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**Tech Talk Y’all**

Tech Talk Y’all is a weekly technology news show covering what has happened this week in tech, with hosts Sanjay Parekh and Adam Walker. Sanjay and Adam talk about technology, weird and wacky tech news, and make weekly tech recommendations (a fan favorite). Depending on your level of humor, episodes may or may not be funny (but they definitely are). Signup for episode show notes at: http://eepurl.com/cGevHD

Latest Episodes:

Episode 52: It's a Cool Idea.... 'Til the AI Kills You Oct 08, 2018

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In This Episode:

Elon Musk settles with SEC over fraud charge
Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk
Make Sure MoviePass Didn't Reactivate Your Subscription
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bird will deliver scooters to users who want them all day
Jeff Bezos’ Space Startup to Supply Engines for Boeing-Lockheed Rocket Venture
Slack Actively Preparing for Early 2019 IPO

Weird & Wacky Tech:

AI-controlled robotic ceiling furniture creates extra space for tiny homes
Small tech startup plans to grow cannabis on the International Space Station

Tech Recommendations:

Adam - Sustainable Palm Oil Shopping
Sanjay - Travelon Tech Accessory Organizer
Shannon - Google Fonts

Ad 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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Episode 51: Leafy Lettuce on the Blockchain Oct 01, 2018

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In This Episode:

Apple delays original shows over mature content (1:24)
YouTube is replacing textbooks in classrooms across America (4:33)
Japan successfully lands robot rovers on an asteroid's surface (7:32)
Lime Scooters Has Its Second Fatality in a Month (9:45)
Inside Facebook Dating (12:08)
Twitter may have sent your private DMs to the wrong people -- but probably not (16:03)
Walmart wants to track lettuce on the blockchain (18:41)
Google started quietly logging you into Chrome (22:18)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

An electric implant helps a paralyzed man walk the length of a football field (24:15)
Original working Apple-I computer fetches $375,000 at auction (26:05)
This device can charge your phone with wind or water (27:49)

Tech Recommendations (29:25):

Adam - Chick-fil-A App
Sanjay - Libby

Ad 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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Episode 50: Could Sanjay hack Adam's Tesla? Sep 24, 2018

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In This Episode:

IBM creates blockchain equivalent of the ‘Yellow Pages’ (2:24)
AI deepfakes ‘have the potential to disrupt every facet of our society' (4:24)
Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program (7:40)
Washington State Electronic Notary Public endorsements (10:50)
Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' queries to see what was nicked (13:05)
Electric Scooter Company To Go After Dangerous Riders (17:09)

Weird & Wacky:

Fortnite game addiction cited as cause for divorce (21:05)
Thief Used Smartphone To Hack Into Tesla Model 3 On Display At Mall (22:18)
Can you guess which of these paintings was not made by a human? (25:04)

Tech Recommendations: (28:40)

Ad 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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Episode 49: Going to the Skating Rink? Wear Your LTE Necklace Sep 17, 2018

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In This Episode:

This peanut sensor stops nuts getting in your mouth (2:27)
Google's 'Touring Bird' Is a Traveler's Dream (5:50)
Amazon will sell live Christmas trees this holiday season (7:50)
Samsung's LTE-powered tracker will help you stop misplacing things (9:36)
The 4 biggest announcements from the Apple September event (12:45)
Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye (15:07)
A "Presidential Alert" Text Will Be Sent To Your Phone Next Week (17:13)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

Mark Zuckerberg wrote an algorithm to beat a teen at Scrabble (19:24)
A tech startup is asking rich people to spend $1,500 plus monthly fees on a mirror to stream workouts (22:27)
'Molar Mic' will let US military make calls from their teeth (24:06)
Mysterious observatory evacuation stirs alien conspiracy theories (26:00)
WeCroak reminds you of your fate 5 times a day (27:49)

Tech Recommendations (30:54):

Adam - Loom Screen Casting
Sanjay - Light Camera (20% discount!)

