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Jul 3, 2019 • 30min
146 CCNT “Cyborg Plants, Banker Bailout & Student Surveillance” - 07.03.2019
Basil may never live up the biblical brain juice of our guest co-host for this episode; Dr. Michael S. Heiser joins us! In this episode, robots that can taste food, cyborg plants, bankers panic as AI and robots take over finance, and student surveillance is irresponsible. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE!

Jun 26, 2019 • 37min
145 CCNT "Central Banks Decoded & Keep Babies Away from Bezos!" - 06.26.2019
As Basil continues to traverse on a distant timeline from our own, Gonz is joined by guest co-host Mel from Truthstream Media. They discuss Jeff Bezos’ new video of using his robot arms, a quick update on the scam that is the LIBRA project, and a Bloomberg article on how robots are decoding the cryptic language of central bankers! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of June 20th-June 26th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! How to make money off Facebook’s Libra — Quartz FLIPPY AND FAM! Robots Can Now Decode the Cryptic Language of Central Bankers - Bloomberg Watch Jeff Bezos playing with giant remote-controlled robot hands - Business Insider First-of-its-kind robotic arm works without brain implant McDonalds Is Trialing Kitchen Robots And Voice-Automated Drive-Thrus Toyota Basketball Bot Earns Guinness Record With 2,020 Perfect Throws | Digital Trends Trash-Picking Robots? Park Bench Monitors? Toronto Debates Tech Giant’s Waterfront Plans TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! This AI Uses Echolocation to Follow Your Every Move AI services startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor | TechCrunch How Conversational Artificial Intelligence Is Providing Companionship To The Elderly Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Our Faces | WIRED This terrifying AI generates fake articles from any news site Thanks to AI, we know we can teleport qubits in the real | Cosmos Artificial intelligence can't solve online extremism issue, experts tell House panel | TheHill How Facebook's New 'Mirror World' Will Help Train AI Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, says he'd start an AI company today Hackers are turning our AI security systems against us — but they can be stopped Can Space Robots Save Humanity? MIT's new robot can identify things by sight and by touch Wearable robot 'WalkON Suit' off to Cybathlon 2020 Self-Assembling Microrobots Can Be Programmed To Form A Tiny Car | Digital Trends Bike and Snake: Meet the robots that will keep Norway's gas flowing Robotic Vending Machines Want To Feed You Frozen Yogurt Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children BECAUSE SCIENCE! Physicists develop new method to prove quantum entanglement CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! First clinical trail for male contraceptive gel starts in UK - Business Insider Trump accidentally debunks his own “deep state” FBI conspiracy theory - Vox A brief history of the politics of UFOs - CNNPolitics Moon landing 50th anniversary: why people like Steph Curry have supported conspiracy theories - Vox UFO sighting: ‘Alien craft’ spotted during NASA Apollo 12 moon walk | Weird | News | Express.co.uk Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Evades Crackdown On Social Media Sites Arizona Board of Education backs off changes to sex ed curriculum amid uproar | Fox News YouTube Star Etika Is Found Dead in NYC Dementia risk tied to anticholinergic drugs in a new study - CNN Smartphones aren’t making millennials grow horns. Here’s how to spot a bad study | PBS NewsHour CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA Here’s how AI can help fight climate change according to the field’s top thinkers - The Verge SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs NASA Wants Robots to Sniff Out Moon Pits for Astronaut Homes | Space Astronauts, not robots, essential to getting answers on the moon - UPI.com Nasa Mars rover discovers gas that suggests recent alien life | The Independent On Digital Mysticism Mississippi town dedicates historical marker at site of 'alien abduction' | Fox News Alien life on Mars may have emerged earlier than life on Earth, study says - CNET BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Genetic Adam is 340,000 Years Old - Neatorama Russia Will Genetically Test Soldiers To Identify The Best Fighters And Thinkers Genetics research gets help from social media - Reuters Experts warn consumers about genetic DNA screening scams Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget | WIRED Transhumanism and genetically altering people, today's great ethical challenge | ROME REPORTS What is biohacking? The new “science” of optimizing your brain and body. - Vox Scientist develops novel algorithm to aid search for exoplanets Non-addictive CRISPR-edited tobacco could help eliminate smoking | New Scientist "This is crazy!"