Huge open source AI collab between Amazon and Microsoft, Disney wins a digital movie war you didn’t know was being fought, and whether social media is threatening democracy.
With Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
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Show Notes
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- News You Should Know
- (00:55) Bitcoin rockets above $5,000 to all-time high | Reuters
- (01:15) Hyperloop One becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’… | TechCrunch
- (01:25) …Lil B Sent…Posts Facebook Calls ‘Hate Speech’ | Motherboard
- More Top Stories
- (02:00) Twitter suspends Rose McGowan’s account | engadget
- (05:50) Facebook ‘fully committed’ to sharing Russian ad data | BBC
- (08:45) AWS, Microsoft double down on deep learning… | TechCrunch
- (10:35) Movies Anywhere:…all your…titles in one place | Ars Technica
- (13:20) Equifax website borked again… | ArsTechnica
- Discussion
- (15:45) Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media… | Washington Post
- Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy? | The Omidyar Group
- WTF are ‘dark posts’? | Digiday
- Invasion of the troll armies… | Guardian News
- (15:45) Pierre Omidyar: 6 ways social media… | Washington Post
- Messages of the Day
- (26:15) Anon – Solar energy
- Today’s Contributor
