Jul 10th 2019
This Week in Google 516
Skylab Coprolites
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Jeff Jarvis
Death to Robocalls!
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Tofel
This Week's Stories:
- Google's 4000 word Privacy Policy
- Google and Dish, sitting in a tree?
- The problem(s) with YouTube
- Facebook privacy is already a problem
- The Chome OS 75 debacle
- Debian 10 Buster is not for Chromebooks
- Linux is the future
- Google Stadia FAQ: multiplayer, VR, how to order
- Instagram fixes online bullying
- Trump can't block you on Twitter. Neither can AOC.
- Facebook fought Fake News (about Facebook)
- Android - Google = /e/ foundation
- AT&T blocks robocalls
- FCC vs SF
- Amazon at 25
- Amazon warehouse workers to strike on Prime Day
- Amazon keeps Alexa recordings indefinitely
- YouTube and Amazon Prime Video kiss and make up
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Number: Giant GDPR fines for Marriott, BA
- Kevin's Stuff: JGrasp: an open source IDE with an awesome visual debugger
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Links
- Charting how Google's privacy policy has changed since 1999, when it was a mere 600 words, until now, when it's 4,000 words, and
- Google joins Dish Network in talks to create 4th mobile carrier
- Google denies talks with Dish on creating new major U.S. carrier
- The Fight for the Future of YouTube
- The ugly side of Facebook’s pivot to privacy is starting to show
- Chrome OS 75 arrives, gets pulled and is back again
- Debian 10 Buster is here, but not for Linux on Chromebooks (unless you manually upgrade)
- Google updates Stadia FAQ with Controller, multiplayer, & ordering details, addresses VR
- Google’s Stadia Promises to Keep Your Games Even If a Publisher Stop Supporting the Platform
- Instagram is rolling out warnings to users about to post an offensive comment, starts testing Restrict, an option to block abusi
- AT&T says it will automatically block robocalls ‘in the coming months’
- Android without Google
- Trump Can’t Block Critics From His Twitter Account, Appeals Court Rules
- After Trump ruling, Ocasio-Cortez sued for blocking Twitter critics - CNET
- Twitter and Facebook reportedly not invited to White House ‘social media summit’
- “This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law
- Prime Video is on Chromecast and Android TV, plus YouTube on Fire TV
- Google is making Night Sight one of the main camera modes on Pixel phones
- Google is testing a play button for Chrome’s toolbar
- Android Q Beta 5 has landed — here's what's new!
- Google’s live camera translation is getting better AI and 60 new languages
- Google Drive and Photos sync goes away today, and the alternatives are not up to par
- Google re-creates Apollo 11 cockpit in AR for 50th anniversary - CNET
- Google Nest kills smartwatch apps for Wear OS and Apple Watch
- JGrasp: an open source IDE with an awesome visual debugger
- Giant GDPR fines for Marriott, BA