—Top Scientists Condemn Russian's Plan for CRISPR Babies | BioSpace The Art of Gene-editing Butterflies (Painting With CRISPR) Video | Technology Networks CRISPR in Russia: The World's Next Gene-Edited Babies May Not Be Far Away Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead - CNET THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS The Witches are Back The Modern Witch – XPRESS MAGAZINE On Digital Mysticism FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Elon Musk's 'Moon Mix-Up' Was Actually an Epic Bezos Troll Elon Musk: Here’s Why World Population Will Start To Collapse Soon | Daily Wire Elon Musk bewilders Twitter users with tweet about Mars Tesla close to quarterly delivery record, Elon Musk says in email - Business Insider Washington town where Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates live is having a budget crisis | Fox Business Jeff Bezos says going to the moon is harder now than it was for JFK – GeekWire Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates Worth $100 Billion Each - Bloomberg Even Bill Gates pronounces ‘Bezos’ wrong — here’s how to say the Amazon CEO’s name – GeekWire Mark Zuckerberg to speak at Aspen Ideas conference - CNN Mark Zuckerberg deepfake video: Why Facebook hasn't taken it down yet - Business Insider CRYPTOCURRENCY & THE B-B-B-BLOCKCHAIN Salesforce Explores Blockchain To Stop Biased Robots From Ruining $1 Trillion Opportunity SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Designers built an AI penis detector to protest Google’s prudish doodles - The Verge Senator Markey Asks FTC to Force Google to Delete Data on Minors - Bloomberg Google Chrome now lets you flag sketchy websites - CNN Thune Wants Google and Facebook to Have Algorithm-Free Options - Bloomberg Google Responds to Claims That Maps Has Millions of Fake Business Listings Google's new curriculum teaches kids how to spot fake news and URLs - TechSpot How Google searches might be able to predict the 2020 Democratic race - CNNPolitics Amazon overtakes Google and Apple to become the world’s most valuable brand | TechRadar Google warns its employees that Pride protests are against the company’s code of conduct Amazon is leasing more planes so it can deliver packages on its own - CNN Amazon receives US patent for surveillance as a service — Quartz 32 Mind-Blowing Amazon Statistics for 2019 Walmart and Amazon want to see inside your house. Should you let them? - Los Angeles Times How to stop Amazon ads, Alexa from tracking you Brazil court slashes fine for Facebook's refusal to share WhatsApp data - Reuters Facebook is building a dedicated news tab for publishers - Business Insider Why the Lonely Stand to Lose the Most from Facebook | Psychology Today

Jun 19, 2019 • 31min
144 CCNT “Zuck Buck and Libra” - 06.19.2019
Basil is still traversing time and space, so Gonz is joined by Sean from SGT Report to discuss coach spies, US in the world of gaming, the new global coin project from Facebook’s Libra project, and Zuckerberg’s Deep Fake. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of June 12th-June 19th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! (DeepFake) Deepfaked Mark Zuckerberg Looks Uncannily Like the Real Thing New deepfake algorithm allows you to text-edit the words of a speaker in a video Can copyright law combat deepfakes? CALLED IT! Facebook aims to shake up finance with its Libra cryptocurrency - CNET BASIL’S CAREER ADVICE Python Could Rule the Machine Learning/A.I. World FLIPPY AND FAM! Dishcraft launches with a massive robotics-powered dishwashing system | TechCrunch Anyone can program this cheap robot arm in just 15 minutes - MIT Technology Review TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! Someone Used a Neural Network to Draw Doom Guy in High-Res MIT researchers taught robots to link senses like sight and touch This Robot Will Make Any Car a Self-Driving Car Sweeping changes: How iRobot evolved from military robots to autonomous vacuums | VentureBeat The fourth Industrial revolution emerges from AI and the Internet of Things | Ars Technica Opinion | ‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I. - A new chip lets robots “imagine” their actions before they make a move - MIT Technology Review Domino’s will start delivering pizzas via an autonomous robot this fall - The Washington Post AI is worse at identifying household items from lower-income countries - The Verge Anyone can program this cheap robot arm in just 15 minutes - MIT Technology Review DJI's first educational robot is a $500 drone tank 'Optionally