This Week in Google 441

Montana and Burger King want to save Net Neutrality. AT&T seems to want to as well. Google I/O puzzle reveals the 2018 conference date. Google Play sells audiobooks. YouTube won't let stars say bad things about Google. Facebook sends out a news survey and invents a new unit of time. First Amazon Go shop opens. Twitter loses another exec. Don't call the Vine replacement "Vine 2." Indian good morning greetings are eating the internet. ICOs explained.

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Links

• Why I left Google to join Grab – Steve Yegge – Medium
• Alphabet launches new cybersecurity company, Chronicle, out of its X moonshot factory
• Google I/O 2018 starts on May 8th in Mountain View - The Verge
• President Donald Trump has signed the FISA reauthorization bill
• Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal
• AT&T wants Congress to draft a net neutrality law. Here’s why that’s a big deal. - The Washington Post
• Records show Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google spent ~$50M on lobbying US politicians in 2017; Google topped the list, spendin
• Amazon Go debuts, and its prying cameras foil our shoplifting attempts
• Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality
• What It's Like to Be the Parent of a Social-Media Star - The Atlantic
• Here’s how Vine replacement v2 will work | TechCrunch
• Android 8.1 can now display Wi-Fi speeds before connecting | TechCrunch
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he does not regret firing James Damore
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares impact of AI to electricity and fire
• Waymo’s self-driving minivans are coming to Atlanta
• YouTube is asking its promoted artists not to insult the company
• Facebook's Bad Idea: Crowdsourced Ratings Work For Toasters, But Not News
• This Is Facebook's News Survey
• Rupert Murdoch says maybe Facebook should pay publishers for posting.
• Mark Zuckerberg is ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,’ author Andrew Keen says
• Facebook invents new unit of time – flicks – slightly larger than a nanosecond
• Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities from 238 proposals, 19 in the US and Toronto in Canada, and says it expects to make a dec
• Twitter COO predicts streaming devices like Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast will go extinct in 5 years
• Twitter loses key exec Anthony Noto at a challenging moment - CNET
• Buying headphones in 2018 is going to be a fragmented mess - The Verge
• Stripe is ending support for bitcoin payments on April 23 | TechCrunch
• Everyone's betting on blockchain because we need technology that can scale
• Netflix Voice Match for Google Home
• The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning!’ Texts - WSJ
• It looks like the Google Play store will soon sell audiobooks