Podcast appearances and mentions of Anthony Levandowski

Chris Urmson has spent the last 20 years pushing the limits of autonomous driving—first at Carnegie Mellon's DARPA Grand Challenge team, then as co-founder of Google's self-driving car project, now Waymo.On this week's episode, the Aurora CEO retraces that journey—from building robot cars in the desert to leading a public company pioneering driverless trucking.He shares why autonomy was always a matter of when, not if, how he handled a high-profile departure from Waymo, and what it takes to build at the intersection of deep tech, safety, and infrastructure.Now eight years into Aurora, Urmson says the future he's been chasing is finally within reach.Guest: Chris Urmson, Co-Founder & CEO of AuroraChapters: 00:00 Trailer00:43 Introduction01:59 FSD: are we there? 14:31 The competition, a million dollar check from LA to LV22:50 Dream like an amateur, execute like a pro32:30 Operate with integrity42:49 The future is here, unevenly distributed49:36 Underestimated decisions, minimizing regrets1:03:55 Retaining value1:16:45 Integrating self-driving1:28:20 Lifer1:29:25 Who Aurora is hiring1:29:53 What “grit” means to Chris1:30:15 OutroMentioned in this episode: Waymo, Google, Rivian, Dmitri Dolgov, Uber, Tesla, The DARPA Grand Challenge, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, United States Department of Defense, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, FedEx, Werner Enterprises, Hirschbach, Schneider Electric, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Sebastian Thrun, Batman, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Anthony Levandowski, Donald Trump, Apple iPhone, Airbnb, Blackmore, Stripe, Titan, Ford, Volkswagen, RJ Scaringe, Peterbilt Motors Company, The Volvo Group, Continental AG, Dara KhosrowshahiLinks:Connect with Chris UrmsonXLinkedInConnect with JoubinXLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner Perkins

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In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there's no sound on a video of an AI dentist.Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named "L Ron", a traffic cone saves the world, and Mark has a heated argument with belligerent ChatGPT.Episode links:Judi Dench IS going to be the voice of AI.Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions'.AI dentist performs surgery on human.Video of robot dentist at work.OpenAI built a text watermarking tool to detect content written by ChatGPT, but is refusing to release it.Google's Gemini AI Olympics-themed ad sparks fierce backlash.Google Gemini Olympics ad.Google's New Smart Thermostat Has (Yep, You Guessed It) AI Features.Two more OpenAI co-founders are leaving the company.Anthony Levandowski's Wikipedia entry.Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence.The Way of the Future is now a thing of the past.The AI Fix episode 10: An AI cookery dumpster fire, the ARC prize, and a creepy new AI friend.The AI FixThe AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.Learn more about the podcast at theaifix.show, and follow us on Twitter at @TheAIFix.Never miss another episode by following us in your favourite podcast app. It's free!Like to give us some feedback or sponsor the podcast? Get in touch.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacyChartable -...

In 2015, Anthony Levandowski, a former Google and Uber engineer, drafted the bylaws for a new church called “Way of the Future.” According to its website, “Way of the Future” or WOTF is about “creating a peaceful and respectful transition of who is in charge of the planet from people to people + ‘machines. WOTF Church activities will focus on the worship of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” EQAs technology advances, many believe AI will surpass human intelligence. But God's Prophetic Word of Truth makes certain that it is the Lord God Almighty Who alone is Lord over all, and He has everything in control. He alone is All Knowing and Perfect in all His ways. He alone is God!He is, however, allowing the enemy to have his day for a short period of time, as all things fall right into place according to God's Prophetic Calendar which was verified and sealed by the Holy Spirit before the earth was formed.In this Podcast, we focus on AI which will most likely be one of the primary tools of the enemy that will give his Antichrist the global control God's Word reveals he will wield over all people of earth for the seven-year Tribulation Period, with Love's invitation for those who have “ears to hear” to run into Salvation's Safety Net while there is yet time! Support the showVisit our website: https://agapelightministries.com/

March 13 marks the 20-year anniversary of the inaugural DARPA Grand Challenge race which catalyzed interest in self-driving technology. DARPA director Tony Tether, Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker, Waymo's Melissa Dumas Grimm and Pronto's Anthony Levandowski offer reflections on that race and how it steered the course of automated-driving development.

Jan. 24, 2024 | Tesla plans $25K EV; Pronto CEO Anthony Levandowski by Automotive News

The Pronto CEO and co-founder details the merits of pursuing off-road autonomy, provides a status report on self-driving technology and explains why he founded the Way Of The Future church as a framework for harnessing artificial intelligence.

This Sunday at 9PM EST! Artificial Intelligence and The Antichrist! Since talking about AI (Artificial Intelligence), we have been researching the ramifications of this technology. What the reader will see in this piece will be shocking – even alarming. But AI is here and is progressing at breakneck speed like we have discussed in prior shows. I do believe that as John the Baptist cried out in the wilderness to make the paths straight for the coming of the Lord, Satan (whom I believe is behind this technology) is crying out: “Make way for AI, for it is the answer to the earth's problems – and the Path to Paradise for all who will follow!” Here is my last article for those who did not see it: Artificial Intelligence and Antichrist: Will There Be a Connection? I happened upon a website while researching AI. The similarities and references to Christianity were not subtle, but glaring and intentional. Satan knows that his time is short, and wants to deceive as many people as he can. After all, that is what he does best. From motherboard.vice.com **I am “bolding” key words in this article for the benefit of the reader. My commentary will be in blue. Silicon Valley's Radical Machine Cult From afterlife to machine transcendence, Digitalism offers a new promise of paradise. We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs. As Wired reported recently, Anthony Levandowski, a top Silicon Valley engineer formerly working for Google's self-driving car company Waymo, and now at the center of the trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its goal? To “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.” According to Wired, Way of the Future was founded in September 2015. I find it interesting that the UN Sustainable Development Goals final document was adopted at the UN on this very date. Coincidence? I think not. It was on the 20th of that month when, 9,400 miles away in Switzerland, I first became aware that Digitalism had turned into a kind of religion. I participated in a conference in the French mountain resort of Chamonix underneath the white peak of Montblanc, where leading technologists had gathered to discuss our future. The topic of one panel discussion, featuring executives from Google and eBay and the CEO of a prominent US think tank, was “Technology is turning the world upside down—what's going on?” #Demons #Occultism #Supernatural #Satanism #Exorcism #antichrist #Possession #DarkArts #EvilSpirits #InfernalHierarchy # Summoning #Demonology101 #DemonicPowers #ForbiddenKnowledge #Paranormal #DemonWorship #DemonicPossession #Sorcery #BlackMagic #HellishCreatures #TheologyofEvil #MythicalBeings #DarkForces #SpiritualWarfare #DemonHunter #DemonologyResearch #OccultKnowledge @DemonologyExperts @OccultResearch @Supernaturallnsight @SatanicStudies @ExorcismNews @PossessionHelp @DarkArtsAcademy @EvilSpiritinsights @InfernalHierarchy101 @SummoningGuide @DemonsUnleashed @ForbiddenKnowledge @ParanormalEnigma @DemonWorshipers @DemonicPossessionTips @SorcerySecrets @BlackMagicMastery @HellishCreatures @TheologyOfEvil @MythicalBeingsRealm @DarkForcesAlert @SpiritualWarfare101 @DemonHunterHQ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grizzly-onthehunt/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grizzly-onthehunt/support

In this episode we stand on the precipice staring into a potential abyss of an apocalypse caused by artificial intelligence and wonder if the abyss is staring back. Thankfully some of the world's greatest minds have thought very seriously about this question. Along with the clever people, Chri$tians have also weighed in with their opinions. So that's nice.This topic should inspire us to ponder the hard problem of consciousness. Will sentience come about as an emergent property of staggering amounts of information fed into a complex substrate of interacting nodes and conduits computing advanced algorithms shaped by brute force machine learning? And if that sentience does somehow emerge from technology what are the moral obligations to ourselves and the thinking machines we create? We SHOULD be considering these very serious and important existential issues but this is Satan is my Superhero. We're gonna spend the episode poking fun at backward hillbillies who believe a supernatural space wizard cares deeply about them and their favourite sport team.Guest appearances from Alan Turing, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Anton LaVey, Elon Musk, Blake Lemoine, LaMDA, Chat GPT, Mike James, Kirk Cameron, Kevin Sorbo, James Cameron, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anthony Levandowski, Donald Trump and Father John Corrigan. Sauces https://www.churchofsatan.com/pentagonal-revisionism/ https://thenextweb.com/news/heres-what-the-vatican-us-evangelicals-and-satanists-say-about-aiBy Tristian Greene https://erlc.com/resource-library/statements/artificial-intelligence-an-evangelical-statement-of-principles/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/vatican-microsoft-team-up-on-artificial-intelligence-ethics/  https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/does-a-i-give-insight-into-demonic-activity/ https://www.amazon.com.au/Confessions-Illuminati-Vol-6-66-Intelligence/dp/1796904694 https://leozagami.com/bio-english/ https://news.gab.com/2023/01/christians-must-enter-the-ai-arms-race/ https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/03/mentally-ill-trny-demon-hackers-blamed-massive-data-leak-far-right-site-gab/ https://www.cgi.org/news-and-events/2022/8/1/ai-artificial-intelligence-and-the-beast-of-revelation https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/07/google-fires-engineer-who-claimed-lamda-chatbot-is-a-sentient-person/ https://futurism.com/fired-google-engineer-ai-sentience https://www.axios.com/2021/02/20/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-church https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/ https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-cyborg-slaves-satan-aliens-infowars-viral-video-1721713

