Nov 14th 2018
This Week in Google 482
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- Google ends forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims
- The woman behind Google design
- Waymo will launch driverless car service
- Google AI helps New York Times get a handle on its vast photo archive
- Amazon's HQ 2 and HQ 3: NYC and DC
- Google will double its NYC staff
- New Google LA HQ: Spruce Goose hangar
- Controversy over Google's NHS kidney data
- Night Sight comes to all Pixels
- Squoosh your pictures
- Pandora's new podcast recommendations
- The new kilogram
Picks of the Week
- Stacey's Thing: Notify Me skill on Alexa
- Jeff's Numbers: $1 billion of charitable donations on Facebook, $699 Pixelbook at Best Buy on Black Friday
- Leo's Tool: Mozilla Shop Safe This Holiday Season
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Links
- Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, e
- Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward addressing their demands but it must still address systemic racism and
- Porat: If we can make a car drive itself, why can't we sort out sexual harrassment
- Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service in Coming Months - WSJ
- Google's trying to win at hardware. Meet the woman altering its design | WIRED UK
- Portal from Facebook
- Google AI helps NYT get a handle on 5 million photo archive - CNET
- Google open-sources AI algorithms that its researchers say can distinguish between voices with 92% accuracy (Kyle Wiggers/Ventur
- Registration for Google's .dev domains begins January 2019
- Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters
- Google CFO Expects to Double New York Staff Over the Next 10 Years - WSJ
- Spruce Goose hanger is new Google office
- Google accused of 'trust demolition' over health app
- Google's NHS kidney data is now part of Streams
- Privacy folks are mad
- New Google Assistant trick for Android gives you superpowers over your morning routine - CNET
- Files by Google: the file management app for every Android user
- Project Fi’s enhanced network brings faster, more secure connections
- Chrome 71 will warn users about unclear billing charges & subscription sign-ups
- Google releases Night Sight, a software update that dramatically improves low-light photos, to Pixel users (Vlad Savov/The Verge
- See the light with Night Sight
- Create your smart home for the holidays with the Google Assistant
- Google Chrome Labs releases open source, browser-based image optimization tool, Squoosh
- Squoosh
- The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50,000 High-Res Images from Their Collection Online
- Pandora brings its Genome technology to podcast recommendations | TechCrunch
- Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer - The New York Times
- Why Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia | World Economic Forum
- Man who made hoax call in deadly 'swatting' pleads guilty
- How to trigger custom Alexa notifications from a smart home event
- Notify Me Skill on Alexa
- People have raised more than $1b on FB since 2015
- Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
- Pixelbook $699 at Best Buy for Black Friday
- Mozilla publishes gift guide for 70 smart devices, from drones to wearables, ranked by creepiness and security; many fail to mee
- THE KILOGRAM IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KILOGRAM