Ad 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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Episode 48: BONUS: Adam Guesses Meaning of New Merriam-Webster Dictionary Additions Sep 12, 2018

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In this bonus minisode, Adam guesses the meaning of 25 of the new words Merriam-Webster is adding to the dictionary in 2018.

In this episode:

25 of the New Words Merriam-Webster Is Adding to the Dictionary in 2018

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Episode 47: T-Pain Drives His Bugatti to Steak 'N Shake (Allegedly) Sep 10, 2018

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In This Episode:

Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (3:00)
Amazon orders 20,000 vans to build delivery fleet (4:05)
Yahoo email is still spying on you (6:51)
Robinhood aims at IPO (8:12)
Open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions (10:33)
Labor Board Backs Engineers Who Were Fired for Unionizing (14:26)
An IP address isn't enough to identify a pirate (17:02)
Norway's plan for a fleet of electric planes (20:06)
Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival in $12 Billion Attack (22:18)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

This LEGO Bugatti actually drives (26:14)
Man Cycling around the UK in VR (28:13)
Japan starts space elevator experiments (29:36)
Who Caused The Mysterious Leak At The International Space Station? (33:13)
A touch tablet that rolls and scrolls (36:02)

Tech Recommendations (40:00):

Adam - Duolingo
Sanjay - Spruce & Co Screen Cleaning Wipes
Shannon - Updater

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Episode 46: Jimmy The Bachelor Sep 03, 2018

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In This Episode:

Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses (2:14)
18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency (4:00)
Woman Uses Tinder To Prank Dozens Of Men Into Dating Contest (5:40)
Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts for Almost 1% of the World's Energy Consumption (7:58)
Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users (10:02)
- Walmart patent filings envision customers strapping on headsets to shop (17:22)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

Robotic sumo wrestling is a thing (19:15)
Ghost peppers are saving U.S. grasslands (21:20)
Naked Labs introducing body-scanning mirror (24:22)
Researchers gave AI curiosity and it played video games all day (26:01)

Tech Recommendations (27:16):

Adam - Anker battery
Sanjay - Home Radon Detector
Shannon - Pablo

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Sui

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Episode 45: At 3 AM Every Echo Dot Plays Rick Astley Aug 27, 2018

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In This Episode:

DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% (3:05)
German Researchers Have Built a Quantum Transistor Using Just a Single Atom (5:01)
Hackers can seize practically all your online accounts, and it's your voicemail's fault (7:45)
Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report (11:16)
NASA finds ice on the surface of the moon (14:36)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

This company embeds microchips in its employees, and they love it (16:45)
St. Louis University is putting Amazon Echo Dots into every dorm room this fall (18:32)
Weird Al Yankovic's new VR film will probably be weird (20:03)
UFC champ Robert Whittaker uses Excel, gaming to get into shape (21:24)

Tech Recommendations (23:55):
Sanjay - Miniature Pac Man cabinet
Adam - Living Wine Labels & Costco travel pants
Shannon - Seconds

Ad 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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DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% | DeepMind
Researchers Build Room-Temp Quantum Transistor Using a Single Atom | Fortune — German Researchers Have Built a Quantum Transistor Using Just a Single Atom
Hackers can use your voicemail to take over your online accounts — Hackers can seize practically all your online accounts, and it's your voicemail's fault
Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report — Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report

Episode 44: Healing Through Netflix Aug 20, 2018

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In this Episode:

Pellion Technologies selling lithium-metal batteries (2:36)
Common Wifi can detect weapons, bombs and chemicals in bags (4:55)
Too Much Screen Time Harming Children’s Vision? (8:08)
IBM-Maersk blockchain alliance cuts oceanic shipping times by 40% (11:00)
Telegram launched a feature that’s both terrifying and brilliant (13:45)
An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica state website in minutes (15:34)
Kroger begins tests of driverless grocery delivery in Arizona (19:05)
Twitter Explains API Changes to Employees (21:20)

Weird and Wacky: