This Week in Google 505

This Week's Top Stories

•  Facebook Demands Users' Email Passwords, Steals Their Contacts
•  Sri Lanka Shuts Down Social Media
•  Smoking Cessation and Depression Apps Could be Sharing and Selling and Your Data
•  Samsung Galaxy Fold Delayed to June 13th • Mr Dorsey Goes to Washington
•  Android Q Will Kill the Back Button
•  Google I/O Preview
•  Google's Undersea Cable Infrastructure
•  Jacquard on TEDtalks
•  Jarvis on Our Addiction to Stories
•  The EU Wants Your Biometric Data
•  The WashPo Columnist that Hates Podcasts (and Whistling)
•  Sprint Settles with AT&T Over Fake 5G
•  IoT Over 5ghz
•  That $16,000 Laundry Folding Goes Bankrupt, but a $3000 Competitor is on the way
•  Google Punishes Walkout Organizers
•  Most Tweets Made By Young, Female Democrats
•  AOC Quits Facebook & Thinks You Should, Too
•  Facebook is Ready to be Fined by the FTC
•  Tik Tok Unbanned in India
•  Exploding Frisbees, Underwater Relay Racing, Pommel Horse Sawing, and More Game Ideas from Artificial Intelligence

Picks of the Week

•  Stacey's Thing #1: The Princess and the Fangirl: A Geekerella Fairy Tale (Once Upon A Con)
•  Stacey's Thing #2: IoT Inspector
•  Jeff's Number #1: How Google saved 6 million lbs in food waste
•  Jeff's Number #2: Court denies Boston entrepreneur share of $65 million Facebook settlement
•  Leo's Tool: The Land Before Time, "Scottish" edition

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Links

• Google I/O: From Android to Assistant, here's what to expect - CNET
• Google's far-reaching undersea cable network
• Google Walkout Organizers Say They're Facing Retaliation
• Demo of Jacquard in TED talk
• Google is considering replacing Android's 'back' button with a gesture in Android Q
• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey meets Donald Trump in closed door meeting at White House - The Washington Post
• How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public | Pew Research Center
• Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, says social media is a health risk
• Samsung’s Galaxy Fold Smartphone Release Delayed - WSJ
• Here’s Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing - from iFixit
• AT&T says the Galaxy Fold will ship on June 13, Samsung still has no date set
• Depression, smoking apps could sell data
• That mental health app might share your data without telling you - The Verge
• Assessment of the Data Sharing and Privacy Practices of Smartphone Apps for Depression and Smoking Cessation
• *Excellent* post about UK's online harms report & the effort to create a law against behaving badly
• Sri Lanka Blocks Facebook, WhatsApp After Easter Bombings Leave Hundreds Dead
• Sri Lanka social media shutdown hides what is really happening
• The EU has voted to interconnect border control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a searchable biometrics database
• Google Fit is now available on iOS
• Google Brings Free Ad-Supported YouTube Music Streaming to Google Assistant Speakers
• Google Drone Delivery Gets First FAA Clearance - Bloomberg
• Finding a place to charge your EV is easy with Google Maps
• Step into Childish Gambino's world with augmented reality
• Google is testing a distraction-free reader mode in Chrome Canary
• Now easier to find work-at-home work via Google search
• Indian court moves to lift ban on Chinese video app TikTok - Reuters
• TikTok: Apple and Google block video sharing app in India
• Admittedly esoteric Jarvis post on our addiction to stories and how ML et al mean the world is less explainable
• Sprint and AT&T settle lawsuit over ‘blatantly misleading’ 5G E logo
• Tim Cook calls for regulation of tech industry with serious issues - 9to5Mac
• The company behind the $16,000 AI-powered laundry-folding robot has filed for bankruptcy
• Laundry bot
• CHEEZ-IT® QUESO FUNDIDO
• Are Podcasts Killing Music or Just Wasting Our Time?
• They asked artificial intelligence to create a game. One of its first ideas involved exploding Frisbees.
• The Land Before Time, "Scottish" edition
• How Google saved 6 million lbs in food waste
• Court denies Boston entrepreneur share of $65 million Facebook settlement
• Book: The Princess and the Fangirl: A Geekerella Fairy Tale (Once Upon A Con)
• IoT Inspector