Roger and Tom are in person! Using a navigation app. Home Depot hot dogs. Taco stands. Is sliced up fruit a risk? Fish for food. Fowl-smelling things. Food inspections.
Week in Review for the Week of 1/13/20 – DTH
Instagram lets you edit your Boomerang videos, Turkey unblocks Wikipedia, and Apple denies a request from the US Attorney General to unlock two iPhones.
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Xenobots Have Heart (Cells) – DTNS 3700
Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Annalee Newitz
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Facebook Backs Away from Ads in WhatsApp – DTH
Facebook reportedly backs away from ads in WhatApp, the FBI will now alert state agencies for county-based election hacks, and the EU holds hearings on a universal charger standard.
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Current Geek 245: Build a Better Baby Yoda
A Caucus of Apps – DTNS 3699
The Iowa Caucus takes place February 3 and Democratic Party will be using an in-house smartphone app to send out results. Justin shares hits thoughts the party’s latest attempt to leverage smartphone technology.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young
The Democrats will receive and send out results using a smartphone app running on the personal phones of caucus precinct and party leaders.
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#372 – Hmmm… hmmm.
We’ve got Hugo nominations open! And a new Heinlein novel. I mean “new” to everybody but him, we guess. Plus, we kick off In the Company fo Others by Julie E. Czerneda.
YouTube Launches Profile Cards on Android – DTH
YouTube launches Profile cards on Android, Bose closes all retail stores in North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan, and Fitbit rolls out blood oxygen monitoring.
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Twitter Won’t Edit Stance on Edit – DTNS 3698
When asked about an edit feature for Twitter, company CEO Jack Dorsey said “We’ll probably never do it.” What’s the logic behind his statement and would an edit feature add or detract from the platform?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 297 – The Good Place (410), The Circle (101), The Larry Sanders Show (208)
This week on It’s Spoilerin’ Time: The Good Place (410), The Circle (101), The Larry Sanders Show (208)
Brian’s out of town, but Tom and Bryce tackle the return of The Good Place and dip a toe into Netflix’s The Circle.
Cordkillers is off next week due to Martin Luther King, Jr. day. We will return January 27, 2020.
Next episode: The Good Place (411-412), The New Pope (101-102), Picard (101), The Larry Sanders Show (209-210)
00:44 – Winter Movie Draft update
05:52 – The Good Place (410)
15:05 – The Circle (101)
24:45 – The Larry Sanders Show (208)
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