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Diginauts 0024 — New Trivia App, AI begets AI, Driverless Car Testing

October 20, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Most Disruptive — Wifi Security (0:00): In our new show format, Deron & Eric start out the show by comparing their takes on which tech headlines from the last week will have the biggest impact… ON HUMANITY!!! New HQ trivia app from Vine founders? Dangerous flaw in Wi-Fi security standards?
segment 2, Juris Prudent — Graffiti Artists’ Rights (18:20): A New York court case about ownership, art, landmarks, and culture.
segment 3, D.O.O.O.o.M.E.D. — Fresh Water Run-off (25:52): A chemical breakthrough in the process of desalinization could mean increased efficiency and reduced cost.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More. — CA Allows Driverless Testing (36:59): The Russians are even using our video games to manipulate America? Would you eat human flesh if it’s grown in the lab? Police on hooverbikes(!) in Dubai. You might see test cars on the streets of California — sans drivers.
segment 5, Always in Motion Is The Future — Techpocalypse (51:30): Will humans destroy themselves with their own technology? Runaway artificial intelligence? Nuclear war? Tiny nanobots reducing us to goo? We evaluate a DigitalTrends article predicting six ways humanity might end.

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Diginauts 0023 — Russia’s Trojan Horse, VC by AI, Renewable Energy Advances

October 13, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Kaspersky Labs (0:00): More rumors of more Russian interference in U.S. computer systems
segment 2, The Fake News Game (9:21) : Play along with us! This time it’s Deron’s turn to see if he can pick out which of four science headlines are real, and which one Eric completely made up.
segment 3, Future File — AI Predicting Start-up Success (24:28) : Can computers do a better job than humans when it comes to picking winning venture capital opportunities?
segment 4, Dig Some More (30:08): We’ll look at new advances in artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, and renewable resources. Energy from seaweed, tears, or blood, anyone?

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Diginauts 0022 — Robot Muscle, Frog Orgies, Blockchaining Everything

September 22, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Blockchain: The Tokenization of Everything (0:00): Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been making headlines. Eric offers his theory that the underlying blockchain technology could revolutionize more than just money, but really much of human interaction.
segment 2, Three Headlines & a Lie — Frogs (11:55) : Deron plays liar’s poker with Eric about the latest scientific discoveries in the Ranidae family.
segment 3, Future File — Robot Muscle (25:08): Columbia engineers have created a low-power, 3D-printable muscle that represents a huge breakthrough in robot autonomy.
segment 4, Dig Some More (31:00): Trapping CO2 in liquid form under the oceans. A note of optimism in doom predictions for our odds of crossing 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial temperature averages. An Israeli-Chinese trade deal on artificial meat. Peter Thiel being considered for a top intelligence position by the White House. The FCC seeks to make America great again — by lowering the bar on what qualifies as “high-speed” internet.

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Diginauts 0021 — Artificial Meat, Driverless Car Ethics, Sexuality Auto-Detection

September 21, 2017September 22, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — AI guessing your sexual orientation (0:00): A Stanford professor’s work with AI can guess whether you’re gay better than other humans can.
segment 2, Future File — Weaponized Sound (13:27) : What’s affecting American diplomats? Are their symptoms related to weaponized sound?
segment 3, More Future File — Lab Meat (18:20): Meat is an industry worth billions, and if anyone can figure out how to produce meat (without animals), there’s a fortune in it for them.
segment 4, Dig Some More (24:50): Cargo ships can now cross the Arctic sea. A giant dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is a record breaker. Methane-belching permafrost craters from outgassing in Siberia. Colony collapse disorder may be on the mend? The monkey selfie case gets a settlement. Germany has produced a set of ethical standards for driverless cars.

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Diginauts 0020 — Refreezing a Glacier, Downing Unwanted Drones, New Hydrogen Fuel Catalyst

May 19, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, If You Had To Choose — Investment in Future Tech (0:00): We’ll look at three micro-industries that are seeing a bloom of startups and ask ourselves where we would invest hypothetical money. Flying cars anyone?
segment 2, Always in Motion Is the Future — Seven Predictions from Bill Gates (19:30): We discuss his visions of future developments and decide if we believe he’s on the right track.
segment 3, Revisiting Previous Stories (37:09): That head transplant doctor is talking plans again. Switzerland aims to re-freeze a glacier. We’ve discovered ‘lost’ forests that could impact all of our climate change modeling.

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Diginauts 0019 — Living Forever, a River Reverses, Microbes on Saturn’s Moon?

May 10, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — No One Understands AI (0:00): The folks who are on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence admit they know longer quite get how it works.
segment 2, Let’s Hash It Out — #NASA (10:41): A paper details revelations about Saturn’s moon Enceledus. Chemicals exist that could host life… maybe?
segment 3, Future File — Immortality! (23:36): Tests on rodents using “chemical torpedos” have eliminated the cells that invite disease.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (32:21): A river starts flowing the opposite direction because of climate change. What company has been running autonomous vehicles longer than anyone thinks about? Russia is definitely NOT building a terminator.

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Diginauts 0018 — Musk’s New Neuralink Venture, Bleached Coral Reefs, Artificial Synapses

April 15, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Neuralink: Elon Musk doesn’t have enough companies yet, so he’s starting a new one to explore connecting human brains with computers.
segment 2, Future File — Synthetic Synapses: A team at the National Center for Scientific Research has created a “memristor,” a first step in artificial brains.
segment 3, Juris Prudent — Patents Versus Ownership Rights: The Supreme Court is deciding whether companies can continue to maintain control over the use of their products, even after you buy them. Lexmark doesn’t want you to reuse your printer cartridges via third-party suppliers, and we discuss the precedent that might set.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More: In Deron’s Official Omnibus Offering of Mother Earth Dispatches, the Great Barrier Reef is terminally ill. Stories of robots replacing bricklayers, contractors, pizza delivery folk, financial corporate officers, and even lawyers and creative directors.

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Diginauts 0017 — Those Seven Exoplanets, Wireless Power Transfer, Fracking Fluid Leaks

March 2, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — NSA Spy Tech (0:00): Palantir is a software company allegedly NOT linked to the oversteps of the NSA PRISM program about which Edward Snowden raised alarms, but nonetheless designed to help governments make use of massive amounts of data for spying purposes . One of its primary investors is Peter Thiel, now also a Trump adviser. Conflict of interest?
segment 2, Let’s Hash It Out — Exoplanets & Private Moon Trips (11:06): NASA has found a solar system with SEVEN Earth-sized planets, three of which might offer conditions to support life. SpaceX has accepted a deposit from private citizens for a recreational trip around the moon.
segment 3, Future File — Wireless Power (23:03): Disney Research says they’ve developed a way to safely deliver power to a roomful of devices… without cords.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (32:55): Fracking fluid is leaking more often than twe thought. High levels of dangerous chemicals are showing up in cats. More on de-extincting animals, and an update from Facebook to minimize the infamous echo chamber effect.

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Diginauts 0016 — Resurrecting Woolly Mammoths, 23 Principals for AI, Taxing Robot Workers

February 22, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Woolly Mammoth Comeback (0:00): Harvard scientists intend to splice mammoth DNA into elephants and create a hybrid species. (Although not everyone things the timeline is realistic.)
segment 2, Future File — 23 Guidelines for AI (11:47): A consortium of top professionals have endorsed a set of rules they say society should follow when researching artificial intelligence. Do you agree with their choices?
segment 3, Juris Prudent — Gamergate Injustice? (23:57): Freedom of Information Act investigation into the FBI’s files on Gamergate reveal evidence and CONFESSIONS from harassers, but prosecutors are choosing not to charge perpetrators.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (38:31): China will get vertical forests. Dubai bringing a fleet of flying taxis to market THIS YEAR! Elon musk thinks humans must merge with computers. Bill Gates says we should tax robots.

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Diginauts 0015 — How Space Affects Your Body, Fukushima Radiation, Net Neutrality in Danger Again

February 8, 2017February 9, 2017 by GoodTalk

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Twins! In! Spaaaaaaace! (0:00): NASA sent one twin into space, and kept the other on Earth. We’ll talk about what they learned from the brothers’ DNA.
segment 2, If You Had To Choose — Recent Governmental Maneuvers (8:00): Trump’s FCC chair signals lack of interest in net neutrality. A federal magistrate rules that Google must turn over foreign emails to the FBI. And Congress rolls back environmental protection laws
segment 3, Hope For Humanity — Swearing & Honesty (32:39):A University of Cambridge suggests those who use curse words tend to be more honest.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (36:52): Fukushima radiation has spiked dangerously, an alleged arsonist was trapped by his pacemaker data, and a Chinese factory has successfully replaced 90% of its human workers with robots.

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