manned' robotic gun is Army's latest step toward autonomous weapons | ZDNet CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Dad of Sandy Hook victim wins suit against conspiracy theorists U.S. Government Announces Critical Warning For Microsoft Windows Users Angela Merkel seen visibly shaking while standing next to Ukraine’s president; blames dehydration | Alex Jones hit with sanctions by judge in Sandy Hook lawsuit - CNN Trump’s conspiracy theories about intelligence will make the CIA’s job harder - The Washington Post CLIMATE CHANGE AGENDA Boaty McBoatface, Internet-Adored Sub, Makes Deep-Sea Discovery On Climate Change : NPR Renewable energy: the global transition, explained in 12 charts - Vox The Melting Arctic Is Releasing Poison, Disease and Nuclear Waste SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Astronomers Peer Back 13 Billion Years and See Two Galaxies Colliding Astronomers Have Spotted a New Crater on Mars That's Like Nothing They've Ever Seen UFO sighting: NASA SOHO space probe spots ’giant alien disk’ shoot out of 'HOLLOW' NASA ramps up search for alien planets, may use huge 'starshade' | Fox News "Big Bang Vanishes" --Quantum Theory Describes an Eternal Universe | The Daily Galaxy We Just Found 2 of The Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Yet, Only 12.5 Light Years Away Big Bang BOMBSHELL: Are we living inside a HUGE higher dimensional black hole? Astronomers searching for alien life release biggest set of data in history | The Independent Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins reveals unseen photo of Moon landing crew he 'found at the bottom of a box' BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM GMO Wheat Escapes Lab, Grows in the Wild Probably Genetic helps families identify genetic conditions early with AI and DNA tests | TechCrunch Tracking life's first step: Two molecules 'awaken' brand new genome Gene Increases Risk for Pot Addiction - Scientific American BECAUSE SCIENCE! Scientists discover infinite decay and rebirth in quantum particles Neuroscientists 3-D model 'face identity information' stored in the brain When Will Quantum Computers Outperform Regular Computers? THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS At the Met Breuer, Awe-Inspiring Sculptures of Deities Show How an Indian Artist Forged Her Own Personal Language for Fabric Art The working witches of Los Angeles just want you to be your best self - Los Angeles Times FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Amazon to AOC: Excuse You, Our Employees Live Like Kings on $15/Hour | Vanity Fair Elon Musk Doesn't Learn, Posts Uncredited Artwork, Deletes Tweet CRYPTOCURRENCY & THE B-B-B-BLOCKCHAIN Bitcoin Becomes “Money,” One Satoshi Now More Valuable Than Some National Currencies | NewsBTC SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them – BGR NASA boss says 'no doubt' SpaceX explosion delays flight program | Article [AMP] | Reuters Instagram couple criticized for asking followers to fund $11,000 trip - INSIDER Google pledges $1 billion to ease the Silicon Valley housing crisis it helped create - The Verge I Used Cash at Amazon's Cashless Store and I'm So Sorry, Rahim

Jun 12, 2019 • 33min
143 CCNT “The Beast from Down Under!” - 06.12.2019
In this episode, Gonz is joined in the absence of Basil Rosewater, with a pair of co-hosts, Chuck and Omar of FireTheftRadio. They discuss affordable flippy arms, Russian CRISPR guy, and biometrics at work from down under. We had to push the Nephilim Update into the Extended Report, which you can access on our Patreon page! Also, make sure to follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! Mini AGG for the WEEK of June 5th -June 11th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! Apple promises privacy, but iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! The CBP Data Breach Was Inevitable - The Atlantic Critical Update: Inside DARPA's DARPA - Nextgov Amazon's Scout robots: That's no cooler, that's your Prime delivery - CNET CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Conspiracy Website InfoWars Parts Ways With Pepe The Frog : NPR SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Russian Biologist Pledges to Create More CRISPR-Edited Babies CRISPR Baby Mutation Linked to Higher Risk of Early Death Act now on CRISPR babies Ultimate limit of human endurance found - BBC News THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS Opinion | The Age of Aquarius, All Over Again! - The New York Times

Jun 5, 2019 • 31min
142 CCNT “CRISPR Machete & a week in VR” - 06.05.2019
This week, DARPA Robots impress, ESPN lies, CRISPR issues and advancements, the guy who lived in VR for a week, and a Nephilim Update! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE!

