<ul> <li>Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more</li> <li>Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time</li> <li>Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising</li> <li>Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices</li> <li>Google using AI to generate key points in web pages</li> <li>Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results</li> <li>YouTube cracking down on videos promoting ineffective cancer cures</li> <li>Google Photos getting AI-powered auto-generated titles and organization</li> <li>Google Slides enabling presenters to draw and annotate while presenting</li> <li>Changes coming to YouTube Shorts, including blocking links to combat spam</li> <li>Google's hotel for employees during COVID now offering discounted rates as they push back towards in-office work</li> <li>California allowing self-driving cars to operate in San Francisco 24/7, leading to traffic jams</li> <li>Google eliminating many of its private label consumer product brands due to poor sales and distrust</li> <li>Internet Archive being sued by record labels for digitizing and hosting out of print 78rpm records</li> <li>Update on researcher Joan Donovan's firing from Harvard and new role at Boston University</li> <li>Proposal for new rules regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act</li> <li>Analysis of surveillance capitalism and its effects on society</li> <li>Discussion on public distrust of medical institutions and ""elite"" doctors</li> <li>Speculation on Elon Musk's erratic behavior on Twitter including visiting Mark Zuckerberg's house</li> <li>Review of the movie Oppenheimer and how its portrayal connects to the ethical dilemmas of technology</li> <li>Several lighter topics including bollards on Twitter, introducing grandparents to TikTok, and AI-generated poetry</li></ul> <p>Picks:</p><ul> <li>Stacey - Homey Pro</li> <li>Jeff - She introduced Grandpa to TikTok</li> <li>Ant - Better Smartphone Photography with Lisa Carney at Donner Lake</li> <li>Ant - In-Person or Online: How You Can Support Maui Wildfire Relief</li></ul> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis">Jeff Jarvis</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/stacey-higginbotham">Stacey Higginbotham</a>, and <a href="https://twit.tv/people/ant-pruitt">Ant Pruitt</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google</a>.</p> <p>Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at <a href="https://twit.tv/clubtwit" rel="payment">https://twit.tv/clubtwit</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong><ul> <li><a href="http://GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT</a></li> <li><a href="http://podtail.com/podcast/building-cyber-resilience" target="_blank" rel="sponsored">Building Cyber Resilience Podcast</a></li> </ul></p>
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Published: 2023-08-16 19:57:24