240: Backtracking and Forward-thinking

Flo and Andy report on why Google backtracked on its search engine redesign before diving into the viability of the company's "Going Green" initiative. We'll then squee for a bit about Google I/O this spring, and encourage you to try out the latest digital wellbeing experiments. Put your phone down! (After you listen to our podcast, of course.)

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• ~ 25:15: Kate Brandt, Google's Sustainability Officer pledges that the company will become "carbon negative"

• Congress urges Google to act against "dangerous climate misinformation" on YouTube

• Google is trying to poach Amazon's climate-protesting employees

• ~ 43:30: Google I/O dates for 2020: May 12-14 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View

• Google Research introduced "Meena," a human-like chatbot "that can chat about anything"

• ~ 1:03:30: New Google digital wellbeing experiment has you put your phone in an envelope that limits its use to just phone calls