Welcome to the tech meme ride home for Monday August 17th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Why I think regulatory impact for big tech is inevitable. Amazon seems to be sniffing around

rack space, the first mass-produced smartphone with a camera underneath the display,

an ex-Gugler says Google Cloud's deprecation policy is maddening and why you can't watch the movie

Cocoon even if you wanted to.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Let's start today with a sort of regulatory potpourri segment. First, Google is

warning Australians that if the Australian government goes ahead with its plans

to make Google pay for news, content

it services in Google News and on Google Search.

That would end up threatening privacy, free speech, and YouTube generally, quoting the Financial Times.

The U.S. Company has also suspended a news licensing scheme and agreed with some Australian publishers this year,

as it seeks to blunt what the government has described as, quote, world-leading and necessary legislation

aimed at creating a sustainable news media.

We need to let you know about new government regulations that will hurt how Australians use Google search and YouTube.

Google wrote in an open letter signed by its Australia Managing Director Mel Silva

posted online on Monday.

Ms Silva added that the proposed regulation quote would force us to

provide you with a dramatically worse Google search and YouTube could lead to your

data being handed over to big news businesses and would put the free services you use

at risk in Australia." Yeah, wouldn't want your personal data being hovered

up by a big business like Check's Notes Google would you and next Germany's

antitrust authority says it has launched an investigation into Amazon's

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