This Thursday we're coming to you from the annual NAMAD membership meeting in Miami, FL where a change in leadership was announced last night. We're also talking about the continued struggle of self-driving tech, as well as the new weight requirement for roads given the rise in EVs, and a massive semiconductor plant coming to Syracuse, NY. NAMAD President Damon Lester stepped down and assumed the role as Vice Chair of the Board. After a 1 year executive search process, Hugene Fields will be stepping up. Self Driving cars still stalling out in go to market strategyOne of the hardest things to figure out is something called “unprotected left turns,” or left turns when navigating oncoming traffic.A McKinsey & Co. report states the industry has currently invested over $100bn in R&D for self-driving technology.“You'd be hard-pressed to find another industry that's invested so many dollars in R&D and that has delivered so little,” Anthony Levandowski says in an interview. “Forget about profits—what's the combined revenue of all the robo-taxi, robo-truck, robo-whatever companies? Is it a million dollars? Maybe. I think it's more like zero.”Transportation companies say that EV vehicles are too heavy for roads“[C]ars and trucks climbed from an average of 3,200 pounds (1,451 kilos) to 4,200 pounds over the last four decades, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.”Currently, less than 1% of vehicles on US roads are EVs, but with aggressive sales targets, it will be harder for transporters to meet highway weight requirements.“‘The truth is we will not be able to move as many electric vehicles under the current weight limit. That could mean more trucks on the road, delays in orders and increased costs,' said Sarah Amico, executive chairman of Jack Cooper, among the largest car haulers in North America.”Transporters are asking for an additional 10% weight limit, giving them the ability to carry the same number of vehicles, if they are all EVsSemiconductor chips coming to Syracuse (Half of ASOTU team just cheered)Largest private investment in NY history, up to 100B to build a mega complex in Syracuse's northern suburbsMicron would build up to four separate semiconductor fabrication plants in phases at the 1,300-acre site off Route 31, Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra told syracuse.comIt will be the 8th largest site in the US. The US accounts for less than 12% of global chip productionGet the Daily Push Back email at https://www.asotu.com/JOIN the conversation on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asotu/Read our most recent email at: https://www.asotu.com/media/push-back-emailShare your positive dealer stories: https://www.asotu.com/positivityASOTU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/automotivestateoftheunion 

They were supposed to be the future. But prominent detractors—including Anthony Levandowski, who pioneered the industry—are getting louder as the losses get bigger. Listen to Bloomberg Businessweek's “After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere” by Max Chafkin, read by Mark Leydorf. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apple's 3 nm chips are on the way. A former Apple employee pleads guilty to industrial espionage. Oracle allegedly knows everything about you. And Sony announced its new VR hardware will be out in early 2023.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bigeye is a data observability platform that helps teams measure, improve, and communicate data quality clearly at any scale. Explore more on their YouTube channel.Bigeye cofounders Kyle Kirwan and Egor Gryaznov met at Uber, where Kyle worked on data and Egor was a staff engineer.Kyle and Egor made a clean break with Uber before founding Bigeye, eager to avoid even the appearance of an Anthony Levandowski-like situation. If you're not familiar with the ex-Google engineer sentenced to prison for stealing trade secrets (and later pardoned by Trump), catch up here.Learn how to save your energy for innovation by choosing boring technology.Connect with Kyle on LinkedIn.Connect with Egor on LinkedIn.Compiler is an original podcast from Red Hat discussing tech topics big, small and strange like, What are tech hiring managers actually looking for? And, do you have to know how to code to get started in open source? Listen to Compiler anywhere you find your podcasts or visit https://link.chtbl.com/compiler?sid=podcast.stack.overflow

Anthony Levandowski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pronto, an autonomous vehicle company for the mining and trucking industries. In February of this year, Levandowski and his team launched Pollen Mobile, a decentralized mobile network built on the Solana blockchain and initially born out of the need for secure and reliable connectivity in remote operating sites. The peer-to-peer open source wireless network is privacy-focused, affordable and owned and operated by its users. Pollen, which is currently operational in the San Francisco Bay area, incentivizes its users with payments in its own cryptocurrency, PollenCoin (PCN) to run their own mini cell towers and build out the network's coverage. Show Notes: (00:00:00) – Introduction. (00:07:01) – The genesis of Pollen. (00:10:48) – Pollen vs. traditional telcos. (00:18:52) – Pollen's node and validator infrastructure. (00:29:57) – Pollen's incentive structure. (00:34:30) – The user experience. (00:41:38) – Pollen's goal. (00:45:16) – Potential roadblocks and competitors. (00:54:23) – The future of Pollen. (00:57:31) – How people can get involved. Social links: Anthony's Twitter Pollen Twitter Pronto Twitter Resources: Anthony's Website Pollen Website Pronto Website More

Will uploaded human clones yearn for death, but have no means to achieve it? These are the thoughts that arise when imagining transhuman futures.  Topics include: Putin protect Russia in metaverse, ads on websites, transhumanism, philosophy, religion, occult, uploading consciousness to machine, fear of death, eternal life, dominant minority, stake holders, money as means to power, Anthony Levandowski, Heaven's Gate cult, creation overtake the creator, nostalgia as escape, knowing what you believe, average person yearns for death

In this episode of Inside Jobs, Joe Payne, President and CEO at Code42, joins host Hillarie McClure to discuss two high-profile examples of inside jobs, Anthony Levandowski and Edward Snowden. Code42 is defining data security standards for the hybrid workforce. As the needs of workforces have evolved, so has Code42's data security and insider risk management solutions. To learn more about our sponsor, visit code42.com/

Autonomous vehicles are becoming quite the hot topic these days. How long might it be before we see them on the road? Topics include: Boston Dynamics, Spot, package handling robots, Hyundai, robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, Brookings Institution, Ford, fleet vehicles, rideshare companies, Uber, Google, Anthony Levandowski, Silicon Valley ethos, China, tech bros, legislation, California, population dynamics, urban areas

In March 2020, Anthony Levandowski, a leader in the self-driving car technology in Silicon Valley, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft. He had previously helped develop Google’s self-driving cars and was accused of stealing Google’s trade secrets and using them for Otto, a company he founded after leaving the tech giant. The Levandowski case can be classified as one of the most high-profile recent examples of classic trade secret infringement behavior. Let's discuss today about the importance of protecting your company's trade secrets Website: https://www.carlodandrea.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAndreaCarloD

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

Biden and big tech, the end of Loon, Apple stock soaring, Clubhouse What the new Biden administration brings to the tech sphere. Biden Has a Chance to Reshape Tech. Will He? Biden names Slaughter to lead FTC, Rosenworcel to chair FCC. Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto. Google threatens to shut down Search in Australia if digital news code goes ahead. Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski. Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist. Alphabet Pops Loon's Balloons—but Won't Call It a Failure. Apple's Stock Closed at All-Time High Today Ahead of Earnings Results Next Week. Apple Elaborates on Potential for iPhone 12 and MagSafe Accessories to Interfere With Implantable Medical Devices. Clubhouse has secured a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Parler Reappears With Help From Russian-Owned Service. Oversight Board accepts case on former US President Trump's indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. Netflix shares rise on strong subscriber growth considers share buybacks. Netflix's 'Shuffle Play' feature will roll out to all users worldwide this year. Microsoft invests in Cruise in the new $2 billion round. As Adobe Flash stops running, so do some railroads in China. The cutthroat war to dominate China's grocery delivery industry. Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles. Put Bernie Anywhere! Retiring Tucows Downloads. LG considers exiting smartphones in 2021. Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with a custom chip. Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with a universal chat app. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as a mailman. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louise Matsakis, Patrick Beja, and Nate Lanxon Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: Amazon.com/TWITRX WWT.COM/TWIT www.stamps.com - promo code: TWIT casper.com/twit1 - promo code: TWIT1

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American Robotics became the first drone company approved by the FAA to operate automated drones without human operators on site. Reese Mozer, CEO & co-founder of American Robotics, joined the podcast to discuss the implications for the company and the industry. He takes us through the technical capabilities of the company's drones, how humans will remain in the loop, and what types of missions its drones will now carry out. I also comment on the week's top robotics stories, including Marc Raibert weighing in on Atlas' dance skills, President Trump pardoning Anthony Levandowski, and Cruise raising another $2 billion and sending its autonomous vehicles over to Japan.

Andy and Flo lament about internet caps and other things out of their control. We discuss why Google is investigating another one of its top AI ethicists and how ex-Google engineer, Anthony Levandowski, got off scot-free for spilling trade-secrets. We opine on the future of Wear OS now that the Fitbit acquisition is finalized.

Andy and Flo lament about internet caps and other things out of their control. We discuss why Google is investigating another one of its top AI ethicists and how ex-Google engineer, Anthony Levandowski, got off scot-free for spilling trade-secrets. We opine on the future of Wear OS now that the Fitbit acquisition is finalized.

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By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. Each week, I'll sit down with an author or a writer behind one of the stories covered in a previous weekday edition for a casual conversation about what they wrote.This week, I spoke to Alex Davies, the author of the brand new book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. It's just out as of last week and is an enthralling read about the events that led us to the present-day state of the art of autonomous vehicles.I've been looking forward to this book since it was announced, and it doesn't disappoint: from the iconic if shambolic 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge to the legal battles that threatened to tear the industry apart, the creation of this tech could change the world. It's a great story.For the first time, I recorded one of these to be podcast-quality so you can actually listen to the interview up top. Let me know if you enjoy that, and maybe I'll do more of them!The book is Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car and can be found wherever books are sold, and Alex is on Twitter at @adavies47. This interview has been condensed and edited. Unless otherwise indicated, images are from DARPA. Podcast theme by J.T. Fales.Alex, you are the author of the brand new book, Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. You cover all about transportation, you cover all about vehicles and you've also covered a lot about the technology that goes into them. There's been a lot of talk about driverless cars recently, you were talking about how this is a really long journey. How far back have we been working on driverless cars?I think the people first started talking about the driverless car right around the time people came up with the car itself. The car was a great invention for all sorts of reasons but one thing people noticed very quickly was that when you got rid of the horse, you got rid of the sentient being that would stop you from driving off a cliff or into a wall if you, the human driver, stopped paying attention. You see these stories from the ‘20s and ‘30s of people coming up with ways of remote-controlling cars using radio waves. And in the ‘50s, you start seeing programs from General Motors and RCA working on embedding electric strips into the road, which obviously didn't work for various reasons, that would help guide a car along the highway. You see examples from the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs in New York where GM is talking about, "oh, cars that will drive themselves and you'll have these things like air traffic controllers saying, okay, your car is clear to go into self-driving mode," or back then they would have used the word autonomous.Ford Pavilion, 1939 World's Fair, via Library of CongressSo, the idea itself is really old but technologically, I think you've got to date this work from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. That's when you first start seeing the technology that undergirds the way we think about building self-driving cars today, which is not by following any kind of radio path, nothing built into the infrastructure and the system, but the basic idea of giving the car the tools it needs to drive itself the way a human operates a car. You've got three basic buckets: one is you have to recreate a human's senses, so that's where you see things like cameras, radars, LiDAR sensors, giving the car the ability to see the world around it. You have to replace what a human's arms and legs do or hands and feet, really, and those are just kind of servo motors built into the car that give the car the ability to turn the steering wheel or pump the gas and brakes. And, actually, in today's cars, that's all done purely over software, it's not even really mechanical in there anymore. And then the last, the really tricky thing is how do you replace the human's brain? The step between the senses and actually carrying out the decisions you need to make.I start my story with the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge. I give a little bit of the history of the robotics and artificial intelligence research that happened before it. But for me, the Grand Challenge is really the starting point. DARPA is that really kooky arm of the Pentagon that is basically charged with making sure the U.S. government is never surprised on the technological front. It came out of the Soviets launching Sputnik, which really shocked the Americans to hell, and they're like, “okay, we need an arm of the military that's just going to do the kooky kind of far out stuff.” So DARPA, a lot of big hits — the internet, GPS, stealth bombers. Some not so great moments — DARPA was instrumental to the creation of Agent Orange. Whoops.Oops, yeah no, don't want to do that one.That one, not so nice.Look, they're not all hits, they're not all hits and that's okay. We are friends, we have been friends for a while now. I feel like you have told me the story of the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge many times, as this deeply formative event, not only for self-driving cars but also robotics and Silicon Valley and how government can work together on different things. Do you want to go into what went into creating this event and kind of what happened at it? Which I feel like is a very, very cool story that I imagine is a solid chunk of the book.It is a solid chunk of the book. It's also, personally, my favorite part of the book. To me, this is really the heart of the story. DARPA was tasked with helping the U.S. military develop autonomous vehicles and the basic thinking there was that vehicles were a way a lot of soldiers got hurt, especially in the early 2000s, as we were starting to get mired down in these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We wanted autonomous vehicles so soldiers didn't have to be in vehicles that were being hit by IEDs, so you could send cars by themselves on convoys and dangerous missions, and basically, it was to save the lives of the troops. DARPA had been funding all sorts of research into autonomous driving for decades by this point and the guy running it, DARPA director Tony Tether, was frustrated that he just wasn't seeing the kind of progress he wanted to see, it just felt like one internal research project after another.So, he said, “do you know what?” DARPA had, at the time, a relatively new power to give out prize money and he could give out up to a million dollars without needing congressional approval. So, he created a thing called the DARPA Grand Challenge with a $1 million first prize. It was a race for autonomous vehicles across the Mojave Desert in California. You would go from this real dusty little town called Barstow in the California Mojave Desert to just across the line to Primm, Nevada, which is a pretty sad town because it's the least driving you have to do from California to legally gamble in a casino. If you're like, “I don't have the energy to drive the extra 45 minutes to Las Vegas,” you go to Primm.Oh no.And so, Tether's original idea, very briefly, it was we're going to have the cars go from Los Angeles to the Las Vegas Strip and they'll go on the freeway. And the guy at DARPA who was actually in charge of putting on this race was like that is completely insane, you can't do any of that. These robots don't work, we don't even know what they're going to look like. So, they ended up doing it in the desert, which made more sense for the military application anyway when you think about what your driving in the Middle East would be like. But the key part of the challenge was that it was open to anybody, this was not just Lockheed Martin and Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University, the big contractors who had been doing this kind of work. Tony Tether just said, “anybody who can build a self-driving car, we'll bring them all to the desert and we'll do this big race.” And so, you see this wide range of characters who come into this.I think, foremost among them, interestingly, is Anthony Levandowski, who at the time is just about 23 years old. He's an graduate student at UC Berkeley and he decides he really wants to be in this because he loves robotics, even though he doesn't have a ton of robotics training. He's like, “I'm going to build a self-driving motorcycle.” So, that's his idea. You've got the big players like Carnegie Mellon and that's where Chris Urmson, who becomes Anthony Levandowski's great rival once they're both at Google years later, comes in. Chris Urmson is a big player, Carnegie Mellon is the robotics powerhouse in the world, probably the best roboticists in the world and have been doing tons and tons of self-driving research over the decades. They field this team as a powerhouse of a team and you've got this guy, Red Whittaker, who's the old roboticist there.This is amazing.I have been yelled at by Red Whittaker more times than I care to remember. Really!He's just very cantankerous, he's an ex Marine, he's now 70 years old, he's well over six feet, he's 250 pounds, the guy is built like a redwood and he's just always yelling. And he builds robots, someone pointed this out to me once, he builds robots that look like him, in a sense. They're always these enormous, hulking things and for the Grand Challenge, they built this Humvee. And Red Whittaker, someone told me, he has this penchant for saying really bombastic things that sound crazy and don't actually make any sense. So, he once told someone, this project, it's like a freight train, you've just got to grab on and it'll rip your arms off.It sounds terrible.When he told me this, it's like, what does that even mean? But he has this incredible talent for really developing young engineers. And Chris Urmson is among his many proteges who are now pushing this technology into the world.And so, you have this collection of wacky racers, gathering to win a million dollars from the Defense Department in the desert. And the first one is 2004, what happens at the first one?It is a disaster. The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge is supposed to be a 142 mile race through the desert, 15 teams get out of a qualifying round and make it to the final round. If you looked at the qualifying round, vehicles were smoking and shaking or they couldn't even start at all or they were just driving into every last thing. And then the race in the desert itself, wasn't all that much better. It got off to a great start, Carnegie Mellon's Humvee, Sand Storm, was first off the line, it shoots off into the desert. So, it's doing okay, the first couple of vehicles get off the line okay. And then you get through the bottom half of the field and it becomes a comedy of errors. You've got one little bathtub shaped thing that goes up onto the tiny ridge just on the side of the trail where it's raised and flips over and lands upside down.You've got one that drives 50 yards out, does an inexplicable U-turn and drives back to the starting line. We've got one, one just veers off-road into barbed wire and then can't find it's way back. You've got this thing from OshKosh that's a 14 ton military truck, a six wheeled thing, it's lime green and it's got a tumbleweed, like a bush thing in front of it. And its detection system says, this is an unmovable obstacle, but then another tumbleweed shows up behind it and so, it just starts going forward and backward and forward and backward like Austin Powers, trying to turn around. And then, even Carnegie Mellon's vehicle, which is doing well and is seven miles into the race, it's going around a hairpin turn, it goes off the edge of the road a little bit and it gets hung up on this rock. It gets, basically, stranded like a whale on a beach. It's raised up to the point where its wheels can't get any traction anymore. The robot brain doesn't know this and it's just spinning its wheels, spinning its wheels at full speed until the rubber is on fire and smoke pouring off this thing. And DARPA has to show up from a helicopter. They hop out of the helicopter with the fire extinguishers, and it's a complete disaster.And the thing that DARPA had really hyped up, they're like, “this is the new innovation, we're going to save the lives of all these troops.” And so then, reporters come after Tony Tether and he meets them, he meets the reporters who are waiting at the end line, at the finish line, which is roughly — it's 142 mile race — 130 miles away from the closest car. The Outcome.Carnegie Mellon did the best, it went 7.4 miles. Anthony Levandowski's motorcycle makes it into the final round, mostly as a stunt. It did horribly in qualifying, but the DARPA guys are like, “this thing is so crazy, it really embodies the spirit of what we're trying to do, so let's just bring it to the race anyway.” It's not like it can win, its gas tank doesn't hold enough gas for it to go all