Nov 19th 2017
This Week in Tech 641
The Tesla Zamboni
Hosted by
Leo Laporte
Tesla Semi, Apple HomePod delay, Church of AI, Amazon's Lord of the Rings, and more!
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Tesla unveils a semi and a $200,000 Roadster. The first church of artificial intelligence. Apple delays the HomePod until 2018. Amazon is close to launching their cashierless store, and just paid a quarter of a million dollars for the rights to produce Lord of the Rings TV shows. Who is tracking you this Thanksgiving? TechShop goes Bankrupt.
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Links
- This is the Tesla semi truck - The Verge
- Tesla factory a ‘hotbed’ for racism, where n-word hurled repeatedly at black workers, lawsuit alleges
- Tesla's truck, not out until 2019, already has orders
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils a surprise new car: A new ridiculously fast Roadster
- Inside Artificial Intelligence's First Church | WIRED
- AlphaGo
- Boston Dynamics’ latest robot dog is slightly less terrifying
- Sony just announced a new Aibo robot dog
- Boston Dynamics Robot just did a perfect Backflip
- Apple pushes HomePod release to early 2018 | TechCrunch
- Google Pixel Buds review: great sound, but Assistant only works on Android, Translate is only available to Pixel owners
- Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time
- Amazon to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ books into new fantasy television series – GeekWire
- Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving? | The Outline
- TechShop closes all U.S. locations, files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
- KGI: three iPhones with iPhone X form factor slated for late-2018
- The Reaper IoT Botnet Has Already Infected a Million Networks