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The DiginautsDiginauts 0024 — New Trivia App, AI begets AI, Driverless Car Testingsegment 1, Most Disruptive — Wifi Security (0:00): In our new show format, Deron & Eric start out the show by comparing their takes on which tech headlines from the last week will have the biggest impact… ON HUMANITY!!! New HQ trivia app from Vine founders? Dangerous flaw in Wi-Fi security standards? segment 2, Juris Prudent ... Read more2017-10-2000 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0023 — Russia’s Trojan Horse, VC by AI, Renewable Energy Advancessegment 1, Top of Mind — Kaspersky Labs (0:00): More rumors of more Russian interference in U.S. computer systems segment 2, The Fake News Game (9:21) : Play along with us! This time it’s Deron’s turn to see if he can pick out which of four science headlines are real, and which one Eric completely made up. ... Read more2017-10-1300 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0022 — Robot Muscle, Frog Orgies, Blockchaining Everythingsegment 1, Top of Mind — Blockchain: The Tokenization of Everything (0:00): Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been making headlines. Eric offers his theory that the underlying blockchain technology could revolutionize more than just money, but really much of human interaction. segment 2, Three Headlines & a Lie — Frogs (11:55) : Deron plays liar’s poker with ... Read more2017-09-2200 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0021 — Artificial Meat, Driverless Car Ethics, Sexuality Auto-Detectionsegment 1, Top of Mind — AI guessing your sexual orientation (0:00): A Stanford professor’s work with AI can guess whether you’re gay better than other humans can. segment 2, Future File — Weaponized Sound (13:27) : What’s affecting American diplomats? Are their symptoms related to weaponized sound? segment 3, More Future File — Lab Meat (18:20): Meat ... Read more2017-09-2200 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0020 — Refreezing a Glacier, Downing Unwanted Drones, New Hydrogen Fuel Catalystsegment 1, If You Had To Choose — Investment in Future Tech (0:00): We’ll look at three micro-industries that are seeing a bloom of startups and ask ourselves where we would invest hypothetical money. Flying cars anyone? segment 2, Always in Motion Is the Future — Seven Predictions from Bill Gates (19:30): We discuss his visions of future developments and ... Read more2017-05-1900 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0019 — Living Forever, a River Reverses, Microbes on Saturn’s Moon?segment 1, Top of Mind — No One Understands AI (0:00): The folks who are on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence admit they know longer quite get how it works. segment 2, Let’s Hash It Out — #NASA (10:41): A paper details revelations about Saturn’s moon Enceledus. Chemicals exist that could host life… maybe? segment 3, Future ... Read more2017-05-1000 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0018 — Musk’s New Neuralink Venture, Bleached Coral Reefs, Artificial Synapsessegment 1, Top of Mind — Neuralink: Elon Musk doesn’t have enough companies yet, so he’s starting a new one to explore connecting human brains with computers. segment 2, Future File — Synthetic Synapses: A team at the National Center for Scientific Research has created a “memristor,” a first step in artificial brains. segment 3, Juris Prudent — Patents ... Read more2017-04-1500 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0017 — Those Seven Exoplanets, Wireless Power Transfer, Fracking Fluid Leakssegment 1, Top of Mind — NSA Spy Tech (0:00): Palantir is a software company allegedly NOT linked to the oversteps of the NSA PRISM program about which Edward Snowden raised alarms, but nonetheless designed to help governments make use of massive amounts of data for spying purposes . One of its primary investors is Peter Thiel, now ... Read more2017-03-0200 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0016 — Resurrecting Woolly Mammoths, 23 Principals for AI, Taxing Robot Workerssegment 1, Top of Mind — Woolly Mammoth Comeback (0:00): Harvard scientists intend to splice mammoth DNA into elephants and create a hybrid species. (Although not everyone things the timeline is realistic.) segment 2, Future File — 23 Guidelines for AI (11:47): A consortium of top professionals have endorsed a set of rules they say society should follow when ... Read more2017-02-2200 minThe DiginautsDiginauts 0015 — How Space Affects Your Body, Fukushima Radiation, Net Neutrality in Danger Againsegment 1, Top of Mind — Twins! In! Spaaaaaaace! (0:00): NASA sent one twin into space, and kept the other on Earth. We’ll talk about what they learned from the brothers’ DNA. segment 2, If You Had To Choose — Recent Governmental Maneuvers (8:00): Trump’s FCC chair signals lack of interest in net neutrality. A federal magistrate rules ... Read more2017-02-0800 min