May 29, 2019 • 32min
141 CCNT “OFFICIAL: UFOs are real!” - 05.29.2019
This episode begins with a debate. Gonz thinks the little DARPA robot dog pulling a 3 ton airplane is quite impressive. But Basil counters with videos of humans pulling 747’s like here, here, and here. Gonz counters back with examples of dogs pulling objects like this and this. You decide! Also, CRISPR Cas-9 experiments are taking place in space, WAPO reporting on the credibility of UFOs, and a Nephilim update! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of May 23th-May 29nd Newly Released Amazon Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get This AI Uses Echolocation to Identify What You're Doing | WIRED Astounding AI Guesses What You Look Like Based on Your Voice Amazon defeated shareholder’s vote on facial recognition by a wide margin | TechCrunch When algorithms mess up, the nearest human gets the blame - MIT Technology Review Will robotic romantic partners be more common than real ones by 2050? | Metro News To Fight Deepfakes, Researchers Built a Smarter Camera | WIRED Laser Project Aims to Melt Moon Dust Into a Lunar Base All-Girls Robotic Team From Ghana Wins World Robofest Championship Hollywood is quietly using AI to help decide which movies to make - The Verge New genetic engineering strategy makes human-made DNA invisible Astronauts Use CRISPR in Space for the First Time Ever Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget | WIRED Honeywell One Step Closer To Universal Quantum Computer UFO sighting news: New Area 51 underground base found on Google Maps | Weird | News | Express.co.uk If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will Rule the Wireless Spectrum - IEEE Spectrum If DARPA Has Its Way, AI Will Rule the Wireless Spectrum - IEEE Spectrum How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die SpaceX wants to offer Starlink internet to consumers after just six launches For The First Time, DNA Has Been Edited With CRISPR in Space A robot dog pulled a 3-ton plane, and we're not scared at all - CNET Annunaki, Nephilim and Denisovans? Contact in Desert explores ancient giants Amazon reportedly wants to 3D-scan your body for a $25 gift card - CNET Pentagon finally admits it investigates UFOs | Fox News Apple-picking robots gear up for U.S. debut in Washington state – GeekWire Amazon ‘gamifies’ the workplace, pitting workers against each other in 5 unidentified warehouses – Press Enterprise

May 23, 2019 • 30min
140 CCNT “We Tried To Tell Ya!” - 05.22.2019
One Forty starts with the birth of Punchy, a fork race of Flippy, Joe Rogan’s creepy AI voice means doom for all podcasters, DNA scam alert, man is fined for avoiding UK face scan, and China plans to clone an army of police dogs. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of May 16th-May 22nd YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! Washington becomes first state to legalize human composting – The Seattle Times This AI-generated Joe Rogan fake has to be heard to be believed - The Verge Office worker launches UK's first police facial recognition legal action | Technology | The Guardian Philip Nitschke's 3D-printed Sarco "death pod" lets users die TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! Schrödinger's Art: Spooky physics paints microscopic artworks on "quantum canvas" The Potential New World Of The Electric and Robotic RV Stanford University’s newest robot is Doggo, a cute four-legged open-source bot - The Verge This walking robot could soon be delivering your packages 'Spidey senses' could help autonomous machines see better DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Drones With Their Thoughts CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIME S FACTS! 12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country - The Atlantic MMS: Jim Humble, YouTube hyped bleach as autism cure, reached millions QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader J.Z. Knight SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs NASA and Virgin Orbit have 3D-printed a working rocket engine part - MIT Technology Review In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo | Space Stanton T. Friedman, Scientist Who Tracked U.F.O.s, Dies at 84 - The New York Times BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM World's First Telescopic Lens Capable of Zooming Your Vision Three Times China awaits third genetically modified baby amid questions of CRISPR's ethics China Clones Top Police Dog, With Goal of “Mass Production” Airbnb Partners With 23andMe to Make It Easier for People to Get In Touch With Their Roots or Something BECAUSE SCIENCE! Raytheon Says Laser Weapon Will Blast Nuclear Missiles From Sky Putin: Russian Military Has “Science Fiction” Laser Weapons FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Tesla Autopilot suggests lane change into oncoming traffic - Electrek Tesla hires the 'absolute unit' meme guy to run its social media Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Could Be Online Before 2021 | Digital Trends SpaceX Delays Launch of Starlink Internet Satellites (Again), Bitcoin Blockchain Already in Space - BeInCrypto Jeff Bezos finally gets .Amazon after DNS overlord ICANN runs out of excuses to delay decision any further • The Register Jeff Bezos to employees: 'very excited' about auto industry SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years - The Verge Silicon Valley: Living In A Van In Google's Backyard? Some Employees Make It Work Amazon Is Teaching Alexa to Analyze Your Emotions Ice-T calls out Amazon after he 'almost shot' one of the company's delivery drivers | Fox News

