Linux on Chrome OS, AT&T & HBOTips and Picks
- YouTube TV Crashes during the World Cup
- AT&T's Ultimatum for HBO
- Google may face record EU fines for Android
- Google and Walmart take on Amazon Prime Day
- How to get Linux on your Chromebook with Project Crostini
- WSJ vs Google
- FCC will charge you $225 to complain
- Google gets into console gaming?
- Stacey's Thing: Delta's Alexa Enabled Touch Faucet
- Kevin's Stuff: Android app shortcuts arrive on Chrome OS
- Leo's Tool: JMP.chat
Tag: This Week in Google
🎧 This Week in Google 464 There’s a Flag for That | TWiT.TV
Linux on Chrome OS, AT&T & HBOTips and Picks
- YouTube TV Crashes during the World Cup
- AT&T's Ultimatum for HBO
- Google may face record EU fines for Android
- Google and Walmart take on Amazon Prime Day
- How to get Linux on your Chromebook with Project Crostini
- WSJ vs Google
- FCC will charge you $225 to complain
- Google gets into console gaming?
- Stacey's Thing: Delta's Alexa Enabled Touch Faucet
- Kevin's Stuff: Android app shortcuts arrive on Chrome OS
- Leo's Tool: JMP.chat
🎧 This Week in Google 463 The Final Nail in the Snap Coffin | TWiT.TV
Apple Vs Samsung Finally SettledPicks of the Week:
- After 7 long years, Apple vs Samsung is finally over.
- How many cameras is too many on one phone? Five? Sixteen?
- Facial recognition is not ready for law enforcement prime-time.
- How can Facebook, Twitter, etc. defend against foreign interference if the US government won't help them?
- Zero rating trumps net neutrality in California just in time for AT&T Watch TV
- Pictures of Tweets take over Instagram
- Adobe Project Rush will revolutionize video editing this year
- Jeff's Number: $117,000/year is the new poverty line in San Francisco
- Mathew's Stuff: get your Mt Gox Bitcoin refund!
- Ant's Things: Amazon Smile and Geek Questioner
🎧 This Week in Google 462 The People Formerly Known as the Audience | TWiT.TV
The Future of Media, Gaming, and BezelsAs Instagram launches IGTV, the future of broadcasting is rapidly evolving. We explore Skam Austin, a new Facebook/Instagram show/experience/new media experiment. Fortnight is bringing eSports into the mainstream at last. Meanwhile, a new European copyright law will make memes illegal. Disney fights back against Comcast in the battle for Fox. Android Messenger might finally be the Google messaging platform we've been waiting for. The Oppo Find X solves the all screen, no notch problem with a pop-up camera. How to get your money back if you've been scammed by a Nigerian prince. Sell your CryptoKitties now! Leo and Stacey explain blockchain and ICOs. Picks of the Week:
- Stacey's Thing 1: SYLVANIA LIGHTIFY ZigBee Outdoor Colored Gardenspot Starter Kit
- Stacey's Thing 2: Delta Voice Activated Faucet with Alexa
- Jeff's Number 1: Facebook RAICES campaign raises over $13 million, $3 million during this show alone.
- Jeff's Number 2: Facebook stock at all-time high
- Jeff's Number 3: Twitter and Square on the verge of doubling
- Leo's Tool: Google Podcasts App
🎧 This Week in Google 461 The Backhaul Gonna Bite Ya | TWiT.TV
Mega Merger Yes, Net Neutrality NoPicks of the Week:
- Net Neutrality Ends! AT&T/Time Warner merger approved! Comcast to buy Fox! What it all means.
- Facebook's new political ad policy angers publishers
- Pixel 3 Leak
- Amazon Cube combines Alexa with a universal remote
- Tanzania outlaws unregistered bloggers
- Plume offers subscription Wi-Fi
- Stacey's Thing: Wyze Pan Cam
- Jeff's Number: Google turning 20
- Leo's Tool: Brittanica Insight
🎧 This Week in Google 460 A Confusing Number of People | TWiT.TV
Privacy Spats and Flying CarsTips and Picks
- Microsoft Buys GitHub, users promptly freak out
- Apple Screen Time vs Google Digital Wellbeing
- Google cancels Pentagon drone program after protests
- Larry Page's flying car takes off
- Google's Project Oasis puts the world's weather on your coffee table
- Apple and Facebook's privacy spat
- WhatsApp founders and Facebook's privacy spat
- Facebook still wants your nude pictures
- Stacey's Thing: Awair Glow
- Jeff's Number: Sundar is just Sundar
- Leo's Tool: Google Lens standalone app
🎧 This Week in Google 459 Status Update: Terror | TWiT.TV
Internet Trends, Algorithmic IdiocyTips and Pics:
- Analyzing Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends Report
- FBI wants US citizens to reset their routers
- California gets halfway to Net Neutrality
- Chrome 67 brings PWAs to life
- Are location-targetted ads too creepy?
