This Week in Google 522

This Week's Stories:

• The WeWork IPO is a harbinger of recession
• IKEA's IoT Future
• Deepfakes: don't believe your eyes
• Nest Cameras' Green Light is Always On
• Goodbye Works With Nest, Hello Google Home
• The Ballad of Dev Null
• Google Nest Hub Max coming September 9th
• The All-Google IoT home
• The Media Lab Epstein Connection
• Impossible Whopper is not Keto-Friendly
• Oldest continuous webcam is going dark
• So is nola.com
• A majority of Google searches lead to no clicks
• Google did not shift votes to Clinton

Picks of the week:

• Jeff's Number: Google's plan to clean up Hanger 1 on 101
• Stacey's Thing: Phyn
• Leo's Reminder: You don't have to worry about Instagram taking your photos
• Karsten's Fan Video: Jeff Jarvis the Chromebook Guy by Ziv Zulander

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Links

• A majority of all browser-based Google searches last month resulted in zero clicks
• The death of “Works with Nest” begins now with Google account migrations
• Google Nest Home account migration: It shouldn’t be this hard
• NEW: Google plans new Nest Mini with wall mount
• Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On
• Hangouts shutdown delayed for G Suite users until at least June 2020
• “Lite” but packs a punch: Google Go comes to Android everywhere
• You can easily force the Android Auto update
• Google Assistant now lets users create reminders that can be assigned to friends or family
• Google says Stadia Founder’s Edition ‘almost sold out’ in some countries
• YouTube Messages, we hardly knew ye
• The WeWork IPO – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• WeWTF | No Mercy / No Malice
• SF is home to the world's oldest webcam. After 25 years, it's being switched off. - SFGate
• Ikea goes all in on smart home tech - The Verge
• Claire Wardle deep fake video
• Google's plan to clean up Hanger 1 on 101
• Phyn
• Jeff Jarvis the Chromebook Guy by Ziv Zulander