This Week in Google (Audio)

• Interview with Douglas Rushkoff.
• How Rushkoff discovered the topic for his new book.
• Survival of the Richest: The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.
• When Rushkoff decided to write the book.
• How billionaires define "winning"
• How do WE create a better future?
• What is Rushkoff's manifesto?
• What was Rushkoff's major?
• Team Human is a podcast striving to amplify human connection.
• Meta ordered to pay Voxer $175 million for violating live-streaming patents.
• Bitcoin Rises 6.5 Percent as a Strong Dollar Sinks Other Currencies.
• Meta Sued For Tap Dancing Around Apple's New App Privacy Rules.
• The OG App promises you an ad-free Instagram feed.
• Chipotle is moving its tortilla robot to a real restaurant.
• Israel Deploys AI Powered Turret in the West Bank.
• No, There's No 'Ghost In The Machine' On Board American Airlines Aircraft.
• Penpot inks $8M, as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move.
• Darth Vader's Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine.
• DallE is open to all!
• Help pick the cover of Jeff's book.
• Amazon hardware event 2022.
• What Did Axios Do?
• Amazon launches a Kindle you can write on.
• 10 biggest announcements from Google Search On 22.
• LinkedIn Ran Social Experiments on 20 Million Users Over Five Years.
• Chromecast with Google TV (HD) goes official for $29.99 with 1080p, HDR, 8GB storage.
• Google discontinues its last traditional Chromecast, but software support will continue.
• Chrome now lets you search your @history and @bookmarks from the address bar.
• Google lays out Manifest V3's 2023 transition timeline for Chrome extensions.
• Here are all of the new features and updates coming to Google Maps.
• Android Auto 8.2 beta begins rolling out, tweaks dock of 'Coolwalk' redesign.
• NASA's DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense Test.
• Images show chunks DART took out of asteroid.

Picks:

• Leo - Rezmason/matrix: matrix (web-based green code rain, made with love).
• Jeff - TikTok transparency report.
• Jeff - Preorder The Gutenberg Parenthesis.
• Ant - Osee Tech On-Camera Monitors.
• Ant - Register for Adobe Max for FREE (Virtual).
• Cool plank-bike video.
• Let me out of the Dynamic Island!

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Douglas Rushkoff

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• Google: Goodbye FLOC, hello Topics.
• German publishers raise new opposition to Google's third-party cookie plans.
• Google proposes a new way to track people around the Web. Again.
• Why Amazon is ramping up its push for legalizing marijuana.
• FLoC is dead. But Topics won't fix Google's ad targeting problems.
• IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes.
• IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access.
• End Of The Line For Google Cloud's G Suite Legacy Free Edition.
• G suite migration.
• We Studied 81,000 Page Titles - Google Rewrote 61% Of Them.
• British law groups recommend immunity for drivers of self-driving cars.
• The self-driving car industry is abandoning the term 'self-driving' and leaving it to Tesla.
• Halo.car - The electric car that drives to you.
• Chicago Public Media to acquire the Sun-Times.
• Neil Young Demands Spotify Remove His Music Over 'False Information About Vaccines'
• Missing: the shows from these big Spotify announcements.
• Samsung officially announces February 9 launch event for Galaxy S22.
• N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyberattacks -researchers.
• Hacktivists say they hacked the Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup.
• Manufacturers have less than five days' supply of some computer chips, Commerce Department says.
• You no longer have to say 'Hey Google' to get the Assistant to shut up.
• Pixel's big At a Glance upgrade starts rolling out with more Google Clock & fitness integrations.
• Google Chat adds rich text formatting on the web, rolling out now.
• YouTube Music will soon work for supervised kid accounts enrolled with Family Link.
• Oh, please, can we have a TWiG mini-musical? By brandonethridgemusic on TikTok.
• Mark Cuban's latest business venture is a cash-only pharmacy that takes aim at crushing drug prices.
• Meta ad for Horizon.

Picks:

• Stacey - Hestan Cue: The World's Most Advanced Smart Cooking System
• Jeff - Twitter kills Worldle-killing bot
• Ant - Ant on Because We Make Podcast
• Ant - News Anchor Hit by a Car
• Ant - Good Luck, #hardhead

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Compiler - TWIG

• Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for $68b
• US regulators go after illegal mergers
• Request for Information on Merger Enforcement
• Unbelievable video of EU commissioner promoting digital legislation
• Spotify Pressured by 270 Scientists, Medical Professionals Over Joe Rogan Episode
• Spotify shuts down its podcast studio
• DirecTV Finally Dumps OAN, Limiting The Conspiracy And Propaganda Channel's Reach
• Escape from QAnon: How Jan. 6 changed one person's path
• Nanoleaf retires original HomeKit Light Panels, takes up to 50% off in commemorative clearance sale
• How the SOPA Blackout Happened 10yrs ago
• eyeo wins landmark copyright court decision; protects digital rights and sets an important legal precedent for who 'owns' HTML
• Crypto.com Suffers Hack For At Least $15M in Ethereum (ETH)
• Cryptoderps think buying a copy of a Dune version gives them copyright to produce it
• Cryptoderps follow up
• German company's use of Google Analytics 'breached GDPR'
• SearchEngineLand turned off AMP; nothing happened
• Google kills YouTube Originals
• Jeff Jarvis Tweets
• Tesla driver is first to face felony charges in a crash involving autopilot
• Andre Leon Talley passes
• Android 12 Update
• How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State
• Canon EOS R5 C - Ant's Pick
• Follow Ant on Instagram
• $200k Donatas - Jeff's Pick
• GE Cafe Smart Oven - Stacey's Pick
• Cheezam ! By Prevision.IO - Computer Vision with AI for cheese - Leo's Pick

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Google launches Android 13, rolling out now to Pixel phones.
• Android 13 changelog: A deep dive by Mishaal Rahman.
• Pixel 6 series can't go back to Android 12 after updating to Android 13 due to security vulnerability.
• Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro may have just passed through the FCC, ahead of fall launch.
• Biden admin says about 20 models will still qualify for EV tax credits.
• Hank Green IRA explainer.
• Amazon and Nielsen close 'Thursday Night Football' ratings deal.
• Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger's End-to-End Encryption.
• The new USB Rubber Ducky is more dangerous than ever.
• A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave.
• Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow.
• The Unintended Consequences of OTC Hearing Aids.
• Oracle begins auditing TikTok's algorithms.
• Signal says 1,900 users' phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach.
• Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer.
• Ringtone interpretive dancing.
• Kindergarten teacher talks to politicians.
• music street.
• Google's official Android 13 statue sure looks a bit like a butt.
• Google Photos renaming 'Archive' to 'Hidden'.
• Google Chrome can now become your default browser on Windows without even opening settings.
• How a Third-Party SMS Service Was Used to Take Over Signal Accounts.
• Google Meet now shows you how noisy your office is.
• "Existing connections will be shut down" — Google is killing off Google Cloud IoT Core.

Picks:

• Stacey - Hearing Test - Mimi Health.
• Jeff - BOOX is an electronics brand offering innovative E Ink (ePaper) tablets and devices based on Android.
• Jeff - Jeff history of media in :45.
• Ant - I set a Clemson wallpaper to see what color options would show up in #Android13. Sorry, no true orange.
• Ant - Lisa Carney and Photoshop World.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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• Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 4 lets you do more while it's closed.
• Wear OS is getting a revamped Play Store and offline Google Maps later this year.
• Political Chips by Ben Thompson.
• Biden signs $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act.
• Yes, the Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Effing Deal.
• Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress.
• Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion.
• Maps, mops and Matter: Why Amazon wants iRobot.
• What Amazon's Roomba and One Medical Deals Have in Common.
• The smart home doesn't need a robot — it should be a robot.
• The Radical Scope of Tesla's Data Hoard Logs and records of its customers' journeys fill out petabytes—and court case dockets.
• Barney McCallum - Pickleball Hall of Fame.
• More with Barney McCallum.
• Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment.
• This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion.
• Google Set to Face DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Over Ad Market Monopoly.
• Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS.
• Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology.
• Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a 'public debate' about bots.
• Elon Musk sells nearly $7 billion in Tesla shares.
• Scientists hid encryption key for Wizard of Oz text in plastic molecules.
• NASA is sending an iPad to the moon.
• If you're having problems with Google search, you're not alone.
• Meta's AI Chatbot Has Election-Denying, Antisemitic Bugs to Work Out.
• Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes.
• Google launches new website for kids learning to read.
• Google Fiber Blog: What's next for Google Fiber.
• Google Meet live sharing brings shared YouTube watching, Spotify listening, and games.
• Google rolling out GPS fix for Pixel 6/Pro and 6a, August update coming.
• @PessimistsArc: 1983 debate about home PC, with comparisons to hula hoop fad.

Picks:

• Stacey - Eve Aqua Smart Water Controller.
• Stacey - B-Hyve Smart Wi-Fi Irrigation Controller.
• Jeff - Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022.
• Ant - Vegas Pro 20 Launched.
• Ant - Send Me Your Photography "Ooops" Moments for Hands-On Photography.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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