Recorded June 23, 2018

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Summary

In today’s On the SPOT News Brief, Jay Leask and Craig Jahnke  review some recent SCOTUS decisions, dabble in politics, and discuss the probability of the Machine’s taking over the world through civil debate and mind control.

Today’s source material, and a few others mentioned in passing, are found below:

* SCOTUS says your privacy data is yours – go get a warrant

* SCOTUS says it’s a State’s right to tax your internet purchase

* EU Article 13 wants to block your meme – or something like that

* The GitHub 100 say “It’s us or ICE”

* IBM’s Project Debater AI changes your mind – and here come the machines

* Microsoft aquires FlipGrid

* Microsoft publishes open research data sets

If you have a topic you want us to discuss ping us on Twitter to let us know!

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Full Transcript

Jay Leask:    00:04 – Today is June 23, 2018. My name is Jay Leask, and you’re listening to you the second  On the Spot news brief in as many weeks.

Craig Jahnke:  00:17 – Hey, this is Craig Jahnke. I’m here with Jay for the speed of technology podcast. You’re right Jay. It is the second in as many weeks. It’s also the first podcast of summer. It’s actually interesting because I’m looking out my window today and it looks like summer. The last few days we’ve had 60 degree and rainy weather, so today looks a little better.

Jay Leask:    00:37 – Oh, today is 60 degrees and rainy out here. So.

Craig Jahnke: