Episode 56: The J Stands for Pavarotti

In this Episode:

• IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion (1:45)
• Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct (3:40)
• Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns (4:32)
• Fortnite Creator Epic Games Valued at Nearly $15 Billion (6:52)
• Coinbase raises Series E to accelerate adoption of cryptocurrencies (7:58)
• We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (10:17)
• Will Google’s homepage news feed repeat Facebook’s mistakes? (12:42)
• Uber introduces an Amazon Prime-style monthly subscription service (14:07)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Musk Keeps Testing the Limits That the SEC Put on His Tweeting (16:32)
• Google AI Listens to 15-years of sea bottom data for Whale songs (18:28)
• Yes, we flew to Japan to watch someone pour liquid nitrogen on custom Kit Kats (20:19)

Tech Recommendations (23:50)

• Sanjay - Georgia Votes
• Adam - [Waze (ft. new audio player)](ttps://www.engadget.com/2018/10/29/waze-beta-audio-player/)
• Shannon - TweetDeck

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Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

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Links:

• IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion | Reuters
• Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct
• Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns — Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns
• Fortnite's Epic Games Now Valued At $15 Billion | Fortnite INTEL
• Coinbase raises Series E round of financin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message