Facebook Launches Original Video Shows, Kaspersky withdraws antitrust complaint against Microsoft, Consumer Reports withdraws recommendations for Surface laptops and tablets.

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Intel bets big on self-driving cars, esports might go Olympic and some myths about the death of Flash busted.
With Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt

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• News You Should Know
  • (00:55) US ITC will investigate Apple’s alleged Qualcomm patent infringement
  • (01:20) Valve announced card-based video game
  • (01:55) Intel will stream 8th-gen Core announcement
  • (02:10) Anker released Echo Dot competitor Genie
• More Top Stories
  • (03:40) Tencent and Amazon invested in Essential PH-1 Phone
  • (04:40) Disney plans to launch ESPN, Disney/Pixar streaming services
  • (10:10) Intel will build fleet of 100 level 4 autonomous cars
  • (11:05) 2024 Olympics may include competitive video games
  • (13:55) Sony developed educational record blockchain
• Discussion
  • (16:00) Animation and Flash in this golden age of televised animated
    • List of Flash animated television series – Wikipedia
    • Toon Boom
    • Moho (Anime Studio)
    • OpenToonz
    • Dragonframe
    • Maya
      • Maya Free for Students
    • Blender
• Message of the Day
  • (27:25) Joe the Pilot – pilot shortage
  • (29:00) Mike – organ donation

Disney buys BAMTech will end Netflix deal, Apple to launch three iPhones at once in September, Archive.org blocked in India.

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Google fires an engineer, France and Germany team up on US tech company tax avoidance, and why we overestimate progress in two years and underestimate ten. With Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt.

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• Breaking News
  •  Disney will acquire majority ownership of BAMTech
• News You Should Know
  •  Uber plans to close Xchange Leasing program
  •  Spotify arrives on XBox One
• More Top Stories
  •  Google fires engineer who criticized diversity policies
    • Fired Google memo writer draws jeers, cheers and a job offer – Reuters
    • Google has fired the employee who penned a controversial memo on women and tech – recode
    • Exclusive: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google – Gizmodo
    • The Most Common Error in Media Coverage of the Google Memo – The Atlantic
    • The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond – Quillette
  •  France, Germany among countries closing tax loopholes
  •  Ming-Chi Kuo updates iPhone release expectations
  •  Google Pixel 2 leaks allege curved glass, dual flash
  •  HBO attackers release more internal data, 3-day deadline
• Discussion
  •  We tend to tend to over estimate what can be achieved in 2 years and underestimate what can be done in 10
• Message of the Day
  •  Rolando – Mailvelope

Google fires engineer who wrote critical memo, Intel announced 18-core consumer processor, IBM’s big advance in deep learning.

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AI improves sleep tests, innovation slowly arrives for breast pumps and the latest on the arrest of Marcus Hutchins, AKA malwaretech. Plus a listener asks a tough question about self-driving cars and organ donations.
With Veronica Belmont, Roger Chang, and Tom Merritt

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Netflix acquires a comic book publisher, a Google engineer kicks off a diversity argument, and Amazon re-lists Blu phones.

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Great news for hearing aid tech, not so great news for teens and smart phones.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Len Peralta.

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• News You Should Know
  • (02:00) Hutchins arraigned for creating & distributing Kronos banking Trojan
  • (02:40) Spotify coming to XBox One
• More Top Stories
  • (03:05) Lenovo switching to stock Android starting with K8 Note
  • (03:55) Coinbase will support Bitcoin fork BitCoin Cash by Jan 1
  • (06:25) Facebook translating 4.5 billion messages daily using Caffe2
  • (08:00) US Senate passed bill to allow hearing aid purchase without prescription
    • Over-the-counter hearing aids coming soon?
  • (11:50) Columbia Engineering design hearing aid with AI to focus hearing
• Discussion
  • (14:10) Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – the Atlantic
• Message of the Day
  • (03:15) Robert – Apple ‘scrambling’

Len Peralta’s “The iGen”

Security researcher malwaretech arrested, Facebook improves machine translation and China conducts website removal drills.

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The man who stopped the WannaCry arrested arrested on accusations of building a banking trojan, how to USB charge safely, and Facebook’s fight against falsity.

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