May 16, 2019 • 31min
139 CCNT “Gen Alpha & Titan Athletics” - 05.15.2019
This week, AI to tell us who to vote for, China makes real life Angry Bird truck, Generation Alpha is here, and humanity will be engineered to titans by the year 2100. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of May 9th-May 15th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology - The New York Times TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! DARPA Hosts Rocket Contest for Speedy Space Deliveries on Cheddar Scientists help artificial intelligence outsmart hackers | Science | AAAS Coming of Age in the Age of AI: The First Fully Digital Generation Mackmyra Whiskey Partners With Microsoft and Fourkind | AI-Generated Whisky Chinese Military Truck Launches Killer Drones Like Artillery Watch a Leech-Like Robot Crawl Its Way up a Wall Avoid the politics and let artificial intelligence decide your vote in the next election Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop • The Register Addressing the Biases Plaguing Algorithms Now You Can Experiment With OpenAI’s “Dangerous” Fake News AI A new AI acquired humanlike ‘number sense’ on its own | Science News Use this cutting-edge AI text generator to write stories, poems, news articles, and more - The Verge CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise. - The New York Times SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Has a New History Channel Show About Aliens | Pitchfork BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance - Nautilus - Pocket Russia joins in global gene-editing bonanza The new "sharecroppers": AI programs are being powered by thousands of low wage workers - Axios Finding Out You Have a Genetic Mutation May Not Be as Bad as You Think - Bloomberg Tastier Tomatoes May Be Making a Comeback Thanks to Genetics | Smart News | Smithsonian The Hunt for a CRISPR Antidote Just Heated Up GAMING! These Grotesque Pokémon Were Drawn By a Neural Network Rage 2 Easter egg pokes fun at Elon Musk - CNET CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN Satoshi Website's Bitcoin Reveal Was Even Stupider Than We Imagined THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS Girl's Request For Dragon And Telepathy Studies Rejected Along With $5 'Bribe' : NPR FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Everything You Need to Know About Tomorrow's Starlink Launch Elon Musk's Starlink Could Bring Back Net Neutrality and Upend the Internet | Inverse Jeff Bezos wants Blue Origin to bring the workforce to space - Axios BIRDS AREN’T REAL Hummingbird Robots 1, Drones 0 https://www.texasmonthly.com/article/beware-the-grackle/

May 8, 2019 • 30min
138 CCNT “Mind Kontrol FAILS & the Virtual Pan-App-ticon” - 05.08.2019
This week, AI is learning Dad Jokes, Facial Recognition tech receives downgrade by law enforcement, predictive programming isn’t working correctly (climate change/aliens), and the virtual panopticon is in an App! Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of May 1st-May 8th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces The Guy Who Bought a SpaceX Ticket to the Moon Is Broke NASA eyes soft robots for dirty jobs on the moon and Mars - CNET THE FUTURE! S-money: Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed Specific People Are Weirdly Good at Predicting the Future The Spycraft Revolution – Foreign Policy TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! San Francisco is about to be the first city in the U.S. to ban facial recognition. Scientists Figured Out How to Make Neural Networks 90 Percent Smaller—but Just as Smart A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images Artificial Intelligence May Not 'Hallucinate' After All | WIRED These Robotic Objects Are Designed to Be Stabbed and Beaten to Help You Feel Better - IEEE Spectrum Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over Watch This Hulking Robot Play “The Floor Is Lava” Investor Sues After an AI’s Automated Trades Cost Him $20 Million Microsoft Word’s New “AI Editor” Scolds You for Gendered Language This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands - BBC News Artificial Intelligence Is Creating A Fake World -- What Does That Mean For Humans? CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! NBC reporter scolded on air after comparing UN climate change report to alien invasion | Fox News Instagram May Combat Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation With Pop-up Ads Donald Trump slams Facebook after Infowars Alex Jones, James Woods ban SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Could Life on Earth Have Come from Another Star System? | Space Habitability of Planets Will Depend on Their Interiors - Universe Today The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Genetic Editing Goes Rogue Cryptic mutation is cautionary tale for crop gene editing -- ScienceDaily New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing” Google Backs Plan to Use CRISPR to Cure Heart Disease It's time we stopped human evolution – geneticist GAMING! Scientists Identify “Pokémon Region” in Gamers’ Brains — Seriously “Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game - MIT Technology Review China PC online game market report 2019 | PC Gamer This video game can detect early stages of Alzheimer's better than medical tests, researchers say - BECAUSE SCIENCE! The Air Force Just Tested a Laser Weapon for Fighter Jets CERN's flagship travelling exhibition goes to India | CERN CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN Satoshi Identity To Be Unveiled On May 14th Craig Wright Ordered To List ‘Satoshi’s’ Bitcoins By Florida Court Bitcoin surges by +400%, hits $30,000 on Coin Stats, causing people to 'spill drinks' and have 'mini heart attacks' - AMBCrypto THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS A 'witchcraft extortion scheme' led by a 'sorcerer' targeted hundreds seeking love The US just officially recognized the Satanic Temple as a religion - Business Insider How Cults Made America | The New Yorker Is Religious Decline Inevitable in the United States? | The Exchange | A Blog by Ed Stetzer FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Elon Musk reveals terrifying and impressive length of his working week | Metro News SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Fear-based social media Nextdoor, Citizen, Amazon’s Neighbors is getting more popular - Vox Google says it will address AI, machine learning model bias with technology called TCAV | ZDNet Senate Dems' social media poll finds more users want Supreme Court justices like Kavanaugh than Ginsburg | Fox News Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data - VICE BIRDS AREN’T REAL Drones’ Batteries Could Last Longer if They Could Perch Like Birds

May 1, 2019 • 30min
137 CCNT “Aliens? They’re Unidentified!” - 05.01.2019
This week, a real life Baymax is a soft flippy, national Alien day prompts a revising of the Navy UFO reporting protocol, an Oxford lecturer claims hybrid aliens are among us for climate change, and a “drill” for NASA people to act out what would happen is a fake asteroid were going to hit us. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of April 25th-24th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! Substandard, Superficial, and Absurd: Experts Slam the Science Behind the CRISPR Baby Experiment Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist Sogou to develop Arabic-speaking, AI-powered news anchor FLIPPY’S FAM! Home Assistant Double Arm Flippy TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! Baymax Is Real! Inflatable Robot Astronauts and How to Control Them Will Artificial Intelligence Enhance or Hack Humanity? | WIRED How Wearable AI Will Amplify Human Intelligence A New AI Can Spot Art Forgeries Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Turn Brain Signals Into Speech - WSJ MIT finally gives a name to the sum of all AI fears | ZDNet Expert Warns Against Forming Emotional Attachments With Robots Meet the Rabbi Fighting Back Against AI Armageddon Nils Nilsson, an AI and robotics pioneer, is dead at 86 - Axios Artificial Intelligence Can Oppress the Poor and People of Color AI: Artificial intelligence or augmented inequality? | Arab News Ross: Artificial intelligence could make us all obsolete Women May Soon Start Using AI to Tell Good Eggs From Bad | WIRED Nick Bostrom: AI greater threat to human existence than climate change - Business Insider For better deep neural network vision, just add feedback (loops) Using Artificial Intelligence To Customize Content Without Bias AI researchers want to study AI the same way social scientists study humans CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! Indian army says it found yeti footprints in the Himalayas After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On : NPR Two HIV Cases Linked to Spa That Gave Trendy 'Vampire Facials' SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Alien abduction: an unlikely solution to the climate crisis | Science | The Guardian National Alien Day Navy Getting Serious About UFOs UFOs Are Real — and 4 Other Wild Headlines You Missed Beliefs in aliens, Atlantis are on the rise | Science Aliens, ahoy! Navy developing guidelines on reporting UFO sightings U.S. Navy Wants Pilots to Report UFOs, Despite Stigma - The Atlantic Tom DeLonge Resurrects Angels and Airwaves - NBC 7 San Diego BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Local scientists selected to update national genetic standards and language | WHNT.com How Do Genetics Evolve With Our Culture? The ethical and legal implications of having a universal genetic database — Quartz The trouble with the design of 23andMe’s genetic test results — Quartz Injecting Fetal Brains With CRISPR Could Cure Genetic Conditions The Brave Old World of Genetic Engineering | American Council on Science and Health CHINA! China's Anhei Tokamak Leads The Way to Fusion Energy Chinese court names and shames debtors in warm-up to Avengers movie | South China Morning Post CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ Mines Over 40% of Bitcoin Cash, Sparks 51% Attack Fear THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS Jewish mysticism in contemporary music - Israel News - Jerusalem Post FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE SEC and Elon Musk tweet agreement gets a judge's seal of approval SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Amazon Used An AI to Automatically Fire Low-Productivity Workers