This Week in Google (Audio)
205 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★ - 555 ratingsIt's not just Google. This Week in Google hosts, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau, cover all of Big Tech every Wednesday. Listeners tune in for thought-provoking and entertaining conversations about AI, Internet memes, the future of media, and the latest emerging tech. You won't want to miss a minute.
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TWiG 773: Mouse Jigglers and Keyboard Strokers - Social Media Warning Lables, US Sues Adobe
June 20, 2024 01:16 - 2 hours - 61.8 MBThe Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn't Need Warning Labels The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly Tesla takes fight for Elon Musk's pay package back to court US sues Adobe for 'deceiving' subscriptions that are too hard to cancel Apple, Meta set to face EU charges under landmark tech rules, sources say Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads Jeff on Perplexity Discover Luma extends memes Gutenberg an...
TWiG 772: Mystery Bucket of Gummies - Apple AI, Sony Buys Alamo Drafthouse, Cottage Cheese
June 13, 2024 01:38 - 2 hours - 75.2 MBApple Introduces Image Playground - a new AI image tool Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman Hallucination is Inevitable Nokia CEO makes world's first 'immersive' phone call Mike Lynch: Autonomy co-founder cleared of fraud in US trial New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids Judge rather than jury will render verdict in upcoming antitrust trial Joey Chestnut is out of 2024 Nathan's hot dog eating contest in beef over vegan ...
TWiG 771: Sucked to LA - Ultrasonic Coffee, Microsoft Recall, Perplexity Pages
June 06, 2024 01:46 - 2 hours - 80.1 MB'Like drinking a music festival': this is ultrasonic coffee – but does it taste any good? Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban Unanimous SCOTUS To States: No Strong-Arming Third Parties To Silence Those You Dislike Federal Preemption of State Privacy Law Hurts Everyone The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes That time Rupert Murdoch almost married a woman from Petaluma The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka Finally! Someone has figured out how to make money ...
TWiG 770: Giggle Pants and Chortle Skorts - Google AI Answers, ICQ, Private Jet Tracking
May 30, 2024 01:34 - 2 hours - 69.5 MBGoogle scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic UN statement on risks from generative AI We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase Google ...
TWiG 769: Keeping Up With the Kevorkians - ScarJo vs. OpenAI, Google Classic
May 23, 2024 02:02 - 2 hours - 79.4 MBScarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her It's Time to Believe the AI Hype Steven Levy's Extremely Stupid AI Piece Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments Congress Shouldn't End the Internet's Sunrise With a Section 230 "Sunset" Repeal Buy This Legislation or We'll Kill the Internet Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,'...
TWiG 768: Google A/I - Google I/O 2024
May 14, 2024 22:25 - 2 hours - 67.7 MBLeo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Alex Kantrowitz react live to the Google I/O presentation. Gemini Search with Gemini Agents Deepmind Gemini Flash Project Astra Imajen 3 Veo Trillium Search Ask with Video Gemini for Workspace Virtual Teammate Gemini App Android Google AI Studio Gemma SynthID LearnLM Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Alex Kantrowitz Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT...
TWiG 767: Never Hug an Elmo - BuzzFeed, AdVon, 65-Foot Hot Dog
May 09, 2024 01:57 - 3 hours - 83.7 MB'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade! Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry Google is getting even worse for independent sites Heat Death of the Internet What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think. They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos Lithium-free sodium ba...
TWiG 766: Area Man Buys Onion - Alphabet Hits 2 Trillion, DJI Ban, FCC Fines
May 02, 2024 01:43 - 2 hours - 66 MBGoogle is building a fart button into Android The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Exce...
TWiG 765: Inflatable Nuts - TikTok Ban, Rabbit R1, Equinox.space
April 25, 2024 01:40 - 2 hours - 71.8 MB'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge The Chilling of TikTok FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage Paris' nuts Rabbit R1 brilliant.xyz More wearable AI: IYO One The Man Who Killed Google Search Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operati...
TWiG 764: Cow Magnets - Atlas Evolved, Humane AI Pin, Panic-as-a-Business
April 18, 2024 01:52 - 2 hours - 79.9 MBCraig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed." limitless ai brilliant.xyz Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles. Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption Google tests stopping news links in California because of...
TWiG 763: All the Meat Was Shaking - Suno Music, Google Cloud Next
April 11, 2024 04:51 - 3 hours - 84.6 MBGoogle Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband Talking about the old internet Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line NYC Chicken Sh...
TWiG 762: People Who Like Sticks - Taco Bell AI, Amazon Scraps "Just Walk Out"
April 04, 2024 00:35 - 2 hours - 61 MBThe great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024 Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50% Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify? Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 20 years of Gmail AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online Yahoo is...
TWiG 761: Exploring the World of Stretch Pants - Collective AI, Vinyl Sales
March 28, 2024 01:28 - 2 hours - 71.6 MBDaniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running AI news that's fit to print How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives ac...
TWiG 760: The Ground State of a Molecule - Slorg & Slerf, NVIDIA Event, Google Health
March 21, 2024 01:42 - 2 hours - 73.8 MBMatt Levine attracts online ire for column, 'Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf' AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering Sam Bankman-Fried Says 50-Year Sentence Only Suitable for a 'Super Villain' Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers' data was used for Gemini Mikah & Jeff react to nVidia event OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam The Check U...
TWiG 760: The Ground State of a Molecule - Slorg & Slerf, nVidia Event, Google Health
March 21, 2024 01:42 - 2 hours - 73.8 MBMatt Levine attracts online ire for column, 'Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf' AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering Sam Bankman-Fried Says 50-Year Sentence Only Suitable for a 'Super Villain' Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers' data was used for Gemini Mikah & Jeff react to nVidia event OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam The Check U...
TWiG 759: The Posters Will Rise - TikTok Ban, Changing Expectations for AI
March 14, 2024 00:46 - 2 hours - 60.8 MBTold You So: Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations European Lawmakers Approve Landmark AI Legislation TikTok Will Use Every Legal Tool to Fight a Forced Sale ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed interest in buying TikTok, floated the idea of partnering w/ Sam Altman and others Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies Karl Bode breaks it down at TechDirt Ed's podcast episode about Musk's Uncharitable Charity Elon boots a Don...
TWiG 758: The Righte to Hoose - OpenAI vs. Musk, Spain Boots Worldcoin Orbs
March 07, 2024 04:16 - 2 hours - 64.1 MBOpenAI and Elon Musk Something Like Fire Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs Life House CEO Departs After The Information's Report on Company South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit Here Come the AI Worms Open letter: A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation Microsoft engineer who raised concerns about Copilot image creator pens letter to the FTC Pixel phones just got ...
TWiG 757: They're Made of Meat! - Rollable phone, Bitcoin ETF, AT&T Outage
February 29, 2024 02:36 - 2 hours - 74.3 MBGemini and Google's Culture Klarna says its OpenAI virtual assistant does the work of 700 humans OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI Kids left disappointed by Willy Wonka theme park grift Google co-founder Sergey Brin sued over a plane crash that killed two pilots last year MWC 2024: Motorola's Rollable Concept phone laughs at your silly foldable Peering through Lenovo's transparent ...
TWiG 756: Good Thorp and Vie't On - YouTube Dominates, ChatGPT Goes Nuts
February 22, 2024 02:26 - 2 hours - 74.9 MBIntroducing Molly White Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform End of an era: The phone book goes the way of the fax machine as it drops through doors for the very last time after almost 150 years Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh ...
TWiG 755: Beat It for 15 Minutes - Sovereign AI, Obituary Spam, Gemini Ultra
February 15, 2024 01:44 - 1 hour - 53 MBLeo opens his copy of "Shift Happens" Nvidia CEO calls for "Sovereign AI" as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form The rise of obituary spam Biden administration taps Gina Raimondo to direct new AI Safety Institute University of Pennsylvania announces first AI undergrad degree When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever "Societal misalignments" could ...
TWiG 754: Guerrilla Gardening - Amazon's Rufus, Bluesky Opens, Toothbrush DDoS?