the way to the finish line.So, Anthony brings it up to the starting line, hands it off to a DARPA guy who kind of holds his hand on it until it goes, motorcycles starts going, he takes his hand off and motorcycle instantly falls to the ground. Anthony had forgotten to turn on the stabilizing software system before it started.That will get you.And so, one of his lessons for the next year was make a checklist.The cool thing about this is that it's an utter fiasco, it's how you always tell it. But then everybody who was there for this fiasco, they stuck around and they went, in many ways, to kind of form the current self-driving industry. Do you want to talk about that seed, what it has turned into since?Yeah. So, very quickly, what's great about the Grand Challenge is that it brings all these people together, and it pits them against this problem that everyone had kind of dismissed as impossible. So, what happens is DARPA does the 2005 Grand Challenge 18 months later, and the 18 months really prove to be the difference in that teams that weren't ready at all for the Grand Challenge, for the original one, are ready 18 months later. They've learned much more about how this works. And so, the 2005 race is a huge success. Stanford, led by Sebastian Thrun, comes in first place, Carnegie Mellon second, five teams finish this big race through the desert. Then DARPA follows it up with the 2007 Urban Challenge, which pits the vehicles against a little mock city, where they have people driving around and all of a sudden they have to deal with traffic and stop signs and parking lots and all of this stuff.What you really get from the Urban Challenge is the sense that this technology seems, suddenly, very possible. And by 2007, this is a big media event, it's hosted by the guys who did MythBusters and Larry Page is there, and he shows up in his private plane full of Google execs, and it's like, look at this future of technology. About a year later, Larry Page wants to build self-driving cars. This is actually something he'd looked at as an undergraduate or a graduate student and then his thesis advisor said, “well, how about you focus on internet search instead?” And it worked out pretty well.It worked out okay, I think, right?I think he did fine, that's what I thought. He decided I want to get back to self-driving cars. He'd been at the Urban Challenge and been like, “I can see how far this technology has come,” so what he did was he went to Sebastian Thrun, who had led Stanford's team through the challenges and he was already working at Google, he was a big part of making Street View happen. Along with Anthony Levandowski, who Thrun had met through the challenges and he's like, “oh, this guy's nuts but he's really talented and he's a real go-getter.” So, he brings him on to help them do Street View and then Larry Page says, “okay, now build me a self-driving car.” Sebastian Thrun says, "okay, well I happen to know the 12 best people on the world at this technology, I met basically all of them through the DARPA challenges."He has this meeting at his chalet in Lake Tahoe, at the end of 2008. And he brings together a dozen people and it's Anthony Levandowski and it's Chris Urmson and then people like Bryan Salesky — names that are now really the top tier in self-driving cars. And he says, “Google is going to build a self-driving car, we're going to have something that looks a whole lot like a blank check and I want this team to be the one to do it.” And that becomes Project Chauffeur. They become this really secretive project within Google, they go forth over the next couple of years, and they make this incredible progress in self-driving cars. And this is the story of the second half of the book: how this team it comes together and then how they ultimately come apart because as soon as they have to start thinking about how to make a product, how to commercialize this technology and the reality of money and power within the team become real wedge issues.Within them, you see rivalries, especially between Urmson and Levandowski, who are fighting for control and fighting for the direction of the team. Ultimately, things kind of break apart and what you see over time is as people leave and as this technology starts to look a lot more real, everyone splinters off to do their own thing, and this was what I call Google self-driving diaspora. Chris Urmson leaves to start Aurora. Bryan Salesky leaves to start Argo. Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu leave to start Nuro, Don Burnette leaves to start Kodiak, and Anthony Levandowski, of course, leaves to start Otto, which is acquired by Uber, which is the genesis of the Uber-Waymo huge self-driving lawsuit.Considerable amount of litigation that I believe is ongoing to this day, yes.So, the litigation did end, fortunately for everyone but the lawyers, I think. Uber and Waymo ultimately settled and then, weirdly, about a year after that, the Department of Justice charged Levandowski with criminal trade secret theft to which he ultimately pled guilty, and a few months ago he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but he will not start his sentence until the pandemic is over.So, it definitely seems that this is still very much seen as the start of something, and you have covered a lot of this industry. What's kind of the state of the art now and where are things kind of moving forward?Well, fortunately for the industry, all of these personal rivalries, I think, have largely cooled off. And I think the book is really a history of how this got started and how these people pulled this technology forward, and then kind of came apart at the seams. But now what you've got is something that looks a little bit like a mature industry. You have Waymo with its program in the Arizona suburbs of Phoenix, and it's starting to really take the safety drivers out of its cars in earnest. Cruise, which is also a focus of the book, which is part of GM and also backed by Honda, is moving to take the safety drivers out of its cars in San Francisco, a much more dynamic environment, as it moves to start a self-driving system there. Self-driving trucks are looking much more serious than ever before. Argo AI, which has partnered with Ford and Volkswagen, is moving towards starting a taxi service, a robo-taxi service in Miami.I talk about the Gartner hype cycle where, I think, from 2014 to 2017 or so, we were really at peak hype, totally inflated expectations where everyone said, “your kids will never have to learn how to drive.” Chris Urmson is saying, "my 12 year old son will never have to learn to drive a car," and I'm pretty sure the kid's got his learner's permit by now. Those inflated expectations burst a little bit as people realize just how hard this technology is. But I think where we are now, on that Gartner hype cycle, is on what's called the slope of enlightenment, where people are getting more serious. Even if they haven't cracked the problem yet, I think they have a really good sense of what it takes to crack the problem, which, it turns out, is a lot of time, an incredible amount of money and at least 1,000 very talented engineers.Whole lot of lasers, a very sympathetic governmental oversight structure in a suburb of Phoenix. We have the ingredients for the solution, right?We could make it work. And so, I'm still optimistic about it, I still think the technology can do a lot of good. I think what people are figuring out is how to right-size this technology. People are figuring out how to actually apply self-driving cars in a realistic way, and I think the cooler projects out there are companies that are working on making self-driving shuttle cars for senior living communities, these big areas in Arizona and Florida, they cover 1,000 acres and people need to get around but can't necessarily drive anymore. And where the driving environment is pretty calm, that's a great use case. The trick right now is to figure out where you can make the technology work, and then the next question will be where can you actually make money off of this? That one I'm less bullish on because the economics of this, I think, are going to be pretty tough to crack.I mean, we're closing in on the end of this one, but DARPA seeded a little bit of the initial funds, it seems, for a lot of this research. Is that still an application that people are looking into or getting folks off the road in places that are dangerous?The army is still working on that, and I think those projects are still ongoing. But the initial push for DARPA was a line in a congressional funding bill from the end of 2000, it was one of the last things Clinton signed into law. And it mandated that by 2015, one-third of all ground vehicles, I think it was military, be unmanned, which was completely insane.How did we do? What's the number?I mean, maybe we've got three vehicles. That stuff hasn't panned out so much. But my favorite thing, one of the first people I managed to track down for this book was the guy, the congressional staffer who got that line into the bill. And I told him, I was like, "oh, I'm researching this and I would just want to ask you about why you put that in there and what your thinking was." And he goes, "Oh, did something come of that?"That's amazing.I was like, “yeah, I don't know, an industry that's predicted to be worth $7 trillion.”And what also came of it is Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car by Alex Davies. Alex, where can people find the book? You can find this book, basically, anywhere online, it's available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, your regular booksellers. It's out in hardcover January 5. You can also get the audiobook, you can get it on Kindle. Get it however you like, I just hope you enjoy it.My Twitter handle is @adavies47. You can find some of my work on Business Insider, where I'm the senior editor for our transportation desk.Ah, excellent website, very, very good website. If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! 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Microsoft / Oracle / FB plans for TikTok https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/21/only-2-companies-should-buy-tiktok-and-oracle-isnt-one-of-them/ IStore fees battles News publishers seek the same App Store terms Apple gives Amazon https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/21/news-publishers-seek-the-same-app-store-terms-apple-gives-amazon/ Epic Games is suing Apple https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21367963/epic-fortnite-legal-complaint-apple-ios-app-store-removal-injunctive-relief Cyber security Recent significant bleaches in cybersecurity: Hackers Dump 20GB of Intel’s Confidential Data Online https://threatpost.com/hackers-dump-20gb-of-intels-confidential-data-online/158178/ Another facebook user-tracking issue:facial recognition: good or bad? Court ruling paves the way for Facebook to settle its facial recognition lawsuit https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/20/court-ruling-paves-the-way-for-facebook-to-settle-its-facial-recognition-lawsuit/ California judge rules Uber and Lyft must classify drivers as employees https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/12/california-judge-rules-uber-and-lyft-must-classify-drivers-as-employees/ California Proposition 22, App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative (2020) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based_Drivers_as_Contractors_and_Labor_Policies_Initiative_(2020) https://yeson22.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhIP6BRCMARIsALu9LfnafceheXVdZa9WL20rCGf08VBSRFZXzLQS7q687gkXK2J64pgZvt0aAnzHEALw_wcB Xwing unveils autonomous flight system for regional planes https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/20/xwing-unveils-autonomous-flight-system-for-regional-planes/ NVIDIA welcomed over 800 interns, who have been making important contributions to the company and socializing virtually throughout the summer. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/08/20/virtual-internship-program/ Online banking expansion and issues Bank of America Customer Opens Mobile App and Finds an Extra $2.45 Billion https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-america-customer-opens-mobile-203123639.html JPMorgan Chase to Launch Online Bank in the U.K. in 2021 https://finance.yahoo.com/m/536f35e3-bd50-37e0-b3bb-1b920de72aff/report-jpmorgan-chase-to.html From other side Revolut (formed with UK bank) expanded in US Revolut launches its neobank in the US https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/24/revolut-launches-its-neobank-in-the-us/ Revolut U.S. launches easiest and fastest way to buy cryptocurrency https://blog.revolut.com/en-us/revolut-us-launches-cryptocurrency/ Invention ownership troubles: Former Google exec Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months for stealing self-driving car secrets https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354906/anthony-levandowski-waymo-uber-lawsuit-sentence-18-months-prison-lawsuit https://www.cnet.com/news/ex-uber-self-driving-car-head-ordered-to-pay-google-179-million/#:~:text=Anthony%20Levandowski%2C%20former%20Google%20engineer,contract%20with%20the%20tech%20giant.&text=Google%2C%20however%2C%20also%20sued%20Levandowski%20individually%20in%20arbitration. Tech investing during COVID : threats or opportunity? Top 10 S&P 500 Stocks by Index Weight (6 in tech industry) https://finance.yahoo.com/m/168e6916-f6d5-3fca-8fd3-9d179217d985/top-10-s-p-500-stocks-by.html

