film
Ant - Photo Pursuit: Stories Behind the Photographs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 50 min
April 21, 2021TWiG 608: Real Men Don't Use Allen Wrenches - Nobody likes FLoC, Google is most trusted brand, Daily Mail sues Google, EU's prospective AI ban
Club TWiT details
Nobody is flying to join Google's FLoC
Reuters website goes behind a paywall in new strategy
Google Ads policies
The 15 Most Trusted Brands Globally
More on subscriptions
Questions from Discord
A discussion on... jeans
Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
EU looks to prospectively ban AI across many uses
Europe fit for the Digital Age: Commission proposes new rules and actions for excellence and trust in Artificial Intelligence
Google subsidiary moved $75bn in profits through Ireland in 2019 using "double-Irish"
Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse and podcasts with a suite of new audio products
Dollars flow to live audio as moderation problems loom
Facebook oversight board delays decision on Trump ban to 'the coming weeks'
Apple confirms it will allow Parler to return to App Store
Amazon is opening a hair salon with an AR color bar
Amazon Plans Furniture Assembly Service to Catch Wayfair
Meet Ameronothrus on Twitter, a new bug discovered via a tweet
TikTok Has a New Filter That Shapeshifts You Into a Movie Character, and You Need to See This
Latest food fad on TikTok: twisted bacon
Google Earth's historical 3D time-lapses show the ravages of climate change
Google Meet is getting a UI refresh next month with smarter meeting features
Fitbit's Luxe is a fashion-focused fitness band that costs $149.95
Chrome OS 90 rolling out: Live Caption, Diagnostics app, and more
Google is adding a price-tracking tool to Chrome for Android
Google rolling out Android 12 Developer Preview 3 for Pixel phones
Google Search adds AR Pac-Man, 3D Hello Kitty, Gundam, and other Japanese characters
South by Southwest Stake Is Sold to Owner of Rolling Stone in Effort to Keep Festival Alive
Debunking the Vegas Loop
NASA picks SpaceX's Starship to land Artemis astronauts on the moon
Nintendo founding family's site
Whole Foods Launching Amazon Palm Reader Payment System in Seattle
Picks:
Ant: Relatively Normal Podcast
Jeff: Historical yearly trends in the usage statistics of content management systems
Stacey: Caséta by Lutron

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 29 min
April 14, 2021TWiG 607: Let's Go to the Terminal - Pixel 5a 5G rumors, Pixel Watch, CCMI is dead, Project CHIP
Celebrating Johannes Gutenberg
Google announces Pixel 5A 5G by denying rumors it's canceled
Google Pixel Watch Leaks With Dazzling Looks To Challenge Apple - Watch
Samsung's third Unpacked event of 2021 set for April 28
Is content moderation a dead end?
Podcast: LoRaWAN tries to co-opt Amazon Sidewalk
Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T have pulled the plug on CCMI, their big RCS project
Project CHIP embraces a timeline and the blockchain
FCC Permits Hot-car Sensors to Save Children
Biden Reassures Chip Summit of Bipartisan Support for Funds
Bridgerton the TikTok musical creators signed by CAA
Spotify Continues to Remove Joe Rogan Episodes — 42 Shows Deleted
Zoom zero-day discovery makes calls safer, hackers $200,000 richer
NSA Uncovers Serious Flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server, Urges Public to Patch
Amazon's Alabama Union Vote: Here's What Happens Next
Facebook is testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked
Google Assistant can now find/ring silenced iPhones as Duplex expands to online food orders
Android Heads Up! to keep you from walking into a pole
Google shuts down the shopping app
Google Play Movies & TV app to shut down in June
Google I/O 2021 homepage gets a countdown and Breakout easter egg
Google Pay 'Spring Challenge' offers a $30 reward for using the new app
Google discontinues 'Oh So Orange' Pixel Buds, sold out at all retailers
Steak-umm Reignites Twitter Beef With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Over Science: 'Log Off Bro'
Coinbase opens at $102 billion valuation on the first day of public trading
TikTok as wellness app: "mental pacifier"
Picks:
Stacey: You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Jeff: Donald Trump Caused The Techlash
Jeff: Here's how Americans rank the 50 states, per YouGov
Ant: The Ol' Air Freshener Excuse
Ant: The Real House Plants of Sonoma County

