Tech Talk Y'all

Episode 92: Can We Get Elizabeth Holmes and Mike Tyson to Debate?

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In This Episode:

  • NASA Sends Tiny Atomic Clock to Space (2:28)
  • Theranos Founder to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges (4:50)
  • Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages (5:57)
  • Amazon will crash on Prime Day, 60% of surveyed eBay employees say (7:45)
  • 7-Eleven's Bad App Design Let Criminals Steal More Than $500,000 (9:04)
  • Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them (12:03)
  • Yes, your emails are being tracked. Here's how to stop it. (15:03)
  • Internet group brands Mozilla ‘internet villain’ for supporting DNS privacy feature (17:25)
  • Apple trolled Google again by giant billboard next to its controversial smart neighborhood (21:10)

    • Weird & Wacky Tech:

    • Hate listening to high-fidelity music? Here’s a Bluetooth cassette Walkman. (23:00)
    • IT'S OK - The World's First Bluetooth 5.0 Cassette Player
    • The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat (24:47)
    • This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience (27:22)
    • Windows 1.0 Release Video (28:50)
    • Apple’s new iPhone software makes it look like you’re making eye contact in video calls even if you aren’t (30:15)

      • Tech Recommendations (31:42)

      • Adam - Shortcuts iOS App
      • Sanjay - Cam Scanner

        • Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes

        Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

        Links:

        • NASA Sends Tiny Atomic Clock to Space - ExtremeTech
        • Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges - WSJ
        • Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages - MIT Technology Review
        • Amazon will crash on Prime Day, 60% of surveyed eBay employees say
        • 7-Eleven's Bad App Design Let Criminals Steal More Than $500,000
        • Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them
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        Tech Talk Y'allBy Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker