Good news and bad news for Samsung, the Dark Web gets darker, and Sony’s projection touch screen.

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Huge open source AI collab between Amazon and Microsoft, Disney wins a digital movie war you didn’t know was being fought, and whether social media is threatening democracy.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.

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• News You Should Know
  • (00:55) Bitcoin rockets above $5,000 to all-time high | Reuters
  • (01:15) Hyperloop One becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’… | TechCrunch
  • (01:25) …Lil B Sent…Posts Facebook Calls ‘Hate Speech’ | Motherboard
• More Top Stories
  • (02:00) Twitter suspends Rose McGowan’s account | engadget
    • Twitter Safety
    • Jack Dorsey
  • (05:50) Facebook ‘fully committed’ to sharing Russian ad data | BBC
  • (08:45) AWS, Microsoft double down on deep learning… | TechCrunch
  • (10:35) Movies Anywhere:…all your…titles in one place | Ars Technica
  • (13:20) Equifax website borked again… | ArsTechnica
    • Equifax takes down web page after…new hack | Reuters
• Discussion
  • (15:45) Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media… | Washington Post
    • Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy? | The Omidyar Group
    • WTF are ‘dark posts’? | Digiday
    • Invasion of the troll armies… | Guardian News
• Messages of the Day
  • (26:15) Anon – Solar energy
    • Green Tech Media
    • SEIA.org
    • GetChargedUp.net
• Today’s Contributor
  • Justin Robert Young

The DTNS video feed is not actually run by us, it’s been maintained by a volunteer fan Shawn Wei for it’s entire life which has been most fo the time since we launched in 2014. In all that time Shawn has done an amazing job keeping the feed up and running.

Tuesday we noticed that the feed was not updating and I mentioned it to Shawn on Twitter who promised to look into it. I followed up with him in an email yesterday. Shawn has a day job that was keeping him from getting right on it but he said it was an error in the script that creates the feed and he would get it fixed.

Our apologies for those of you who rely on this feed for the video version of the podcast. I’ve contacted Shawn again this morning and raised the idea of transferring the feed over to us so we can help fix things like this.

Shawn has been amazing and it’s to his credit that most of you haven’t even noticed this was a fan-run feed for so many years.

Apologies again for the disruption.

Tom

Oculus headsets go wireless, Google disables a Home button and Facebook to release details on Russian ads.

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Amazon’s new waterproof Kindle, Oculus’s new VR headset and why your unsent text message could be your will.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Raj Deut.

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Amazon wants more teen purchases, DoJ wants more encryption access, Google buys 60db.

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If NFC payments technologies like Apple Pay, Google Pay and others are the future why is it taking so long to gain acceptance? And will the be Post Office be the first civilian government agency to employee autonomous vehicles?

Featuring Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja
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YouTube bans some gun mod videos, USPS going autonomous, and Facebook’s AI is just okay at StarCraft.

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