Apr 18th 2018
This Week in Google 453
Naked Egg Taco
Google Gets Smart, Fake News Obama
Marissa Meyer is back at Google ('s old offices.) Microsoft announces IoT security Azure Sphere. Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer. Netflix vs. Cannes. Google AIY is the new Heathkit. Grasshopper teaches kids to code. Google's new Gmail. Google Maps tells you to turn right at the Taco Bell. Tesla puts its bumper to the grindstone. Android P gets some ideas from iPhone X. Yahoo and AOL start scanning your email. Will the real President Obama please stand up?
- Jeff's Pick: Kanye's Twitter philosophy book
- Stacey's Pick: Ecobee Switch Plus with Alexa
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Links
- Microsoft Announces a Linux Operating System for the First Time Ever
- Marissa Mayer rents old Google office for her new startup because it has good juju
- Marissa Mayer Is Still Here - The New York Times
- What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Means for Hip-Hop
- What's at Stake in Cannes's Battle With Netflix
- Google's new book search deals in ideas, not keywords - Axios
- Google launches updated DIY kits for AI voice & vision w/ edu focus, available at Target
- Heathkit 1969 Catalog
- Grasshopper, a learn-to-code app from Google’s Area 120 incubator, goes live
- Google is about to launch a Gmail web redesign
- It sure looks like Google is about to kill Inbox
- Google Maps: Turn right after the Burger King
- NAKED EGG TACO
- Google drafting ethical guidelines for working with govt
- Google refuses to fix Waze so it won’t route people on 32%-grade road
- Elon Musk says Tesla will build Model 3s 24/7 until the end of June
- Tesla banned from crash probe after leaking details
- Exclusive: Waymo applies for no-driver testing in California - San Francisco Chronicle
- Google accidentally reveals Android P might have iPhone X-like gestures
- Second Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says 'sex compass' app gathered more Facebook data beyond the 87 million we already kne
- FB announces new global privacy controls ahead of GDPR
- Amazon Studios stops taking amateur scripts on June 30th
- Amazon is adapting William Gibson’s The Peripheral into a TV series
- Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails (again) - CNET
- Exit scammers run off with $660 million in ICO earnings | TechCrunch
- After 11 months gone, Kanye returns to Twitter to write a philosophy book there
- Kanye West's Twitter
- Ecobee Switch Plus with Alexa
- NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air : NPR
- Watch Jordan Peele use AI to make Barack Obama deliver a PSA about fake news