This Week in Google with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Jun 15th 2022

This Week in Google 668

Boca de Dragón

Sentient AI, Gates says crypto is a sham, Meta AR glasses, Floppotron 3.0

Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Category: News
  • The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life.
  • DALL·E mini: AI model generating images from any prompt!
  • Nonsense on stilts.
  • Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla’s Autopilot system.
  • Musk to address Twitter employees for 1st time this week.
  • Elon Musk says Tesla’s fake robot might be ready by September 30th.
  • Jack Dorsey's TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5.
  • Some thoughts on stock photos on tech websites and the Developer Aesthetic.
  • @rasmus_kleis: 2022 Digital News Report out now. A huge effort by an amazing team that I'm proud to be part of.
  • Meta Hits the Brakes on Portal, AR Glasses, and Other Hardware.
  • Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California.
  • Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham.
  • Jay-Z Is Giving Back to the Community He Grew Up In... With a 'Bitcoin Academy'.
  • Qualcomm wins fight against $1 bln EU antitrust fine.
  • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff.
  • The perfect TWiG link: Tiktok, Chipotle, queso.
  • YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily.
  • Google Chrome’s on-device machine learning blocks noisy notification prompts.
  • Google Maps now shows toll prices on Android and iOS.
  • Files and folders in various locations in Drive to be replaced with shortcuts.
  • Google lists their recommended third-party apps for Google Workspace.
  • Google’s changing its calendar invites to be clearer and more modern.
  • Google Talk is surprisingly still operational, but that ends on Thursday.
  • The Floppotron 3.0.

Picks:

  • Stacey - Kindle Paperwhite 8th Generation Review
  • Jeff - Sure, Internet Explorer Had Its Faults. But Fans Are Mourning Its Death Anyway
  • Leo - lagplorer.tms.sx
  • Ant - Video "editing" in Adobe Lightroom
  • Ant - Nice Closeout Pricing on a Benro Tripod While Supplies Last
  • Leo - Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet

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