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Diginauts 0014 — Trump Team Botching Tech Security, Human-Pig Chimerae, Facial Recognition Catching Criminals

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Terrible Trump Tech (0:00): January in the Trump administration has featured failure to 2-factor authenticate, vulnerable phones, tweeted passwords, and worse.
segment 2, Juris Prudent — Facial Recognition Fighting Crime (12:11): Are you comfortable with the FBI using computers to check your photo in their database when they suspect someone of a crime?
segment 3, Future File — Meme Marketplace (24:39): A subreddit allowing you to “buy” memes.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (31:43): Splicing embryos to grow human organs, computerized telepathy, and the climate change run–down.

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Drumpf & Technology (0:00): Technology’s most powerful are gathering in New York to meet with Donald Drumpf. What will they say? And what the hell are they not telling us about Russian cyber interference in the election?
segment 2, Future File — Fusion Stellerator (23:55): German scientists have successfully tested the next level of their fusion device, and the results were unprecedentedly positive.
segment 3, Juris Prudent — Opting Out of Body Scanners (35:33): A blogger shared his experience opting out of the “voluntary” airport scanners in Berlin. FAKE NEWS ALERT!!! Deron mentions that a TSA operator was caught masturbating to images from a backscatter device. He got fooled. Snopes says that never happened.
segment 4, Let’s Dig Some More (48:34): After a round-up of headlines on climate change, we discuss the possibility of the UK military recruiting computer gamers as weaponized drone operators. We also listen to a Christmas song composed by an artificial intelligence that was shown a picture of a Christmas tree.
segment 5, What’s Your Take — Entrepreneurial Predisposition (1:03:55): We discuss whether entrepreneurship is in your DNA.

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segment 1, Top of Mind — Human Head Transplant (0:00): A doctor claims to be prepared to transplant a human head. He’s preparing the patient via virtually reality simulations.
segment 2, Future File — ATMs Collect a City’s DNA (16:40): NYU scientists think you get a snapshot of human populations and environments by gathering microbes at ATMs.
segment 3, If You Had To Choose — Privacy Incursions (24:13): Which of these stories bothers you more, as a potential threat to your privacy?
segment 4, Dig Some More — Facebook & #YouthVGov (37:01): We’ve talked about fake news possibly impacting the election. We discuss the history of sharing via social media. Now a study shows that students fail to recognize whether a news source is legit. Mark Zuckerberg has begun to admit that Facebook might have been a part of fake news, and the company is considering their role. Plus, a representative from Our Children’s Trust tweeted us with further information about the lawsuit in which children around the country sued the U.S. government to end global climate change.