Tech Talk Y'all Episode 139: Good Sci Fi Nerd Stuff
Jun 15, 2020
36:55
In this Episode:
- Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year
- IBM is exiting the face recognition business
- This bricklaying robot can construct a house in 48 hours
- Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
- Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
- Twitter Locks Account That Posts Trump’s Tweets Verbatim After Less Than 3 Days
- Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines
- SoftBank-backed Lemonade files to go public
- Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's 'top priority' from now on
Weird and Wacky:
- Someone paid $2.6 million in fees to move $134 worth of crypto and oops
- Man tormented by mystery pizza deliveries to his house for almost a decade
- A treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade has finally been found
- A teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a protest is rewarded with a car and a college scholarship
Links:
- Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines | TechCrunch
- Forrest Fenn treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains for 10 years has finally been found - CNN
- IBM is exiting the face recognition business - Axios
- Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla
- Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun | MIT Technology Review
- Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year