Twitter v InfoWars, Vote Hacks, 5GPicks of the Week:
- Twitter gives Alex Jones a Time Out.
- Keeping Google from tracking your location is more complicated than you'd think.
- The return of the Google Changelog!
- Samsung's Galaxy Home smart speaker is also a Weber grill SmartThings hub
- 8.8.8.8 is 8.
- Fortnite is on Android, but not on the Play Store: how not to download malware.
- Facebook lays out the new media reality.
- Black Hat and DEF CON show just how easy it is to hack voting machines.
- Verizon will debut 5G home internet in 4 cities while thumbing their nose at Net Neutrality.
- Windows 10 may be coming to Chromebooks.
- Stacey's Thing: The Feather Thief
- Jeff's Numbers: FB raised $300m for 750k charities with birthday fundraising, and $999 for Rotimatic
- Leo's new TWiG theme: Tiger Rag by Lous Armstrong and The Mills Brothers
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Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
🎧 This Week in Google 468 Extra Stolen Privacy | TWiT.TV
Android Pie, Pixel 3, Google China
- Android Pie hits Pixels and Essential Phone.
- New Pixel 3 images and video leak.
- Google's China dilemma.
- Should Leo buy the Magic Leap?
- Does Facebook want your bank info?
- Silicon Valley's war on Alex Jones.
- Is Ajit Pai still evil?
- Stacey's Things: June Oven and Anki Vector.
- Jeff's Number: Your baby's first words could be "OK Google."
🎧 This Week in Google 467 Techno Tragicomedy | TWiT.TV
Lenovo Smart Display, Pixel Rumors.Picks of the Week
- Jeff unboxes his new Lenovo Smart Display. Our live Duo demo goes about as well as you'd expect.
- Facebook finds more political shenanigans.
- Google's Censored Search in China.
- Stacey has all the news from Google Cloud Next.
- Amazon's facial recognition software outs 28 US lawmakers as crooks.
- All the Pixel 3, Pixelbook, Pixel Watch, and Pixel Stand rumors we know.
- You want a notch on your phone? Fine. Two notches? Sure, why not? Three notches? HOLD UP THERE, BUDDY!
- Jeff's Number: 5 years of Chromecast
- Stacey's Thing: OSRAM SMART+ Outdoor Flex RGBW
- Jason's Tool: Fighting Spam Calls with Android
🎧 This Week in Google 466 Ich Bin Nicht Einverstanden! | TWiT.TV
News from Google Cloud Next 2018Picks of the Week:
- AI takes to the cloud at Google Cloud Next 2018
- Despite Facebook's inability to deal with controversy, Facebook stock is fine. Oh wait, no - they just reported disappointing earnings and now it's down 20 percent.
- Google earnings: doing peachy, despite that pesky $5 billion fine.
- Google employees are unphishable, and now you can be, too. But cover your webcam just in case.
- Orrin Hatch still isn't dead; Abe Vigoda still is.
- Jeff's Pick: GDPR at a German Bakery
- Kevin's Picks: IndieWeb.org, Kill Sticky, and Contrast Widget
🎧 This Week in Google 465 Cindy and Dindy | 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 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
🎧 Red Fife | Eat This Podcast
For more than 40 years, one wheat variety dominated the Canadian prairies. Red Fife — the red-seeded wheat grown by David Fife, a Scottish immigrant — gave the highest yields of the best quality. It almost didn’t happen, if you believe the stories. And then, having set the standard, Red Fife was eclipsed by its own offspring and slowly slid into oblivion. Until, in 1986, Sharon Rempel set about rescuing it.
Thanks to Kara Gray and Richard Gray for their help.
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🎧 Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov | Eat This Podcast
This short episode fails to do justice to the man who, more than anyone, first grasped the importance of knowing where and how wheat arose. It does, however, explain why Vavilov wanted to collect the building material of future food security, for wheat and many other crops. In more than 60 countries, Vavilov and his colleagues gathered diversity from farmers’ fields; they died protecting their collections.
Thanks to Luigi Guarino for the photograph of Vavilov’s desk with his route across Ethiopia, and much else besides.
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One day I’d like to get a solid biography of Vavilov’s to read, but until then, this short, but excellent story will have to suffice.
🎧 Bake like an Egyptian | Eat This Podcast
Kamut® is a modern wheat — registered and trademarked in 1990 — with an ancient lineage. The word is ancient Egyptian, and the hieroglyphics may literally mean “Soul of the Earth”. More prosaically, “bread”. The story of its discovery and growing popularity says a lot about our hunger for stories. It is also quite capable of leading hard-nosed molecular biologists astray.
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🎧 Hulled wheats | Eat This Podcast
Ancient grains used to be rare and hard to find not because they contained some magical secret for a long and fulfilled life, but because they take a lot more work than modern wheats. Instead of the wheat berry popping free after a gentle rubbing, they need to be bashed and pounded. Now, of course, we have machines to do that kind of thing, but our ancestors were mostly only too happy to abandon hulled wheats, unless they had no option.
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🎧 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
🎧 At last: agriculture | Our Daily Bread | Eat This Podcast
Cultivation is not the same as domestication. Domestication involves changes that do the plant no good in the wild, but that make it more useful to the people who cultivate it. Seeds that don’t disperse, for example, and that aren’t all that well protected from pests and diseases. In this episode, where did people begin the process of domesticating wheat, and what set them on the road to agriculture.
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🎧 What exactly is wheat? | Our Daily Bread | Eat This Podcast
Modern bread wheat contains more than five times more DNA than people, in a much more complicated arrangement. As a result, it has taken a fair old while to decode wheat’s genome. Having done so, though, the DNA confirms what plant scientists have long suspected — that bread wheat is the result of two separate occasions on which an ancestor of wheat crossed with a goat grass. The DNA also tells us when those crosses might have happened.
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