Oct 7th 2020
This Week in Google 580
Non-Flying and Gregarious
Huge Antitrust Case - Google vs Oracle - Facebook Bans QAnon
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Huge Antitrust Case - Google vs Oracle - Facebook Bans QAnon
- (Democratic) Congress releases its antitrust case against Big Tech. The TWiG panelists have a huge fight over it. Cries of "moral panic" abound.
- TikTok Dreams of Cranberry Juice Longboards
- TikTok passes Instagram to become #2 in the hearts of teens.
- Alexis Ohanian starts Oda: a speaker company and a content company with live performances and subscriptions
- Talking about consent in IoT
- This is the case that never ends... it just goes on and on my friends...
- Pixel 5 does not have the Pixel Neural Core... or Soli
- Google plans to pay publishers a billion dollars
- Facebook finally bans QAnon, will ban political ads after the election
- The Google Changelog: G Suite = Google Workspace | ugly new logos | Live View improves | RIP Beauty Filter | Google adds "Stories"| Google WiFi is back | Samsonite Jacquard Backpack | CRISPR | Black holes
- Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245
- Delicious mealworms in the world's most expensive bug farm
- Picks of the week
- Stacey's Thing: Nest Audio
- Jeff's Number: In UK TikTok = half of FB in three years
- Ant's Stuff: Debunking Sunday's $2 Bill Discussion on TWiT
- Ant's Stuff 2: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Links
- Google (GOOG), Oracle (ORCL) Financed Many Supporters in Supreme Court Faceoff - Bloomberg
- Google confirms that the Pixel 5 doesn't have the Pixel Neural Core
- Google Pixel 5 uses a hole in the aluminum and a ‘bio-resin’ to enable wireless charging
- Google to pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase
- News Corp changes its tune on Big Tech: bribery all along
- Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms
- Fleetwood Mac's Dream is No. 1 thanks to man on skateboard drinking cranberry juice
- Ocean Spray gives him a truck
- Mick Fleetwood joins TikTok to join the fun
- House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’ - The New York Times
- Fringe notions on antitrust would destroy small businesses and hurt consumers
- Apple 'Vehemently Disagrees' With U.S. Tech Company Antitrust Report - MacRumors
- Big Tech Was Their Enemy, Until Partisanship Fractured the Battle Plans - The New York Times
- REPEAL SECTION 230!!!
- G Suite is now Google Workspace
- Google’s new logos are bad
- A new sense of direction with Live View
- Pixel 5 turns off face retouching with Google Camera tweaks - 9to5Google
- YouTube Restores iOS 14 Picture in Picture Capability on Mobile Website - MacRumors
- Google adds ‘Stories’ to its search app for iOS and Android | TechCrunch
- Google WiFi is Back and Now Starts at $99
- Cheaper Samsonite Jacquard backpack
- We should talk about consent in IoT
- CRISPR gene editing pioneers win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs
- Half the atoms in the planet could be digital data by 2245
- Ÿnsect, the makers of the world’s most expensive bug farm, raises another $224 million to make the next great food source
- Nest Audio
- In UK TikTok =half of FB in three years
- Debunking Sunday's $2 Bill Discusion on TWiT
- National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Hate masks? Try this Space Age helmet instead