This Week's Stories

• Should Jason Howell delete all his old emails?
• Breaking News: Twitter bans political ads
• Google struggling with transparency issues
• Google will buy Fitbit: will this save WearOS?
• Moto 360 will relaunch in 2019
• Apple gains in wearables, loses in iPhones
• Advances in hearing aids
• Google earnings
• Amazon Fresh makes grocery delivery free for Prime Members
• Stacey explains Google's BERT "Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers"
• Carriers gang up to serve RCS
• Jason Howell's Pixel 4 Review
• Google brings .new to the web
• Andrew explains .new
• Ant's modeling pictures
• Google Maps the Kincade fire
• Google finally kills flash
• Facebook News tab includes Breitbart
• Netflix tests variable speed
• Hellvetica is the evilest font

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: Twinkly lights
• Ant's Inspirations: Breast Cancer Awareness Month and North Carolina Central University's Nothing But the Arts
• Jeff's Numbers: The Internet at 50, How much time @Jack spends on Twitter, and The Precautionary Principle
• Jason's Tool: Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell

Guest: Andrew Allemann

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