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Games-a-plenty for this week’s episode!  Starting off with the benign idea of playing Mario Kart Live together while apart, Michael and Michael do take a turn toward the security side, where someone else might have camera access in your home via Mario’s remote car.  Veering back to the safe and comfortable, the co-hosts talk about the joys of clerics, healers and support staff roles with a story about Star Wars: Squadrons roles that are not limited to first person shooters and dogfights.  Then an entertaining Doom replatform, this time in Microsoft with pixel perfect sheep — have a look at the link below — this is even more amazing than playing Doom on a coffee machine.

Transitioning to augmented humans, there are a couple of interesting articles on wearable kinetic nanogenerators, fooling car autopilots with split second holograms, and Adobe Photoshop’s newest neural filters & sky replacement tech.

Michael and Michael wrap things up with NASA’s asteroid sample harvest, and the totally insaney Hulu reboot of the Warner Brothers (and Warner sister Dot) Animaniacs.  Narf!  

Selected Links

Input Mag article: Go wild on Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit anywhere from the web — https://www.inputmag.com/gaming/go-wild-on-mario-kart-live-home-circuit-anywhere-from-the-web 

Surrogate TV: Mario Kart Live — https://www.surrogate.tv/game/mariokartlive 

Polygon article: Star Wars: Squadrons makes support roles feel rewarding — https://www.polygon.com/2020/10/22/21527439/star-wars-squadrons-support-healer 

PCGamesN article: Here’s a Minecraft modern playing Doom on some sheep — https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/mod-doom-sheep?amp 

phys.org article: New device powers wearable sensors through human motion — https://phys.org/news/2020-10-device-powers-wearable-sensors-human.html 

Schneier on Security blog post: Split-Second Phantom Images Fool Autopilots — https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/split-second-phantom-images-fool-autopilots.html 

TechCrunch article: Adobe Photoshop gets new AI smarts with neural filters, sky replacement and more — https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/adobe-photoshop-gets-new-ai-smarts-with-neural-filters-sky-replacement-and-more/ 

The Verge article: Stunning images show NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stirring up rocks on an asteroid — https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/21/21527475/nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-bennu-sampling-rocks-images 

Slashfilm article: ‘Animaniacs’ Trailer: Come for the Zany,