Jan 17th 2024
This Week in Google 751
The NUMTOT With a Top Knot
Google Layoffs, Verizon Fees, AI Boyfriends
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Glenn Fleishman
- Is A.I. the Death of I.P.?
- Samsung Unpacked recap
- Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams
- Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws
- Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons in tunnels
- Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, feat a scary message!
- Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet
- Peacock's AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event ever in the US."
- Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement
- Tom Coates on Meta and the Fediverse
- Fox puts its stuff on the blockchain
- Functions Google is killing in Assistant
- Google quietly updates Chrome’s incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit
- Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement
- Google introduces ‘Circle to Search,’ a new way to search from anywhere on Android using gestures
- GPT Store opens
- Glenn's thing: How Infrastructure Works
- Paris's thing: 1990s internet directories
- Jeff's Thing: swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own
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Links
- Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? (new yorker)
- Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams - Bloomberg
- Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws
- Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons in tunnels
- Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, feat a scary message!
- Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet
- Peacock's AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event ever in the US." - The Verge
- Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement - Slashdot
- Tom Coates on Meta and the Fediverse
- Fox puts its stuff on the blockchain
- Changes we’re making to Google Assistant - Google Assistant Help
- Google TV is quietly adding support for ‘Call notifications’
- Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement - MSPoweruser
- Google introduces ‘Circle to Search,’ a new way to search from anywhere on Android using gestures
- GPT Store opens
- Swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own