Feb 15th 2017
This Week in Google 392
Buried in the Common Area
Google's "highly aggressive" AI
DeepMind learns to be aggressive as it gets smarter. Verizon reintroduces unlimited data. Leo reviews the Samsung Chromebook Plus. Amazon releases a Skype competitor called Chime. Space X will launch over 4,000 satellites to cover the world in broadband internet. Google Fiber is back. Bill Gates is the nicest man on Earth.
- Jeff's Number: 120 Million children's lives saved
- Stacey's Thing: Pew report on Algorithms
- Leo's Tool: Keybase Chat
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Links
- Caavo’s $400 set-top box unites Amazon, Apple, and everything else into one TV interface
- Google Fiber 2.0 targets the city where it will stage its comeback, as AT&T Fiber prepares to go nuclear
- Google Fiber has a new boss and is losing hundreds of employees
- AT&T lights up gigabit fiber in five new metro areas
- Google's AI Has Learned to Become “Highly Aggressive” in Stressful Situations
- YouTube cancels PewDiePie's original series following Nazi controversy
- This very distressed purple bird is derailing conversations across Facebook
- Space X plans to cover the whole earth with wireless gigabit internet per user with reduced internet latency
- Samsung Chromebook Plus is now available in the US for $449, Pro in April for $549
- Verizon offers unlimited data and won’t throttle video (unlike T-Mobile)
- T-Mobile responds to Verizon by improving its own unlimited data plan
- Amazon Chime goes after WebEx, Skype for Business and more
- Pew report on Algorithms
- Lots of good #s in Gates Letter
- Introducing Keybase Chat
- America's spies anonymously took down Michael Flynn. That is deeply worrying.
- House Republicans want an investigation into EPA officials using encrypted chat apps
- Russia reportedly wants to extradite Snowden as a ‘gift’ to Trump