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This Week in Google 729: Waffle Party

This Week in Google 729: Waffle Party

Update: 2023-08-17
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  • Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more

  • Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time

  • Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising

  • Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices

  • Google using AI to generate key points in web pages

  • Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results

  • YouTube cracking down on videos promoting ineffective cancer cures

  • Google Photos getting AI-powered auto-generated titles and organization

  • Google Slides enabling presenters to draw and annotate while presenting

  • Changes coming to YouTube Shorts, including blocking links to combat spam

  • Google's hotel for employees during COVID now offering discounted rates as they push back towards in-office work

  • California allowing self-driving cars to operate in San Francisco 24/7, leading to traffic jams

  • Google eliminating many of its private label consumer product brands due to poor sales and distrust

  • Internet Archive being sued by record labels for digitizing and hosting out of print 78rpm records

  • Update on researcher Joan Donovan's firing from Harvard and new role at Boston University

  • Proposal for new rules regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

  • Analysis of surveillance capitalism and its effects on society

  • Discussion on public distrust of medical institutions and ""elite"" doctors

  • Speculation on Elon Musk's erratic behavior on Twitter including visiting Mark Zuckerberg's house

  • Review of the movie Oppenheimer and how its portrayal connects to the ethical dilemmas of technology

  • Several lighter topics including bollards on Twitter, introducing grandparents to TikTok, and AI-generated poetry

Picks:


  • Stacey - Homey Pro

  • Jeff - She introduced Grandpa to TikTok

  • Ant - Better Smartphone Photography with Lisa Carney at Donner Lake

  • Ant - In-Person or Online: How You Can Support Maui Wildfire Relief

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


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This Week in Google 729: Waffle Party

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