This Week in Google (Video)

It's not just Google. This Week in Google hosts, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau, cover all of Big Tech every Wednesday. Listeners tune in for thought-provoking and entertaining conversations about AI, Internet memes, the future of media, and the latest emerging tech. You won't want to miss a minute. Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.

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episode 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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 May 28, 2020  2h15m