Dec 16th 2020
This Week in Google 590
The Enlarged Bicep of Reason
Google outages, Facebook ads against Apple, Google WFH, Blob Opera
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Google outages, Facebook ads against Apple, Google WFH, Blob Opera
- The Blob Opera.
- Facebook goes after Apple in newspaper ads.
- Facebook is a Doomsday Machine.
- Apple's big mobile ad industry change.
- Facebook's new TLDR service to summarize the news.
- Facebook's Super to compete with Cameo.
- Two big Google outages and how it affects business.
- Google's WFH strategy is becoming more permanent.
- 64-camera lighting rig that trained portrait lighting AI.
- Google Photos gets a bunch of new features.
- Google acquires Neverware.
- Google Design Best of 2020.
- Apple TV app coming to Chromecast.
- Some Google One tiers getting a 50% price cut.
- Nest Hub Max can now make Zoom video calls.
- Google Home Max is now dead.
- December Pixel feature drop is out.
- Picks of the week:
- Stacey's pick: The Spritzer.
- Jeff's number: MacKenzie Scott gives away $4b to 300+ orgs in four months.
- Ant's pick: Budget-friendly camera gimbal from Feiyutech.
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Links
- Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021
- Google used 64-camera rig to train portrait lighting AI
- Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages"
- Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
- Facebook Attacks Apple Software Changes in Newspaper Ads
- Facebook working on TLDR to summarize news articles (and endear them yet more) and another project to read your brain's commands
- Facebook is building a video product called Super that will let people pay content creators or celebrities to interact with them
- Apple’s seismic change to the mobile ad industry is drawing near, and it’s rocking the ecosystem
- Google’s new Chromecast is getting an Apple TV app soon
- 50% price cut for highest tiers of Google One storage
- Google Photos expands Memories
- Google acquires Neverware; will support Chrome OS on old PCs
- Google Home Max dead
- New Pixel feature drop
- Google Design Best of 2020
- Google's Nest Hub Max now makes Zoom video calls
- Blob opera!!!
- The Spritzer
- MacKenzie Scott gives awa $4b to 300+ orgs in 4 months
- Budget-friendly Camera Gimbal from Feiyutech