• Data and Society's Joan Donovan tells us how to stop online hate.
• Leo explains why Google's location history tracking policy is a big deal.
• Google is working on its own Amazon Show competitor.
• NYU is giving Facebook 10,000 anonymized MRI scans to help train its AI systems.
• At the Hot Chips conference, Google's Pixel Visual Core and AMD's chip roadmap are all the rage.
• Facebook wants to rate how trustworthy you are to fight fake news
• Changelog: new Google Fit and some good news
• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Pixel 3 XL - in Russian!
• Google's Shortwave could change podcasting forever.

Picks of the Week:

• Joan's Stuff: Antisocial Media by Siva Vaidhanathan and Custodians of the Internet by Tarleton Gillespie
• Stacey's Thing: Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel
• Leo's Pick: Apple History on Triangulation

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Stacey Higginbotham

Guest: Joan Donovan

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