Intelligent Machines 563

•  Amazon bans police use of their face recognition tech for 1 year
•  Android 11 public beta: how to install it
•  Collapse OS: a post-apocalyptic operating system
•  US Space Force could lose trademark to Netflix Space Force
•  Google shipped 7.2 million Pixel phones in 2019
•  Pixel Buds get a fix for the wrong problem
•  Google sued for sucking up data about you
•  Google+ is shutting down for real this time
•  Googlers have to eat box lunches, no gym, no sleep pods
•  Google Wing drones bring books to children
•  DuckDuckGo CEO says Google is in anti-trust trouble
• Protest organizers are using Google Docs
•  Jeff Jarvis' letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
•  "Dear Class of 2020" highlights
•  How 2020 is like 1968
•  Bon Appetit apologizes, Conde Nast dithers
•  Twitter makes Juneteenth a permanent company holiday
•  Nascar nixes Confederate battle flag
•  Why the NFL should apologize to Colin Kaepernick in private
• Get Doom and Doom II for free on your Chromebook
•  Amazon sues former employee over a non-compete clause
•  Twitter: read that article before you retweet it
•  Twitter starts verifying people again - if they are COVID scientists
• Jack Dorsey gives $3 mil to Colin Kaepernick's org
•  No encryption for free Zoom users so they can cooperate with the police
•  ACLU sues Los Angeles for tracking scooter users
•  Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian quits, asks to be replaced by a black man. Reddit replaces him with Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel

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Links

• Android 11: conversations, bubbles, and making sense of complexity
• IDC: Google Pixel shipments reached 7.2 million in 2019, more than OnePlus
• Google Sued for Secretly Amassing Vast Trove of User Data
• Google Currents for G Suite launching July 6, shutting down Google+ one last time
• DuckDuckGo CEO: US federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions about how to limit Google's search business, as p
• Google Docs is a key tool for organizing protests, as activists anonymously edit public lists of funds, charities, books on raci
• Google drones will drop books for schoolchildren
• Googlers return to box lunches, no gym, no sleep pods
• Jarvis' message to Zuckerberg
• Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, says Congress "appears ready" to place stronger regulations
• Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job
• Twitter is working to bring back verification
• Twitter makes Juneteenth permanent holiday
• Twitter might tell you to read the article before you tweet it.
• Zoom says free users won’t get end-to-end encryption so FBI and police can access calls
• Zoom defenders cite legit reasons to not end-to-end encrypt free calls
• Google Search aims to make ctrl+F a thing of the past, will start highlighting relevant text on actual web pages
• Google Camera 7.4 adds 8X zoom for videos on Pixel 4 XL and prepares Pixel 5 support
• YouTube makes video chapters official - Creators can chop up the YouTube seek bar into segmented, titled chapters
• YouTube tries to become more transparent with in-depth guide to monetization
• Google swiftly renames DC street Black Lives Matter Plaza on Maps, gives Assistant BLM answers
• Google takes on Zoom with AI-powered noise cancellation
• [Thread] Alexis Ohanian resigns from the Reddit board, urges company to fill his seat with a black candidate, pledges $1M to Kae
• Reddit names Y Combinator CEO and Justin.tv founder Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian's replacement (Nick Statt/The Verge)
• IBM exits facial recognition, but that doesn’t mean it’s cutting ties with police
• US Military Could Lose Space Force Trademark to Netflix Series
• itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality
• WinDirStat
• Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter Hardcover - amazon affiliate
• Pichai's father spent year's salary for his plane trip to Stanford
• National TV advertising fell by 26% in April