Jul 17th 2019
This Week in Google 517
...And His Last Name was Higginbotham
Tik Tok, FaceApp, Neuralink, and more
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
This Week's Stories
- TikToK Takes Over VidCon
- Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook vs Congress over anti-trust, censorship, data tracking
- Elon Musk Wants to sew wires into your brain
- FaceApp gives Russian your pictures
- Facebook Fined $5 Billion - is the biggest FTC fine ever big enough?
- Facebook and Congress wrangle over Libra cryptocurrency
- Baby Google
- New Twitter style
- The influencers are taking over business
- Prime Day was huge
- Most of the Google walkout organizers have left
- Yes, Google is listening when you say OK Google
- Neilsen wants to track podcasts
Picks of the Week
- Jeff's Number: Google made 3200 changes to search last year
- Stacey's Thing: Wyze Bulbs
- Leo's Tool: Firefox + Startpage
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Links
- Google workers listen to your “OK Google” queries—one of them leaked recordings
- Google's response. (How did anyone think they did QA?)
- Google Search isn't everything
- Most of the Google Walkout Organizers Have Left the Company | WIRED
- To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public - Bloomberg
- Don’t Scoff at Influencers. They’re Taking Over the World. - The New York Times
- Less than a year after TikTok's US launch, the popularity of its stars at VidCon shows that it's poised to dominate
- Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke - The Verge
- Amazon says Prime Day surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined, with users buying 175M items, up from 100M in 2018
- Tech Giants Claim Competition Exists. House Dems Don't Buy It
- Right wing coverage of Judiciary hearing v Google (Google search results)
- Google VP grilled in hearing over alleged bias against conservatives, as slain reporter's father calls for regulation
- ‘I don’t think you should launch Libra at all,’ congresswoman tells Facebook
- Facebook signals Libra cryptocurrency plans will move forward - CNET
- Google Arts & Culture made an AR gallery that celebrates color
- Google placed 'Stranger Things' AR ads in 'The New York Times'
- The Google News tab in Search is being redesigned for readability
- There’s a tennis game hidden in Google right now; here’s how to find it
- Heads up: The first Google Messages beta (v4.7) instantly crashes on start
- Alphabet’s Wing launches app to manage air traffic for drones
- Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide | VentureBeat
- Neuralink
- Apple to Fund Original Podcasts; Spotify (SPOT) Stock Falls - Bloomberg
- Nielsen says it will start surveying podcast listeners about their consumption habits
- FaceApp is back and so are privacy concerns
- Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
- Grammaticalization
- Trump Expressed Concerns About Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract
- This Japanese Toaster Costs $270. It Only Makes One Slice at a Time
- Zera Food Recycler
- A few questions for Peter Thiel