Goodbye to Flash, Goodbye to self-driving cars in India, hello to Checking in and boarding a plane without talking to humans.
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Show Notes
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- News You Should Know
- More Top Stories
- (03:25) Adobe ending Flash updates and distribution in 2020
- (04:25) iRobot wants to sell mapping data to third parties
- (06:20) Motorola announces new 5.5-inch Z2 Force Edition phone
- (09:45) Congress invites technology company CEOs to testify on Net Neutrality
- (11:55) India’s transport minister admonishes driverless cars
- Discussion
- (15:00)
- New Singapore air terminal automates departures with face recognition – Reuters
- Delta passengers can now use their fingerprints as a boarding pass – The Verge
- Skip the Security Line? How to Avoid Screening Hell at Airports and Stadiums – Fortune
- How Eye Scans Could Be the Future of Airport Security – Fortune
- China’s All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens’ Faces – The WSJ
- China Is Using Facial Recognition to Nab Jaywalkers; Investors Get Interested
- China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything – The WSJ
- (15:00)
- Message of the Day
- (23:45) Thor Christian – Implanted NFC chip
- (25:55) Oleg Kolupaev, PhD – DNA testing
- How Do You Know When a DNA Test Is B.S.? – The Atlantic
- (28:45) Frank – electric car sounds
- Diamondclub.tv Survey
