TWiG 561: Lions vs. Gazelles

• Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies
• Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less
• Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco
• California's anti-freelancer law under attack
• Switzerland: companies must pay rent for their employees who are working from home
• Google employees get a day off on May 22nd
• Twitter labels Trump tweet about mail-in-ballots "Get the facts," Trump threatens to shut down all social media
• Half of the tweets calling to "reopen America" are made by bots
• Pixel 4a not coming out until July 13th
• We are strip-mining the US economy, especially in the news business
• Google launches a podcast about Google
• CBS buys Some Good News, but won't get John Krasinski
• Prime Day moving to September
• Amazon launching local podcasts. Everybody else is launching podcasts, as well
• US court rules that FBI can't look at your phone's lock screen without a warrant
• Electric Taste Machine
• Electric Smell Machine
• Magic Leap stays alive, gets $350 Million- Google discontinues first Google Home
• Taco Bell doesn't want to pay Quibi for their ads, because nobody is watching
• HBO Max launches today, to the confusion of everyone
• What kind of Zoom user are you? Every Zoom user, illustrated by cats

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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