This Week's Stories

• Android 10 arrives for Pixel phones
• YouTube pays $170 Million to settle child privacy complaints
• Google secretly gives your personal data to advertisers using cookie syncing
• Ad tech will destroy podcasting as we know it
• Half of all state Attorneys General probing Google
• Social Media #ChickenSandwichWars wipe out US chicken supplies
• Google Sidewalk Labs teams up with Ontario teachers to finance infrastructure projects
• USB 4 - a standard, or a "standard"?
• XKCD.com hacked!
• Are filter bubbles real, and does Google abuse them? (No and no)
• Facebook tests hiding likes
• Dorian tweets
• Are Chromebooks dying too young?
• Jack hacked! Hitgirl too! Twitter responds by killing SMS tweeting.
• Gmail can now warn co-workers not to send you email while you're on vacation

Picks of the Week

• Stacey's Thing: YourThings from Georgia Tech and UNC
• Jeff's Numbers: Project Jaquard's $877 Backpack Strap, and $70 off Facebook Portal

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham

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