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Links:

• Tesla’s Elon Musk settles with SEC, will pay $20 million fine and resign as board chairman - The Washington Post
• You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times
• Make Sure MoviePass Didn't Reactivate Your Subscription
• The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

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• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Apple reportedly delays original shows over mature content
• YouTube is replacing textbooks in classrooms across America - Axios
• Japan successfully lands robot rovers on an asteroid's surface - CNN
• Second E-Scooter Company Lime Rider Dies | Fortune
• Inside Facebook Dating, launching today first in Colombia
• Twitter may have sent your private DMs to the wrong people -- but probably not - CNET
• Walmart will be tracking leafy greens on the blockchain

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• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• IBM joins efforts to create the blockchain equivalent of the ‘Yellow Pages'
• US lawmakers say AI deepfakes ‘have the potential to disrupt every facet of our society’
• 'A public relations nightmare': Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program | CBC News
• Washington State Electronic Notary Public endorsements
• Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' database queries to work out what was nicked – audit • The Register
• Electric Scooter Company Uses Technology To Go After Dangerous Ri

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Tech Recommendations (30:54):

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Links:

• The portable Nima Peanut Sensor stops nuts getting in your mouth
• Google's New Tool 'Touring Bird' Is a Traveler's Dream
• Amazon will sell full-size, live Christmas trees this holiday season
• Samsung is launching an LTE-powered tracker this week to help you stop misplacing things
• The 4 biggest announcements from the Apple September event
• Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye
• A "Presidential Alert" Text Will Be Sent To Your Phone Next Week And No, You Can't Opt Out
• Mark Zuckerberg wrote an algorithm to beat a teen at Scrabble
• Forget $40 fitness classes — now a tech startup is asking rich people to spend

In this bonus minisode, Adam guesses the meaning of 25 of the new words Merriam-Webster is adding to the dictionary in 2018.

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• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve - WSJ
• Amazon orders 20,000 vans to build delivery fleet, quadrupling its original purchase
• If you’re still using Yahoo email, it’s still spying on you
• Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO
• Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
• Labor Board Backs Engineers Who Were Fired for Unionizing | WIRED
• US Court of Appeals: An IP address isn't enough to identify a pirate - TechSpot

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Tech Recommendations (27:16):

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• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses
• Coinbase Survey Shows 18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency
• Woman Uses Tinder To Prank Dozens Of Men Into Dating Contest
• BITCOIN MINING NOW ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST ONE PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S ENERGY CONSUMPTION
• Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
• Facebook is rating the trustwor

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Tech Recommendations (23:55):

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• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% | DeepMind
• Researchers Build Room-Temp Quantum Transistor Using a Single Atom | Fortune — German Researchers Have Built a Quantum Transistor Using Just a Single Atom
• Hackers can use your voicemail to take over your online accounts — Hackers can seize practically all your online accounts, and it's your voicemail's fault
• Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report — Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report

In this Episode:

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Tech Recommendations (32:10):

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Sponsored By:

• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• The next major innovation in batteries might be here
• Common Wifi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags
• Is Too Much Screen Time Harming Children’s Vision? - American Academy of Ophthalmology
• IBM-Maersk blockchain alliance cuts oceanic shipping times by 40%
• Telegram just launched a feature that’s both terrifying and brilliant
• An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes

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Special Guest: Seth Radman.

Sponsored By:

• Ten Rocket: Plan, build, and launch your app with speed and confidence. The ten rocket team works in ten day sprints - because building an app doesn't have to be frustrating.
• Prototype Prime: Prototype Prime is an incubator focused on early-stage hardware and software startups. We've got a design and development lab where hardware teams can utilize our 3D printers and our electronics manufacturing capabilities. In addition we've got a awesome podcast recording room where great shows like Tech Talk Y'all are recorded!

Links:

• Testing finds flaws with car electronic car safety systems
• Tesla weighs taking company private, but no decisions made yet
• SEC looking into Tesla after Elon Musk's tweets, reports say - Roadshow
• German start-up trials solar car that can charge as you drive | Reuters
• Sorry, But Starbucks Will Not Be Accepting Bitcoin - Motherboard