Have contact tracing apps failed? Is OpenAI a misnomer? And will we all soon be banking with bitcoin? - a podcast by Lucy & Larry
from 2020-07-27T00:00
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In this week's tech news:
- US regulators pave the way for cryptocurrencies in banks (https://www.coindesk.com/banks-in-us-can-now-offer-crypto-custody-services-regulator-says)
- Cloudflare outage exposes over-reliance (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/ ;
https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-internet-has-a-single-point-of-failure-called-cloudflare/) - While Garmin experiences an outage of its own (https://twitter.com/GarminFitness/status/1286273563096489985)
- OpenAI is not as open as its name suggests (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/aqwcyx/discussion_openai_should_now_change_their_name_to/ ; https://leogao.dev/2020/05/29/GPT-3-A-Brief-Summary/)
- And have Covid contact tracing apps failed? (https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/25/smartphone-contact-tracing-has-failed-everywhere/)
Other links mentioned in the pod: https://covid.joinzoe.com/ and https://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works
Also, Lucy and Larry discuss their favourite cooperative video games. What are yours? Get in touch with @techdigestpod and podcast@technewsdigest.co.uk.
Music attributions
Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Your Call by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5018-your-call
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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