Episode 19: Postal Gigs Amazon Forest Chat Corner Spies Default

In this episode we talk about:

• The US Postal Service employing autonomous vehicles
• How you can help make detailed 3D driving maps and get paid
• Amazon launching a delivery service, delivering to your trunk or in your house, and trying to get the .amazon top-level-domain
• AOL Instant Messenger is shutting down
• Researchers have figured out a way to see around corners
• Israel figured out that U.S. secrets were being leaked to the Russians via Kaspersky
• An Australia defense contractor lost 30 gigs of classified defense data because they didn't cahnge the default password on their router

Two fantastic tech recommendations!

PLUS there is a game in each episode. Listen closely and if you win you'll get some cool TTY shwag (read: stickers). Details in this episode!

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Links:

• The US Postal Service Is Working on Self-Driving Mail Trucks
• Your Next Gig: Map the Streets For Self-Driving Cars
• Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS - Bloomberg
• Amazon is in talks with Phrame and is working on a smart doorbell
• The Case of .Amazon and What It Means For ICANN
• AIM will be discontinued on December 15, 2017 - AOL Help
• An algorithm for your blind spot
• How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets
• Sensitive data stolen in Australia defence hack, China hand suspected