In this edition, the top news starts with: A professor out of Taiwan has proposed a new form of calculus that could lead to a single master algorithm…. One algorithm to rule them, one algorithm to find them, one algorithm to bring them all and, in the darkness, bind them… this, of course, sounds just special and not scary at all and will be, of course, super safe… (more…)
Episodes
Episode 21 – The Grey Goo is coming just in time for a ‘Safe and Secure’ Society
In this edition, the top news starts with:
The US Army has a great new technology allowing them to use facial recognition at night. This a great improvement to their autonomous killer drones.
Episode 20: Removing Humanity from the Loop… and a Sea of Data
In this edition, the top news starts with: The US military has openly admitted to beginning development of drones that have the capacity to decide whom to kill; moving us a step closer to our coming AI overlords. (more…)
Episode 19 – Really People Facebook did nothing wrong ‘ish’
In this edition, the top news starts with: A great idea out of China, where they are building a smart solar highway that can recharge electric cars on the move. Replacing all the roads with such a system would really make electrical cars orders of magnitude more practical, even with current battery technology. (more…)
Episode 18 – Anti-Drone Weapons and California’s is bigger than Australia’s
In this edition, the top news starts with: Physicists have discovered a new type of superconductor. IF you don’t know what one is, please return your geek card as your membership has been revoked… that said, the new type works fundamentally different than any other known type. Given our lack of having worked through the types or variations using this technique, it is unclear, but possible, we might create the magic room temperature superconductors we so dream of… (more…)
Episode 17 – Captain Obvious strikes again and Bitcoin eats Quebec
In this edition, the top news starts with:
In a move to help people not have to remember passwords, the plan is to support an even worse problem by having to struggle with two-factor authentication. So, no password; but, you have to have a phone and a computer or slate with you and have to solve some “is human” problem and any number of other torturous things that are totally better than remembering a password… (more…)
Episode 16 – The New Proposal for an AGI POTUS Emperor and unbiased news…
In this edition, the top news starts with: In breaking news, you can now have AI remove the bias from the news. All you have to do is read the news three different times to get a totally unbiased viewpoint. This sort of optimization by AI, that really triples the amount of work you must do as a human to consume data, is all part of the plan… (more…)
Episode 15 – RIP Apple Computers and Big F’ing Rockets
In this edition, the top news starts with: Given the current trends, and the states of the big tech firms, Apple seems to be set for the fight of its life and this time Steve is not going to be there to save them. Maybe they will merge with Microsoft and be Microsoft’s ‘phone’ division? (more…)
Episode 14 – SEC Crack Down on ICO Scams and Big Brother (Herman)
In this edition, the top news starts with: In a move, we knew was coming, American federal authorities arrested two founders of a virtual currency that raised $32 million in the first of an SEC crackdown on fraud related to cryptocurrencies in particular ICOs. (more…)
Episode 13 – All Hail The Church of the Block Chain (AI Voice Test)
In this edition, the top news starts with: Demonstrating the need to usurp human free will, it seems along with the Church of the Jedi being a real thing… there is also now a Church of the Block Chain with Faith in every block being a distributed group of believers… really, I cannot make any more fun of these guys without using foul language; so, anyway, in other news… #SCAM… (more…)
