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Episode Synopsis
On this episode of Pop Tech Jam, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss — among many other things — electronic playing-card shufflers, Oreos, A.I. slop, robot hands and “Peacemaker.” Listen in on PTJ 387!• How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA (Wired)• Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era (Wired)• Phony AI-Created Receipts Become Real Problem for Businesses (PYMTS.com)• OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool (Tech Crunch)• Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs (Reuters)• The ‘Hands Problem’ Holding Back the Humanoid Revolution (The Wall Street Journal)• Robot umpires approved for MLB in 2026 as part of challenge system (CNN)• Trump and Xi will ‘consummate’ TikTok deal on Thursday, treasury secretary says (TechCrunch)• TikTok may not be Chinese-owned anymore, but there still is a privacy problem (Brookings)• Exclusive: US Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD (Reuters)• Apple Newsroom announcements• Apple Readies Its First Ever Touch-Screen MacBook (Bloomberg)• What’s Next for iPad Pro? A Vapor Chamber Like the One on the iPhone 17 Pro (Bloomberg)• Ads likely coming to Apple Maps in 2026 (Apple Insider)• New MacBook Pro Nears Mass Production, But Four Bigger Upgrades Expected Next Year (MacRumors)• Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses (Bloomberg)• Google’s “G” gets a brighter look. (Google blog)• Podcasts and News Fact Sheet (Pew Research Center)
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