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@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories:

A2: TECH

• Google under fire for posting government ads on hate videos

• Google and Levi’s Project Jacquard jacket wearable

• Uber’s No. 2 executive quits after 6 months

• Sony’s OLED 4K TVs launch in April starting at $5k

• Jeff Bezos tests giant robot suit

• Germany considers $53M fine for social media companies failing to remove hate speech

• Can Siempo cure our phone addictions

• To make us all safer, robocars sometimes have to kill

• Visa’s new contactless card is a pair of sunglasses

A3: GEEK/POP CULTURE

• SXSW Lee Daniels explains why Trump will be good for Hollywood

• SXSW Alien: Covenant screening changes everything we’ve known for the last 38 years

• Scott Stuber to Netflix's film initiative

• ‘The Matrix’ reboot in the works at Warner Bros.

• New movie trailers to watch

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories:

TECH + POLITICS

• ‘A Day Without Women’ strike

• US to suspend H1-B visas for high-skilled workers in tech industry

• Wikileaks: The CIA is using TV’s, Smartphone’s and cars to spy on their owners

TECH

• Microsoft urges girls to stay in STEM, and change the world #MakeWhatsNext

• Violence on Facebook Live presents censorship dilemma

• Jeff Bezos scores a first paying customer for his growing space company

• Uber used a secret tool, extraordinary measures to sidestep government officials

• Mymanu Cilk earphones capable of translating in real time

• This iPhone 8 feature will change everything

GEEK

• ‘Logan’ Review

• Enter Bjork’s imagination at LA Debut of singers VR exhibit

• Nintendo Switch is the fastest-selling Nintendo console in the Americas and Europe

• There’s a hidd

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories:

A2: OSCARS/POP CULTURE• ‘Moonlight’ vs. ‘La La Land’ in social media after Oscars

• Jimmy Kimmel brings mean tweets to the Oscars

• Amazon wins 3 Oscars in a first for streaming studio

• Tribeca Film Festival lineup includes Whitney Houston, ISIS and Rodney King

• Netflix will release a new stand-up special every week this year

• ‘Get Out’ hitting 99% on Rotten Tomatoes

A3: TECH• Google is going after cable with its own streaming service, YouTube TV

• YouTube viewership hits 1 billion hours of video a day

• Apple shareholders overwhelmingly reject diversity proposal

• Apple’s spaceship campus, Apple Park, opens in April

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to fly two private citizens around the moon by next year

• White House staff are using a ‘secure’ app that’s not really secure

• Smsung wants to turn augm

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories:

A2: TECH

• Congressman calls for investigation of Drumpf’s insecure Android phone

• SpaceX flew a rocket back to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and it’s epic

• Musk: Humans must merge with machines to survive AI

• AI and Automation are about to implode blue collar jobs

• Apple acquired facial recognition firm RealFace

• Uber CEO launches ‘urgent investigation’ into workplace harassment

• Facebook wants to help you find a job - even if you’re not looking

• YouTube is killing off it’s unskippable 30 second ads

• Pre-order ‘Jetsons’ style flying car (for real)

• Is this helmet design the future of football

• You can now buy Snapchat Spectacles online

A3: GEEK

• Ryan Coogler Refresher: Get to know Black Panther’s Director

• Nintendo Switch vs. Xbox One

• Game of the Ye

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories:

A2: TECH

• Caavo’s set-top box fixes everything you hate about watching TV

• 200 coders and hackers united to save NASA’s data from deletion

• Qantas now lets you use Netflix and Spotify while flying

• Now you can climb Mount Everest in VR

• IMAX reveals flagship Virtual Reality center in Los Angeles

• Stream live NBA games in VR a la carte staring Feb 23rd

• Facebook’s next conquest: Your TV

• Siri will pretend to be the Batcomputer if you say this

A3: GEEK

• John Wick 2 Review

• How the Grammys performed on social media

• Watching the Grammy’s live streaming online

@ABellez and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories:

TECH

• The FCC is stopping 9 companies from providing federally subsidized internet to the poor

• Time Warner being sued by New York on behalf of Netflix consumers

• Silenced on the Senate floor, Elizabeth Warren goes to Facebook Live

• Police can get your location data without a warrant

• I made an untraceable AR-15 ‘Ghost Gun’ in my office and it was easy

• Uber hires NASA engineer to develop flying cars

• Zuckerberg shows off Oculus gloves for typing in VR

• Microsoft’s Cortana can now create reminders for you from your emails

• Lady Gaga Half Time Show drives 5.1M tweets

• ‘The Lego Batman’ movie review

• E3 opens its doors to the public for the first time

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories include Tech firms recalling employees overseas to return to the US immediately, Microsoft joins Amazon in immigration ban lawsuit, Airbnb inviting in those that Trump wants out, Ben Affleck no longer directing The Batman and more!

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories include Amazon's first ever streaming Best Picture nomination, EPA and USDA are the targets of Trumps gag orders, Snapchat selling ads against Nielsen, Super Bowl ad tracker, new title of Star Wars Episode VIII revealed and more!

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories include being able to take a VR tour of the White House with President Obama, Facebook starting its own journalism project, GE bridging science and art, news from the Nintendo Switch Launch and more!

@JoeKBraswell and @AkiliShine discuss tech & geek news on BHL's Geek. Nerd. Tech! Today's stories include Obama talking social media in his final address, the best of CES 2017, 10 year anniversary of the iPhone, Tesla activates the Gigafactory, George Lucas Museum coming to LA and more!