Google: Breaking Laws and Killing Chromecasts

A lot happened this week! First, Marques, Andrew, and David talk about NVIDIA scraping YouTube videos before jumping into a new iOS feature that lets you get rid of ads on websites. Then, it's all about Google. David goes over the new Google TV and Nest thermostat before talking about the news that Google has been declared a monopoly by the DOJ. After that, Adam introduces a new segment before wrapping it up with trivia. Let us know what you think! Enjoy.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:08 NVIDIA Training Models with YouTube Videos
10:21 iOS Thanos Snap
20:20 Trivia Question
22:46 Netsuite (Sponsored)
24:53 Life360 (Sponsored)
25:54 New Google Nest Devices
58:57 Google is a Monopoly!
01:07:07 Trivia Question
01:07:49 Shopify (Sponsored)
01:08:50 Meta AI (Sponsored)
01:09:52 Two out of Three Ain't Bad
01:23:41 Trivia Answers

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[josekuriakosemanathara]

How to check if it's a Friday?
- check the calendar ❌
- waveform just dropped a video ✅

[karankedia]

David: Hates on podcasts what put ads in between...
Marques: Here's an ad.

[DiamondMaster]

I wouldn't skip the integrations if they weren't Meta AI ads...

[tobeess]

David forgetting what AMD is should be top 10 best moments of the year. 🤣🤣

[Kwezi_]

“It’s crazy to talk to people who live in houses” 47:30

[OldManGeezuz]

Happy Friday! Fyi but Arc/eArc is different from cec.

eArc is for soundbar features like better lip syncing and higher bandwidth. It’s usually only on one labeled port.

Cec is for controlling hdmi devices. Usually on all ports.

Cheers!

[just_mdd]

- I think about the Waveform Podcast
- I get a notification on my phone
- 🤯

[Flor-ian]

Can’t wait till the AI hallucinates that my house got broken into while I’m at work

[GimmeTaxShelter]

eARC and ARC are about controlling the sending the sound through HDMI (and lets you control it with your TV). Y’all are thinking of HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) which isn’t exclusive to ARC.

Also some remotes (Fire TV for example) have an IR blaster that controls the TV, working essentially as a universal remote.

[xliquidflames]

13:37 Now, if someone could just do something about having to accept or reject cookies every single website I visit, we might have a somewhat usable web again.

[burnhamrobertp]

"Using a video to train an AI" and "watching the video" aren't even fundamentally the same thing. The commercial use of a video without license is a problem as old as time, the issue is that this is a new problem not yet well defined by the law.

[mattjgraham]

So happy to see the notification alert for the waveform! It's the weekend starter in the UK guys!! And of course, it starts with the awesome waveform :)

[Absquatulationist]

"Most of it has zero views" i feel personally attacked 😂

[mrabduh]

I'm glad that what artist suffer for few years from scraping their arts finally happening to other people so other people understand the struggle and the fights

[darknesswithin]

This is first time we are have THREE ads in a row. Genius for a massive meta pun and this episode.

[MichalBrat]

Guys, there are browser extensions that skip the integrated ads for you. They are free and work like magic. Parts that are to be skipped are crowdsourced, no AI needed.

[abdulsharif]

I suggest you randomly make special episodes specifically for scrapers but in these videos you teach how to download ram from browser, hack nasa with html and more meme related misinformation

[MichaelKovalev]

Me screaming Nvidia at David during the first Trivia question

[elcosoccer]

For the section about TVs and HDMI eARC, you wouldn’t have to plug the Google TV, or any streaming device for that matter, into the eARC. Any HDMI will work just fine to power the TV on using the streaming box remote so long as the TV has HDMI-CEC, which most if not all modern TVs do. Hope this helps, love your videos and this

[MichaelBTech]

Watching the Olympics or Playoff sports in multiview is the best experience. It makes it so much better than switching between channels on Google TV.