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Episode 151 Windows 10 was released, and it does its darnedest to spy on you. Spicy food linked to immortality longer lifespans. The EFF has released a DNT (Do Not Track) Policy. Drone drops drugs on prison. Robots will take our jobs… well, mostly mens’ jobs. The Hitchbot tried to hitchhike across the US. Emphasis […]

Episode 150 We found an open letter for making autonomous weapons illegal. Hackers find a way to remotely disable a Jeep. Profiling how you type can be used to identify you. Sex toy innovation hampered by patent trolls. The military is testing a non-lethal noise gun. An explosion at a government building is shown to […]

Episode 149 Lifelock had one job… Ashley Madison’s site is hacked and held to ransom. Is a drone with a gun legal? FBI busts up a child pornography ring with malware. Drug kingpin El Chapo escapes from a Mexican jail in spectacular fashion. Sound can influence flavor in interesting ways. This week in non-traditional alcohol […]

Episode 148 A proposed airplane seating arrangement that’s sardines novel. Bonus: Fun twitter handles: Modern Seinfeld @SeinfeldToday and Star Trek TNG Season 8 @TNG_S8 Combining an infamous topic and a favorite topic: Donald Trump + 3D Printing. Bonus: Story we referenced with the 5-part Venn diagram of the Republican hopefuls. NASA’s New Horizons satellite sends […]

Episode 147 Cryptography and Tech Industry experts were queried by Congress about cryptography. Reddit blew up a little over the weekend. Colorado’s experiment with free birth control is an unqualified success. Non-metallic robot invented for surgeries within an MRI… but what kinds of surgeries? Very-metallic, human-powered robots from the United States and Japan will duel. […]

Episode 146 This year scientists inserted a Leap Second on Tuesday night. A robot at a VW plant pinned a killed a man. Bonus: it was reported on by Sarah O’Connor. You can’t make this up. A neighbor shoots down a man’s drone with a shotgun. Plants and vegetables are grown underground in London. Telehealth […]

Episode 145 In his continuing exploration of local government, Brendan uncovered Richmond’s ban on space-based weapons. The UK made it illegal to rip CDs. By the way, it’s 2015. Will your self driving car be forced to kill you? A Dutch artist is 3D printing a bridge in place over a canal. The treasury plans […]

Episode 144 Addendum to last week’s story of FBI surveillance planes, a look into an NYPD surveillance helicopter. A personal camera drone, or flying selfie stick depending on who you ask. DARPA’s latest robotic challenge. Bonus #1: The DARPA robotic cheetah can now jump. Bonus #2: Sometimes untethered autonomous robots are less graceful. UK artist […]

Episode 143 FBI retains a fleet of small airplanes for surveillance. The TSA had a 95% miss rate in latest internal contraband testing. Meth price drops below Burger King meal price. Russian state sponsored internet trolls. NASA tests the LDSD system for eventual use on Mars. Spoiler Alert: The “Pre” in TSAPre is short for […]

Episode 142 Comcast Charter Communications is looking to acquire Time Warner Cable. iRobot is looking to add cameras to their Roomba robot vacuum cleaners. Could video games be the next media to move to a subscription model? Audi scientists synthesize guzzoline gasoline. Spoiler Alert: “Matrioska of Shittiness” is A Thing!

Episode 141 Botnets of compromised routers sustain themselves. An AI is being built seeded with irate customer service calls. Belgian privacy watchdog groups call out Facebook for tracking logged out users. Colombia looks into controlling the supply of cocaine with butterflies. Genetically modified yeast pushes definition of natural flavors. Spoiler Alert: We talk Mad Max: […]

Episode 14 Federal court rules against the NSA’s indiscriminate civilian surveillance. Worker fired for removing a GPS tracking app. A kickstarter for a solar sail brought by Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson! Spoiler Alert: We talk Avengers: Age of Ultron This episode recorded across time and space!

Episode 139 Special Guest Skylar joins us and we talk Warhammer 40k. A lot. Also some X-Wing. Brendan went to a City Council meeting. Spoiler Alert: There is no Emperor Ted.

Episode 138 Oklahoma has three times as many earthquakes as California Earthquakes could be detected via cellphones Credit card machines were found to have the same default password for over twenty years! Machine learning algorithms solve for the cocktail party effect. A case study on click farms and other social media shenanigans. Russian resupply satellite […]

Episode 137 The Podcast went to this year’s Countdown to 4/20 show hosted by Doug Benson. A bar known for showing videos received a strongly worded note from HBO. The navy develops a drone launcher. Does using robots in war violate human rights? Chess grandmaster cheated using smartphone from the bathroom. NASA’s “Orbital Rainbow” system […]

Episode 136 Feds will confirm or deny your existence on the No Fly List. The EFF busts the podcasting patent, breaking the foundation of a patent troll. Hooray for us! An example of an e-voting machine implemented terribly wrong. Brontosaurus is back! Apatosaurus is also okay. Paleontology rocks! Hacking DNA to create cheese without a […]

Episode 135 Shooting of the unarmed Walter Scott by a cop was captured on video. Keybase.io has an interesting method for distributing public keys, and Alan has invites! Bonus: good video on public key crypto. India to deploy pepper-spraying drones. The return of baseball comes with lots of interesting stats. The DMCA when invoked with […]

Episode 134 San Francisco sheriff deputies forced inmates to fight in jail. A group wants to change the face on the $20 bill. A novel way to randomly generate a passphrase using dice. California produces more electricity via solar than the all the other states combined. There’s a lab that does drug testing for those […]

Episode 133 Indiana legislatures pass bill to allow discrimination on religious grounds. The Pirate Party has highest polled support of political parties in Iceland. A discussion of licensing and copyright with regards to 3d-printing objects. Spoiler Alert: The new Mission Impossible movie will have masks! X-Files is returning with a 6-episode miniseries The creators of […]

Episode 132 Virginia passes bill limiting automated license plate readers. Eleven-year-old suspended 364 days for possessing a marijuana leaf… that wasn’t a marijuana leaf. Finalist in Mars One competition speaks out about being a finalist. Millennials supposedly get 88% of their news from Facebook. Microsoft backing off from Internet Explorer for Windows 10. New Community […]