Episode 143: Ostensibly Helpful, But Actually Dangerous

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about things that are ostensibly helpful, but actually dangerous: robotic tutors, voice modulators, autocomplete, and the hellscape of Android VPN apps

• Creeper sauce is back!
• Gunnar can’t wait for the delivery of his Tom Bihn Tristar
• Human vs. robot ping pong
• Hushme Lets You Talk On The Phone Privately While Pretending To Be Bane
• Researchers Issue Security Warnings About Several Popular Android VPN Apps
• The browser setting everyone should turn off now
• Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward?
• Network Television Stations Speed Up TV Shows to Fit in More Ads
• Couch to 5K, RunKeeper, and the value of chains

Cutting Room Floor

• Recreating Asteroids with open source and a laser projector
• We can now 3D print Slinkys
• Robot Solves Sudoku on Paper
• AI Move Poster Generator
• Create Hilarious Fake Inspirational Messages With InspiroBot
• New paint colors invented by neural network
• Metal band names invented by neural network
• Neural networks can name guinea pigs
• Princeton students after a freshman vs. sophomores snowball fight, 1893
• A Virtual Machine, in Google Sheets

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!