February 08, 2024 03:15 - 2 hours - 77.7 MBApple vision pro talk Your phone isn't listening to you: The myth and its origins Bluesky Opens Up Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets UMG Pulls it's music out of TikTok The unlikely 3 million electric toothbrush DDoS attack YouTube TV Number of Subscribers Revealed in Neal Mohan Letter ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to form sports streaming service venture Blazing Saddles 50th bday Google Bard to become 'Gemini' on February 7 w...
TWiG 753: Jeff's Brother and Paris' Canon - Amazon iRobot Deal, Elon's Paycheck
February 01, 2024 02:45 - 2 hours - 67.5 MBSocial Media CEOs Testify The 27 Bills That Became Law in 2023 Google parent Alphabet ad revenue disappoints, CapEx up; shares sink 6% There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks Finding The Air Cannon Universal Music Group Says It Will...
TWiG 752: The Mole Man of Hackney - Media Layoffs, Rat Selfies, Ello's Demise
January 25, 2024 02:40 - 2 hours - 131 MBMost Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them Don't Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs Is it time to give up on old news? Instagram's new 'nighttime nudges' aim to reduce teens' time on the app The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as "free" unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading An online pastor...
TWiG 751: The NUMTOT With a Top Knot - Google Layoffs, Verizon Fees, AI Boyfriends
January 18, 2024 02:19 - 2 hours - 68.1 MBIs 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...
TWiG 750: The Right to Read - Athelas' Troubles, Free Tax-Filing, Walmart AI
January 11, 2024 02:53 - 2 hours - 62.8 MBParis' big story: A Healthtech Unicorn Leaves a Trail of Clinic Complaints, Concerns Over Billing Practices The Information's 10th Anniversary Plagiarism Is Fine OpenAI's response to the NYT lawsuit Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All Gaming voice actors blindsided by 'garbage' union AI deal Asus' new laptop has two screens and a removable keyboard I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surv...
TWiG 749: A Well Regulated Jart Team - NYT vs. OpenAI, Google Incognito, Tunnel Girl
January 04, 2024 02:17 - 2 hours - 63.1 MBNYTimes sues OpenAI How OpenAI could recreate Times quotes OpenAI's annualized revenue reportedly tops $1.6B As Assistant with Bard inches toward launch, here's its UI in action Podcast police TikToker 'Tunnel Girl' ordered to stop viral digging project under Virginia home Apps will now be reporting your earnings to tax authorities The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again Seattle's Zulily will 'wind down' its business and liquidate its assets Google agrees to settle Chrome incognit...
TWiG 748: Best of 2023 - This Week in Google's Best Moments of 2023
December 26, 2023 19:30 - 2 hours - 61.4 MBLeo looks back at the best stories they covered in 2023. Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT, Leo introduces Neeva. Former Google Employee Talks About Latest Google Layoffs Batting a Thousand Elon Musk Fires Top Twitter Engineer Meta Launches Threads Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama OpenAI Strikes $5M Deal For Local News Initiatives Twitter Re-branded as X Waffle Party Paris an...
TWiG 747: In an Abundance of Caution - AI Patents, Pig Butchering Scams, ChevyGPT
December 21, 2023 03:00 - 2 hours - 74.4 MBGoogle's $700 million Play Store settlement Cox Media Group claims they can listen in on your conversations Police don't get Google's location data anymore How billionaires spend their money on immortality No more AI Facial Recognition for Rite Aid UK Supreme Court rules that an AI cannot patent an invention Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material Apple watches sales to stop on December 21 515 Wordles and what we learned Jeff tries ...
TWiG 718: Clean As a Whistle - AI scientist statement, Nvidia Spectrum-X, Amazon's kill list, Mirai botnet
June 01, 2023 03:41 - 2 hours - 73.1 MBWhy AI Scientists Are Freaking Us Out. Pessimists Archive. Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already. The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI. Stacey gets grilled on AI. Big Tech Isn't Prepared for A.I.'s Next Chapter. George Hotz wants to 'make driving chill' with next-gen Comma 3 hands-free driver assist. The Spectrum-X ethernet switch offers ""lossless"" transmission via a new kind of congestion control, says Nvidia. Once Mighty Intel Struggles to Escape 'Mud Hole'. The St...
