Tech Talk Y'all

Episode 139: Good Sci Fi Nerd Stuff

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In this Episode:

  • Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year
  • IBM is exiting the face recognition business
  • This bricklaying robot can construct a house in 48 hours
  • Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
  • Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
  • Twitter Locks Account That Posts Trump’s Tweets Verbatim After Less Than 3 Days
  • Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines
  • SoftBank-backed Lemonade files to go public
  • Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's 'top priority' from now on

    • Weird and Wacky:

    • Someone paid $2.6 million in fees to move $134 worth of crypto and oops
    • Man tormented by mystery pizza deliveries to his house for almost a decade
    • A treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade has finally been found
    • A teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a protest is rewarded with a car and a college scholarship

      • Links:

      • Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines | TechCrunch
      • Forrest Fenn treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains for 10 years has finally been found - CNN
      • IBM is exiting the face recognition business - Axios
      • Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
      • Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun | MIT Technology Review
      • Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year
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      Tech Talk Y'allBy Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker