As usual in this episode, we bring you some of the tech news that took place the previous week. Starting with Telegram passing 1 Billion downloads, Facebook’s machine learning classifying a black person as a primate, some states starting Apple digital driver license service, Texas state’s new law about abortion affecting the tech world, and much more.

Episode Timeline

00:30 Telegram passes 1 billion download

02:00 Some new telegram features

02:37 US passes a new rule that prohibits artificial intelligence systems from publishing their own patents

04:34 New texas rule on abortion affecting some tech companies.

07:50 Lyft and Uber promise to pay drivers fines due to the new abortion law in Texas.

09:33 Arizona Virginia, and some other states start accepting Apple’s new digital driver’s license.

13:00 New study shows misinformation news on Facebook has 6 times more engagements than real news.

14:30 Facebook artificial intelligence classifies a black man as a primate.

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