Google Episodes

The headlines from the Google Cloud Next conference, China seeks to ban cryptominers, why ads on streaming services is the new hotness, and also, why Roblox is the new hotness.Sponsors:Tiny.websiteGetQuip.com/rideLinks:Google Cloud announces 7 open source partners, Seoul and Salt Lake City regions (VentureBeat)Google's hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure (TechCrunch)Google announces Cloud Run for open and portable serverless compute (VentureBeat)China, home to the world’s...

Facebook stops asking people to reveal their email passwords, WhatsApp gives you control over group chats, Google has a credibility problem when it comes to product shutdowns and 5G is kinda, officially here.Sponsors:LogiAnalytics.com/rideMetalab.comLinks:‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords (Daily Beast)Facebook Is Just Casually Asking Some New Users for Their Email Passwords (Gizmodo)Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords (Axios)...

The price of bitcoin soars, but is it for real? Walmart wants to let you shop with your voice, Andreessen Horowitz shakes up VC (again) and a scathing look at YouTube’s algorithm problems.Sponsors:Metalab.coLogiAnalytics.com/rideLinks:Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst (Reuters)April Fools: Traders Chase Another Unexplainable Bitcoin Rally (Bloomberg)Report: ICOs Raised $118 Million in Q1 2019, Over 58 Times Less Than in Q1 2018 (CoinTelegraph)Walmart Unveils Voi...

Gmail celebrates an appropriate April Fool’s anniversary, the winners from the Lyft IPO, Mark Zuckerberg asks for regulation and food tech has delivered a meatless Whopper™.Sponsors:PaintYourLife.com: Text the word TECH to 48-48-48Metalab.coLinks:Google launches Gmail message scheduling and expands Smart Compose to more devices and languages (VentureBeat) New Facebook tool answers the question 'Why am I seeing this post?' (TechCrunch)The biggest winners of Lyft’s $24 billion IPO (Qua...

Google’s gaming service is called Stadia, the iMac lineup gets an update, Instagram ads in-app shopping, Intel wants to build an exascale computer and Y Combinator’s Demo Day, Day 1.Sponsors:DataDogHQ.com/RideHomeMetalab.coLinks:Google Stadia announced, a game streaming service for Chrome, Android, and TVs (9to5Google)Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service, launches in 2019 (The Verge)Stadia, Google’s gaming platform, changed the rules of the console wars (Polygon)Apple Updates ...

Take-aways from all the hands-on reports with the new Samsung Galaxy S10 phones, hands-OFF reports about the Galaxy Fold, Apple teams up with Goldman Sachs on a new credit card, YouTube faces yet another scandal running ads on horrible content, and a look at how law enforcement grabbing location data from Google using "reverse location search warrants."Sponsors:DataDogHQ.com/ridehomeCastro Podcast AppLinks:Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ hands-on (Engadget) You can remap the Bixby button ...

Turns out Google poked Apple in the eye also, layoffs hit Vice, Amazon reports earnings and reports that a ton of people responded to that minimum wage hike, and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:DataDogHQ.com/ridehomeTiny.websiteLinks:Apple restores Google's internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment (TechCrunch)Twitter removed some accounts originating in Iran, Russia and Venezuela that targeted U.S. midterm election (The Washington Post)Vice Media to R...

Now we know why Google has gone so big at CES: they want to put Assistant in everything, the first foldable phone arrives at CES, Twitter wants to show you only half of an NBA game, and Marc Zuckerberg wants to host his own version of a podcast, I guess. Sponsors:go.bitrise.io/rideMetalab.coLinks:GOOGLE’S PLAN TO TAKE ON ALEXA: NEW FEATURES, NEW DEVICES, AND A TROJAN HORSE (The Verge)The world’s first foldable phone is charmingly awful (The Verge)Twitter hopes you want to watch NBA gam...

Google presses pause on that Chinese search project, what’s delaying Facebook’s Clear History project, AT&T’s 5G goes live and Audi unveils its autonomous vehicle ambitions.Sponsors:FlatironSchool.com/podcastMetalab.co

Mr. Pichai goes to Washington, another bug prompts Google to kill Google+ even sooner, Keurig for beer makes no sense, and Doom turns 25.Sponsors:DataDogHQ.com/ridehomeTiny.websiteFlatironSchool.com/podcastLinks:Google moves up Google+ consumer shutdown to April 2019 (VentureBeat)Uber customers and drivers are furious after a major outage causes all kinds of issues (BusinessInsider)Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source (Pew Research Center)Fintech start-up Plaid rai...

Amazon gets into self-driving cars… in a way, Google Assistant adds some familiar features, YouTube rolls out Stories, and WTF is happening in Crypto?Stories from: @RolfeWinklerTweets: @CrankGameplays, @SavinTheBeesLinks:Amazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learning (TechCrunch)New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive (WSJ)An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands (Recode)Google Assistant gets...

The biggest ad fraud ever? Amazon gets into medical records, Project Fi comes to iPhones, one of Elon’s LA tunnels is canceled, and the Big Mouth Billy Bass enters the 21st Century.Links:8 People Are Facing Charges As A Result Of The FBI’s Biggest-Ever Ad Fraud Investigation (BuzzFeed)Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health (WSJ)Project Fi is now Google Fi, and it will work with iPhones and most Android devices (The Verge)Waymo taps former NTSB chair to oversee safety of self-driving ride-sh...

