Episode 92: Can We Get Elizabeth Holmes and Mike Tyson to Debate?

In This Episode:

• NASA Sends Tiny Atomic Clock to Space (2:28)
• Theranos Founder to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges (4:50)
• Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages (5:57)
• Amazon will crash on Prime Day, 60% of surveyed eBay employees say (7:45)
• 7-Eleven's Bad App Design Let Criminals Steal More Than $500,000 (9:04)
• Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them (12:03)
• Yes, your emails are being tracked. Here's how to stop it. (15:03)
• Internet group brands Mozilla ‘internet villain’ for supporting DNS privacy feature (17:25)
• Apple trolled Google again by giant billboard next to its controversial smart neighborhood (21:10)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• Hate listening to high-fidelity music? Here’s a Bluetooth cassette Walkman. (23:00)
• IT'S OK - The World's First Bluetooth 5.0 Cassette Player
• The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat (24:47)
• This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience (27:22)
• Windows 1.0 Release Video (28:50)
• Apple’s new iPhone software makes it look like you’re making eye contact in video calls even if you aren’t (30:15)

Tech Recommendations (31:42)

• Adam - Shortcuts iOS App
• Sanjay - Cam Scanner

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Links:

• NASA Sends Tiny Atomic Clock to Space - ExtremeTech
• Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges - WSJ
• Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages - MIT Technology Review
• Amazon will crash on Prime Day, 60% of surveyed eBay employees say
• 7-Eleven's Bad App Design Let Criminals Steal More Than $500,000
• Emojis are increasingly coming up in court cases. Judges are struggling with how to interpret them