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 39 min
April 07, 2021TWiG 606: 2222 to Toulouse - Google vs Oracle, Google IO 2021, Nest Hub 2 Review, OnePlus Watch Hands-On
Google vs Oracle, Google IO 2021, Nest Hub 2 Review, OnePlus Watch Hands-On
Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle's API copyright case.
Google I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend from May 18-20.
Exclusive: Pixel 6 will be powered by new Google-made 'Whitechapel' chip.
RIP LG: South Korean giant officially exits the smartphone market.
Stacey's Nest Hub 2 review.
Ikea is working with Sonos on a hidden speaker built into art you hang on the wall.
Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group.
Waymo boss John Krafcik leaving autonomous car company, co-CEOs named.
Google launches Lyra codec in beta to reduce voice call bandwidth usage.
Google acquires 3D audio startup Dysonics to develop new 'audio hardware,' possibly Pixel Buds.
Ketchup shortage!
What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
Amazon offers rare apology, says it will look for solutions to drivers peeing in bottles.
ACLU, a defender of digital privacy, reveals that it shares user data with Facebook.
Another Day, Another Ridiculous NY Times Opinion Piece That Is Confused About Section 230 And Free Speech Online.
Google Pixel 5 sees massive GPU performance gains with April 2021 update.
Pixel 5's April update improves camera quality in 3rd-party apps, optimizes game performance, more.
Google posts Android 12 Developer Preview 2.2 with April security patch and bug fixes.
Google is developing parts of Android in Rust to improve security.
Appicide: Google Play Music final update lets you hide it.
Google inadvertently leaks green 'Pixel Buds A' in email push.
Google Workspace users can continue to create unlimited Docs until next year.
Google opens Android Auto to new navigation, parking, and charging apps.
Lots of new Chrome updates: particularly like multiple cut-and-paste; improved screen grab.
Picks:
Stacey: Will.i.am's $299 connected Xupermask.
Jeff: a16z marketplace rankings.
Jeff: Lufthansa flight two two two two to Toulouse.
Ant: LumaCare Duo.
Ant: Wanderers Photographic Cultural Experiences.
Jason: OnePlus Watch hands-on.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 18 min
March 31, 2021TWiG 605: Sausage Fingers - Clubhouse clones, Google data collection, Substack alternatives, Google Stack
How a full moon and a 'huge lever' helped free Ever Given from Suez canal
Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom
LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival, too
Spotify enters live social audio with acquisition of Locker Room
The Unofficial Twitter Spaces FAQ
Discord's new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It's Now Valued at $1 Billion
Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
Google testing Memory as add-on to assistant: combination of to-do list, notes app, reading list, Pinterest
Google Stack, to organize your (paper) documents
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
Don't shun Dr. Google — researching mysterious symptoms online is actually a good idea, study finds
T-Mobile is betting big on Google's Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and more
HoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion deal
Google canceling April Fools' Day jokes for the second year in a row
Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility
Amazing Icelandic volcano drone footage
Twitter's 'unofficial mayor' Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment
You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango
Facebook sets reopening date for S.F., Bay Area offices, with no free food and no transit
Google: Some workers are likely to return to U.S. offices in April
Periscope shuts down today
Socially distanced dance troupe
Sources: Google's next wireless earbuds are the 'Pixel Buds A'
Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps
Google Meet extending 'unlimited' video calls for free Gmail accounts to June
Google TV rolling out 'Kids Profiles' to Chromecast now
Say "Hey Google..." to the new Fiat 500 Family
YouTube tests hiding dislike counts in response to targeted campaigns, improve wellbeing
Verizon will shut down its 3G network in 2022
I Like That The Boat Is Stuck
Picks:
Mike - Hey World
Mike - AeroPress Go
Mike - ImprovedTube
Jeff - SHARGE: World Smallest 65W 3-Port Laptop & USB Wall Charger
Ant - I Created Some Lightroom and Capture One Presets

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt
Guest: Mike Elgan
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2 hr 45 min
March 24, 2021TWiG 604: Stuck in the Canal - Zuck's Section 230 idea, Medium pivots, getting rich on YouTube, Seuz Canal
How to TikTok
All about Formula 1 racing
Google Will Not Run FLoC Origin Tests In Europe Due To GDPR Concerns
In 2020, Two-Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click
Boat Blocking Suez Canal Partially Freed Amid Fears It Could Be Stuck For Days
YouTube to auto-detect products in videos, serve related links
The Preteen's Guide to Getting Rich Off YouTube
YouTube saved her chateau
Facebook, Google CEOs suggest ways to reform key internet law
Biden to nominate tech antitrust pioneer Lina Khan for FTC commissioner
Ev & Medium pivot again: away from publications to individual writers; offers buyout to edit staff
Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47
Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
Fix for Android apps crashing on phones
Chromebooks are getting Android 11 in beta w/ dark mode support, better app scaling
Stadia Games and Entertainment open sources some of its development tools
Google updates Chat UI for Workspace users to match personal accounts
Taco Bell parent buys social-media ordering company after buying AI insights company. Tacos are tech
Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp
Picks:
Stacey - Marine Traffic
Jeff - Whale Net
Jeff - Troll Research Station: how to operate an airport in Antarctica
Ant - A Dream Job in Wine?
Ant - Inexpensive Travel Dock From OWC
Leo - The Infinite Drum Machine

