Tech Talk Y'all

Episode 46: Jimmy The Bachelor

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In This Episode:

  • Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses (2:14)
  • 18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency (4:00)
  • Woman Uses Tinder To Prank Dozens Of Men Into Dating Contest (5:40)
  • Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts for Almost 1% of the World's Energy Consumption (7:58)
  • Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
  • Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users (10:02)
    • Walmart patent filings envision customers strapping on headsets to shop (17:22)

      • Weird and Wacky Tech:

      • Robotic sumo wrestling is a thing (19:15)
      • Ghost peppers are saving U.S. grasslands (21:20)
      • Naked Labs introducing body-scanning mirror (24:22)
      • Researchers gave AI curiosity and it played video games all day (26:01)

        • Tech Recommendations (27:16):

        • Adam - Anker battery
        • Sanjay - Home Radon Detector
        • Shannon - Pablo

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          Links:

          • Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses
          • Coinbase Survey Shows 18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency
          • Woman Uses Tinder To Prank Dozens Of Men Into Dating Contest
          • BITCOIN MINING NOW ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST ONE PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S ENERGY CONSUMPTION
          • Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
          • Facebook is rating the trustwor
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          Tech Talk Y'allBy Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker