Episode 56: The J Stands for Pavarotti - a podcast by Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker

from 2018-11-05T11:00

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In this Episode:




  • IBM to acquire software company Red Hat for $34 billion (1:45)

  • Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct (3:40)

  • Bitcoin may cause catastrophic climate change by 2033, study warns (4:32)

  • Fortnite Creator Epic Games Valued at Nearly $15 Billion (6:52)

  • Coinbase raises Series E to accelerate adoption of cryptocurrencies (7:58)

  • We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (10:17)

  • Will Google’s homepage news feed repeat Facebook’s mistakes? (12:42)

  • Uber introduces an Amazon Prime-style monthly subscription service (14:07)



Weird & Wacky Tech:




  • Musk Keeps Testing the Limits That the SEC Put on His Tweeting (16:32)

  • Google AI Listens to 15-years of sea bottom data for Whale songs (18:28)

  • Yes, we flew to Japan to watch someone pour liquid nitrogen on custom Kit Kats (20:19)



Tech Recommendations (23:50)





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