Podcast # 22-07-2020 Microsoft / Oracle / FB plans for TikTok https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/21/only-2-companies-should-buy-tiktok-and-oracle-isnt-one-of-them/  IStore fees battles News publishers seek the same App Store terms Apple gives Amazon https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/21/news-publishers-seek-the-same-app-store-terms-apple-gives-amazon/  Epic Games is suing Apple https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21367963/epic-fortnite-legal-complaint-apple-ios-app-store-removal-injunctive-relief  Cyber security Recent significant bleaches in cybersecurity: Hackers Dump 20GB of Intel’s Confidential Data Online https://threatpost.com/hackers-dump-20gb-of-intels-confidential-data-online/158178/  Another facebook user-tracking issue:facial recognition: good or bad? Court ruling paves the way for Facebook to settle its facial recognition lawsuit https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/20/court-ruling-paves-the-way-for-facebook-to-settle-its-facial-recognition-lawsuit/  California judge rules Uber and Lyft must classify drivers as employees https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/12/california-judge-rules-uber-and-lyft-must-classify-drivers-as-employees/  California Proposition 22, App-Based Drivers as Contractors and Labor Policies Initiative (2020) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based_Drivers_as_Contractors_and_Labor_Policies_Initiative_(2020) https://yeson22.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhIP6BRCMARIsALu9LfnafceheXVdZa9WL20rCGf08VBSRFZXzLQS7q687gkXK2J64pgZvt0aAnzHEALw_wcB  Xwing unveils autonomous flight system for regional planes https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/20/xwing-unveils-autonomous-flight-system-for-regional-planes/  NVIDIA welcomed over 800 interns, who have been making important contributions to the company and socializing virtually throughout the summer. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/08/20/virtual-internship-program/  Online banking expansion and issues Bank of America Customer Opens Mobile App and Finds an Extra $2.45 Billion https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-america-customer-opens-mobile-203123639.html  JPMorgan Chase to Launch Online Bank in the U.K. in 2021 https://finance.yahoo.com/m/536f35e3-bd50-37e0-b3bb-1b920de72aff/report-jpmorgan-chase-to.html  From other side Revolut (formed with UK bank) expanded in US Revolut launches its neobank in the US https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/24/revolut-launches-its-neobank-in-the-us/  Revolut U.S. launches easiest and fastest way to buy cryptocurrency https://blog.revolut.com/en-us/revolut-us-launches-cryptocurrency/ Invention ownership troubles: Former Google exec Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months for stealing self-driving car secrets https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354906/anthony-levandowski-waymo-uber-lawsuit-sentence-18-months-prison-lawsuit https://www.cnet.com/news/ex-uber-self-driving-car-head-ordered-to-pay-google-179-million/#:~:text=Anthony%20Levandowski%2C%20former%20Google%20engineer,contract%20with%20the%20tech%20giant.&text=Google%2C%20however%2C%20also%20sued%20Levandowski%20individually%20in%20arbitration. Tech investing during COVID : threats or opportunity? Top 10 S&P 500 Stocks by Index Weight (6 in tech industry) https://finance.yahoo.com/m/168e6916-f6d5-3fca-8fd3-9d179217d985/top-10-s-p-500-stocks-by.html Amazon sell shares: forecast: option should become lower for %4 during 3 month https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2020/08/05/jeff-bezos-sells-one-million-amazon-shares-worth-31-billion/ SoftBank Continues to Make Risky Bets. Here’s Why The Stock Remains Attractive. https://finance.yahoo.com/m/6bb0379e-b953-3b59-82c9-d673489a2c6f/softbank-continues-to-make.html

This week, Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about Owen's Surface Duo (as he holds it!) and Intel rebrand, Intel's 11th-gen chips, CenturyLink Outage, Russia and the App Store, MSi Summit, Aluminum shortage, Myspace deleted all the data, Anthony Levandowski, Wireless Charging is bad, The Verge comparison of folding phones, and Join us in Discord to discuss any and all of the above!

We have a conversation about former Uber Security Executive facing criminal investigation over the handling of possible breaches and paying ransom by modifying the bug bounty program.We also talk about intellectual property ownership when you work for a corporation. We break down the current Waymo/Uber fallout from Anthony Levandowski pleading guilty and facing up to 30 months in prison.Like what you hear? Leave a review! Want to know more about Jeff and his analyst work at Forrester? Visit https://www.forrester.com/Jeff-PollardThis episode is not sponsored by Forrester.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/somethingsomethingcyber)

