Jan 2nd 2019
This Week in Google 489
I'm An Engineer, Darn It!
Facebook's Rough 2018, AZ vs Waymo
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- Facebook hopes for a better 2019 after a public image drubbing in 2018.
- Google's Waymo Under Fire in Arizona - Literally.
- Your cell phone has a huge security flaw, and there is no plan to fix it.
- How much of the internet is made of bots? And how soon will people be the exception, not the rule?
- Copyright expires for all works created in 1923 - the 1st time this has happened in 20 years. Is Mickey Mouse next?
- One Oregon man takes his fight to call himself an engineer all the way to federal court.
- Who owns your tattoo? Not you!
- What will happen if the US tries to ban exports of AI tech?
- A cafe in Tokyo where the staff is all robots controlled remotely by paralyzed workers.
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Numbers: Google to make $3B on hardware, 16,000 BBC sound effects for free
- Leo's Tool: Listen Notes: the podcast search engine
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Links
- Zuckerberg's tone-deaf year-end note reads like 1,000 words of patting himself on the back and shows little contrition or empath
- Mark Zuckerberg posts a year-end overview on the issues that Facebook encountered in 2018 and its efforts to deal with them (Mar
- The Nation: New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics
- Jarvis post on criticizing/leaving Facebook
- As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
- Facebook and reporting/predicting suicide risk (note GDPR angle)
- Arizonans attack Waymo cars
- Ray Kurzweil 2019 Predictions
- Bloke moons Google Maps
- Alphabet Delivery Drones Cheer Shoppers, Annoy Neighbors, Scare Dogs
- UK police release airport drone suspects and admit there may not have been any drones after all | TechCrunch
- Sources: Amazon is planning to build and expand Whole Foods stores across the US to put more customers within range of its Prime
- Opinion | Our Cellphones Aren’t Safe - The New York Times
- How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
- 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage | TechCrunch
- Malware attack disrupts delivery of L.A. Times and Tribune papers across the U.S. - Los Angeles Times
- Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon—here’s what that means | Ars Technica
- Hospital to post the costs of medical services — Quartz
- Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers. - The New York Times
- Federal judge finds state law governing who is an ‘engineer’ violates free speech | oregonlive.com
- Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine
- Top 10 health questions we asked Google
- Made by Google profit estimated at $3b
- 16,000 BBC sound effects for free