In this episode, Siri is more likable than most humans, Miku outperforms all flesh celebrities, and a couple Nephilim Updates! Also, Elon apologizes, Flippy freaks out China, and Google translates apocalyptic message. Want more? Become a Patron and receive Extended Reports of CCNT every week!   AGG for the WEEK OF July 17-24 TOP STORIES Google Translate warns of APOCALYPSE with bizarre 'end times' message about the Antichrist New Study Shows Siri Now More Likable than 61% of Human Population | Burning Man Journal With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone | Ars Technica Disney Fires ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Director Over Offensive Tweets - The New York Times   TECHNOLOGY/AI Researchers created an AI to help you suck less at video games Artificial Intelligence Shows Why Atheism Is Unpopular - The Atlantic AI is hurting people of color and the poor. Experts want to fix that An Artificial Intelligence-Guided Chinese Submarine Fleet: What Could Go Wrong? Houseplants could one day monitor home health Three AI And Machine Learning Predictions For 2019 BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Weird new fruits could hit aisles soon thanks to gene-editing | Science | The Guardian Loneliness may be related to genetics: Study - Health - The Jakarta Post The genetics of reward behaviour Blindness gene discovered New Study: The Genetics of Staying in School - The Atlantic   FACEBOOK FACEPALMS Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Recode Decode: Full transcript - Recode ROBOTS THAT DO THINGS! Russia may send a robot 'crew' to space in 2019 Boston Dynamics To Produce 1,000 SpotMini Robo Dogs Annually - Geek.com This dexterous humanoid has robot fingers that almost perfectly mimic human hands Misty the adorable robot just wants to be your friend - CNET Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can’t Serve - The New York Times This robot will draw and erase anything on your walls Tech leaders say killer robots would be 'dangerously destabilizing' force in the world - Chicago Tribune Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers - IEEE Spectrum DARPA Is Hosting an Olympics for Tiny Robots Army builds robot attack tanks | Fox News YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS! (Updates on stories) The impending war over deepfakes - Axios Elon Musk apologises for calling Thai cave rescuer a 'pedo' | Technology | The Guardian Artificial intelligence: Relax, Flippy the robot is not about to steal your job | South China Morning Post Sex robot human clones: Chinese firm using 3D printers to make copies | Daily Star STORIES THAT DOVETAIL OTHER RESEARCHER’S WORK Experts Say Recent ‘Alien’ Mummy Study Was Deeply Flawed and Unethical Here is the link to a blog post Dr. Heiser wrote about the original study.      Charges of Racism Related to the Atacama (Non) Alien   PAGANISM AND POP OCCULTURE Psychosis can be triggered by sudden loss of loved one and occult practices, suggest studies Pagans demand Thought for the Day slot Book Explains How the Ancient Pagan System Can Lead to Reawakening Were occult practices behind India's 'house of mass hangings'? - BBC News Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult philosophy | Salon.com Ex-Occult Member Exposes 3 Ghanaian Pastors Who Are Demonic(VIDEO) - Ghafla! Ghana Rare 17th century alchemy amulet reveals 'occult Zutphen' - DutchNews.nl Columnist Rod Dreher Unpublishes Column Linking Anthony Bourdain's Death to Asia Argento's 'Ties to the Occult' Stars Who've Dabbled In The Occult [PHOTOS]