April 28, 2021

TWiG 609: Put Garlic On My Shopping List - Google and Apple earnings, Dogecoin, Basecamp drama, Google IO '21

2 hours 49 minutes

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

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April 28, 2021

TWiG 609: Put Garlic On My Shopping List - Google and Apple earnings, Dogecoin, Basecamp drama, Google IO '21

2 hours 49 minutes

Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms