Check out Episode 255 from April 6, 2022! Here are all the links we discussed in this week’s show:
Twitter is adding an edit button (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to build a new social media platform (Reuters, 26 March 2022)
Trump’s Truth Social app branded a disaster (BBC News, 3 April 2022)
Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Everything (Recode; 5 April 2022)
Get your facts straight with new Google Search fact-checking features (Chrome Unboxed; 31 March 2022)
How Activists Use Social Media for Good — and You Can Too (cNet; 5 April 2022)
Your Digital Footprint: It’s Bigger Than You Realize (cNet; 4 April 2022)
Opinion: Enough failures. We need a federal privacy law. (Washington Post, 30 March 2022)
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok (Washington Post, 30 March)
Windows 11’s refreshed File Explorer gets tabs, favorites, and a new homepage (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
Windows 11’s new meeting features improve eye contact, framing, and background blur (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
You can finally set Chrome as your default browser on Windows 11 with one click again (Chrome Unboxed; 1 April 2022)
Google Docs will start nudging some users to write less dumbly (The Verge; 1 April 2022)
Google Docs to get Grammarly-like features in selected Workspace and EDU tiers (Chrome Unboxed; 1 April 2022)
Google Docs gets expanded Markdown autocorrect support (Chrome Unboxed; 30 March 2022)
Chrome’s Side Panel receiving private notes, Reader Mode to be renamed “Read Anything” (Chrome Unboxed; 5 April 2022)
Google Meet will open the flood gates later this year with new YouTube live streaming feature (Chrome Unboxed; 31 March 2022)
New Google ‘highly cited’ label focuses on tackling misinformation, highlighting original reporting (Mashable, 31 March 2022)
Changes to how file downloads are handled in Firefox version 98 (Mozilla Support Blog)
What we can learn from people who take the Flat Earth theory seriously (Grid News, 4 April 2022)
Jason’s Geek of the Week: 30+ Web-Based Alternatives to Traditional Desktop Apps for Chromebooks and PCs (HowToGeek)
Wes’ Geek of the Week: Preparing Book Creator eBooks to Print on Lulu.com (19 min)
Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:
Elon Musk tweeted his way onto Twitter’s board — now what? (The Verge; 5 April 2022)
Google Meet gets in-meeting reactions, PiP, end-to-end encryption and more (TechCrunch, 31 March 2022)
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