This Week in Google 614

• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
• New UK Cookie Guidance changes everything
• Google diversity head in 2007: Jews have ‘insatiable appetite for war’
• Trump blog page shuts down for good
• Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs for IoT security bolstering
• Google gets enthusiastic green light for a multi-billion-dollar San Jose campus
• Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily
• Google Nears Settlement of Ad-Tech Antitrust Case in France
• Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup
• YouTube Says It Paid Out $4 Billion to Music Industry Over Past 12 Months
• Amazon Introduces Tiny ‘ZenBooths’ for Stressed-Out Warehouse Workers
• Cannabis stocks rally after Amazon endorses legalization
• Amazon Faced 75,000 Arbitration Demands. Now It Says: Fine, Sue Us
• Pennsylvania police chief charged after threatening citizen over critical Facebook posts
• Fall River police officer suspended for Facebook post after Derek Chauvin verdict
• Philly police officer fired over Facebook posts reinstated
• Orange County deputy suspended over TikTok videos
• A California teenager pushed a bear off her property in the wildest TikTok video
• Chrome OS 91 rolling out: Nearby Share launch, app notification badges, and more
• Chrome for Android adds a built-in screenshot tool and editor in the Share menu
• Apple TV app is now available on all Android TV devices, too
• Google Search adds fabulous Pride Month Easter egg
• Google rolls out ‘Weather Frog’ clock to Nest Hub and Hub Max
• Google Meet web redesign rolling out now with full availability in June
• You can now quickly present Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to ongoing Meet calls
• Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion
• The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it

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• Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors
• New UK Cookie Guidance changes everything
• Google diversity head in 2007: Jews have ‘insatiable appetite for war’
• Trump blog page shuts down for good
• Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs for IoT security bolstering
• Google gets enthusiastic green light for multi-billion-dollar San Jose campus
• Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily
• Google Nears Settlement of Ad-Tech Antitrust Case in France
• Quic, a UDP-based protocol designed by Google to replace TCP, has been published as a standard by IETF
• YouTube Says It Paid Out $4 Billion to Music Industry Over Past 12 Months
• Pennsylvania police chief charged after threatening citizen over critical Facebook posts
• Related: Fall River police officer suspended for Facebook post after Derek Chauvin verdict
• Related: Philly police officer fired over Facebook posts reinstated
• And related: Orange County deputy suspended over TikTok videos
• A California teenager pushed a bear off her property in the wildest TikTok video
• Chrome OS 91 rolling out: Nearby Share launch, app notification badges, and more
• Chrome for Android adds built-in screenshot tool and editor in Share menu
• Apple TV app is now available on all Android TV devices, too
• Google Search adds fabulous Pride Month Easter egg
• Google rolls out ‘Weather Frog’ clock to Nest Hub and Hub Max [Updated]
• Google Meet web redesign rolling out now with full availability in June
• You can now quickly present Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to ongoing Meet calls
• Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion
• The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it
• A Memory Called Empire
• A Rural-Urban Broadband Divide, but Not the One You Think Of
• Thomas Baekdal Naomi Osaka thread
• High On The Hog
• Halston
• The CHAMP is HERE #1