TWiG 548: Hey, Stroopwafel

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 12:58 a.m.

This Week in Google (Audio)

This week's stories

  • Get yourself some Stroopwafels at https://amzn.to/2w5siD9
  • San Francisco declares state of emergency over coronavirus
  • WHO says coronavirus cases may have peaked and plateaued in China
  • Google starts announcing I/O 2020 ticket winners
  • Google removes 600 apps for annoying ads
  • Google will stop labeling pictures as "man" or "woman"
  • Trying to trick Amazon Go with a banana
  • Facebook bans fake coronavirus cures
  • YouTube not bound by First Amendment
  • Weather reporter accidentally broadcasts with Facebook filters on
  • Trump asks the Supreme Court to back Oracle over Google
  • Google warns against sideloading its apps on Huawei phones
  • What are your smart speakers recording by accident?
  • Verizon will still sell the Pixel 5
  • Google moving data out of UK for Brexit
  • Is Twitter real life?
  • Twitter tries to fight misinformation, adds "continue thread"
  • Clearview AI hacked, all clients and searches stolen
  • Samsung "1" Find My Mobile data breach
  • Dunkin' Bag of Bacon
  • Mike Bloomberg busted for paying for tweets, but Facebook is fine with it
  • Swiss law forbids liking hate speech
  • EU to staff: use Signal
  • TSA bans employees' Tik Tok use
  • Gmail blocks malware with AI
  • Musicians Copywrite every melody possible
  • Intuit buys Credit Karma
  • Bruce Schneier joins Tim Berners-Lee's internet alternative startup
  • Creator of the Konami code dies at 61

Picks of the week

  • Leo's Tool: Smithsonian Open Access
  • Ant's Good Stuff 1: RIP Katherine Johnson
  • Ant's Good Stuff 2: What My Grandfather Said: Finally Got 'Em
  • Mathew's Stuff: NSA phone surveillance program cost $100 million and yielded one major investigation
  • Jeff's Number: Andreessen Horowitz a16z Marketplace 100

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mathew Ingram

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