This Week in Google 413

Today is the Net Neutrality Day of Action. Go to BattleForTheNet.com and write your congressperson. Also, The Pixel XL 2 may feature a squeezable frame. Allo is coming to the desktop in "a few weeks." Android 7.1 has "Panic Detection" mode. Facebook will sell ads in Messenger. Amazon Prime Day sales up 60% over last year's record-setting haul - with Echo Dot as the top-selling item. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 may explode onto the scene on August 23rd. Make Nokia great again. China teleports matter to space.

• Jeff's Numbers: Google spends $800,000 on newsbots that write 30,000 articles a month in the UK. Google doesn't owe France 1.1bn euros in back taxes. 
• Danny's Stuff: Silk Vault Slim Wallet Case, The Big Sick
• Stacey's Thing: Fibaro HomeKit Sensors

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Links

• Battle For the Net
• EFF
• Net neutrality day of action: everything you need to know
• America’s Future Is Texas
• AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow's Protest With A Straight Face
• Combined Google Drive and Photos ‘Backup and Sync’ app now available for Mac, Windows
• Exclusive: This is the 2017 Google Pixel "XL," with low-bezel AMOLED display and squeezable frame
• Android 7.1 Nougat has a "Panic Detection" mode that detects frantic back button presses and returns users to home screen
• Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
• Google says the Allo desktop client is coming in a "few more weeks"
• Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign
• Related: Google responds
• Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
• The news industry is worried Facebook and Google have far too much power
• RELATED: Jarvis' post
• Twitter has a new CFO: Ned Segal
• Galaxy Note 8 to launch next month, perhaps as early as August 23
• Amazon’s Prime Day was the biggest sales day in its history, up 60% on 2016 led by the Echo
• Amazon’s best-selling product on Prime Day was the Echo Dot
• Make your Nokia 3310 great again with a special $2,500 Putin-Trump gold and titanium edition
• Best Buy lost $1 billion in value on the news of Amazon’s Geek Squad competitor
• Over many objections, W3C approves DRM for HTML5
• Facebook says all advertisers can soon buy ads inside Messenger
• The tiniest Street View car
• Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence
• The Big Sick
• Silk Vault Slim Wallet Case for iPhone
• Google wins one: no back taxes due in France
• Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a month
• Fibaro HomeKit Sensors