Andy is back for a special weekend episode! Andy will discuss Google's new responsibilities to the public and its employees and whether Google's promise to limit the spread of disinformation will extend to the White House.
We're stuck at home. You're stuck at home. There's nothing else to do right now, so tune in and listen up.
We talk about Verily's Project Baseline and why it's unnerving that the US government is relying on private companies to conduct testing for COVID-19. We also mourn the cancellation of Google I/O and wonder how conferences will exist going forward.
Andy sysadmins his brain; parts of the Android 11 developer preview released last week aren’t previews at all, and how on Earth is Sweyn Forkbeard going to influence my life when 11 ships?
Andy does this one solo for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that Flo's baby was due this week! The first developer preview of Android 11 drops! And! Andy lied earlier because Flo TOTALLY had her baby!
Flo and Andy fiddle with Android TV boxes while the Essential Phone burns. Then they talk about Samsung Unpacked, and marvel in hopeful disbelief that new Galaxy Z Flip could be the first folding phone that can't be reviewed with an economical “LOL NO.”
We talk all the juicy details of Google's Q4 2019 earnings call, along with what happened during the Great Google Photos Data Swap of 2019. We'll also reminisce about the days of one-hour photo processing thanks to Google Photos' new print service.
Flo and Andy report on why Google backtracked its search engine redesign before diving into the viability of the company's "Going Green" initiative. We'll then squee about Google I/O and encourage you to try out the latest digital wellbeing experiments.
Andy and Flo dive into the controversial design changes of Google's search results, Sundar Pichai's call for regulation of artificial intelligence, and why Google "gets away with so much."
We'll tackle why Alphabet's Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, stepped down from the company, as well as the implications of Google having unfettered access to medical records. We'll also muse a bit about Samsung's new "industrial" mid-range phone.