This Week in Google 595

• President pardons ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski
• The reset of presidential Twitter accounts
• A notable drop in misinformation attributed to Twitter's Trump ban
• Google cuts off another AI expert in the company
• Google Research report shows its accomplishments in AI
• Google tests blocking news from search in Australia
• youtube-dl reinstated thanks to the EFF
• U.S. judge in Facebook antitrust lawsuits sets March, April deadlines for responses
• Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law
• Cory Doctorow on the Deplatforming of the (former) President
• TikTok users make Bridgerton, the Musical
• Discuss 22-year-old Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb”
• Biden Has a Peloton Bike. That Raises Issues at the White House
• Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto
• Trump administration adds China's Comac, Xiaomi to Chinese military blacklist
• In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders
• Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol
• Developer Makes Interactive Map of Parler Videos From Capitol Hill Riots
• MIT review has a guide to ethical online investigation
• Bernie mitten memes!
• Chrome 88 rolling out with a number of changes
• Gmail now lets you resize Google Chat, Rooms in the web sidebar
• Google cuts off acceess for Chromium browsers to sync, other services
• The Google Play Store adds icons to show chart position changes
• Google rolling out Winter Seasonal Savings to Nest Thermostats
• Google previewing new Nest Hub alarms with more customization, tones, and ‘Sunrise’
• Google Maps making streets, nature much more detailed
• Google Store stops selling the two-year-old Pixel USB-C earbuds
• Stadia's new State Share features lands with the release of Hitman 3
• The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)
• Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits
• Trump seeks to curb foreign cyber meddling on last day in office
• Pocket Casts is up for sale nearly three years after acquisition by public radio consortium

Picks:

• Ant: Thank you to the Heroes image
• Stacey: $10 GE grow light
• Jeff: Digital reading exploded during the pandemic
• Jeff: Netflix has reached 200 million customers

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Links

• Google angle: Trump pardons Levandowski (backed by Thiel)
• The reset official Twitter accounts
• What to expect on Twitter on US Inauguration Day 2021
• Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump
• Google cuts off another AI expert
• Tons of amazing stuff in Google research report
• Vint Cerf: Australia's legislation "fundamentally threaten the existence of a free and open internet"
• Google tests blocking news from search in Oz
• Update: youtube-dl reinstantiated thanks to EFF
• U.S. judge in Facebook antitrust lawsuits sets March, April deadlines for responses
• Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law
• Cory Doctorow on the Deplatforming of the (former) President
• ATTN: Ant: TikTok users make Bridgerton, the Musical
• Discuss 22-year-old Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb”
• Biden Has a Peloton Bike. That Raises Issues at the White House.
• Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto
• EXCLUSIVE-Trump administration adds China's Comac, Xiaomi to Chinese military blacklist
• In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders
• Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol
• Developer Makes Interactive Map of Parler Videos From Capitol Hill Riots
• MIT review has a guide to ethical online investigation
• Bernie mitten memes
• New Google Docs shortcuts
• Gmail now lets you resize Google Chat, Rooms in the web sidebar
• Google cuts off acceess for Chromium browsers to sync, other services
• The Google Play Store adds icons to show chart position changes
• Google rolling out Winter Seasonal Savings to Nest Thermostats
• Google previewing new Nest Hub alarms with more customization, tones, and ‘Sunrise’
• Google Maps making streets, nature much more detailed
• Google Store stops selling the two-year-old Pixel USB-C earbuds
• Stadia's new State Share features lands with the release of Hitman 3
• The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)
• Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits, but attackers only accesse
• Trump signs an executive order that seeks to thwart foreign use of cloud computing products or services for malicious cyber oper
• Pocket Casts is up for sale nearly three years after acquisition by public radio consortium
• Thank you to the Heroes out there (image)
• GE Grow light
• Wikipedia is 20
• Netflix 200m customers
• Google completes Fitbit acquisition