This Week in Google 480

• Andy Rubin has a $90M payout!
• Is the culture at Nexflix too cut throat?
• Who is the the No. 3 digital-ad seller in the country? You might be surprised.
• All the journalists from a new media website have been laid off.
• Some crypto news outlets will post paid content and not mark it as sponsored content.
• More from the Change Log.
• Some ads are using kids' apps to target children, and at an alarming rate!
• Using AI to assist people with disabilities.
• Use the Google Gboard to create emojis that look like you!
• Google wants to use iRobot to map your home, are you game?

Picks of the Week:

• Leo's Tool: Coach Tony from Better Humans
• Jeff's Number: Google's $25M AI Contest
• Stacey's Things: Halloween Costumes Chosen by AI

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Links

• How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ - The New York Times
• Google says 48 people have been fired for sexual harassment in the last two years
• Google to use iRobot room maps for iot etc
• How Amazon Closely Targets Ads - The Atlantic
• And a journo says kill the RT. Jeesh.
• Gboard updates with emojis that look like you
• Google releases new, less irritating Captcha
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots
• Wikipedia founder lays off all journalists from his new media website - The Verge
• Half Of The News Outlets We Asked Would Take Cash To Post Our Content
• A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley - The New York Times
• Jarvis announcement of project to aggregate signals of quality in news (funded by FB Journalism Project)
• Kids' apps may have a lot more ads than you think
• How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You
• Google's $25m contest for AI beneficial to humanity
• AI costume explainer