Episode 56: The J Stands for Pavarotti

05/11/2018 30 min
Episode 56: The J Stands for Pavarotti

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Episode Synopsis

In this Episode:


IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion (1:45)
Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct (3:40)
Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns (4:32)
Fortnite Creator Epic Games Valued at Nearly $15 Billion (6:52)
Coinbase raises Series E to accelerate adoption of cryptocurrencies (7:58)
We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (10:17)
Will Google’s homepage news feed repeat Facebook’s mistakes? (12:42)
Uber introduces an Amazon Prime-style monthly subscription service (14:07)


Weird & Wacky Tech:


Musk Keeps Testing the Limits That the SEC Put on His Tweeting (16:32)
Google AI Listens to 15-years of sea bottom data for Whale songs (18:28)
Yes, we flew to Japan to watch someone pour liquid nitrogen on custom Kit Kats (20:19)


Tech Recommendations (23:50)


Sanjay - Georgia Votes
Adam - [Waze (ft. new audio player)](ttps://www.engadget.com/2018/10/29/waze-beta-audio-player/)
Shannon - TweetDeck


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