This Week in Google

TWiG 704: Ensconced in Felt - Section 230 in the Supreme Court, Google from the inside, Meta "verified"

Hinzugefügt: 23. Februar 2023

Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.
Quick Debrief on the Gonzalez v. Google Oral...

TWiG 703: Spicy Autocomplete - writeGPT, Privacy Sandbox, Musk's Twitter firing, Radio Garden

Hinzugefügt: 16. Februar 2023

Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it.
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.
Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a...

TWiG 702: Lion Around - Shift Happens Kickstarter, ChatGPT powered Bing, Google Bard AI, Bret Taylor

Hinzugefügt: 9. Februar 2023

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary.
Matias Tactile Pro.
I Tried Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same.
Google unveils its own ChatGPT-like AI...

TWiG 701: Bring Me a Leaf Blower - ChatGPT and Bing, Samsung Unpacked 2023, Clear Calling demo, Artifact

Hinzugefügt: 2. Februar 2023

AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch 'TV Show' Is Peak Absurdity.
ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.
Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with...

TWiG 700: Impecunious Mods - Google job cuts, ChatGPT malware, To Leslie, AmazonSmile to close

Hinzugefügt: 26. Januar 2023

Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs.
Interview with Richard Hay.
Google Slashes Jobs at Incubator Area 120 as Part of Cuts.
Meta to Reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts....

TWiG 699: Blame it on the Tesla - Google to SCOTUS, Google Images

Hinzugefügt: 19. Januar 2023

Twitter Auction Complete
Twitter is blocking third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific
Sawyer Merritt on Twitter: "Boston Dynamics shows of their robots latest skills
Tesla staged 2016...

TWiG 698: Hands Off My Pound Cake! - ChatGPT Microsoft investment, Tesla crashes, FAA outage, Afroman raid

Hinzugefügt: 12. Januar 2023

Stadia player count hinted at by Destiny 2 figures.
The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony.
KSK Key Signing Ceremony (16 Jun 10).
Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy...

TWiG 697: Don't Track Me, Bro - CES 2022, Meta EU mega-fine, facial recognition arrest, Shift Happens

Hinzugefügt: 5. Januar 2023

This Device Will Not Let You LOL Unless You Mean It.
The Mutalk Microphone Seals Your Voice In Virtual Reality.
Bird Buddy's new smart hummingbird feeder can photograph and identify 350 different...

TWiG 696: The Best of 2022 - Some of the most memorable moments from throughout the year

Hinzugefügt: 28. Dezember 2022

How Has Google FAILED at Messaging So Badly?
MORAL PANIC!!!
Hair and makeup.
FLoC Is OUT, Topics Takes Its Place.
Some Dude Hacked North Korea.
Mazda Infotainment Systems Bricked By Radio...

TWiG 695: The Airing of Grievances - Point-E, Public Domain day 2023, IoT and consent, John Carmack

Hinzugefügt: 22. Dezember 2022

Life Expectancy by occupation for people with a wikipedia page.
How Influencers Hype Crypto, Without Disclosing Their Financial Ties.
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models.
On...

TWiG 694: The Fifty Shades of Stacey - Manu Cornet talks Twitter and art, Microsoft's Activision deal, Goblin Mode

Hinzugefügt: 15. Dezember 2022

"I thought I'd been hacked. It turned out I'd been fired": tales of a Twitter engineer.
Elon Musk booed by crowd after Dave Chappelle brings him on stage at comedy gig.
How Manu feels about the...

TWiG 693: The Best Part is the Grease - ChatGPT demo, Twitter HQ bedrooms, Neuralink animal abuse, TikTok best of the year, ChromeOS 108

Hinzugefügt: 8. Dezember 2022

The founder of Craigslist on giving away his money, whether billionaires should exist, and why so many of our plutocrats lose their mind.
S.F. officials investigating allegedly illegal bedrooms at...

TWiG 692: Alex Stamos - Is TikTok a threat, Twitter's Chinese porn spam, 2024 election disinformation

Hinzugefügt: 1. Dezember 2022

Introducing Alex Stamos.
Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests.
How did Alex get into security?
Alex's Joe Sullivan story.
How COVID impacted teens and social...

TWiG 691: Maureen and Bab's Tea Room - Leap second, FTX deepfake, Musk vs Swisher, Post.news, Alexa struggling

Hinzugefügt: 24. November 2022

I Was the Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. This Is What Could Become of It.
Musk, journalist Kara Swisher trade barbs.
Warner: Parents should be 'very concerned' about TikTok.
Elon Musk and...

TWiG 690: Search For Hardcore - FTX celebrity fallout, Musk's Twitter purge, goodbye Protocol, palette.fm

Hinzugefügt: 17. November 2022

Larry David, Tom Brady, Stephen Curry, Other Celebs Sued Over FTX Crypto Exchange Collapse.
Stars Likely to Be More Careful in Ads After Lloyd Bridges Case.
Taylor Swift ticket meltdown sparks...

TWiG 689: Rusticated and Rectified - Blue vs grey checkmarks, Meta layoffs, FTX Binance collapse, Google One VPN

Hinzugefügt: 10. November 2022

Twitter vs Mastodon.
Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts.
Here's how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks.
identi.ca
Meta Lays...

TWiG 688: Hundo Milo - Musk takes over Twitter, FCC says ban TikTok, Roblox virtual clothing class

Hinzugefügt: 3. November 2022

Elon Musk is negotiating his new Twitter fees in real time with Stephen King.
Ad giant IPG advises brands to pause Twitter spending after Musk takeover.
Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine...

TWiG 687: Rabble Rousing - Inside Planetary and Scuttlebutt, Mr. Beast, Shutterstock AI imagery, Chief TWiT

Hinzugefügt: 27. Oktober 2022

Interview with Rabble.
How Odeo turned into Twitter.
What did Rabble do before Odeo?
What did Rabble learn at TXTmob that came over to Twitter?
Why Jaiku was so cool.
What did Rabble work on...

TWiG 686: Indoctrinized and Radicalated - Ye to buy Parler, Musk's absolute Twitter control, Bluesky roadmap

Hinzugefügt: 20. Oktober 2022

- Kanye West is buying 'free speech platform' Parler.
- Court blocks Texas social media law from taking effect.
- Musk Will Have Absolute Control Over Twitter, Documents Show.
- I have seen the...

TWiG 685: Only on Thursdays - Pixel 7 Pro and Pixel Watch, Meta Quest Pro, Passkey support, Google Looker

Hinzugefügt: 13. Oktober 2022

Andy Warhol's portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown.
Communia Copyright recommendations.
Google unveils Pixel 7 Pro with Tensor G2 processor, starts...