Double Decker Tech Dose: Hurricanes, Ice Cream, and AI

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In this episode: 

• Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing
• Hurricane Helene takes out 370 cell towers; 103 on backup power
• Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Will Restart to Power Microsoft AI
• You can get an at-home flu ‘shot’ starting next year
• Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleging trespassing near Texas border
• Uber Caught Overcharging? How Having Credits in Your Account Might Be Costing You
• Biden proposes banning Chinese vehicles, 'connected car' technology from US roads
• ​​California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars
• "That's crazy" - Fans react as tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee launches $50 per year wallpaper app for iOS and Android
• Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password
• Disney+ Is Cracking Down on Password Sharing, but Here’s How to Do It Anyway
• ​​Your mom can now set you Fortnite time limits
• Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too
• OpenAI Raises $6.6 Billion in Funding at $157 Billion Valuation
• Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name
• Meta fined $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext
• Space startup seeks to solve solar power's daylight problem

Weird and Wacky: 

• Everyone's making fun of Tesla's photos of a Cybertruck parking lot
• Warlord Straight Out of "Mad Max" Says Elon Musk Remotely Shut Down His Cybertruck
•  Finally, A Flying Car(t) - The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere
• Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
• College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
• Stolen Ferrari worth $575,000 was found by tracking the owner’s AirPods

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Inovelli
• Adam - Review of Sunsama

Find us here:

• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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