This Week in Google 555

Apple & Google's COVID-19 Tracking: How It Works

•  Google starts the ‘Journalism Emergency Relief Fund’ to support local news in the COVID era
•  Haircuts in the coronavirus era
•  Where can you get a coronavirus test?
•  How to make sure the coronavirus news you are getting is true
•  How Apple & Google's coronavirus contact tracing plan will work
•  Taco Cabana is like Taco Bell, but with margaritas
•  Google Classroom takes Italy schools online
•  Google will build its own chips for Chromebooks and phones
•  iPhone SE and iPad Magic Keyboard available now!
•  Rating the celebrity Zoom calls
•  The return of Karsten Cam!
•  Tik Tok hits 1 billion, Quibi hits 1.7 million
•  WHO releases tips app
•  Verizon hits 800 million calls per day, internet traffic also way up

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Links

• Google launches ‘Journalism Emergency Relief Fund’ to support local news amid COVID-19
• Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android - The Verge
• iPhone and Android COVID-19 contact-tracing: Public health authority apps only, can be disabled by region, multiple iOS updates
• Very good comic explaining how phone tracing works and protects privacy
• Google to push COVID-19 tracking updates to Android phones via Google Play
• Google reportedly building own processors for phones, Chromebooks
• Google Classroom took Italy’s school system online after ‘several sleepless days’
• Google Bans Zoom Videoconferencing Software From Employees' Computers
• Jarvis intervies with COVID scientists about media coverage of the crisis
• Neat effort to organize, visualize preprint medical papers on COVID
• Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat - The Verge
• Google Phone can now be installed on non-Pixel phones from Play Store
• Google app rolling out ‘Search Tools’ time, verbatim filtering on Android
• YouTube’s desktop site is now more touchscreen-friendly
• Google will show virtual care options more prominently in search results
• Google develops virtual braille keyboard for Android, rolling out now
• Google completely ruined shared folders in Drive
• Google is finally bringing dark mode to the YouTube TV app on Android
• Google Drive is rolling out an updated document scanner UI with better iconography
• Google will reduce Nest camera quality to ease burden on networks
• Pandemic saves the "venerable" FTP in Chrome
• Apple announces the new $399 iPhone SE for 2020
• TikTok passes one billion installs on the Play Store, boosted by the coronavirus pandemic
• Verizon says it is now handling ~800M wireless calls on weekdays, more than double Mother's Day
• Quibi had 1.7 million downloads in its first week, is working on TV casting support
• Haircuts in the Covid Era
• Jeff's Coronavirus Twitter Expert list
• The #COVID19 aerosol and droplets with speech, visualized.
• Million Dollar Metropolis
• Wyze Band and scale
• Google, FB face possible first-time ad decline in crisis
• Mundschutz