On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss recent happenings at Twitter, Apple’s housing project, YouTube’s redesign and new smartphone apps from Google that are supposed to make you use your smartphone less. J.D. also takes a look at the current state of mobile wallet apps. All this and more on PTJ 321!
- Google Weighs Changes to Political Ad Policy (The Wall Street Journal)
- Twitter Topics: follow subjects automatically in the timeline (The Verge)
- Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia (The New York Times)
- These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake (BuzzFeed News)
- T-Mobile promises consumer benefits if Sprint deal OK’d (Associated Press)
- If You Got a Strange Text Last Night, Here’s Why (Popular Mechanics)
- Introducing a fresh new look for YouTube on desktop and tablets (Official YouTube Blog)
- YouTube’s homepage redesign focuses on usability, giving you control over recommendations (TechCrunch)
- Adobe Exec Defends Photoshop for iPad After App Falls Flat (Bloomberg)
- Adobe is launching a free AI-powered Photoshop Camera app (The Verge)
- Apple commits $2.5 billion to combat housing crisis in California (Apple)
- The Microsoft HoloLens 2 ships today for $3,500 (The Verge)
- Google’s New Anti-Smartphone Apps, Ranked (Gizmodo)
- How to Get the Most Out of Your Digital Wallet (The New York Times)
