This Week in Google 560

• Why didn’t IoT predict COVID-19 and how it can help in the future
•  Zoom vs StreamYard vs HopIn.to vs Whereby vs ZoomCast
•  Google bans Podcast Addict for hosting COVID podcasts - back now
• Super Spreaders and Covid-19
•  Spotify buys Joe Rogan podcast for $100 Million
• New York Times builds its own ad network
•  Apple and Google release coronavirus contact tracing API
• Google is making a new Nest Hub Max interface for Senior Centers
•  Facebook launches Shops to compete with Amazon and Rooms to compete with Zoom
•  Amazon gives T-shirts to all the employees whose pay they are cutting
•  Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for $3.4 billion
•  Rumor: Amazon will buy JCPenney
•  First species discovered on Twitter eats millipede genitals
•  Twitter tests a way to limit who can reply to your tweets
• Google tests touch-sensitive headphone wires
•  Google Buds vs Galaxy Buds vs Surface Buds
•  Google fights back against accusations that it has cut diversity programs
•  IFA will be live this year - 5,000 attendees only
• USA vs Huawei vs Apple
•  B8ta launches Shopsafely.co to rate retailer safety
•  Protocol is the new GigaOm
•  The new work-from-home calculus - when will big tech workers go back?
• Microsoft Build news: RTOS, Fluid Framework, and Azure supercomputers

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tool: Hugo
•  Leo's Tool 2: SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator
•  Stacey's Thing: Level Lock
•  Stacey's Thing 2: Machine Learning at the Edge Virtual Conference
•  Jeff's Number: WeWork value falls from $47b to $3b

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Links

• Google bans Podcast Addict app after 9 years for letting users play podcasts that reference COVID-19
• Podcast Addict: "Google has just suspended Podcast Addict again."
• Lockheimer apologizes personally; app is restored
• Google experiments with touch-sensitive headphone wires
• OK Gertrude: Google tests simpler Nest Hub Max interface in retirement homes
• Tech giants' reopening plans
• Facebook launches shops
• Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
• Grouped tabs rolling out
• Asus announces Google Meet hardware
• Exposure Notification API launches to support public health agencies
• More intuitive privacy and security controls in Chrome
• New controls for how you share albums in Google Photos
• A Doodle dedicated to the aloha spirit
• Event: Why didn’t IoT predict COVID-19 and how it can help in the future
• Jeff's list of Covid experts on Twitter
• Walmart kills Jet, who it bought for $3 Billion in 2016
• First species discovered on Twitter' is a parasitic fungus that dines on millipede genitals
• B8ta wanted to change retail. Then COVID-19 changed everything.
• Hugo
• SPACEX ISS Docking Sim
• Level Lock
• Machine Learning at the Edge Virtual Conference
• WeWork value falls from $47b to $3b