Episode 63: All Electric, No Problem

24/12/2018 44 min
Episode 63: All Electric, No Problem

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In This Episode:


As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
Not just Facebook: Twitter and Snapchat store unposted photos, too, and there's a specific reason
Facebook Filed A Patent To Calculate Your Future Location
This site will show you the highest-rated movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime
How Google Will Destroy Uber
Self-driving dirt rally vehicle offers crash course in autonomous car safety
Ex-Uber engineer claims to travel 3,099 miles in a self-driving car
Ars takes a first tour of the length of The Boring Company’s test tunnel
Israeli company claims it has created new technology that can destroy cancerous tumors
Robinhood launches checking and savings with an almost unheard-of 3% interest rate
TROLL PATROL FINDINGS
California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029


Weird & Wacky Tech:


This 13-Year-Old Invented a Genius, Prize-Winning Way to Improve Solar Panel
MIT Scientists Have Announced They Can Shrink Objects Down to The Nanoscale
Tat tunes? Soundwave tattoos allow people to play songs through app
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody becomes most streamed song from 20th century


Tech Recommendations:
Sanjay - Price Wise by Firefox
Adam - Way Back Machine
Shannon - Audacity

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