Episode 63: All Electric, No Problem
Dec 24, 2018•44 min
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Episode description
In This Episode:
- As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
- Not just Facebook: Twitter and Snapchat store unposted photos, too, and there's a specific reason
- Facebook Filed A Patent To Calculate Your Future Location
- This site will show you the highest-rated movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime
- How Google Will Destroy Uber
- Self-driving dirt rally vehicle offers crash course in autonomous car safety
- Ex-Uber engineer claims to travel 3,099 miles in a self-driving car
- Ars takes a first tour of the length of The Boring Company’s test tunnel
- Israeli company claims it has created new technology that can destroy cancerous tumors
- Robinhood launches checking and savings with an almost unheard-of 3% interest rate
- TROLL PATROL FINDINGS
- California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029
Weird & Wacky Tech:
- This 13-Year-Old Invented a Genius, Prize-Winning Way to Improve Solar Panel
- MIT Scientists Have Announced They Can Shrink Objects Down to The Nanoscale
- Tat tunes? Soundwave tattoos allow people to play songs through app
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody becomes most streamed song from 20th century
Tech Recommendations:
Sanjay - Price Wise by Firefox
Adam - Way Back Machine
Shannon - Audacity
Ad and Tech Rec theme music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit
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Links:
- As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants - The New York Times
- Not just Facebook: Twitter and Snapchat store unposted photos, too, and there's a specific reason - ABC News
- Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Location
- This site will show you the highest-rated movies on Netflix & Amazon Prime
- Self-driving dirt rally car offers crash course in autonomous safety
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