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• A paralyzed man walked with a brain-controlled exoskeleton
• Barr Pushes Facebook for Access to WhatsApp Messages - The New York Times
• Tesla Smart Summon and Curious Owners: What Could Go Wrong? - ExtremeTech
• Senator proposes mandatory labeling for products with mics, cameras
• Twitter admits it used two-factor phone numbers and emails for serving targeted ads
• With a possible Apple tag waiting in the wings, Tile unveils Sticker, an adhesive device for tracking objects
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Is Losing Friends Fast
• Boeing to invest $20 million in Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic
• Fitness guru created 369 fake Instagram accounts to harass rivals, stage kidnapping

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• WeWork IPO Filing Withdrawn as Roadshow Leads to a Dead End
• Blade helicopter-sharing app to speed transplant organs
• Cops Abandon High-Speed Chase When Their Tesla Battery Runs Down - ExtremeTech
• EOS Maker Block.One Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Securities Sale - CoinDesk
• Elon Musk Unveils His Starship, Plans to Fly It in a Matter of Months - ExtremeTech
• FCC's revoking of net neutrality largely backed by appeals court - The Washington Post
• See Microsoft's new foldable smartphone
• Turns Out Typing on a Keyboard Isn't That Much Faster Than Texting These Days

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• Peloton’s IPO Is in the Zone
• Walgreens and Alphabet’s Wing Launch Drone Delivery Pilot Program
• NYSE Owner Launches Long-Awaited Bitcoin Futures
• Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
• Coca-Cola installs first litter trap system in southwest Atlanta - Atlanta Business Chronicle
• Smart TVs send user data to tech heavyweights including Facebook, Google, Netflix | ZDNet
• Nerf’s new Ultra blasters shoot farther than ever before — but there’s a catch
• New AI cameras catching texting drivers behind the wheel
• WeWork C

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• MoviePass is shutting down September 14th - The Verge
• MIT Creates Light-Sensitive 'Reprogrammable' Ink - ExtremeTech
• MIT unveils new 'blackest black' material and makes a diamond disappear
• States led by Texas target Google in new antitrust probe
• Beekeeper raises $45M Series B to become the ‘Slack for non-desk employees’
• India Spacecraft Located, Condition Unknown
• Lawsuit Claims Whole Foods Violates Employees' Privacy Rights By Collecting Fingerprints
• CIA's Cold War pigeon spying program disclosed in newly declassified docs: report
• British Authorities Scramble To Find Stolen Solid Gold Toilet

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Tech Recommendations:

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• Amazon testing payment system that uses hands as ID
• Mozilla flips the default switch on Firefox tracker cookie blocking | TechCrunch
• DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators - VICE
• Firefox Private Network

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• Operation indiscriminately infects iPhones with spyware
• Asteroid news: 100% chance of impact expert alerts in life or death warning | Science | News | Express.co.uk

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Tech Recs:

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Links:

• Billionaires Jack Ma and Elon Musk debate good, evil and AI at conference in China
• After seven roof fires, Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel flaws | Ars Technica
• NASA has officially attached a helicopter to the Mars 2020 Rover
• Two airlines ban all MacBook Pros from checked luggage
• T-Mobile is giving away free hot spots so people can test-drive its network for 30 days
• Bluetooth Security Flaw Leaves Millions Of Devices Vulnerable To Data Attack | Tech Times
• Ford says its autonomous cars will last just four years
• Honda's New Airbag Catches Your Head to Save Your Brain
• A top secret government agency is in immediate need of an underground lair. Like, by today

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• This robotic tail gives humans key abilities that evolution took away
• These contact lenses get dark in the sun -- here's what it's like to wear them
• He tried to prank the DMV. Then his vanity license plate backfired big time.
• The fashion line designed to trick surveillance cameras | World news | The Guardian
• Tesla Model 3 owner implants RFID chip to turn her arm into a key
• Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why.

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• Apple: Break Safari's privacy rules and we'll treat you like malware
• Huawei employees reportedly caught helping African governments spy on opposition
• Automattic’s bargain-bin Tumblr deal plugs right into the WordPress business model
• These Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Computer
• He got 2 million people to say they’d storm Area 51. Now he’s planning an alien festival.
• The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers - The Verge
• 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service - The Verge

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Special Guest: Jeff Hilimire.

Links:

• Using AI to give doctors a 48-hour head start on life-threatening illness | DeepMind
• LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light | The Planetary Society
• Satellites are becoming real-time spies in the sky - CNET
• The Federal Reserve announces plans for a real-time payments system that will be available to all banks
• Apple's flashy new credit card is now available (to some)
• Disney finally unveils Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu bundle for $12.99 monthly
• Forget touchscreens: This case controls a smartphone with buttons and dials
• Scientists Create Contact Lenses That Zoom with Blinks and Looks
• French 'Green Goblin' crosses English Channel on hoverboard