Episode 45: At 3 AM Every Echo Dot Plays Rick Astley

27/08/2018 31 min
Episode 45: At 3 AM Every Echo Dot Plays Rick Astley

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In This Episode:


DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% (3:05)
German Researchers Have Built a Quantum Transistor Using Just a Single Atom (5:01)
Hackers can seize practically all your online accounts, and it's your voicemail's fault (7:45)
Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report (11:16)
NASA finds ice on the surface of the moon (14:36)


Weird & Wacky Tech:


This company embeds microchips in its employees, and they love it (16:45)
St. Louis University is putting Amazon Echo Dots into every dorm room this fall (18:32)
Weird Al Yankovic's new VR film will probably be weird (20:03)
UFC champ Robert Whittaker uses Excel, gaming to get into shape (21:24)


Tech Recommendations (23:55):
Sanjay - Miniature Pac Man cabinet
Adam - Living Wine Labels & Costco travel pants
Shannon - Seconds

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