Oct 16th 2019
This Week in Google 530
Grippy Rubber Bottom
Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, and everything else Google announced this week
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Kevin Tofel
This Week's Stories:
- Pixel 4 is all about photography: Annie Leibovitz, Marc Levoy, and astrophotography
- With the Pixelbook Go, Google puts style over substance
- Google Nest Aware is the best panopticon money can buy
- Google Stadia hopes that controllers shaped like knife handles will make you want to game
- Abbey Road is the Beatles' best album. Fight me!
- Google is all about Ambient Computing
- Facebook + politics = BFFs 4evah
- Issa Ray on Google Assistant
- What is the next phase of Ambient computing? Presence
- Things Google killed this week: Daydream, Clips, and Works With Nest
- UK gives up on its attempt to block porn
- Huawei, staggering under US sanctions, reports 25% sales growth over last year
- Fortnite Chapter 2 takes video game marketing to the next level
- The Vatican launches a click-to-pray rosary
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Links
- Google Stadia launching at 9am PST, November 19 for pre-orderers
- PS4 Remote Play will fully support Android this week
- Universal Paperclips
- Pixelbook Go: A lower priced Pixel Slate in laptop form factor
- Why it may not make sense to wait for Atlas, the likely next Pixelbook
- Exclusive: This is the Google Pixelbook Go [Gallery]
- Google Nest Mini hands-on: Barely new in all the best ways [Video]
- Google overhauls Nest Aware cloud recording plan
- Annie Leibovitz used the Pixel 4 to shoot a new collection of photos
- Annie Leibovitz x Google Pixel
- PIXEL 4 VS. IPHONE 11 PRO: A FIRST LOOK AT CAMERA PHOTO SAMPLES
- Pixel 4XL astrophotography sample Kevin shot last night
- Google Assistant updates unify the smart home and make it smarter
- Made by Google, manufactured with clean energy
- Google to spend $150 million on green energy projects
- The (Day)dream is over: Phone-based VR is well and truly dead
- RIP Google Clips, you weird little automatic camera
- Why Google risked customer goodwill to kill Works with Nest
- Nest is getting ready for the smart home’s Cambridge Analytica moment
- Mark Zuckerberg is delivering a free speech manifesto tomorrow
- Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies. | TechCrunch
- Elizabeth Warren’s Facebook ad proves the social media giant still has a politics problem
- Google Maps gets in-depth walking directions with detailed voice guidance
- Google is releasing a USB-C Titan security key
- Google shares ‘Downtown West’ master plan for mixed-use San Jose campus
- YouTube gets alleged copyright troll to agree to stop trolling YouTubers
- Huawei Reports Stronger Sales Growth - The New York Times
- UK ‘porn block’: Government drops plan to stop children watching sex videos online | The Independent
- Sign 4: Fortnite’s black hole has closed, and Chapter 2 is finally here
- Sign 5? Vatican launches $110 'click to pray' wearable rosary
- Developers, start your engines
- How-to Get Started with Machine Learning on Arduino
- Can a Machine Learn to write for the New Yorker
- Jock McKissic - inspirational friend
- If you are in the Easy Bay on Saturday, October 26th from 4-9, come to De Anza High School at 5000 Valley View Rd in El Sobrante