This week, we sue Google, shame Apple and welcome our new chess-playing, finger-breaking, spider-robot vacuum ecommerce overlords. Also: fecal fountains!

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FOLLOW-UP

• Analogue Pocket’s 1.1 update already paying dividends: Jailbreak, Neo Geo core

• Stanford AI experts call BS on claims that Google’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient

NEWS

• Google sued after pulling free Workspace tools for early adopters

• Google tries publicly shaming Apple into adopting RCS

• Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home

• A chess-playing robot broke its seven-year-old opponent's finger

• Scientists turn dead spiders into robots able to grip small objects

• New app can identify 458 bird species by their songs

• Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab

• 8 best gardening apps, so you can stop killing all of your plants

• PictureThis - Plant Identifier

• How Useful Can Bug, Plant, and Bird ID Apps Really Be?

• This Dutch company is creating networks of connected sensors to combat poaching

• She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields

• This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

• Multi-purpose meat cushions, raw and cooked, are now here for ravenous Monster Hunter fans

• Fecal fountains: CDC warns of diarrheal outbreaks linked to poopy splash pads

PICKS

• Lightyear

• Playdate

• Xebec Tri-Screen

PROJECTS

• Level Up 13

• Google Pixel 6a Camera Review and Features