Mar 3rd 2019
This Week in Tech 708
Outrage Moms
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
The end of smart-phones, AI fake people, Elon in the ditch again, and more.
Records live every Sunday at 5:15pm Eastern / 2:15pm Pacific / 22:15 UTC.
Guests:
Amy Webb,
Brianna Wu
- MWC 2019 and the Future of Smartphones and Wearables
- This Person Does Not Exist
- OpenAI and the Text Generator Too Dangerous to Exist
- Outrage Mobs and Twitter
- China's Social Credit System Could Take Over the World
- Google and Saudia Arabia's Woman Tracking App
- Silicon Valley and the US Military
- Do We Even Need Facebook?
- Make Elon Musk Stop Tweeting!!!
- TikTok fined $5.7 Million
- Tenn Hacker gets $1 Million in Bug Bounties
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Links
- This website automatically generates new human faces. None of them are real
- OpenAI Won't Release AI Text Generator, Branding it Too Dangerous • Digit
- Better Language Models and Their Implications
- The Pentagon needs Silicon Valley's brightest minds to work on AI but struggles to attract them
- I held the future in my hands, and it was foldable
- LG announces G8 ThinQ at MWC 2019 w/ 3D Face Unlock and hands-free gesture control
- Microsoft Announces the Next HoloLens
- TCL’s first foldable phone could slap-bracelet itself into a smartwatch
- Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove government app tracking women | React HN
- "For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security... "
- Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not | TechCrunch
- China bars millions from travel for 'social credit' offenses
- Augmented reality: Microsoft's Satya Nadella defends HoloLens contract with the US military - CNN