TWiG 605: Sausage Fingers - Clubhouse clones, Google data collection, Substack alternatives, Google Stack

• How a full moon and a 'huge lever' helped free Ever Given from Suez canal
• Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom
• LinkedIn confirms it's working on a Clubhouse rival, too
• Spotify enters live social audio with acquisition of Locker Room
• The Unofficial Twitter Spaces FAQ
• Discord's new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
• Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It's Now Valued at $1 Billion
• Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
• Google testing Memory as add-on to assistant: combination of to-do list, notes app, reading list, Pinterest
• Google Stack, to organize your (paper) documents
• Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
• Don't shun Dr. Google — researching mysterious symptoms online is actually a good idea, study finds
• T-Mobile is betting big on Google's Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and more
• HoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion deal
• Google canceling April Fools' Day jokes for the second year in a row
• Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility
• Amazing Icelandic volcano drone footage
• Twitter's 'unofficial mayor' Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment
• You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango
• Facebook sets reopening date for S.F., Bay Area offices, with no free food and no transit
• Google: Some workers are likely to return to U.S. offices in April
• Periscope shuts down today
• Socially distanced dance troupe
• Sources: Google's next wireless earbuds are the 'Pixel Buds A'
• Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps
• Google Meet extending 'unlimited' video calls for free Gmail accounts to June
• Google TV rolling out 'Kids Profiles' to Chromecast now
• Say "Hey Google..." to the new Fiat 500 Family
• YouTube tests hiding dislike counts in response to targeted campaigns, improve wellbeing
• Verizon will shut down its 3G network in 2022
• I Like That The Boat Is Stuck

Picks:

• Mike - Hey World
• Mike - AeroPress Go
• Mike - ImprovedTube
• Jeff - SHARGE: World Smallest 65W 3-Port Laptop & USB Wall Charger
• Ant - I Created Some Lightroom and Capture One Presets

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt

Guest: Mike Elgan

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