Today is May 8th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff.

-Astrobee: The Adorable Little Robot That’ll Soon Jet Around the ISS

-Veo Robotics gives industrial robots a sixth sense for safely working around people

-Language shapes how the brain perceives time

-As scientists take to Twitter, study shows power of 'visual abstract' graphics: Number of people clicking to read research papers nearly tripled in carefully controlled trial

-Amazon's latest Alexa feature makes it sound more human than ever

-Nissan’s Faraday cage armrest is the abstinence of mobile driving distraction

-130 Million at Risk of Fraud After Massive Leak of Indian Biometric System Data

-PSA: This Google Doc scam is spreading fast and will email everyone you know

-An AI can recognize musical genres better than humans

-New technique turns anything into a touch sensor

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Today is May 1st, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff.

-Google tweaks Search to help combat ‘fake news’

-FaceApp apologizes for building a racist AI

-DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain to Make You Learn Faster

-Drunk man may have started the robot uprising

-Movie research results: Multitasking overloads the brain: The brain works most efficiently when it can focus on a single task for a longer period of time

-Oh Great, Now Alexa Will Judge Your Outfits, Too

-Microsoft Warns Users Not to Install Its Latest Windows Update, For Now

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Today is April 17th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff, and Mia Jaramillo.

-MasterCard trials biometric bankcard with embedded fingerprint reader

-Facebook is building a brain-computer interface

-Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform

-MIT's app only needs a second to teach you a new language

-Google Home can now recognize up to six voices and give personalized responses

-Amazon Lex, the technology behind Alexa, opens up to developers

-Eerie tech promises to copy anyone's voice from just 1 minute of audio

-Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems

-25 is 'golden age' for the ability to make random choices: At their peak, humans outcompete many computer algorithms in generating seemingly random patterns

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Today is April 17th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff.

-GM plans to deploy hundreds of autonomous vehicles across the country for testing

-Cadillac’s Answer to a Self-Driving Puzzle: Shoving a Camera in Your Face

-Air Force tests air-to-ground strikes with an autonomous F-16 wingman

-AI can predict heart attacks more accurately than doctors

-Algorithms can now exploit models and measures of human perception to generate scatterplot designs.

-Toyota’s new robot leg brace can help those with partial paralysis walk again

-Smart bandages will use 5G data to track your health

-Researchers simulate walls in VR by shocking your muscles

-A vibrating smart bra keeps tabs on how zen you feel

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Today is April 10th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff.

-Daimler and Bosch: fully autonomous cars within 5 years

-Mercedes Promises Self-Driving Taxis in Just Three Years

-Driverless pods begin ferrying the public around Greenwich

-Waze's traffic data could help emergency services save lives

-Disney Could Go Westworld With New Patent Filing for Soft 'Humanoid' Robots

-High school junior launches TagDat, an emoji-based local reviews app

-New Google tool helps developers pick the right colors for their apps

-Inside the next Xbox: Project Scorpio tech revealed

-An Aircraft Design That’ll Make You Love the Middle Seat. No Joke

-Netflix's overly simplified thumb ratings are here

-NBC Just Ordered a Primetime Show About Advances in Science and Technology

-Unpaywall scours the web for free versions of scientific papers

-FDA allows marketing of first direct-to-consumer tests that provide genetic risk information for certain conditions

-Fitness tracker clues woman in to life-threatening condition

-This Tricorder-Like Device Can Tell if Your Brain Is Bleeding

-ODG unveils enterprise-focused AR smart glasses optimized for ‘hazardous locations’

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Today is April 3rd, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff.

-Windows Creators Update Is Full of Neat Tricks You'll Never Use

-Congress Just Gave Internet Providers the Green Light to Sell Your Browsing History Without Consent

-You Can Now Beg for Money on Facebook

-Man with quadriplegia employs brian interface to move again

-Twitter will no longer count @-names in replies as part of its 140 character limit

-Facebook opens 360 livestreaming to everyone

-Pedestrian Deaths Spiked Last Year Due To Increased Distractions

-April Fools’ 2017: Here’s the best and worst of this year’s pranks (so far)

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Today is March 28th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Mia Jaramillo.

-Sting Operation Reveals Science's Insane Fake News Problem

http://gizmodo.com/sting-operation-reveals-sciences-insane-fake-news-probl-1793523135

-Walmart’s Vudu app now converts your physical movies to digital for $2 each

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/23/walmarts-vuvu-app-now-converts-your-physical-movies-to-digital-for-2-each/?ncid=rss

-Hackers try to extort Apple by threatening to wipe iPhones

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/23/hackers-try-to-extort-apple-by-threatening-to-wipe-iphones/

-This sensory wearable is designed for flirting

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/24/this-sensory-wearable-is-designed-for-flirting/?ncid=rss

-A Four-Year-Old Boy Used Siri to Save His Unconscious Mother’s Life

http://gizmodo.com/a-four-year-old-boy-used-siri-to-save-his-unconscious-m-1793584170

-Scientists just made electronic skin that's better than human skin

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/03/24/scientists-just-made-electronic-skin-thats-better-human-skin/

-How Pedestrians Will Defeat Autonomous Vehicles

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-pedestrians-will-defeat-autonomous-vehicles/

-Amazon considers opening augmented reality furniture stores

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/26/amazon-furniture-and-electronics-stores/

-US cops' facial recognition database is dangerously inaccurate

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/27/fbis-facial-recognition-database-is-dangerously-inaccurate/

-Elon Musk's Neuralink will plug AI into your brain

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/27/elon-musk-neuralink-ai-cranial-computing/

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Today is March 21st, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Nick Porter.

-Moon shoes for astronauts

-Buzz Aldrin’s VR Experience

-Lowes uses AR/VR

-Alexa + animatronic skull

-Intel’s genderless AI

-Rapping Robots

-Skull drilling robot

-Autonomy in surgery

-DARPA’s brain controlled prosthetics

-Netflix rating method changes

-Amazon’s fashion AI

-ONR’s MMO to combat singularity

-Fake news from trusted sources

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Today is March 14th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff.

-CIA’s hacking technique

-Taser’s nightmare surveillance

-More jobs for drone pilots

-Airbus’ flying pod

-Technology is a behavior problem

-Airbnb wants community, not AI

-Hamburger flipping robot

-Facebook’s plan for sharing VR

-Uptime, social youtube experience

-Official D&D app

-SMS from the past

-Android iPhone case

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Today is 3/7/2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff and Alexa.

-NASA's free software

-Amazon Web Services

-Yelp will help you find a gender neutral bathroom

-Walmart express lanes

-Google Play Games rated on user engagement

-Xbox game pass

-Nintendo Switch has design issues

-TASER's automatic body cameras

-Haptic wristband helps blind

-Facebook preventing suicidal behavior

-Alexa will distinguish voices!

-MIT's Robot knows it did something wrong

-Learning another language, with robots!

-Disney's robot will analyze your kids

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