This Week in Google (Video)

Antitrust Hearings, We Rate Zuck's Zoom Bkgd, Google Extends WFH to July 2021

• Rating the Zoom backgrounds of the tech titans

• Leo's Tool: Vocodes. Vocal playground.

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

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• Twitter hack fallout: some verified Twitter accounts are still down
• Zuckerberg pinkie swears that he doesn't have a deal with Trump
• Softbank wants to sell ARM - will Nvidia buy it?
• Tesla's next gigafactory will be built in Austin
• Twitter bans thousands of Q-Anon accounts
• Google's camera wizard goes to Adobe
• How Linotype worked
• Canon EOS R5 review
• FTC Facebook Antitrust Giphy drama
• Eric Schmitt wants to start a university for artificial intelligence coders
• Cisco's Indian caste system discrimination suit
• EU voice assistant antitrust suit
• Electric clocks in Europe are falling behind - time to mine bitcoin
• Google Changelog: authenticated logos | Shoploop | Google Maps Bikeshare | Life in a Day
• Smoked Queso recipe from Meat Church
• Tik Tok might move to America

Picks of the Week:

• Stacey's Thing: Camera mount for a telescope
• Jeff's Numbers: Amazon is the #1 US Advertiser: $7b spent
• Ant's Pick 1: Lexicon Valley Podcast
• Ant's Pick 2: Trumpatine - Trump tweets read by Emperor Palpatine
• Karsten's mask 1: Fiber Optic Light-Up Mask
• Karsten's mask 2: 10 popular masks everyone is buying on Amazon
• Karsten's mask 3: These "movie monsters" face masks are the coolest way to stay safe and support a good cause

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

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• GINORMOUS TWITTER HACK
• Elon Musk, Obama, BillGates, and other verified Twitter accounts hacked in bitcoin scam
• All verified Twitter accounts shut down
• Zoom debuts a $600 all-in-one videoconference device
• Alabama is the only state not investigating Google for antitrust
• Twitter partner Dataminr sold Black Lives Matter protest surveillance to police
• Facebook might ban political ads - is this a good idea?
• Amazon shows off Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that automatically checks you out
• Google Ngram gets a huge upgrade
• Why Tik Tok is winning, and why it is dangerous
• US cyber attacked Russian trolls in 2018
• Google's ATAP invents a remote control for your smart home
• Eric Schmitt's secret summer camp
• Apple wins $14.5 Billion Irish Tax battle on appeal
• Roman roads as a subway map
• The Google Changelog: Gmail integrates Meet, Chat, and Docs | Google Photos adds recent photos filter | Google Lens shortcut | Google Fit adds YouTube Playlists | 15 Years of Google Earth | Zoombombing protection for Google Meet

• Leo's Tool 1: WindowSwap
• Leo's Tool 2: Leo's mask fitters arrived!
• Stacey's Thing: 9 Words Formed by Mistakes
• Jeff's Number 1: Quibi lost 90% of free subscribers
• Jeff's Number 2: Disney+ signups increased by 641% due to Hamilton
• Ant's Stuff: BTS Ant's COVID-19 Regs
• Karsten's Mask: Bluetooth-connected face mask that can record conversations, amplify the wearer's voice, make phone calls, transcribe speech into texts and translate Japanese speech into 8 different languages.
• Leo's Mask: UVMask: Real-Time UV-C Filtration & Purification Face Mask
• Jeff's Mask: Martyn Percy shows off a mask by Cecilie Birk Dehli

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

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• Google details its new "Works With Google" smart home program and IoT partners
• Google briefly mentions its partnership with Apple and Amazon to develop a new IoT standard - details still to come
• MacOS on Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM are both ARM implementations, but are they compatible? Will Windows be able to run on Macs?
• Twitter stock goes crazy over the possibility that Twitter will add a subscription service
• How will schools open in the fall?
• Facebook's subscription service
• The Bezos future: do we really want Amazon to take over everything so Jeff Bezos can send us to space?
• Walmart will launch an Amazon Prime competitor later in July
• Rethinking late-stage capitalism
• Google Changelog: RIP Pixel 3a, Loon Internet in Kenya, traffic lights in Google Maps, Google Fiber in West Des Moines Iowa, Android 11 Beta 2, YouTube TV price hike
• Tech titans vs journalists and writers vs social media: cultural aggression online
• The mystery shopper who is leaving behind dozens of shopping carts has online merchants flummoxed
• Japan bans screaming on rollercoasters
• Fraunhover creates a new h.266 VVC codec to shrink video files even more - but Google won't use it
• US might ban Tik Tok, Tik Tok leaves Hong Kong
• Uber requires masks for drivers and riders
• Gina Trapani was way ahead of her time: Wave and a revolution in document creation
• Ghost kitchens: how Covid will change our culture and our parking lots
• University of the People: how education will change in the future
• Leo's Tool: Project Audio for GitHub
• Stacey's Thing: Eufy Video Doorbell 2k
• Jeff's Number: Ben Evans Slide 18: 40% of heterosexual couples met online
• Karsten's Mask: Need a mask that works with FaceID? Order a custom mask of your lower face!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Section 230 FAQ, Social Media Bans, CCPA
• What the F is Section 230?
• US Senate waters down the EARN IT Act (but it still sucks), and more Section 230 news
• Section 230: history repeats itself
• Parler starts banning users
• YouTube, Reddit, and Twitch ban accounts
• What should Facebook do about content moderation?
• Zuckerberg will meet with advertisers over ad boycotts
• Twitch bans President Trump
• Tik Tok is doing some super shady stuff; India bans it.
• Buy the game developed by the CIA!
• The first innocent person arrested using face recognition
• All the ways police are using tech to track protestors
• California Consumer Privacy Act now in force - here's what it means to you
• Cook, Pichai, Bezos, and Zuckerberg meeting congress for anti-trust hearings
• US Supreme Court rules that generic website names can be trademarked
• Microsoft closes its retail stores
• Who pivoted better, Netflix or Microsoft?
• Google quires smart glasses company North
• Watch TWiT's coverage of the Google's smart home event July 8th
• YouTube TV raises its price to $65/month
• Ant's Thing: Hand on Tech: SENNHEISER MKE 400 REVIEW - Shotgun Mic for DLSR/Mirrorless Cameras
• Ant's Thing 2: Peck of the week
• Jeff's Thing: Popup pods for a safe office
• Jeff's Number: When it's cold outside, it's hot on Twitter
• Mike's Stuff: Trust and Safety Professional Association
• Mike's Stuff 2: Trust and Safety Foundation
• Karsten's Mask: Techdirt's YouTube Takedown Mask

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Masnick

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• Apple shifts to its own chips - will Google?
• The fastest computer in the world runs on ARM
• Apple Silicon Macs won't run Windows in Boot Camp
• iOS 14 takes the best features of Android - widgets, calls, picture-in-picture, etc.
• What comes after Zoom?
• Pixel 4a coming in July - maybe even July 7th
• Sergey Brin's secret disaster relief squad
• Amazon Kills the Dash Wand
• Amazon wants Live TV, NBC launches Peacock
• Twitter wins Devin Nunes' Cow suit
• Mike Masnick's Bad Section 230 Takes
• Jeff Jarvis's proposal to stop passing dumb tech laws
• Reminiscing about The Site
• Leo's Tool: Hey Email
• Ant's Thing: Photo Quest by Rick Sammon
• Jeff's Numbers: First decline in Google ad revenue because Covid, Amazon and Facebook ad revenue still up

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

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• Watch Stacey's Machine Learning on the Edge Conference!
• Watch Leo on Alex Lindsay's Office Hours!
• Leo buys a $75,000 Boston Dynamics Spot robot
• Google puts Juneteenth on Google Calendar, creates a racial equity task force
• Google did not demonetize The Federalist
• Conservatives want to limit Google's and other social media's Section 230 protections
• Facebook and Instagram will let you block political ads, help 4 million people register to vote
• How to record Twitter audio clips
• Twitter removes Chinese, Turkish, and Russian propaganda accounts
• How the CIA was hacked in Vault 7
• Google tries to fight Zoom by adding Meet to Gmail
• Adobe Flash will finally die this year
• Why T-Mobile was down, and what the FCC will do about it
• Why the Internet Archive bought a record store
• US no longer in top 10 internet speed countries
• eBay executives send journalists roaches and a pig mask
• Leo's Tool: Bellus 3D Printed Mask Guards
• Stacey's Thing: The End of October by Lawrence Wright
• Jeff's Numbers: 21 years ago investment in Google

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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• Amazon bans police use of their face recognition tech for 1 year
• Android 11 public beta: how to install it
• Collapse OS: a post-apocalyptic operating system
• US Space Force could lose trademark to Netflix Space Force
• Google shipped 7.2 million Pixel phones in 2019
• Pixel Buds get a fix for the wrong problem
• Google sued for sucking up data about you
• Google+ is shutting down for real this time
• Googlers have to eat box lunches, no gym, no sleep pods
• Google Wing drones bring books to children
• DuckDuckGo CEO says Google is in anti-trust trouble
• Protest organizers are using Google Docs
• Jeff Jarvis' letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
• "Dear Class of 2020" highlights
• How 2020 is like 1968
• Bon Appetit apologizes, Conde Nast dithers
• Twitter makes Juneteenth a permanent company holiday
• Nascar nixes Confederate battle flag
• Why the NFL should apologize to Colin Kaepernick in private
• Get Doom and Doom II for free on your Chromebook
• Amazon sues former employee over a non-compete clause
• Twitter: read that article before you retweet it
• Twitter starts verifying people again - if they are COVID scientists
• Jack Dorsey gives $3 mil to Colin Kaepernick's org
• No encryption for free Zoom users so they can cooperate with the police
• ACLU sues Los Angeles for tracking scooter users
• Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian quits, asks to be replaced by a black man. Reddit replaces him with Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

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• Jeff gets a Taco Bell care package
• CES 2021 is happening in-person. Would you go?
• Google delays Android 11 beta event out of respect for Black Lives Matter protests
• YouTube drops the 3rd season of Cobra Kai, pivots away from scripted TV
• Facebook employees walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to stand up to Trump
• Snapchat stops promoting Donald Trump over his tweets
• Here's how much money Donald Trump spends on Facebook
• More people are complaining about Pixel Buds
• AT&T says HBO Max will not count towards data caps, but Netflix and Disney+ will
• The German newspaper that is delivering beer, shoes, bread, and office supplies to people sheltering in place
• Elon Musk is taking a break from Twitter
• Netflix buys Grauman's Egyptian Theater so its features can win Oscars
• Italian prosecutor demands the banning of Project Gutenberg's collection of public domain books over copyright infringement.
• Publishers sue the Internet Archive for online book lending. Here's a better way to borrow e-books.
• Third Pixel Drop fixes your battery, improves Recorder, and makes bedtime better
• Google's new AR tool makes social distancing easy

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.

Sponsor:

• Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies
• Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less
• Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco
• California's anti-freelancer law under attack
• Switzerland: companies must pay rent for their employees who are working from home
• Google employees get a day off on May 22nd
• Twitter labels Trump tweet about mail-in-ballots "Get the facts," Trump threatens to shut down all social media
• Half of the tweets calling to "reopen America" are made by bots
• Pixel 4a not coming out until July 13th
• We are strip-mining the US economy, especially in the news business
• Google launches a podcast about Google
• CBS buys Some Good News, but won't get John Krasinski
• Prime Day moving to September
• Amazon launching local podcasts. Everybody else is launching podcasts, as well
• US court rules that FBI can't look at your phone's lock screen without a warrant
• Electric Taste Machine
• Electric Smell Machine
• Magic Leap stays alive, gets $350 Million- Google discontinues first Google Home
• Taco Bell doesn't want to pay Quibi for their ads, because nobody is watching
• HBO Max launches today, to the confusion of everyone
• What kind of Zoom user are you? Every Zoom user, illustrated by cats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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