Google Is Selling Fake Products - WAN Show July 11, 2025

The WAN Show

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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0:00.0	I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Pamela Anderson.
0:04.2	All thanks to the Dove Self-Eesteem Project.
0:07.1	We speak about the impact Y2K has had on women's body confidence and how Pamela has regained control.
0:12.9	The Dove Self-Esteen project is an amazing initiative supported by science-backed methodology
0:17.8	to help us improve our relationship with our bodies.
0:20.8	To find more
0:21.4	body confidence-building exercises, go to dove.com forward slash Y2K. That's Y2K spelled W.H.Y.2K.
0:29.9	And welcome to the Wend! So we're going to have a great show lined up for you guys this week.
0:34.7	We will be talking about Google's AI overview, apparently selling people
0:39.5	products that in many cases are garbage and in some cases don't even exist, which is pretty
0:46.7	awkward if I do say so myself. In other awkward AI news, are you depressed? Just use AI so you can feel better.
0:57.0	Are you kidding me right now?
0:59.4	What else we got going on this week?
1:01.2	Thieves are giving themselves refunds using POS terminals.
1:04.8	That's very cool.
1:06.4	Also, some of you asked and some of us answered.
1:09.6	The labs did a thing.
1:12.3	There was a Reddit article about if displaying seconds in your system tray uses battery or not.
1:19.3	And we checked it out.
1:21.2	It's not fully conclusive because we didn't, we haven't, battery testing is weird,
1:24.9	we'll talk about it later.
1:27.1	Okay.
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