This Week in Google 559

How to Work From Home Forever

•  Zoom fatigue is a real thing
•  Twitter employees can work from home forever - do you want to go back to the office?
•  Google employees are charging their shelter-at-home lunches to their expense account
•  Pixel shake-up - top members of the Pixel team have left Google
•  Jarvis' Pixel Buds are still busted - and now so are Jason Howell's
•  Pixel Buds will get feature drops
•  Jeffrey Katzenberg blames Covid-19 for Quibi's failure
•  Google Meet captions are incredible
•  Jeff interviews the voice of Steak-Umms
•  Taco Bell Quarterly - Taco Bell Poetry
•  Can Facebook possibly regulate itself?
•  Google's Sidewalk project in Toronto is canceled
•  Facebook's new American Edge pro-tech advocacy group
•  Amazon hired 175,000 new workers to deal with COVID order spikes
•  Amazon's new Kindle Fire
•  Netflix and Amazon Prime win the streaming wars
•  Hamilton coming to Disney+ July 3rd
•  Uber tries to buy GrubHub
•  Australia wants Google to pay for news snippets
•  Doomscrolling
•  Luminary podcast network raises another $30 million to burn
•  France gives platforms one hour to remove pedophilia and terrorism-related content

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tool: Scunthorpe Sans - A s*** font that f***ing censors bad language automatically
•  Stacey's Thing: August Wi-Fi Smart Lock
•  Jeff's Numbers: 1.8m people pretend to be ants on FB

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Links

• Top members of Google’s Pixel team have left the company
• Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
• Internet Giants to Staff: Plan to Work From Home for 2020 - Bloomberg
• Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Scraps Its Ambitious Toronto Project
• Oh, right. Googlers lost their free lunch
• Google Pixel Buds will get Feature Drops just like Pixel phones
• Jarvis interviews the voice of Steak-umm
• Facebook and the Folly of Self-Regulation | WIRED
• Amazon says it will extend hazard pay for warehouse workers, an extra $2 per hour, to the end of May, but will return to normal
• Amazon intros new $90 tablet for the stuck-at-home
• Amazon says deliveries return to normal
• Amazon big winner in streaming time
• Uber looking to buy Grubhub?
• A new French law says online content providers must remove paedophile and terrorism-related content within an hour or face a fin
• Google Lens lookups now include inline Search results, ‘copy to computer’ text shortcut
• Alphabet's balloon-powered Loon internet comes to Mozambique
• Google Meet is here to host your video meetings, for free
• Google Duo adding group calls on the web, link invites, more - 9to5Google
• Google will kill Play Music this year, launches YouTube Music migration tool
• Google Podcasts can import all your Play Music podcast subscriptions
• Google Authenticator gets its first update in years, finally lets you transfer accounts between devices (APK Download)
• Google Authenticator gets its first update in years, finally lets you transfer accounts between devices (APK Download)
• Google's Nest cameras will help monitor coronavirus patients at Mount Sinai Hospital
• Google Play launches Change the Game Design Challenge for students
• Google's 3D animals: 30+ AR critters, list of compatible phones
• Kids can learn at home with Read Along by Google
• Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start - The New York Times
• Scunthorpe Sans
• August Wi-Fi Smart Lock
• 1.8m people pretend to be ants on FB