Mar 13th 2019
This Week in Google 499
Monopolopsony
It's Not Paranoia: Everyone IS Watching You
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Tech News
- Foursquare Still Tracks Your Every Movement
- IBM Used Your Flickr Photos to Train Its Facial Recognition
- Facebook's "Privacy Pivot" Is Anything But
- Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Big Tech
- Google Will Unveil "The Future of Gaming" Next Week
- Google's Hardware Plans Look Grim
- Amazon Wants to Buy the Yankees Network
- RIP Google Allo
- Android Q Beta is Here!
Picks of the Week:
- Leo's Tool: Have a Nice Day on Audible Originals
- Jeff's Number: Howard Stern Comes Again hits #1 on Amazon on its first day
- Stacey's Thing: Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
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Links
- You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, but It Didn’t Forget You
- Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
- A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking | Facebook
- Facebook’s Privacy Cake – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Zuckerberg's Privacy Manifesto is Actually About Messaging | WIRED
- Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future and What Scares Him Most | WIRED
- Here’s how we can break up Big Tech – Team Warren – Medium
- Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too - The Verge
- Where Warren’s Wrong – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Timeline - Time to Play Fair
- Google says it will unveil 'future of gaming' at GDC 2019
- Google has told dozens of employees on its laptop and tablet division to find new jobs at the company, raising questions about i
- Sources: Amazon teams up with the NY Yankees, Sinclair Broadcasting, and others in a bid to buy the YES sports network from majo
- Google is finally saying goodbye to Allo today
- Introducing Android Q Beta
- Google releasing Android Beta Feedback app for reporting Android Q issues, feature requests
- Google AI Blog: An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer
- With Lookout, discover your surroundings with the help of AI
- Chrome 73 for Android rolling out w/ revamped Downloads UI, Dark Mode, Omnibar shortcuts, more
- Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~60 markets | TechCrunch
- Alphabet's Jigsaw releases Tune, a Chrome extension that filters out "toxic" comments on Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and
- Your mission, gumshoe: Catch Carmen Sandiego in Google Earth
- A Friend of Patrick Delahanty's baby's first word was Google (video)
- Silicon Valley private equity investor implicated in college admissions scandal
- On web’s 30th birthday, its inventor says we need to stop its ‘downward plunge’
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
- Howard Stern Comes Again hits #1 on Amazon on its first day