TWiG 561: Lions vs. Gazelles - Google Offices Re-Open, Trump vs Twitter

Google reopening offices for some workers on June 6th, people working from home will get $1000 for furniture and office supplies

Zuckerberg: Facebook employees can work from home, but if you move somewhere cheaper, we'll pay you less

Big Tech work-from-home workers can buy these Montana mansions for less than a 1-bedroom in San Francisco

California's anti-freelancer law under attack

Switzerland: companies must pay rent for their employees who are working from home

Google employees get a day off on May 22nd

Twitter labels Trump tweet about mail-in-ballots "Get the facts," Trump threatens to shut down all social media

Half of the tweets calling to "reopen America" are made by bots

Pixel 4a not coming out until July 13th

We are strip-mining the US economy, especially in the news business

Google launches a podcast about Google

CBS buys Some Good News, but won't get John Krasinski

Prime Day moving to September

Amazon launching local podcasts. Everybody else is launching podcasts, as well

US court rules that FBI can't look at your phone's lock screen without a warrant

Electric Taste Machine

Electric Smell Machine

Magic Leap stays alive, gets $350 Million- Google discontinues first Google Home

Taco Bell doesn't want to pay Quibi for their ads, because nobody is watching

HBO Max launches today, to the confusion of everyone

What kind of Zoom user are you? Every Zoom user, illustrated by cats

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