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 46 min
March 17, 2021TWiG 603: Sleeping With a Mime - Nest Hub with sleep tracking, Elon Musk is Technoking, Drone goes bowling
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras
What Really Happened at 'Reply All'?
Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future?
The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way
Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves
Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing
Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox
Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism"
US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations
FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc
What Facebook sees in newsletters
Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them
The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon
Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years
Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking"
JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace
Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT
The Freedom Phone
California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law
Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps
Live Caption comes to Chrome
YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published
YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US
Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports
A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed
Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees
Picks
Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant
Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information
Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal
Ant: My YouTube Short

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
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2 hr 38 min
March 10, 2021TWiG 602: Random Penguin House - NFTs and creators, Google Empathy Lab, FLoC and cookies, Twitter reinvention
What the heck are these NFTs all about?
$10K for a virtual shoe? NFTs are here to create more sneakers you can't get
Performance artist eats $120,000 banana duct-taped to wall, calls it 'delicious'
After journalist complains about harassment women face, famous male journalists encourage more harassment of her
NYU study: far-right misinformation is more engaging
Inside the Google Empathy Lab
Burger King's terrible tweet
Google's FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
Google flags higher ad rates in France, Spain after digital tax
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
Google hosting Cloud Next '21 conference in October, virtual/physical format not yet set
Mobile World Congress says it will be in person in Spain in June
For Creators, Everything Is for Sale
Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won't let you
Twitter working on overhaul of Tweetdeck
Twitter is Reinventing Itself
Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets
Russia moves to slow Twitter's speed after protest row
Twitter sues Texas AG, claiming retaliation for Trump ban
Texas governor wants to ban social media from banning
A Leading Critic of Big Tech Will Join the White House
Camera-based Google Fit heart & respiratory rate tracking rolling out to Pixel
Google Voice won't forward texts to outside #s anymore
Google gives Chrome Android hub for its birthday
Google Chrome moving to 4-week update cycle for faster feature rollouts
Google Photos' new advanced video editor starts rolling out
Google Meet breakout rooms can now be set up before calls using Calendar
Google TV 'kids' profiles' arrive on Chromecast this month w/ parental controls, time limits
Android Auto split-screen support begins rolling out for vehicles with wide-screen displays
Follow our podcast': Apple Podcasts to stop using 'subscribe'
Internet Archive Scholar launched
Stanford AI Index
Arby's Has an Answer to Plant-Based Meat: A Meat-Based Carrot
T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers
Picks:
Mathew: Four year anniversary of this epic interview
Mathew: Man builds video-rental store in his basement
Jeff: Ending the Civil Journey
Jeff: Pandemic blamed for plummeting birthrates across Europe
Ant: Adobe Max Dates announced (virtually).
Ant: Super Resolution Feature from Adobe Announced
Ant: Story pissed me off, but there's a personal spin
Leo: Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt
Guests: Mathew Ingram and Trey Ratcliff
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2 hr 52 min
March 03, 2021TWiG 601: Wear Your Dadgum Schnutenpulli! - How tech journalism changed since 2016, Pixel feature drop, NFTs
Pre-Techlash era & background to the Techlash
How did the election of Donald Trump usher in the TechLash? How did Big Tech respond?
Is there a new kind of honesty and transparency for big tech companies right now?
Google abandons individualized tracking for ads
Microsoft Ignite Keynote 2021
The disillusionment of social media
SpaceX Starship SN10 Launch
NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
Grimes made $5.8 million in 20 minutes selling NFT art
Here's someone Ant met and their sold NFT
March Pixel Feature Drop: Underwater photos, Gboard Smart Compose, and more
Google releases Android 12 Developer Preview 1.1 with bug fixes
Chrome 89 rolling out: Reading list, Tab Search, Profiles redesign, and more
Google stops selling Cardboard
Google Duo on Android using 'Lyra' to offer natural-sounding voice calls on even a 2G connection
Google Nest Hubs get three new clock faces
The SpaceX #SN10 Starship has exploded after landing
Abraham Lincoln As You've Never Seen Him Before
MyHeritage to be Acquired by Leading Private Equity Firm Francisco Partners
AI creation of hands playing piano according to music track
The 6 Train Can Help You Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit - Civic Center - New York - DNAinfo
You'll miss them when they're gone: OZ news traffic fell 24% during FB freeze-out
Picks:
Nirit - The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
Jeff - German covid words
Ant - Jim Gaffigan marks one year of lockdown

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt
Guest: Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
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2 hr 9 min