This Week in Google 584

Baby Shark, CA Props 22 & 24 Win Big

• Mississippi police pilot program to live-stream Ring doorbell cams
• Baby Shark is the most viewed video on YouTube
• Raspberry Pi 400 is a full computer with a keyboard
• Google revenues up year-over-year
• California Prop 22 passes - a big win for Uber and Lyft
• The Calm app won election night
• California Prop 24 passes - a big win for privacy advocates
• Jack Dorsey keeps his job
• Twitter and Facebook flag Trump's controversial election posts
• DxOMark gives Pixel 5 camera 120 points
• Google Changelog: Google One VPN | Pixel 5 Reverse Wireless Charging | Nest HVAC Sensor | RIP Play Music | Enhanced Voice Typing
• Google's mobile driver's license proposal
• Walmart kills inventory robots

 

• Picks of the Week
• Stacey's Thing: Amazon Halo
• Stacey's Thing from last week: Whoop Fitness
• Jeff's Stuff: Amazon buys Orange County Register printing plant for $63m--will tear it down
• Jeff's Stuff 2: Alexis Ohanian recalls selling Reddit for $10m to my old boss
• Jeff's Stuff 3: Xiaomi to build a factory to produce 10m phones a year without humans
• Jeff's Stuff 4: Zoom has the happiest employees
• Ant's Thing: Fund in the name of Chad Boseman for St Jude Children’s Research
• Ant's Thing 2: Go Watch Hands-On Tech

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Links

• GOOG Exhibit 99.1 Q3'20 - 2020Q3_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf
• Google Pixel 5 camera earns 120-point score from DxOMark
• Baby Shark is the most-viewed YouTube video of all time, and there’s no end in sight
• Facebook - Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results
• Amazon’s net income tripled last quarter, and it didn’t even have Prime Day to help
• @Jack keeps his job
• Twitter Q3 revenue crushes expectations, user count misses, shares plunge
• Police Will Pilot a Program to Live-Stream Amazon Ring Cameras | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Facebook, Twitter take steps to limit the president’s false election claims
• California's Proposition 24 is set to expand and strengthen CA's recent privacy law, the CCPA, and create a Privacy Protection A
• Prop 22 passes: Uber and Lyft drivers will continue as independent contractors in California
• Google is bringing its own VPN to desktops and phones with $9.99 Google One subscription
• What happens to your G Suite unlimited storage when Google moves you to Workspace?
• RIP Google Play Music, Gone Too Soon
• Google Meet will now let you use custom backgrounds on video calls
• Google Pixel owners using Gboard are now getting 'enhanced voice typing'
• The Raspberry Pi 400 is a compact keyboard with a built-in computer
• Walmart abandons plan to have robots check store inventories
• Toward a standard for a mobile driver's license
• Great dataviz of COVID spread
• Halo (affiliate)
• Whoop Fitness
• Amazon buys Orange County Register printing plant for $63m--will tear it down
• Alexis Ohanian recalls selling Reddit for $10m to my old boss
• Xaiomi to build factory to produce 10m phones a year without humans
• Zoom has the happiest employees
• Fund in the name of Chad Boseman for St Jude Children’s Research
• Go Watch Hands-On Tech