Episode 85: Words for Things That Are Not The Words For Things - a podcast by Sanjay Parekh & Adam Walker

from 2019-05-27T10:00

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In This Episode:

No About Face for Amazon (3:18)

Humans Are Mailing It in (6:05)

Android’s Live Transcribe will save the text and show ‘sound events’ (10:26)

Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading (12:51)

Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist (16:50)

Australia Found a Way to Save Water From Plastic Pollution and We Can Start Doing the Same (20:07)

Tesla’s trumpeted solar shingles are a flop (22:07)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

Google’s AI can now translate your speech while keeping your voice (26:40)

IT contractor allegedly abused government systems for cryptocurrency mining (27:56)

Someone broke into his house. But the burglars didn’t take anything ... they just cleaned every room from top to bottom (29:57)

Tech Recommendations:

Adam - Rode VideoMic Me-L for my iPhone

Sanjay - Privacy.com

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes

Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

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