Civic duty; Bill Gates calls for regulation of platforms; Jony Ive; Reddit & Twitter reign in Trump; border crossings; facial recognition bans; Facebook’s digital ID push; NASA hacked; heartbeat recognition; secret surveillance scores; aggression detection; doomsday preppier profiles; sous vide; robocalls; if we only had a brain.
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Show Notes
FOLLOW UP
Bill Gates accidentally makes the case to regulate the hell out of platform companies
San Francisco’s e-cigarette sales ban is an unprecedented health experiment
IN THE NEWS
Your professional decline is coming (much) sooner than you think
The Jordan Harbinger Show – 211: Arthur Brooks | How Loving Your Enemies Can Save America
Why Reddit Finally Quarantined r/The_Donald—and Why It’s Probably Scared to Ban It
Twitter won’t censor Trump’s rule-breaking tweets, but it will make them harder to find
SECURITY HAH!
ALARMING AI CLONES BOTH A PERSON’S VOICE AND THEIR SPEECH PATTERNS
Boston suburb bans facial recognition software
Police body-cam maker Axon says no to facial recognition, for now
Buried in Facebook’s Libra White Paper, a Digital Identity Bombshell
NASA Confirms Its Deep Space Network Has Been Hacked
The Pentagon has a laser that identifies people by their heartbeat
RETAILERS ARE JUDGING CONSUMERS BY USING SECRET “SURVEILLANCE SCORES”
Firefox Wants to Help You Fool Ad Trackers With 100 Useless Browser Tabs
APPS & DOODADS
Niantic is throwing a Harry Potter: Wizards Unite fan festival this summer
Instant Pot SSV800 Accu Slim Sous Vide Immersion Circulator, 6 or 8 quart
FoodSaver V2244 Vacuum Sealer Machine with Starter Kit | Safety Certified
Western Digital 8TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive – USB 3.0 – WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN
FTC, Justice Dept. takes coordinated action against robocallers
Star Wars furniture is here, and you probably can’t afford it
BRIC-A-BRAC
NASA’s About to Send an Atomic Clock Into Orbit, And It’ll Revolutionise Space Travel
It took two minutes for Taco Bell to sell out its new hotel, because people are weird
Watch High-Speed MRI Images of Someone Singing “If I Only Had a Brain“
There Is A Wine Theme Park In France And It Looks Magnifique
