Jul 3rd 2019
This Week in Google 515
A Phone for Every Country
Huawei Still Illegal, Galaxy Fold Fixed
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Chinese Border Patrol Installing Malware on Visitors' Phones
- Samsung Galaxy Fold Ready for Launch (Again)
- Trump Says Huawei Can Sell Phones in the US Again - But Can They? (They Can't.)
- Galaxy Note 10 Launch August 7
- Google Jigsaw's Toxic Culture
- Less Secure Apps and G Suite
- New Zealand vs Google
- Germany vs Facebook
- Facebook vs Anti-vaxxers
- Twitter Warns You About Controversial Tweets from Public Figures
- Florida and Georgia hit by Ransomware
- White House Social Media Summit July 11
- Berkeley Wins Right to Warn You About Cell Phone Radiation
- Google Launches Fuchsia Developer Site
- Google Patents Multi-Page Foldable Phone
- How to Opt-Out of Airport Face Recognition
- Why the Pentagon is Shooting Lasers at Your Heart
- Intel Auctions Its 5G Patents
- Wikipedia Founder Calls for Social Media Strike
- Equifax CIO Jailed for Insider Trading
- Microsoft Gives Refunds for Yanked Ebooks
Picks of the Week
- Leo's Tool: Dozens of Drivers Got Stuck After Blindly Following Google Maps Into a Mud Pit
- Jeff's Number: Most crowded subway lines in the world
- Stacey's Thing: Amazon Echo Auto
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Links
- Behind Google's Jigsaw unit, where current and former employees describe a toxic workplace environment, mismanagement, high turn
- TRIANGULATION 403: GOOGLE'S JIGSAW
- Cohen's letter to staff in response
- NZ going after Google for revealing defendant's name in newsletter via British news story
- Facebook Bravely Limits Nonsense Health 'Cures' and Misinformation to Just Some People
- Polish court: Facebook forced to keep content up
- Germany fines FB for underreporting illegal content under NetzDG
- Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures - The Verge
- Contradicting Trump's surprise Huawei announcement
- Trump Allows U.S. Sales to Huawei as Trade Talks Resume - WSJ
- Trump official: Eased Huawei restrictions only apply to widely available products - CNET
- Huawei still waiting to hear if it can continue using Android and Google services
- Samsung Galaxy Fold: The Foldable Phone Is About to Launch - Bloomberg
- Samsung announces its next Unpacked event will be held on August 7 in New York
- Samsung tears wraps off Bixby Marketplace, tens of people go wild. (One at the back whispers, 'Siri, what's Bixby?')
- China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border - VICE
- Second Florida city pays giant ransom to ransomware gang in a week | ZDNet
- Ransomware Hits Georgia Courts As Municipal Attacks Spread
- Source: White House "social media summit", to be held on July 11, will feature many conservative tech critics, including PragerU
- Court upholds Berkeley's right to warn consumers about phone radiation - CNET
- Google has quietly launched a developer website for Fuchsia OS
- The Google Pixel C may have lost future security updates
- Android July 2019 security patch rolling out with improved "OK Google" detection
- Google Lens launches the ability to identify select local art in San Francisco, in partnership with art-cataloging startup Wesco
- Google Patents a New Bizarre Foldable Phone
- Grab a seat and be on time with new transit updates on Google Maps
- Fireworks Easter Egg takes over Google․com for July 4th
- The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat - MIT Technology Review
- Intel is auctioning off 8,500 patents as it exits 5G smartphone market
- Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder
- Former Equifax executive sent behind bars for insider trades, profiting on data breach
- Microsoft's Ebook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM | WIRED
- Control access to less secure apps
- Google accused of ‘flipping the bird’ at New Zealand laws after Grace Millane murder
- D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
- Billions of user logs from Chinese smart home device maker Orvibo found online
- Dozens of Drivers Got Stuck After Blindly Following Google Maps Into a Mud Pit
- Fifteen
- Most crowded subway lines
- Amazon Echo Auto