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On this week's episode, Google makes a (few) appearances prior to its October 4th event. Also, Chris has a new addition to announce!  This week's Five Favorites:  1. Nest’s home security system costs $499 and comes with magnetic door sensors [The Verge] 2. Meet The Really Cheap Google Home Mini and the really expensive Chromebook Pixel 3 [ARS Technica] 3. Bose adds Google Assistant to top noise-canceling headphone [CNet] 4. Apple Watch Series 3 has LTE problems: How to cancel your preorder [VentureBeat] 5. Hot Topic: Why Google is spending $1.1 billion to ‘acqhire’ 2,000 HTC engineers [Recode] Honorable Mention(s) Netflix Sent the Best Cease-and-Desist Letter to This Unauthorized Stranger Things Bar DISHonorable Mention(s) Facebook’s reliance on software algorithms keeps getting the company into trouble Five Favorites' Tweet(s) of The Week  @HamillHimself Suggested by Martin Lieberman  Use the hashtag #FiveFavorites to share YOUR favorite stories each and every week - and YOU may be includ