Why was Google’s traffic routed from Nigeria through China, Ford partners with Walmart on driverless cars, Amazon’s HQ2 stunt seems to be backfiring, and Uber gets a customer loyalty program.Links:Nigerian firm takes blame for routing Google traffic through China (Reuters)Exclusive: Snap reveals U.S. subpoenas on IPO disclosures (Reuters)Ford partners with Walmart and Postmates to test autonomous grocery delivery (TechCrunch)A STARTUP IS SETTING DRONES FREE BY TYING THEM TO THE GROUND (Wi...

Google employees stage a walk-out protest around the globe, Vox swallows Recode, the new devices this week continue Apple’s push to increase ASP, and maybe it’s subscriptions that are eating the world.Stories from: @rustybrick, @benlovejoyTweets: @lizthegrey, @ingridlundenLinks:Google walkout: Pictures of Google workers leaving their desks in protest over sexual misconduct (Business Insider)Recode Tech and Media Website to Be Folded Into Vox.com (WSJ)New MacBook Air threatens both MacBoo...

How Google paid Andy Rubin on his way out the door despite allegations of sexual misconduct, Uber Eats and the rise of virtual restaurants, Kickstarter sunsets its Drip service but plans a nice replacement, and older people are worse than younger people at telling fact from opinion.Links:How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (New York Times)Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire (Bloomberg)A New Approach to Our Work on Drip (Kickstarter Blog)Kickstarter to End Drip, Fund New P...

Facebook makes a hire that makes British Twitter laugh, here’s how much Google’s going to charge for Android, Google wants China but does China want Google and the Weekend Longreads suggestions.Links:Facebook Hires Nick Clegg, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, as Head of Global Affairs and Communications, to Succeed Elliot Schrage (Financial Times)Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo)Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-...

The big Made By Google event, follow up on that Google+ bug, WeChat is willing to debunk rumors for you and Saudi Arabia doubles down on Masa Son.Links:First look at Google’s Pixel 3 and 3 XL (The Verge)Exclusive: iPad Pro Face ID details, 4K HDR video over USB-C, AirPods-like Apple Pencil 2 pairing, more (9to5Mac)Google, Exposures, and Breaches; Was Google Wrong?; The Political Considerations (Stratechery)Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (Bloomberg)Some adver...

Google has a data scandal and it's a doozy. Facebook portal is real, a Microsoft streaming gaming service is real, next generation Intel chips are manifest, no one knows what to believe in that blockbuster Bloomberg story, and how the Internet Archive works.Links:Facebook launches Portal auto-zooming video chat screens for $199/$349 (TechCrunch)THE NEW AMAZON ECHO SHOW’S IMPROVED SCREEN AND BETTER SPEAKERS AREN’T ENOUGH (The Verge)Microsoft’s xCloud service streams Xbox games to PCs, conso...

More signs of drama inside Google, how Apple cleared the new Apple Watches through the FDA, how the Weather Channel made that insane flooding video, and the weekend longreads suggestions. Links:Google Employees Are Quitting Over The Company’s Secretive China Search Project (Buzzfeed News)Google’s internal political battles keep spilling out into the public (The Verge)The new heart-monitoring capabilities on the Apple Watch aren’t all that impressive (Quartz)iPhone XS Max and Apple Watch Series 4...

The fallout from the Apple event, Google kills another beloved product, the Nintendo Switch online service comes online, and where in the World is Larry Page? Links:The iPhone Franchise (Stratechery)Making sense of the most confusing new iPhone lineup ever (Fast Company)Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye (Fact Company)The Nintendo Switch online service is launching on September 18th (The Verge)How Procore Built The Cloud’s Hottest Unicorn By Bringing Software To Lo...

A bunch of new laptops from Dell, Amazon might jump into the free tv game, Google updates Wear OS, and why the world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in plain site since 1995. Links:Dell tempts Pixelbook lovers with premium $599 Inspiron Chromebook 14 (ArsTechnica)Dell shows its fall lineup of Alexa-ready Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro laptops and 2-in-1s (VentureBeat)Amazon Plans New Video App, Latest Step Into TV Ad Market (The Information)Google is revamping the Wear OS smartwatch user interfac...

President Trump accuses Google of rigged search results, Instagram updates its identity systems, Yahoo scans your mail for marketing purposes, BuzzFeed tests memberships and the rarest Apple device in the world comes to auction. Links:You can now apply to be verified in Instagram (The Verge)Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers (WSJ)Toyota Investing $500 Million in Uber in Driverless-Car Pact (WSJ)AutoX is using its self-driving vehicles to deliver groceries (TechCru...

Is Google tracking you even when you tell it not to? Big executive departure at Netflix, Elon expounds on taking Telsa private, and how machine learning can identify devs simply by the way they code. Links:Lenovo Launches Ultra-Thin ThinkPad P1: X1 Carbon Meets Workstation (AnAndTech)EVEN ANONYMOUS CODERS LEAVE FINGERPRINTS (Wired)Update on Taking Tesla Private (Tesla)China has outspent the US by $24 billion in 5G technology since 2015, study shows (CNBC)An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Flo...

Google has a secret plan to return to China, the Apple earnings analysis, Masayoshi Son goes “Brandless” and in praise of microfilm! Links:GOOGLE PLANS TO LAUNCH CENSORED SEARCH ENGINE IN CHINA, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL (The Intercept)Apple tops 300 million paid subscriptions as it reportedly preps new subscription services (Digiday)This No-Brand Startup Won $240 Million to Fight Amazon on Price and Quality (Bloomberg)Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (The Atlantic)