Episode 63: All Electric, No Problem

In This Episode:

• As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants


• Not just Facebook: Twitter and Snapchat store unposted photos, too, and there's a specific reason


• Facebook Filed A Patent To Calculate Your Future Location


• This site will show you the highest-rated movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime


• How Google Will Destroy Uber


• Self-driving dirt rally vehicle offers crash course in autonomous car safety


• Ex-Uber engineer claims to travel 3,099 miles in a self-driving car


• Ars takes a first tour of the length of The Boring Company’s test tunnel


• Israeli company claims it has created new technology that can destroy cancerous tumors


• Robinhood launches checking and savings with an almost unheard-of 3% interest rate


• TROLL PATROL FINDINGS


• California Requires New City Buses to Be Electric by 2029

Weird & Wacky Tech:

• This 13-Year-Old Invented a Genius, Prize-Winning Way to Improve Solar Panel


• MIT Scientists Have Announced They Can Shrink Objects Down to The Nanoscale


• Tat tunes? Soundwave tattoos allow people to play songs through app


• Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody becomes most streamed song from 20th century

Tech Recommendations:

Sanjay - Price Wise by Firefox

Adam - Way Back Machine

Shannon - Audacity

Ad and Tech Rec theme music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes

Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

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Links:

• As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants - The New York Times
• Not just Facebook: Twitter and Snapchat store unposted photos, too, and there's a specific reason - ABC News
• Facebook Filed A Patent To Predict Your Location
• This site will show you the highest-rated movies on Netflix & Amazon Prime
• Self-driving dirt rally car offers crash course in autonomous safety