In this edition, the top news starts with:
In an irrelevant discussion over converting farts to electricity for Tesla car’s some artist is throwing a fit over musks unreferenced doodle… (more…)
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Episode 55 – Incremental Steps to Nowhere
In this edition, the top news starts with:
AI systems are now spotting heart attacks on emergency calls, improving the time it takes to identify cases.
Episode 50 – 60 Year old Airplanes and new roles for AI…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
AI is increasingly helping to integrate group or company processes.
Episode 38 – Free Boring Tunnel Rides
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…)
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…)
Episode 25 – Big BFR’s and a Big New Home
In this edition, the top news starts with:
Finally making progress on useful large arrays of qubits that are entangled together… another small step to the ultimate in computing technology… (more…)
Episode 23 – AR Microscopes and Bogus AGI predictions…
In this edition, the top news starts with:
In a huge moment of ‘duh’, Google realizes AR would be a great tool as part of microscopes; adding to their usefulness in detecting cancer and many other applications in visual analysis at a microscopic level. (more…)
Episode 17 – Captain Obvious strikes again and Bitcoin eats Quebec
In this edition, the top news starts with:
In a move to help people not have to remember passwords, the plan is to support an even worse problem by having to struggle with two-factor authentication. So, no password; but, you have to have a phone and a computer or slate with you and have to solve some “is human” problem and any number of other torturous things that are totally better than remembering a password… (more…)
Episode 15 – RIP Apple Computers and Big F’ing Rockets
In this edition, the top news starts with: Given the current trends, and the states of the big tech firms, Apple seems to be set for the fight of its life and this time Steve is not going to be there to save them. Maybe they will merge with Microsoft and be Microsoft’s ‘phone’ division? (more…)