TWiG 717: A Book Shaped Object - Chris' hashtag story, DeSantis Twitter Spaces FAIL, Neeva next steps
May 25, 2023 03:21 - 3 hours - 85.8 MBChris Messina talks about the birth of the hashtag. Why did Chris leave Twitter? What is Chris doing in AI right now? DeSantis Picked Twitter Spaces to Announce His Run. Next Steps for Neeva. Ford reverses course and decides to keep AM radio on its vehicles. Jack Dorsey shares Robert F. Kennedy Jr. video echoing conspiracy theories. Mourning the state of Twitter. Social Media is a 'Profound Risk' to Youth, Surgeon General Warns. TikTok sues Montana over law banning the app. Instag...
TWiG 716: It's Pronounced Papyri - Moderator Mayhem, AI regulation, TikTok Ban in Montana, Echo Pop
May 18, 2023 03:17 - 2 hours - 70.4 MBWARNING: This episode examines the topic of self harm and suicide. Anyone dealing with these issues can find help by calling or texting 988 to connect with the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or visiting the website to chat by going to 988lifeline.org. Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game. OpenAI's Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing. Updating our inactive account policies. Universal Short Title Catalogue. TikTok Ban Signed in Montana, Paving Way for First Amendmen...
TWiG 715: Illegal Use of Whipped Cream - Google IO, Pixel Fold, AI Search
May 11, 2023 03:38 - 2 hours - 73.9 MBEverything announced at I/O Google I/O Keynote Google Search in Google Labs and Project Tailwinds What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer Impressed by Google I/O Annoucements? Acapela AI New Pixel Hardware Google Fold watch party ad The Pixel Fold is Google's $1,800 entry into folding phones Wendy's, Google Train Next-Generation Order Taker: an AI Chatbot Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" UFO Hunters Built an Open-Source AI System To Scan The Skies Spo...
TWiG 714: Stuck in an Elevator With the Crypto Boys - Bluesky, Passkeys, VICE bankruptcy, Photos search
May 04, 2023 02:37 - 3 hours - 84.2 MBBluesky buzz: Why the social media platform is being called the next Twitter. The Best Dressed Stars From the 2023 Met Gala. Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in. Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator. For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter. Chrome replacing HTTPS lock icon with Material You redesign. Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site. Writers Guild On Strike Against Hollywood Studios As Contract Talks...
TWiG 713: Creased Cargo Shorts - Alphabet earnings, teens and social media, blue check, Authenticator 2FA
April 26, 2023 20:36 - 2 hours - 74.3 MBAlphabet reports revenue and earnings beat for first quarter. Only 28 legacy verified users signed up for Twitter Blue hours after Elon Musk removed their checkmarks. Elon Musk Figured Out the Media's Biggest Weakness. Facebook Made BuzzFeed, Then Killed It. Jonah and the Whale. Traffic by Ben Smith. Pichai teases AI, Pixel, and Android at Google I/O 2023. Nate Silver Out at 538, ABC News as Disney Layoffs Hit ABC News. These celebrities 'subscribed to Twitter Blue.' Except they're ...
TWiG 712: P for Prevaricate - Pixel Fold at IO, Samsung dumping Google Search, AI Drake and The Weeknd
April 19, 2023 20:21 - 2 hours - 70.3 MBPanic at Google: Samsung considers dumping search for Bing and ChatGPT. Samsung can't dump Google for Bing as the default search engine on its phones. Why Samsung Doesn't Want You to Use Google Apps. AI could cause a mass-extinction of languages — and ways of thinking. AI science search engines are exploding in number — are they any good? 'Overemployed' Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs. Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals. Googl...
TWiG 711: Full Throttle Democracy - AI rules, Substack Notes, NFL pricing on YouTube TV, Smart display support
April 12, 2023 20:13 - 2 hours - 70.9 MBGoogle is No Longer Supporting These Five-Year-Old Devices. Google ending Works with Nest & Dropcam support, Nest Secure owners getting free ADT system. The Fitbit-to-Google account migration will start this summer. Google Home's latest update provides more control over your smart appliances. Google confirms pricing plans for NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Discover more than 800 free TV channels with Google TV. The Unintended Consequences of Internet Regulation. The importance of d...
TWiG 710: Jexx Javros - Google Cost Cutting, Pixel Tablet
April 05, 2023 19:59 - 2 hours - 68.4 MBGoogle closing some micro kitchens Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures Google Drive Imposes 5 Million Item Cap, Even if You Have Storage Space Left Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive Lawmakers are clueless about social media. They'll regulate it anyway Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data Three things everyone's getting wrong about AI Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral AI guys are the new crypt...
TWiG 709: The Egg From Hell - Twitter VIPs, ChatGPT Impact, TikTok Ban
March 29, 2023 19:51 - 2 hours - 75.1 MBElon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing 'Risks to Society' Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and their impact on humanity The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library #TikTokBan videos have 1.7b views on TikTok Random stupid moment from Tiktok hearing Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else Norwegian company says TikTo...
TWiG 681: Drop, Cover, and Hold On - Matt Mullenweg interview, Pixelbook cancelled, floppy disk shop
September 15, 2022 02:58 - 2 hours - 79.3 MBInterview with Matt Mullenweg. Stable Diffusion Finally Released To The Public. Did you know in the beginning what you wanted to do with Automattic? How do you feel about Twitter's Bluesky initiative? How has Wordpress survived the blogging winter? What excites you about how Wordpress is being used? When did Tumblr come along and how does it contrast with WordPress? What is the ongoing investment in scale of effort to keep Tumblr "nice"? How does Tumblr make money? What does it tak...
TWiG 680: Failure as a Feature - Pixel 7 Pro event, EU regulates updates, Twitter Edit, Android 14 satellite
September 08, 2022 03:43 - 2 hours - 71.9 MBGoogle announces October 6 event for Pixel 7, Watch - 9to5Google Google confirms Pixel 7 series will run on new 'Tensor G2' chip Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone Pichai Says Google 'Pro-Competitive,' Sees Vibrant Tech Market Google Pixel Watch spotted on Sundar Pichai's wrist a month ahead of the official launch The Pixel Watch May Have Larger Bezels Than We Expected EU lawmakers push for all Android phones to to copy the Pixel 6's five years of updates A...
TWiG 679: Conglomeratized! - Age Appropriate Design, Snap layoffs, Twitter Circle, Animal Translators
September 01, 2022 04:03 - 2 hours - 74.8 MBCalifornia Senate Passes Three Awful Bills For The Internet; Will Newsom Sign Them? 'I turned my back on my film career to protect children online' Senator Klobuchar's Latest Bad Idea: Letting Smaller Journalism Outlets Demand Payments For Links. Elon Musk Cites Whistle-Blower Report as Reason to Scrap Twitter Deal. Twitter Circle now available to everyone – here's how it works. How Twitter's child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor. Jack Dorsey says his biggest ...
TWiG 678: Podcast Legend Having Lunch - Twitter Security, Annie Leibovitz, AI Art
August 25, 2022 04:08 - 2 hours - 76.9 MBFormer security chief claims Twitter buried 'egregious deficiencies' Masnick on Mudge & Musk Who is Newton Minow? Annie Leibovitz proves yet again: she can't photograph Black women AI Image Generators Compared Side-By-Side Reveals Stark Differences A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools Facebook users reporting celebrity spam is flooding their feeds Mark Zuckerberg responds to metaverse memes with a redesign Do We All See Baby Mark Zu...
TWiG 677: Clemson Salmon - Android 13, Amazon's football deal, USB Rubber Ducky
August 18, 2022 03:30 - 2 hours - 67 MBGoogle launches Android 13, rolling out now to Pixel phones. Android 13 changelog: A deep dive by Mishaal Rahman. Pixel 6 series can't go back to Android 12 after updating to Android 13 due to security vulnerability. Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro may have just passed through the FCC, ahead of fall launch. Biden admin says about 20 models will still qualify for EV tax credits. Hank Green IRA explainer. Amazon and Nielsen close 'Thursday Night Football' ratings deal. Meta Just Happens to Ex...
