Monkey Selfie

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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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segment 1, Top of Mind — DDoS Attack (0:00): Spotify, Amazon, Paypal, and Twitter all suffered downtime last week owing to waves of Denial of Service attacks. This latest cyber-attack involved the Internet of Things. Who was responsible, and how do we stop future attacks?
segment 2, Future File — Brainwave Interfaces (17:04): A review in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience theorizes that we might be able to decode brain activity, allowing computers to convert our thoughts to words or computer codes. We discuss the implications of computers that can essentially read our minds.
segment 3, Juris Prudent — AT&T’s Project Hemisphere (27:24 ): Law enforcement can buy into a database kept by AT&T that tracks user location. Are they violating your privacy rights?
segment 4, Total Recall (43:49): Genetic modification will have a failsafe, if DARPA has anything to do with it, and a listener offers a suggestion for how to verb listening to audio books.
segment 5, What’s Your Take?– Intellectual Property Rights for Computers? (52:28 ): We just can’t stop talking about the Monkey Selfie case, and this time we’re also exploring the possibility that computers should own patents for inventions created by their software.

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