Feb 27th 2019
This Week in Google 497
Hermione Said So
Hosted by
Leo Laporte,
Stacey Higginbotham
Wacky Phones and 5G at MWC 2019
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Ant Pruitt
- Foldable Phones: is $2000 Too Much?
- All the Other Wacky Phones at MWC 2019
- HoloLens 2 and the Cloud
- Our Heads-Up Display Future
- 5G at MWC 2019: When is 5G Really Coming?
- Congress Wants a Word With Google
- Google vs Oracle Might be Coming Back
- How Do You Pronounce Amicus?
- Huawei: Threat or Menace?
- Lighthouse Goes Out of Business
- Suicide Tips in YouTube Kids
- Worst Job in Tech: Facebook Moderator
- Facebook Knows When You are Menstruating
- Facebook Kills its VPN Under Protest
- Ray Ozzie Will Make All Your IoT Devices Secure
- Assistant on Messenger
- Biometric ID on Android Apps
- Google AI Grammar Checker on G Suite
- FedEx Robots Coming this Summer
- SEC Wants Elon Musk Held in Contempt over Tweets
Picks of the Week:
- Ant's Stuff: How to Be Black, Everyday People Talking about Everyday S***, and Premiere Tutorials on •
- Stacey's Thing: A World Without Clouds
- Leo's Plea: Open call to anyone at Google who watches TWiG: Can we get on a YouTube takedown whitelist?
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Links
- HoloLens 2, sources say powered by Windows Core Operating System, focuses on promotion of Azure in enterprises, offers subscript
- Huawei Mate X hands-on: our foldable future - The Verge
- Galaxy Fold's cheaper challenger: TCL's foldable phone bends into a watch at MWC 2019 - CNET
- Microsoft Announces the Next HoloLens
- The Nokia 9 PureView has five cameras and a lot to prove
- Oppo shows off its own foldable phone
- LG announces G8 ThinQ at MWC 2019 w/ 3D Face Unlock and hands-free gesture control
- Energizer’s jaw-dropping 18,000mAh battery phone is absolutely massive
- T-Mobile delays full 5G launch until later in 2019
- Sprint’s 5G network launches in May - The Verge
- MWC 2019: Nokia and Optus claim world’s first 3GPP 5G fixed-wireless service
- The 5 Biggest 5G Takeaways of MWC
- Senate Commerce Committee asks Google about its Mic on the Nest Guard
- Let’s start a consumer bill of rights for connected devices
- Experts beg the Supreme Court to overturn Oracle/Google ruling - Business Insider
- The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
- You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. - WSJ
- Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal
- Building the Google Assistant on phones for everyone, everywhere
- The latest Android devices now let you log into apps without requiring a password - The Verge
- Google says Android One activations grew 250% YoY, 50%+ of new entry-level Android devices are Android Go, and Digital Wellbeing
- Google Docs’ AI-powered Grammar Checker Is Coming to All G Suite Users
- Google goes to Oscars 2019 with a new Google Assistant commercial - CNET
- Living the "multidream" by blending coding with a rap career
- Ray Ozzie is working on a new startup, Blues Wireless, which started trials with AT&T on a module that securely connects IoT dev
- You might see FedEx robots delivering packages this summer - CNET
- Tesla shares fall on report SEC asks judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt for violating deal
- How To Be Black
- Everyday People Doing Everyday S***
- Ant's YouTube Channel
- World without clouds