- Stacey Higginbotham explains why you shouldn't panic about the security flaw in Z-Wave.
- Joan's Pick: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Stacey's Things: Jabra 65t headphones with Alexa, Wyze Cam Pan
🎧 This Week in Google 457 Trouble at the Cheese Factory | TWiT.tv
Facebook Transparency Report Facebook shuts down 1.3 Billion fake accounts. Google Clips gets better. So does Google One storage. 3500 Russian Facebook election ads can't be wrong! Amazon's Rooney rule. Senate votes for Net Neutrality. China's frightening social credit score system. Analyzing Wi-Fi EasyMesh.
- Leo's Tool: Surface Hub 2
- Jeff's Number: Use miles to visit UA 747 boneyard
- Stacey's Thing: Hubitat
- Mike's Stuff: 16GB Pixelbook and Squid
🎧 This Week in Google 455 CanuckCanoeCast | TWiT.TV
Facebook soothes our privacy fears by launching a dating service. Cambridge Analytica shuts down. GDPR is going to be a mess. What will Google show at I/O? Signs point to Assistant updates, Maps, and social gaming. Google launches secure .app domains. NBC and Google team up to create VR shows. Sprint / T-Mobile merger is good for business, bad for consumers.
- Jeff's Number: Nacho Cheese Fries and IMHO controversy
- Mathew's Stuff: Snap's stock slumps
- Stacey's Husband's Thing: New Top Level Domain Name Stats
- Jason's Tool: You can review Google Assistant actions
🎧 This Week in Google 454 The Oldsmobile of Email | TWiT.TV
Facebook and Google earnings. Gmail's big redesign. Tasks is back. Google Chat: explaining RCS. YouTube Remix will end Google Play Music. Google fixes its podcasts strategy. Amazon's new robots and in-car delivery.
- Jeff's Numbers: Jeopardy contestant wants Taco Bell, AI assistants ranked
- Mathew's Stuff: 100m+ Amazon Prime members
- Jason's App: Datally by Google
🎧 This Week in Google 453 Naked Egg Taco | TWiT.TV
Marissa Meyer is back at Google ('s old offices.) Microsoft announces IoT security Azure Sphere. Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer. Netflix vs. Cannes. Google AIY is the new Heathkit. Grasshopper teaches kids to code. Google's new Gmail. Google Maps tells you to turn right at the Taco Bell. Tesla puts its bumper to the grindstone. Android P gets some ideas from iPhone X. Yahoo and AOL start scanning your email. Will the real President Obama please stand up?
- Jeff's Pick: Kanye's Twitter philosophy book
- Stacey's Pick: Ecobee Switch Plus with Alexa
🎧 This Week in Google 452 The Mormon Bartender Problem | TWiT.TV
Mr. Zuck Goes to Washington
Hosted by Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham
Guests: Mike Elgan, Kevin Marks
Mark Zuckerberg answers Congress' questions. Is YouTube for kids? Google Photos automatically generates cat videos. Alexa for Business. Questionable fireplace placement.
- Kevin's Stuff: indieweb.org
- Stacey's Things: Nest Hello and Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?
- Mike's Joint: Taskade
The discussion about the Facebook hearings in congress makes me feel a tad better, but still they’re very unsettling, and they’re on a relatively simple and easy topic.
🎧 This Week in Google 451 B055man69 | TWiT.TV
Shooting at YouTube Headquarters. Facebook's continuing kerfuffle. Apple snags Google's AI head. Chromebooks on school buses. Cheaper Pixel 3 on the way - but not for you. Trump vs. Amazon. Security breaches here, security breaches there, even in our underwear. Don't leave your pepperoni on the hotel balcony.
🎧 This Week in Google 450 I Just Swallowed a Pollywog | TWiT.TV
Oracle vs Google, Google vs Apple
Google owes Oracle $8.8 Billion Dollars. Apple and Google fight over the classroom. Should everyone stop using Facebook? Should everybody stop using Twitter? Should everybody start using Google Plus?
- Stacey's Thing: Nest Hello Doorbell and Nest X Yale Lock
- Mike's Stuff: Lenovo Mirage Camera with Daydream
- Jeff's Number in Absentia: 5.5 GB
🎧 This Week in Google 449 Grackles, Nuthatches, and Swifts, Oh My! | TWiT.TV
Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Google News Initiative will fight fake journalism. Uber self-driving car not at fault for killing pedestrian. Congress passes SESTSA/FOSTA. The city that banned bitcoin mining.
- Jeff's Number: Amazon is #2
- Stacey's Thing: Alexa Kids Court
- Leo's Tool: Samsung My BP Lab