TWiG 676: The CB of the 80's - Amazon buys iRobot, Musk sells Tesla shares, Samsung Unpacked
August 11, 2022 03:53 - 2 hours - 70.1 MBSamsung's Galaxy Z Flip 4 lets you do more while it's closed. Wear OS is getting a revamped Play Store and offline Google Maps later this year. Political Chips by Ben Thompson. Biden signs $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. Yes, the Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Effing Deal. Bill Gates: A Clean Energy Future is in the Hands of Congress. Amazon announces deal to buy Roomba maker for $1.7 billion. Maps, mops and Matter: Why Amazon wants iRobot. What Amazon's Roomba and One Medical...
TWiG 675: The Quibi Button - Instagram reverts, CHIPS Act, Roku's button problem, Batgirl movie
August 04, 2022 04:19 - 2 hours - 74.3 MBInstagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why. Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri Need You All to Stop Being Big Babies. Wrong number' text message scams are surging. CHIPS Act clears Congress, ensuring $52 billion boost to US foundries. FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications. Twitter is raising the Blue subscription price from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly. Roku has a problem — its buttons aren't print...
TWiG 674: Happy Leap Schmear - Tech earnings tanked, Instagram changes, TikTok in China, leap second
July 28, 2022 03:26 - 2 hours - 66.6 MBAlphabet misses on earnings and revenue for second quarter. Google earnings signal company weathering slowdown better than expected. Mark Zuckerberg braces Meta employees for 'intense period'. Instagram Admits It's 'Not Good' After Kardashians Beg It to Stop Copying TikTok. Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook. Zuck Turns Up the Heat. Sunset of the social network. @elonmusk: The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine. Inside TikTok's Attempts to 'Do...
TWiG 673: Swipe Right For Schmuck - AR Glasses Beta, ChromeOS Flex, Dall-E waitlist, Netflix earnings
July 21, 2022 02:40 - 2 hours - 69.6 MBGoogle Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses. Not paywalled: Google reportedly pauses hiring for two weeks to 'review our headcount needs'. TikTok Begins Layoffs as Part of Potentially Far-Reaching 'Reorganization' Plan. HP Elite Dragonfly 13.5 Chromebook PC. New Pixelbooks were confirmed at Google I/O 2022, and we all missed it. How I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex. Ant got a new Pixel 6. Twitter-Musk trial on $44 billion deal set to begin in October after Musk ...
TWiG 672: Lamination From the Heart - Twitter sues Elon Musk, Ev leaves Medium, Juul ban, World Emoji Day
July 14, 2022 03:29 - 3 hours - 82.9 MBTwitter sues Elon Musk, Ev leaves Medium, Juul ban, World Emoji Day Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Cathy Gellis For full show notes, visit https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/672 Sponsors: newrelic.com/twig cachefly.com
TWiG 671: The Cake Is a Pie - 25 Years of Google Search, EU Regulation, GPT-3 AI
July 07, 2022 04:11 - 2 hours - 70.8 MBBritish Government Gone Rogue Google closes data loophole amid privacy fears over abortion ruling Google on women's data after Roe EU regulation passes: The DMA and DSA just got real Common Crawl What is Web 3 and the Decline of Crypto Bored Ape Yacht Club Founder Criticizes Campaign That Says The BAYC Has Nazi Symbolism Great little BBC movement Scientific American Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then Tried to Get It Published Jeff asks GPT-3 to write an op-ed ...
TWiG 670: Stacey's a Spy! - Google Reacts to Roe v Wade Decision, Instagram AI, Netflix Ad Strategy
June 30, 2022 03:58 - 2 hours - 71.3 MBTech companies already changing HR policies in response to landmark Roe v. Wade decision Online Privacy Becomes Critical If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned Here's Google's letter saying employees can relocate to states with abortion rights Facebook says 'incorrect enforcement' removed posts on abortion pill access Taco Bell's Latest Tostada Features a Giant Cheez-It ADT Is Betting Google Can Drag It Into the Future Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face...