Nvidia looks to buy ARM, Big Tech is up in front of Congress, and does sleep benefit AI just like the human brain? - a podcast by Lucy & Larry

from 2020-08-03T01:00

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In this week's tech news:

  • Nvidia might buy ARM from SoftBank
  • the ‘Big four’ tech companies play down soaring revenues as US Congress explores antitrust
  • Twitter hack was masterminded by a teen from Florida

And many more smaller stories:

  • AI needs sleep just like the human brain
  • Scotland is creating its own covid-19 contact tracing app
  • Kodak moves into pharmaceuticals
  • Amazon investing $10 billion to complete against SpaceX in satellite broadband
  • US Space command claims Russia is testing satellite destroying tech in space
  • Elon Musk is concerned AI could overtake humans in 5 years
  • Google in the meantime released the 4th version of their TPUs

Links to articles we refer can be found at: https://technewsdigest.co.uk/e9/

For our Top 5 this week Larry selected his top 5 science fiction (audio)books!
https://technewsdigest.co.uk/top-5-science-fiction-books/

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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