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In this episode: 

• Roku tests customer patience with startup video ads
• Roku Users Are Furious About New Pre-Home Screen Ads 
• Company Says It Caught Corporate Spy With a Slack Trap
• BYD Shares Touch All-Time High After Unveiling New Charging Tech
• Tesla fans expose Tesla's own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash
• Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service installed in White House
• Claude can now search the web
• Joby Aviation inches closer to getting full government approval for its electric air taxis
• Drones Will Do Some Schlepping for Sherpas on Mount Everest

Weird and Wacky: 

• AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a 'vibe coder' to write his own damn code
• UBTech’s tough humanoid robot braves rough terrains at 6 mph speed 
• Video: Chinese firm's obstacle-clearing robot redefines mobility with dual-wheel design 

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Control D 
• Adam - tomtoc 5.5L X-Pac Sling Bag

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In this episode: 

• McDonald’s Gives Its Restaurants an AI Makeover
• AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance
• China’s Autonomous Agent, Manus, Changes Everything
• Manus probably isn't China's second 'DeepSeek moment'
• Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google
• Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
• Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For  
• Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery

Weird and Wacky: 

• The Surprisingly Difficult Mathematical Proof That Anime Fans Helped Solve
• 'Cheetozard,' Viral Pokémon-Shaped Cheeto, Sells for Nearly $88K at Auction
• Buffalo Wild Wings to offer multi-vision goggles in advance of March Madness

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - It is as if you were on your phone | 📱 
• Adam - Osprey Ultralight Collapsible Stuff Pack

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In this episode: 

• Microsoft hangs up on Skype: Service to shut down May 5, 2025
• Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it's not using people's data for AI
• An update on our Terms of Use | The Mozilla Blog
• Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash
• The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects
• Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked
• Remember Digg? It's Getting a Reboot, Thanks to Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian 
• Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells 
• Blood donor James Harrison, who saved 2 million babies, has died
• A Surprising New Tool in the Fight Against Cancer: Aspirin
• Scientists discover new part of the immune system

Weird and Wacky: 

• ‘So magical and cute’: Why an oddly-shaped Puppy Mountain in China is drawing crowds
• What Is the $19 Strawberry From Erewhon?
• De-extinction scientists say these gene-edited ‘woolly mice’ are a step towards woolly mammoths

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - LibreWolf 
• Cara - Vestaboard 

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In this episode: 

• Apple shareholders vote to keep its diversity policies
• Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action
• Right to Repair Laws Have Now Been Introduced in All 50 US States 
• Signal shuns Sweden over proposed encryption-busting laws
• A Billion People Are Watching Podcasts on YouTube Every Month
• Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• EPWater ready to make advanced water purification new resource
• When is the planet parade 2025? How to see all 7 planets on Friday night, what to know 

Weird and Wacky: 

• British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work
• Katy Perry joins Gayle King and Jeff Bezos' fiancee on rocket to space
• How to tell if your USB cable is hiding malicious hacker hardware

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Signs - Nvidia launching AI platform to make learning sign language easier
• Shannon - Terra Kaffe

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In this episode: 

• Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million 'armored Tesla' contract
• Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
• DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever
•  White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws - Users' locations and texts can be intercepted, including DoD employees
• Humane’s AI Pin is dead, as HP buys startup’s assets for $116M
• All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
• ​​Elizabeth Holmes Breaks Her Silence in First Interview from Prison: 'It’s Been Hell and Torture'
• ​​Bioengineering makes robotic limbs feel natural
• The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Network
• Spotify Weighs $6 Premium for Added Features, Access to Tickets
• Apple unveils cheaper iPhone 16e powerful enough to run AI
• Researchers link a gene to the emergence of spoken language

Weird and Wacky: 

• That guy who threw away $775 million in Bitcoin wants to buy the whole garbage dump
• A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it’s all captured on camera
• Wild fish can recognize human divers

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - AutoSlash
• Adam - Tactical Pen

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In this episode: 

• ​​YouTube Is Buying TikTok Ads to Lure Creators Before US Ban
• UK demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
• Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
• T-Mobile’s Starlink messaging service is now free to try, even if you aren’t on T-Mobile
•  You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
• NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions
• Stellantis Introduces Pop-Up Ads in Vehicles, Sparking Outrage Among Owners
• E Ink's color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays
• BuzzFeed’s New Plan: An AI-Powered Social Media Platform to Help “Spread Joy”

Weird and Wacky: 

• Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
• Groundbreaking AI chip runs on light and is smaller than a grain of salt

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - WikiTok - ​​Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
• Adam - n8n.io

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In this episode: 

• The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
• Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies
• That group has been deleted
• El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
• Bitcoin (BTC) College Savings Plan: Parents Ditch 529 Funds for Crypto 
• Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
• Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
• Drones are now launching drones to attack other drones in Ukraine

Weird and Wacky: 

• DEA Officer Who 3D-Printed Cocaine Gets 17 Years in Prison
• Costa Rican Supermarket Wins Trademark Battle Against Nintendo
• ​​The government had been planning it for 7 years, beavers built the dam in two days and saved them $1 million

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition 
• Adam - Notebook LM

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In this episode: 

• A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging
• What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that shook the tech world?
• DeepSeek ‘punctures’ AI leaders’ spending plans, and what analysts are saying
• ​​Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History
• How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
• Microsoft probes if DeepSeek-linked group improperly obtained OpenAI data, Bloomberg News reports

• Citing ‘Shadow of Evil,’ Vatican Warns About the Risks of A.I.
• ​​Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

• Scientists inch closer to creating ‘artificial sun’ in the search for unlimited energy
• CERN's particle accelerator tech is being reimagined to blast cancer in under a second
• Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space

• ​​Pebble is coming back
• Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form
• Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight
• Bookshop.org Now Sells Ebooks
• Elon Musk's X begins its push into financial services with Visa deal
• ​​OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
• ​​Logitech’s peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices

Weird and Wacky: 

• Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway
• I built an Omni-Directional Ball-Wheeled Bike
• Google Maps will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
• Christopher Walken Hates Techonology: No Phone, Uses Satellite TV
• Why the rich love digital shoplifting
• Man launches ‘villain for hire’ service where people take him down to become heroes

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Co.dev 
• Adam - BESIGN LS03 Aluminum Laptop Stand

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In this episode: 

• VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
• DHS guts cyber review board as Trump moves against ‘misuse of resources’
• Instagram announces a blatant CapCut clone
• Nearly 10 years later, Tumblr TV launches to all as a TikTok alternative
• Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok
• OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously
• OpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into Stargate
• ​​Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate
• Substack introduces a $20M funding guarantee to entice creators to migrate to its platform

Weird and Wacky: 

• Someone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI lab

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Franklin Sensors ProSensor M210 Stud Finder 
• Adam - Yuka App

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In this episode: 

• Everyone’s Downloading a New Chinese Social Media App Before the TikTok Ban
• ​​With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘RedNote’
• TikTok users’ attempted migration to Chinese app RedNote isn’t going too well
• ​​Elon Musk could be China’s pick to buy TikTok, report says
• ​​Instagram alternative Pixelfed now has apps
• OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why
• University of Waterloo researchers engineer bacteria to eat microplastics. But is it a pipe dream?
• Lawsuit: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to quietly track driving behavior
• 2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
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Weird and Wacky: 

• Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin
• Some Paris Olympic athletes ask for medals to be replaced after quickly deteriorating
• Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Sonos Roam 2 
• Adam - Cube Timer, Gravity Sensor Flip Timer

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