Oct 18th 2023
This Week in Google 738
The Deorbiting Professor
X charges $1, Netflix theme park, Andreessen Manifesto, Meta Glassholes
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Paris Martineau
- Elon Musk says charging $1 a year to Twitter users could reduce bots
- VC Mark Andreessen loses it in controversial tech manifesto
- Meta Quest 3 brings back glassholes to the wild
- Amazon launches satellites to compete with SpaceX Starlink
- Peter Norvig and Blaise Aguera y Arcas claim AGI is already here
- 51% of teens spend 4+ hours daily on social media
- YouTube getting AI-powered ads targeting pop culture moments
- Mass tech layoffs in 2022 - reasonable correction or problematic?
- Google Wallet adds support for digital IDs and ticket scanning
- Adobe focuses on AI over Figma acquisition amid antitrust scrutiny
- Picks: Trust & Safety Tycoon game, beautiful coffee videos, laptop advice
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Links
- X will begin charging new users $1 a year | Fortune
- Kids Suing Social Media Over Addiction Find a Win Amid Losses - Bloomberg
- Sorry, Elon! The Satellites of the Future Are Heading to Space Right Now - WSJ
- Netflix House Stores Open in 2025 to Rival Theme Park Marketing - Bloomberg
- Andreessen's out-there manifesto
- Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media Per Day
- Who’s Responsible for the Gaza Hospital Explosion? Here’s Why It’s Hard to Know What’s Real
- NFL Sunday Ticket Draws About 1.3 Million Fans to YouTube - Bloomberg
- Adobe Deal for Figma in Limbo With New Focus on AI (ADBE) - Bloomberg
- The Meta glassholes have arrived - The Verge
- They say AGI is already here....
- LinkedIn lays off hundreds cuz AI
- Google finally brings iOS's local weather feature to Maps on Android
- Google Wallet starts rolling out new photo option for digitizing passes
- Google Wallet on Android adds support for three more state IDs
- Google is tweaking Chrome’s search bar to make it easier to navigate the web
- Google is rolling out new Maps and Camera-based accessibility features
- Google rolling out Wear OS 4 to the original Pixel Watch
- YouTube gets new AI-powered ads that let brands target special cultural moments
- Trust & Safety Tycoon: Try Your Hand At Managing A Social Media Trust & Safety Team
- Help Jeff decide (at last)
- BEAUTIFUL Coffee Video ASMR