As countries like Sweden push for cashless payments it seems the future of currency is electronic payments but is this a necessarily a good thing? Plus Facebook CEO Zuckerberg gets a grilling on Capital Hill and the W3C and FIDO Alliance announce WebAuthn, a password-free open standard supported by the latest version of Firefox.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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- Quick Hits
- (00:50) LG’s flagship G7 will launch in May | engadget
- (01:35) Google Home and Home Mini are now available in India | the verge
- (02:05)Bots in the Twittersphere | pew research center
- (02:45) Walmart taps Postmates for grocery delivery service
- More Top Stories
- (03:20) Update: Facebook rolls out $40K user data abuse bounty ahead of Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony | tech crunch
- (06:05) Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins | the verge
- (07:45) First look at Instagram Nametags, its clone of Snapchat QR codes | tech crunch
- (09:30) Westworld trolls Reddit with spoiler video | bbc
- (11:55) Google launches an improved speech-to-text service for developers | tech crunch
- Discussion Story (14:55)
- The Swedes rebelling against a cashless society | bbc
- Going Cashless? Bad for Tax Cheats, Privacy, Poor | bloomberg
- Sweden’s March Toward a Cashless Society | bloomberg
- Megan McArdle: The downside of a cashless society | national post
- Thing of the Day
- Messages of the Day
- (27:15) David – Piling on Facebook
- Today’s Contributor
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