TWiG 609: Put Garlic On My Shopping List - Google and Apple earnings, Dogecoin, Basecamp drama, Google IO '21

Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies
Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1, up 46 percent
Google Fiber coming to another Utah city
Sundar Pichai talks about COVID in India
Google's Oscar commercial
Apple reports another blowout quarter with sales up 54%, authorizes $90 billion in share buybacks
Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
Amazon to hike wages for over 500,000 workers
4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google
What really happened at Basecamp
YouTube is a media juggernaut that could soon equal Netflix in revenue
Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands
Comic unapologetic about putting garlic on fans shopping lists
Google adds COVID restriction alerts, new road-trip mapping features, as vaccines enable safer travel
Google Fi marks 6th birthday with new 'Simply Unlimited' plan that lacks 'Unlimited Plus' extras
Google-run Android Earthquake Alerts System is now providing warnings in first two countries
Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
Google Photos for Android rolling out new 'Sharpen' and 'Denoise' editor tools
Google Assistant can now correctly set timers or alarms even after you flub a voice command
YouTube adds even more video resolution controls and options on mobile
It took Google 526 days to give you a way to search through Stadia's 172 games
Kevin Tofel: Looks like I'm going to be a GT Yellow Jacket
What Old Tiktok-ERs Look like (by Ant)
Be Mindful Of The Dance Moves You're Doing On Tiktok
Pichai teases 'significant' announcements at Google I/O 2021 as product cycles return to normal
Google posts I/O 2021 schedule, starting with Sundar Pichai keynote on May 18 at 10 a.m
Samsung unpacks its Galaxy Book Pro, Pro 360 and more
Amazon sees 'positive outcome' in FCC's SpaceX satellite ruling
Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life
Daniel Kaminsky, Internet Security Savior, Dies at 42
Introducing Immersive View, A Fun New Way to Meet
90s Kids Guide to the Internet
WaPo reports on brain interfaces with a touch of moral panic
She never returned a VHS of Sabrina and 20 years later faced a felony
Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL

Picks:

Stacey - Ember Mug
Jeff - Oscar Viewership Rises To 10.4M In Final Numbers
Ant - I Finally Created an NFT (Why not?)
Ant - My Newest Short Film
Ant - Photo Pursuit: Stories Behind the Photographs

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google.

Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Sponsors:

audible.com/twig or text twig to 500-500
enterprisetech30.com