Oct 10th 2018
This Week in Google 477
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Pixel 3 First Look, Goodbye, Google+
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Tofel
- Kevin Tofel has the Pixel 3 XL, and gives us his first impressions. #1: Best. Photos. Ever.
- Pixel Slate: should you dump your laptop and get this?
- Google Home Hub: simplifying the smart home.
- Facebook Portal: now Facebook has a camera that can follow your every move.
- Everything we now know about Bloomberg's Chinese spy chip story
- Google+ is dead. Could anything have saved it?
- Amazon kills bonuses, discriminates against women.
- Essential's next act: a phone that send AI-written texts for you.
- Netflix buys its own studio.
- The heroes archiving the internet.
Picks of the Week:
- Jeff's Number: The illegal food economy on Facebook
- Kevin's Stuff: Anki Vector Robot
- Stacey's Things: Suggestic precision eating app and Party Down on Starz
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Links
- Made by Google on Twitter: "So you think you know… Tune in tomorrow to see for yourself. https://t.co/4zTwRXcn1x #madebygoogle…
- Here's everything Google revealed at its Pixel 3 event
- Google Photos update makes an already smart app even smarter
- Selfie portrait mode on the 3 XL
- Hands-on with Google's Pixel Slate: the $200 keyboard is a must-have, making it $800+ all-in
- First look at the Pixel Slate keyboard
- Pixel Slate release date: November 22?
- Google introduces the new Home Hub with display
- Google Home Hub is all about simplifying the smart home experience
- Facebook debuts video chat devices for home: the $199 Portal with a 10" screen and $349 Portal+ with a 15.6" swiveling screen
- The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies - Bloomberg
- Apple denies claim China slipped spy chips into its iCloud server hardware
- New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom
- Yossi Appleboum Disagrees with How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro
- Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It? — Krebs on Security
- Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
- Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+
- Making your connected home even smarter with Google Home and Nest
- More control at your fingertips with the new Google Home app
- Amazon is eliminating monthly bonuses and stock awards for US warehouse workers after raising wage to $15/hour
- Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters
- Android Creator Is Said to Build AI Phone That Texts for You - Bloomberg
- This 20-Year-Old Is Archiving Thousands of Flash Banner Ads From the Early 2000s
- Netflix, Already a Studio in All But Name, Is Buying a Studio - Bloomberg
- The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica
- Underground food economy on Facebook
- Anki Vector Robot
- Anki Vector Robot on YouTube