This Week in Google 557

Elon Musk vs Coronavirus, Facebook and Oprah's Virtual Graduation

•  Elon Musk: "FREE AMERICA NOW!"
• Colleges worry they will go out of business if they stay closed in the fall. Is Zoom the answer?
•  What we don't know about Coronavirus is as important as what we do know - how media needs to improve
•  Mark Zuckerberg tightens his control of Facebook
•  Jeff Bezos back to day-to-day operations at Amazon
•  Apple/Google virus contact tracing API launches today
•  Facebook and Oprah hold a virtual graduation ceremony for the class of 2020
•  Berkeley Students recreate campus in Minecraft
•  Google requires all advertisers to verify their identities
•  Yale Law Journal: advertising is obsolete in the information age
•  Google Meet is now free for all
•  Waze tests lane advice
•  Google kills Shoelace, the social network nobody knew about

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tool: Sourdough Discard Recipes
•  Mathew's Thing: Boston Dynamics’ Spot helps COVID-19 patients
• Jeff's Numbers: Cotter dog derby

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Links

• Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US
• Mark Zuckerberg Asserts Control of Facebook, Pushing Aside Dissenters - WSJ
• Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon
• Amazon Scooped Up Data From Its Own Sellers to Launch Competing Products
• Related: Benedict Evans says: Oh, calm down
• Apple and Google release first seed of COVID-19 exposure notification API for contact tracing app developers
• Apple/Google iPhone contact tracing: How it came together
• Apple & Google tweak plans for COVID API
• Germany flips on smartphone contact tracing, backs Apple and Google - Reuters
• NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan
• Purdue president letter
• Brown
• Siva recent thread
• Elon Musk Tweets 'Free America Now' ahead of Tesla Quarterly Results
• Elon Musk’s Drive To $55 Billion Tesla Payday Slowed By COVID-19 Stock Slide
• Jeff Jarvis' list of Twitter Coronavirus experts
• Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody - The Verge
• Google now warns you if your search terms won't get you great results
• Google kills Shoelace. Who?
• Waze is finally testing lane guidance for navigation
• Yale Law Journal - The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age
• Tesla posts surprise profit
• Oldest known starter
• Sourdough Discard Recipes
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot finds a new career in telemedicine amid COVID-19 pandemic
• Cotter dog derby
• Trump, Amazon customer