This Week in Google 549

This Week's Stories

•  Coronavirus: Should SXSW be canceled? Should Seattle be quarantined?
•  Coronavirus: Don't touch your face. Don't shake hands. Don't lick your ballot envelope.
•  King County Official Coronavirus Guidance Recommendations
•  Stadia is failing because Google is Google
•  Fishal recognition: Google Tidal is a new moonshot tracking fish migration patterns
•  Google re-invests in Waymo
•  Android One is in shambles
•  Pixel Drop March update: new gestures, emoji, AR effects, and more
•  Twitter under siege: activist investor wants Jack Dorsey out
•  Twitter is testing "Fleets," their own version of Instagram Stories
•  Libra is dying off
•  Daily Caller added to Facebook fact-checking
•  Verge poll finds that Techlash is a Myth
•  Update: South Carolina weatherperson uses Facebook Live filters, apologize

Picks of the Week

•  Jason's Tool: You can now jailbreak an iPhone with an Android phone
•  Ant's Good Stuff 1: Record Box Loft Helping Local Photographers
•  Ant's Good Stuff 2: Jason Miller's shoot (@jasonmiller1981 on Twitter)
•  Stacey's Thing: Helium Router
•  Jeff's Numbers 1: Amazon removes 1m products for virus gouging, lying
•  Jeff's Numbers 2: Where to buy Amazon and Walmart returns in bulk
•  Jeff's German Word of the Week: Der Hamsterkauf: from the verb hamstern, which means "to hoard or panic buy," since hamsters are known for filling their cheeks with food. It's used to describe the panic buying or hoarding that occurs during times of widespread fear or concern.

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Links

• Google cancels ‘physical’ I/O 2020 due to coronavirus concerns
• Companies that have pulled out of SXSW so far
• Facebook pulls out of South by Southwest festival over coronavirus fears - Reuters
• SXSW petition to cancel on Change.org
• Economic impact of tech event cancelations
• Google, Microsoft offer free services & upgrades to meeting services during virus crisis
• List of companies' travel restrictions in crisis
• Amazon has started restricting all non-essential travel by employees in the US as the coronavirus continues to spread
• Twitter tells all employees to work from home
• Google Europe HQ tests ordering everyone to work from home
• Washington: Dont lick ballot envelopes
• CA health official says don't touch face; licks finger while doing so
• Oh, jeez: Tech dorks to hold "Hack Coronavirus" in Austin -- hacking on each other to transmit the damned virus.
• Der Hamsterkauf • from the verb hamstern
• Bubonic plague was so deadly an English village quarantined itself to save others
• In 1665, Cambridge University closed b/c of the plague.
• Developers say Google didn't offer enough money to make Stadia games
• The Android One program is a shambles
• Alphabet's moonshot division unveils its latest project Tidal, which aims to help sustainable fishing
• Waymo Includes Outsiders in $2.25 Billion Investment Round
• Facebook will now support other currencies in its blockchain plans; Libra takes backseat
• Facebook fact-check feud erupts over Trump virus ‘hoax’
• Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey – report | Technology | The Guardian
• #webackjack
• Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called ‘Fleets,’ which disappear after 24 hours
• Pixel phones updated with new gesture controls, emoji, AR effects & more | TechCrunch
• Google Search to introduce public profile cards for all, a convenient replacement for Google+ profiles
• 3 years later, Google Earth finally works on Firefox, Edge, and Opera
• Google Photos hides search button in redesign
• Google's new GIF search
• Google Assistant can now read or translate websites and Android app content
• Techlash is a myth: Verge survey of tech company attitudes
• You can now jailbreak an iPhone with an Android phone
• Hands-On Android
• Record Box Loft Helping Local Photographers
• Jason Miller's shoot (@jasonmiller1981 on Twitter)
• Hands-On Photography
• Helium Router
• Stacey On IoT
• Amazon removes 1m products for virus gouging, lying
• Where to buy Amazon ,Walmart returns in bulk
• Liquidation
• Buzz Machine
• WWT Panel is now open to fans! Please do not come if you are sick.
• Meetup at the Trainwreck! TWiT fans can meet Leo and Lisa at 7:30pm Wednesday, March 4th 314 Westport Plaza Drive, St Louis