TWiG 561: Lions vs. Gazelles - Google Offices Re-Open, Trump vs Twitter
Publisher |
TWiT TV
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Tech News
Technology
Publication Date |
May 28, 2020
Episode Duration |
02:15:44

This Week in Google (Audio)

  • 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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