In this edition, the top news starts with:
PGP and S/MIME-based apps appear to have serious flaws, allowing access to supposedly secure communication… (more…)
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Episode 37 – Flying Ubers and Organ Farms
In this edition, the top news starts with:
Given the difficulty with driverless ground-based Ubers, Uber wants to try a driverless flying Uber… because that is totally safer… probably… maybe… (more…)
Episode 36 – First Rule of the AI Fight Club… Don’t talk about the AI Fight Club…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
To maintain Intel’s growth mindset, they are taking on the space leader in the AI space, Nvidia, to ensure Intel’s access to a growth market over the next ten years. Intel is the dominant leader in CPU and server hardware; but, Nvidia has focused on AI computing and gained a lot of ground and is perceived as the space leader in that segment. Intel must fight, or they could get sidelined in the next 10 years. (more…)
Episode 35 – AI is drilling into all aspects of our lives
In this edition, the top news starts with:
AI has started making first-person shooter levels for games. This is done using a set of two systems; where one generates, and one checks to see if what was generated is like one done by humans. Eventually, this should lower the bar in terms of engineering effort to create new games. (more…)
Episode 34 – Lets focus on better AI tools… don’t worry about AGI…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
Falling for our dark plans, VentureBeat is getting humans to take their eye off the ball; to help ensure the AGI lab gets to the finish line first. With Anti AGI folks like this, they are more confident than ever in their control over our coming AI overlords…
Episode 33 – NASA Accidentally Does Something Productive…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
Someone at NASA accidentally did something productive; testing a new nuclear reactor for space…
Episode 32 – Entangling Clouds of Atoms For our Machine Overlords
In this edition, the top news starts with:
So, um… we have a story…
people upload photos to a company’s website…
willingly…
(more…)
Special Episode 6 – Touring the Transhuman House, Sustainable Technologies and our Future
In this special edition we are going on a tour of the Foundation’s ‘Transhuman House’,
set in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, let’s fly in and take a look…
One of the great things is that it’s an ongoing project, open to all transhumanists whether trying to get away or wanting a home for a transhumanist project or other help; (more…)
Episode 31 – My Rocket is Bigger then Your Rocket…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
All hail the new crypto bubble… er, I mean coming goddess of the crypto dawn; with the coming EOS crypto heaven that cometh… (more…)
Episode 30 – Bacon Backed Crypto Currency…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
One thing that has come up a number of times is distributed ledger technologies vs blockchain technologies. Basically, a distributed ledger is a distributed database and a blockchain is a trustless transaction system that includes some ledger-like functionality. They are not the same… (more…)