Oct 24th 2018
This Week in Google 479
It's a Sugar Speedball!
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Stacey Higginbotham
Google Home Hub first look, Pixel 3 XL problems.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mathew Ingram
- Google Home Hub First Look Review
- Pixel 3's many nit-picky issues
- Titan M security chip
- Pixel 3 Qi Charger DRM? Not so fast.
- 10 years of Android
- Tim Cook loves privacy, hates Bloomberg
Picks of the Week
- Mathew's Stuff: How the Night King uses Chromebook
- Stacey's Things: Google Assistant's colorful names and Alexa Whisper Mode
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Links
- Wikipedia founder lays off all journalists from his new media website - The Verge
- Google Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL Issue List: Know before you buy
- DRM for chargers? Google Pixel 3 locks fast Qi charging to its own $79 stand
- The Titan M Chip Powers Up Pixel 3 Security | WIRED
- Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex” | TechCrunch
- GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz
- Android: a 10-year visual history
- Celebrating a Sweet Decade of Android
- Making it easier to control your data, directly in Google products
- More 4K, more fun with Google Play Movies & TV
- A new course to teach people about fairness in machine learning
- F*** = off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs
- All Kiwi schools get the license to Chrome
- A better way to share your ETA with Google Maps
- Amazon, Super Micro Join Apple in Demanding Retraction of Bloomberg Story on Hacked Server Boards
- See how the Night King uses Chromebook
- Hear the rainbow: Putting personality to the Google Assistant voices
- Alexa’s new Whisper Mode goes live | TechCrunch