TWiG 560: Beer and Shoes - IoT Predicted Covid-19, Spotify Buys Joe Rogan
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TWiT TV
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audio
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News
Tech News
Technology
Publication Date |
May 21, 2020
Episode Duration |
02:12:33

This Week in Google (Audio)

  • Why didn't IoT predict COVID-19 and how it can help in the future
  • Zoom vs StreamYard vs HopIn.to vs Whereby vs ZoomCast
  • Google bans Podcast Addict for hosting COVID podcasts - back now
  • Super Spreaders and Covid-19
  • Spotify buys Joe Rogan podcast for $100 Million
  • New York Times builds its own ad network
  • Apple and Google release coronavirus contact tracing API
  • Google is making a new Nest Hub Max interface for Senior Centers
  • Facebook launches Shops to compete with Amazon and Rooms to compete with Zoom
  • Amazon gives T-shirts to all the employees whose pay they are cutting
  • Walmart kills Jet.com after buying it for $3.4 billion
  • Rumor: Amazon will buy JCPenney
  • First species discovered on Twitter eats millipede genitals
  • Twitter tests a way to limit who can reply to your tweets
  • Google tests touch-sensitive headphone wires
  • Google Buds vs Galaxy Buds vs Surface Buds
  • Google fights back against accusations that it has cut diversity programs
  • IFA will be live this year - 5,000 attendees only
  • USA vs Huawei vs Apple
  • B8ta launches Shopsafely.co to rate retailer safety
  • Protocol is the new GigaOm
  • The new work-from-home calculus - when will big tech workers go back?
  • Microsoft Build news: RTOS, Fluid Framework, and Azure supercomputers

Picks of the Week

  • Leo's Tool: Hugo
  • Leo's Tool 2: SpaceX ISS Docking Simulator
  • Stacey's Thing: Level Lock
  • Stacey's Thing 2: Machine Learning at the Edge Virtual Conference
  • Jeff's Number: WeWork value falls from $47b to $3b

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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