FOLLOW UP: FOUR EX-AUDI EMPLOYEES CHARGED IN GERMANYIn Germany, three ex-Audi executives and a retired engineer have been charged over #dieselgate. Ulrich Hackenberg, Stefan Knirsch, Bernd Martens and Richard Bauder are accused of fraud, false certification and criminal advertising. To read more, click the Automotive News Europe article here.FOLLOW UP: VW LOSES UK APPEAL AGAINST GROUP ACTIONVolkswagen has lost its appeal against the attempt of a group action lawsuit for compensation to those who bought a VW Group car with diesel engines fitted with, what the court has confirmed is, ‘defeat devices’. The case is not expected to start until 2022. To read more, click the Autocar article here.FOLLOW UP: LEVANDOWSKI SENTENCEDBringing to an end the messy chapter of Anthony Levandowski, stolen trade secrets and Uber trying to create autonomous taxis, Levandowski has been sentenced to prison for 12 months which he will serve once Covid-19 has receded. To read more, click the BBC News article here.NEW CAR REGISTRATION FIGURES FOR JULY 2020In a rare and probably brief moment, there is good news from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders as July showed a double-digit increase in registrations on 2019. To read more click here for the SMMT article and charts.JLR LOSE REGISTERED DESIGN CASEIn a lengthy legal process, starting with a case to cancel the registered design for the Defender, brought by INEOS against Jaguar Land Rover, finally culminating in JLR losing in the court of appeal a design patent for the Defender. The original decision was made on 21 November 2018, to read the original ruling, click the link here. To read more about the design patent matters, click the Autocar article here, but note there is confusion in the reporting on this between trademark and design patent. Thanks to Lee Walton for clarification on the case but also to Ed Callow who was mentioning this whilst no one else was over a year ago.TESLA WIPER CONTROLS LAND DRIVER IN TROUBLEA German driver was prosecuted under the nation’s same laws as using a phone behind the wheel when altering the speed of the wipers via the touch screen which resulted in a crash. Who knew putting controls on a screen that takes eyes from the road is dumb? To read more, click the BBC News article here.TESLA IN TROUBLE OVER MISLEADING DESCRIPTIONS FOR AUTOPILOTAnother German court has ruled that Tesla must stop using misleading descriptions for its Autopilot software, such as “full potential for autonomous driving” and “Autopilot inclusive”. They have also been told off for their advert suggesting self-driving cars are allowed on German roads. To read more, click The Register article here.UK’S FIRST DUTCH-STYLE ROUNDABOUT OPENSCambridge, where else, has installed the UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout that prioritises cyclists instead of cars. To see more, click Joe Giddens tweet here.If you like what we do, on this show, and think it is worth a £1.00, please consider supporting us via Patreon. Here is the link to that CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE PODCASTFORMULA E: MANY, MANY RACES AND A TITLE WINNERWith two races left in the season, Antonio Felix da Costa won the 2019/20 season with DS Techeetah, who also claimed the constructor title. To read about that, click here for The Race’s take on the event. To read about why da Costa won the title click here for another The Race article. However, it wasn’t all sweetness and light in the Techeetah stable, one race saw Vergne become furious with his teammate and the team at large for the failure of the pre-race plan to be followed. To read more about that, click another The Race article here.In other news, Blomqvist is replacing Calado at Jaguar for the remaining two races. Calado’s season has been poor. To read more, click The Race article here.24HR LE MANS TO RUN BEHIND CLOSED DOORSAn official statement from Automobile Club de l'Ouest has confirmed that whilst the race will still take place, there can be no crowds. Seems that the Virtual 24hr Le Mans was a dry run for the real thing this year. To read more, click the Autocar article here.LUNCHTIME READ: INTRODUCTION TO G8 TFXLewis Kingston has written a wonderful Long-Term Report on his C4 Corvette. To read more, which we obviously encourage you to do, click the Yes Auto article here.LIST OF THE WEEK: ESTATE OF MIND - FIVE LUXURY LOAD-LUGGERSNot2Grand is the provider of this week’s List of the Week, as the country holidays and the roads become clogged with SUVs Chris Pollitt offers some alternatives that will do more than your jacked-up hatchback. To read through, click the link here.AND FINALLY: BUY A CAR AND BE ON TVTV’s Paul Cowland is filming a new show, where he helps someone buy the perfect car for their needs, within their budget. If you wish to get involved click here for the link to his Tweet with the info.AND FINALLY: ZOOM ZOOMERS CALLAlan takes part in a gathering of folks from the motoring world, on a Monday night, run by Damien Cross. If you would like to see last Monday’s meet up please click the YouTube link here.

The perils of running a startup are often talked about, whether it's trying to secure funding, marshalling the tech you need or establishing your go-to-market strategy - but no company can remain a startup forever. Eventually, every startup needs to try and grow beyond its current stage, undertaking the difficult journey to scale its operation without falling apart at the seams.In many ways, the scale-up stage is the ‘tricky second album' of corporate operations, and is fraught with new and distinct pitfalls than those faced by founders in the early days of a company's lifecycle. This week, we're joined by startup adviser and SmartDebit CIO and director Gavin Scruby, to discuss how companies can effectively meet the challenges of becoming a scale-up.In this week's news section, we look at what the theft of secret documents from former trade secretary Liam Fox says about data security practises, whether the new iMac represents good value for money, and the conviction of Uber's self-driving maven Anthony Levandowski. Head to https://bit.ly/ITPP-scaleup for links to everything we've talked about in this week's show.

We discuss the state of autonomous trucking with Kodiak Robotics and get its take on middle-mile logistics. We also hit on former Google executive Anthony Levandowski heading to prison for stealing trade secrets from Waymo, walking Spot from 3,000 miles away, and we catch up with The Ventilator Project.

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Samsung annocunes new Note phones, a foldable tablet, ear buds and more. Anthony Levandowski sentenced to prison time for stealing trade secrets from Google and Disney sends Mulan to Disney +. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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What are the implications of artificial intelligence on theology? Will AI replace God? Robert J. Marks and Dr. John Lennox discuss artificial intelligence, theology, and Dr. Lennox’s book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Show Notes 00:25 | Introducing Dr. John Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University 00:57 | The theological implications of artificial intelligence 03:26… Source

What are the implications of artificial intelligence on theology? Will AI replace God? Robert J. Marks and Dr. John Lennox discuss artificial intelligence, theology, and Dr. Lennox’s book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Show Notes 00:25 | Introducing Dr. John Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University 00:57 | The theological implications of artificial intelligence 03:26 Read More › Source

This is episode two of the Inside Transportation podcast. This podcast was made possible by Ford Motor Company (www.ford.com) and Fenwick (www.fenwick.com). Featuring Jason Calacanis (Angel investor, LAUNCH, Inside.com) and Johan Moreno (Inside.com). Subscribe to Inside Transportation newsletter: inside.com/transportation Subscribe to Inside Electric Vehicles newsletter: inside.com/evs Recorded on April 21, 2020. SHOW NOTES -- SEGMENT 1: 2:42 — Electric vehicle startups receive PPP loans As thousands of small business owners struggle to pay rent and keep their employees on staff, two high-profile electric vehicle startups have applied and received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA). Faraday Future received a $9.1 million dollar loan from the program, which is close to the $10 million ceiling allowed by the program. Workhorse Group has also received a $1.4 million loan, which the company will use to cover payroll costs. THE VERGE: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228241/faraday-future-loan-ev-startup-sba-ppp-workhorse-lucid-motors-rivian SEGMENT 2: 14:55 — Virgin Australia collapses, Richard Brandon puts up island as collateral Virgin Australia is the latest airline casualty, amid COVID-19 related drops in revenue, as the company has entered voluntary administration. Administrators at Deloitte have taken control of the airline and are looking to restructure the business and find a new owner. More than 10 groups have expressed an interest in the airline. BLOOMBERG: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-20/virgin-australia-collapses-as-airline-calls-in-administrators-k992yqn6 SEGMENT 3: 30:15 — Uber does not want to pay for Anthony Levandowski’s legal fees Uber says it is not responsible for paying a $179 million fine that was levied on a former employee, embattled self-driving technology engineer Anthony Levandowski. He recently pled guilty to stealing trade secrets from Waymo, before he started his own company Otto. TECHCRUNCH: https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/20/uber-argues-fraud-absolves-it-from-paying-star-engineers-179m-fine-to-google/ SEGMENT 4: 39:00 — Tesla is building another production facility and the race is on to figure out where it will be located Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the new production facility will focus on Cybertruck and Model Y production for the East Coast, saying the plant would be located in the central U.S. The automaker has been linked to two locations: the Austin, Texas area and the Nashville, Tennessee area. Joplin, Missouri is offering Tesla a $1 billion incentive package to be the location of Tesla’s next U.S. production facility. Jason is putting his money on Austin, while Johan thinks the next facility will be in Tennessee. REUTERS: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-gigafactory/tesla-scouting-central-u-s-for-new-factory-musk-says-idUSKBN20Y04V SEGMENT 5: 48:15 — Dope or Nope — Virgin Trains, backed by Fortress Investment Group, is building a high-speed rail between Las Vegas and the city of Victorville, California, which is about 85 miles away from Downtown LA. LA TIMES: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-25/las-vegas-high-speed-train-project-moving-after-delays — The look of Subaru’s new electric vehicle that is jointly being developed with Toyota — the Evoltis ELECTREK: https://electrek.co/2020/04/20/all-electric-subaru-evoltis-with-oddball-design-to-be-unveiled-in-2021/

That's the question I debate with David Kris and Nick Weaver as we explore the ways in which governments are using location data to fight the spread of COVID-19. Phone location data is being used to enforce quarantines and to track contacts with infected people. It's useful for both, but Nick thinks the second application may not really be ready for a year – too late for this outbreak.   Our interview subject is Jason Healey, who has a long history with Cyber Command and a deep recent oeuvre of academic commentary on cyber conflict. Jay explains Cyber Command's doctrine of “persistent engagement” and “defending forward” in words that I finally understand. It makes sense in terms of Cyber Command's aspirations as well as the limitations it labored under in the Obama Administration, but I end up wondering whether it's going to be different from “deterrence through having the best offense.” Nothing wrong with that, in my view – as long as you have the best offense by a long shot, something that is by no means proven.   We return to the news to discover the whole idea of national security sunsets looking dumber than it did when it first saw the light of day (which is saying something). Several important FISA authorities have fallen to the floor, Matthew Heiman reports. Thanks to Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee, I might add (Nick blames President Trump, who certainly stepped in at a bad time). Both the House and the Senate passed measures to keep FISA authorities alive, but the measures were completely different and out of sync. Maybe the House will fix that this week, but only for a couple months. Because of course we'll be rested and ready in the middle of a contagion and a presidential campaign for a debate over Sen. Paul's proposal to make it harder to wiretap and prosecute Americans who spy for foreign governments.  Maybe some aiming should have come before naming and shaming? The US has dropped the Mueller team's charges against a sponsor of Russian electoral interference, Matthew tells us. There's another major leak about government skullduggery in cyberspace, David tells us, and WikiLeaks is, uh, nowhere to be seen. That's because the skulldugging government in question is Vladimir Putin's, and WikiLeaks is looking more and more like it is in cahoots with Putin. So it falls to a group called Digital Revolution to publish internal FSB documents showing Russia's determination to acquire a huge DDOS network, maybe enough to take whole nations offline.    Alan Cohn makes a guest appearance to discuss the role that DHS's CISA is playing in the COVID-19 crisis. And it has nothing to do with cybersecurity. Instead, CISA is ensuring the security of critical infrastructure around the country by identifying facilities that need to keep operating, notwithstanding state lockdown orders. We talk about the federalism crisis that could come from the proliferation of critical infrastructure designations, but neither of us expects it soon.    Here's a surprise: Russia is deploying coronavirus disinformation, claiming that it is a US bioweapon. Uncharacteristically, I find myself praising the European Union for flagging the campaign. Nick talks about the ambiguity of the cyberattack on Norsk Hydro, and I raise the risk that companies may stop releasing attribution information pointing to nation states because doing so may undercut their insurance claims.  Finally, we wrap up the story of ex-Uber autonomous driving executive Anthony Levandowski, who has pled guilty to trade-secret theft and is likely headed to prison for a year or three. 

This week's stories: Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR What to expect from Apple's AR future "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware" Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows Google I/O is canceled How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing" Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why YouTube launches new online education resources Google launches distance learning fund Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library Gamestop finally closes California stores Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters PS5 vs Xbox Series X Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit linkedin.com/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit capterra.com/twit

This week's stories: Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR What to expect from Apple's AR future "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware" Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows Google I/O is canceled How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing" Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why YouTube launches new online education resources Google launches distance learning fund Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library Gamestop finally closes California stores Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters PS5 vs Xbox Series X Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit linkedin.com/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit capterra.com/twit

This week's stories: Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR What to expect from Apple's AR future "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware" Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows Google I/O is canceled How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing" Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why YouTube launches new online education resources Google launches distance learning fund Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library Gamestop finally closes California stores Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters PS5 vs Xbox Series X Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit linkedin.com/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit capterra.com/twit

This week's stories: Study proves that using CarPlay and Android Auto is worse than driving drunk Focus on security - cybercriminals are taking advantage of coronavirus Sam Abuelsamid explains LiDAR What to expect from Apple's AR future "Your next computer is not a computer" Apple's iPad Pro vs MacBook Air MacBook Air - useable keyboard, updated processors Steven Sinofsky on the iPad - "part of convergent evolution of PC hardware" Microsoft Neo and Windows 10X: a much-needed rethinking of Windows Google I/O is canceled How to set up Zoom to prevent "ZoomBombing" Video conferencing solutions for work-from-home Netflix drops video quality in Europe, but not America - here's why YouTube launches new online education resources Google launches distance learning fund Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to one charge of theft of a trade secret Amazon wants to hire 100,000 people; Walmart wants 150,000, but both are facing product shortages Facebook donates masks and gloves to health professionals Pwn2Own hackers beat Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and more Department of Justice wants to wave habeas corpus and kill encryption Italians 3D print $11,000 ventilator valve for $1 - original manufacturer threatens to sue Audible offers free audiobooks for kids, and so does your public library Gamestop finally closes California stores Sonic the Hedgehog and other movies stream instead of airing in theaters PS5 vs Xbox Series X Pixar founders win $1 Million Turing prize Self-driving taxis need a disinfectant system Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Louis Maresca, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Sponsors: mintmobile.com/twit linkedin.com/TWIT expressvpn.com/twit capterra.com/twit

Welcome to TechCrunch daily news, a round up of the top tech news of the day. -- Streaming services will reduce video quality in Europe -- we get our hands on the new MacBook Air -- and Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty. Here's your Daily Crunch for March 20, 2020.

Yelp is showing how the restaurant industry is in deep trouble. Instagram makes ready to clone the last Snapchat feature it hadn’t copped yet. The very interesting lessons behind a self-driving startup closing its doors. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:TinyCapital.comZapier.com/rideLinks: Amazon AWS launches $20 million initiative to help fight the coronavirus (CNBC) Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages (TechCrunch) Microsoft’s DirectX 12 Ultimate unifies graphics tech for PC gaming and Xbox Series X (The Verge) Ex-Uber executive Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty to trade-secret theft (Washington Post) The End of Starsky Robotics (Medium)Weekend Longreads Suggestions: How Reddit's coronavirus community became a destination (NBC News) Can Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus? (NYTimes) Correlation and Market Meltdowns (Fred Wilson/AVC)Zoom conquered video chat — now it has even bigger plans (Protocol) The tech industry’s quest to help us sleep better is just beginning (Fast Company) How TikTok Is Taking the Tunes out of Pop (HighSnobiety)

Welcome to TechCrunch daily news, a round up of the top tech news of the day. -- Streaming services will reduce video quality in Europe -- we get our hands on the new MacBook Air -- and Anthony Levandowski pleads guilty. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 20, 2020.

In this one, we find out that Liz Warren has bowed out to leave us with a couple old white farts, Anthony Levandowski owes Google some real fuckin cash, the Alabama governor has a serious decision to make by 6PM Eastern today, YouTube TV customers lose out big – if they care about the Yankees or NYCFC, and price gougers are some annoying f#@ks Thursday Show Notes: Liz Warren dropped out. So it’s down to the old white guys in the room, Bernie and Biden. An Alabama Prisoner is Set to Die Levandowski ordered to pay 179M and immediately filed for bankruptcy Otto Purchased for 220M, not 680M YES Network off YouTube TV $190 sanitizer? As we say in the hood, Don’t get got out there!

Anthony Levandowski, worked for Google then Uber, and was considered a pioneer in autonomous vehicle technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on theft of trade secrets. This criminal indictment is the latest twist in a years-long dispute over intellectual property between Google, where Levandowski worked on autonomous vehicles for nearly a decade, and Uber, which purchased a self-driving startup from Levandowski for a reported $680m in August 2016.Here to talk to us about the Waymo v. Uber case is Diane Siegel Danoff. Diane is a nationally recognized litigator and heads Dechert LLP global trade secret litigation practice. Hosted and produced by Kemahl Franklyn. Support the show (http://www.aipla.org)

The indictment of former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski, what Waymo's riders have to say and the latest on Toyota, Cadillac and more in the latest Smart Driving Cars podcast with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/smart-driving-cars-podcast/support

On this week's The Drill Down podcast, Apple's new credit card, what's blacker than black? the first crime in space... and much, much more. What We're Playing With Andy: Recreating a Vintage TV Headlines Nasa said to be investigating first allegation of a crime in space Ex-Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski charged with trade secret theft Apple Apologizes Over Siri Privacy and Will No Longer Retain Audio Recordings Amazon's Ring offered a footage request system to more than 400 law enforcement agencies Audible Book of the Week The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: Melt With You by Modern English Hot Topics Here's how the new Apple Card could put pressure on Verizon and AT&T Alexa, who is Baidu? Chinese firm passes Google to become Amazon's top smart-speaker rival Music Break: Paint It, Black  by The Rolling Stones Final Word India Develops the World's First Iron-ion Battery The Drill Down Video of the Week Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.

If you have both an Instagram and Facebook account, chances are they are connected, whether you like it or not. But what if you didn’t connect them in the first place, or if you have a Finstagram account that you really don’t want linked back to your main? Too bad, because once Facebook has enough data on you to sync your accounts together, it’s never letting go. (Yeah, that “unlink account” button? It doesn’t actually work.) This week, WIRED staff writer Paris Martineau joins the show to talk about how Facebook has tightened its grip on Instagram and the other apps it has dominion over. Also in the news: Apple revises its stance on having humans listen to your Siri queries, a former Google and Uber engineer goes to court after he was accused of stealing trade secrets, and Amazon defends its practice of heavily promoting its own products over those sold by other retailers on the site. Show Notes: Read Paris’ story about unlinking Facebook and Instagram accounts here. Read stories about Anthony Levandowski’s legal troubles from Aarian Marshall and Alex Davies here and here. Read Jay Greene’s story about Amazon’s self-marketing tactics at the Washington Post here. Paris Martineau is on Twitter at @parismartineau. Michael Calore can be found at @snackfight. Lauren Goode is @laurengoode. Arielle Pardes can be found at @pardesoteric. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. Our theme song is by Solar Keys. Recommendations: Paris recommends the Bear Notes app for iOS and MacOS. Lauren recommends the movie The Last Black Man in San Francisco, available on demand. Arielle recommends the Chrome browser extension Safe Book. Michael recommends the show The Green Frontier on Netflix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anthony Levandowski is the self-driving vehicle pioneer accused of stealing Google trade secrets. His arc is, in my mind, very much the story of Silicon Valley's Icarusev. Read more here: https://www.wired.com/story/ex-uber-engineer-levandowski-charged-trade-secret-theft/

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Climate Propaganda Threatens Humanity, The Amazon Fires Do Not. The War On Truth Intensifies (2019.08.28) Lori Loughlin college scandal 'doesn't make sense,' John Stamos says Taming fire let humans thrive. Now man-made flames in the Amazon threaten us all. Taming fire let humans thrive. Now man-made flames in the Amazon threaten us all. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/health/johnson-and-johnson-opioids-oklahoma.html Ex-Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski charged with trade secret theft If you find value in the content we produce and want to help us keep this train rollin, drop us a donation via Paypal or become a Patreon. (links below) Every little bit helps. Thank you! And thank you to everyone who has and continues to support the show. It’s your support that enables us to continue producing shows. Paypal Patreon Subscribe Links Subscribe on iTunes  Subscribe on Google Play Music Listen on Tunein Listen on Stitcher Follow on Spotify Like and Follow us on Facebook Follow Monica on Twitter Follow Binkley on Twitter Subscribe to Binkley’s Youtube Channel

Welcome to TechCrunch daily news, a round up of the top tech news of the day. Presented by Bose. Take calls, play music and enjoy your content with Bose Frames. The only sunglasses with tiny electronics that connect to your mobile device for a unique audio experience. Available in 2 timeless styles. Go to Bose.com to find out more. -- We get details about Peloton's finances -- Anthony Levandowski faces federal charges -- and FitBit's future is focused on software.

Anthony Levandowski is arrested, Facebook is taking another run at Snapchat with something called Threads, Yelp adds personalized results for the first time, the BBC wants in on the voice assistant craze, The Irishman IS coming to theaters after all, and why people are standing in line, INSIDE World of Warcraft.Sponsors:CastroVistaprint.com/rideLinks:Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets (NYTimes)Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads (The Verge)Yelp adds personalized search results to its iPhone app (Engadget)BBC to launch Alexa rival that will grasp regional accents (The Guardian)Sprint launches its 5G network in NYC, LA, Phoenix, and Washington, DC (The Verge)Microsoft announces Surface event on October 2nd in New York City (The Verge)Google Maps will now let users combine transit directions with biking and ride-sharing (The Verge)Netflix Unveils Release Plans for Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ (Variety)Exclusive: U.S. officials fear ransomware attack against 2020 election (Reuters)World of Warcraft Classic players are standing in long lines to finish quests (Polygon)

Lior Ron is a 42-year-old Israeli-born businessman, who in 2016 along with Anthony Levandowski and some others co-founded Otto, a self-driving truck company. Both Lior and Anthony went to work at Uber after Uber bought Otto in 2016. But then Anthony was fired from Uber after a dustup wherein the executive was accused of stealing Google’s self-driving car trade secrets for use in Otto’s technology.. Ron jumped from Uber after Uber paid Google parent company Alphabet $245 million to settle the dispute. Well, in 2019 Ron is back at Uber Freight, now that Uber has finally closed the deal for Otto Trucking that is currently operating as a stand-alone entity as part of the Uber firmament. In the USA, Uber Freight connects 48 states and reportedly generates more than $125 million in quarterly revenues. “We fundamentally believe there’s a new era of opportunity in logistics,” Ron said. “Technology streamlines things, connects things and that builds trust in physical networks.” History & summer magic with a master. Here we take a sentimental journey with REG Davies the greatest aviation historian. Ron sat in the Lindbergh Chair at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. for more than 50 years. Along the way he authored more than 38 books on everything from airline histories to the Berlin Airlift. These recordings will continue during 2019. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support

– Fiat-Chrysler discusses regulatory credit strategy – Anthony Levandowski comments on Lidar – Tesla add self-diagnostic service feature Links: Email > tesladailypodcast@gmail.com Twitter > @teslapodcast Patreon > patreon.com/tesladailypodcast Executive producer Rob Gill Executive producer Jeremy Cooke Music by Evan Schaeffer Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives The post FCA Credits, Self-Diagnostics (05.06.19) appeared first on TechCast Daily.

Most years, I round up the news of the year in technology through a collection of quotes, arranged roughly by some combination I make up of their importance and how much I like them. Here they are for 2018. 14. “He was that kind of guy. You know, an asshole. But a really gifted one. Our asshole, I guess.” —A coworker at Google about Anthony Levandowski, the controversial self-driving car engineer. Published October 22 13.

As another year winds to a close, we look back not just on the last year but on the changes that have swept the autonomous drive technology space from 2016 through 2018. Two years ago, self-driving cars were at the peak of their hype and as we examine the past we discuss what we've learned along the way. Plus, the one and only George Hotz joins in to discuss the return of Mr 2016 himself, Anthony Levandowski, who is back with another autonomous drive startup apparently built (at least in part) on Hotz's open-source technology.

Double GB&U, voter supressor loses, Anthony Levandowski and the self-driving car follies

Double GB&U, voter supressor loses, Anthony Levandowski and the self-driving car follies

One year ago today, the one and only Kirsten Korosec made her Autonocast debut and we finally became the podcast you know and love/tolerate today. The gang celebrates the occasion, discusses the latest Anthony Levandowski-related revelations, and welcomes Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility to the show to debate Alex about the convenience of electric vehicles.

Today, Episode 43! RoboMart.ai is the autonomous grocery store on wheels you didn't know you needed; Anthony Levandowski of Google/Waymo/Uber fame, and creator of lidar, has just launched a new thing; and, are autonomous cars about to plough into a brick wall in the form of an AI roadblock? Read and listen to this episode here: https://marchoag.com/ep-43-robomart-levandowski-starts-a-new-thing-an-ai-roadblock/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/autonomous-cars-with-marc-hoag/message

This week:  Whoa!  Apple just stole Google’s head of A.I. to make Siri smarter Apple plans to ditch Intel processors on the Mac  You won’t believe the massive cash being pay to silicon valley’s A.I. talent Future iPhones could boast curved displays and touch-free controls iOS 11.4 public beta arrives with AirPlay 2, but it won’t work with your HomePod And a Leander gives us the scoop on his new Tim Cook book!   This episode supported by   Casper’s American-made mattresses have just the right amount of memory foam and latex, and people everywhere love them.  Learn why and get $50 towards any mattress at Casper.com/cultcast.   The air you were meant to breathe is finally here. For $75 off your first order, visit molekule.com and enter the code CULTCAST at checkout.    CultCloth will keep your iPhone X, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad sparkling clean, and for a limited time use code CULTCAST at checkout to score a free CleanCloth with any order at CultCloth.co.   Thanks to Kevin McLeod for the music you hear on today’s episode.   On the show this week @erfon / @lkahney / @lewiswallace / @bst3r   CultCast live hangout on Friday the 13th at 12PM PST! http://live.thecultcast.com   Apple steals Google’s A.I. wiz to make Siri smarter https://www.cultofmac.com/539125/apple-steals-googles-john-giannandrea-ai-siri/ John Giannandrea used to be in charge of Google’s search and artificial intelligence, but now he works for Apple.  He’s leading the drive to make the company’s Siri voice assistant smarter, a goal many would agree is overdue. NYT: Apple said on Tuesday that Mr. Giannandrea will run Apple’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy,” and become one of 16 executives who report directly to Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook. This is the most high-profile move yet in a ongoing drive to hire more talent for the Siri team. Mr. Giannandrea came to Google in 2010, where he helped make AI and machine learning part of all the company’s products, from search to Gmail. And now he’s doing that for Apple. Apple is also looking to hire  to hire 142 more people for Siri-related jobs, almost twice as many as this time last year.   Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/technology/artificial-intelligence-experts-salaries.html Fun fact: Engineers with A.I. expertise are some of the most sought-after people in Silicon Valley, with salaries sometimes exceeding eight figures. Tech’s biggest companies are placing huge bets on artificial intelligence, banking on things ranging from face-scanning smartphones and conversational coffee-table gadgets to computerized health care and autonomous vehicles. Typical A.I. specialists, including both Ph.D.s fresh out of school and people with less education and just a few years of experience, can be paid from $300,000 to $500,000 a year or more in salary and company stock In a court filing this year, Google revealed that one of the leaders of its self-driving-car division, Anthony Levandowski, a longtime employee who started with Google in 2007, took home over $120 million in incentives before joining Uber last year In the entire world, fewer than 10,000 people have the skills necessary to tackle serious artificial intelligence research, according to Element AI, an independent lab in Montreal. Not enough teachers because they all get lured into making their fortunes Over the last several years, four of the best-known A.I. researchers in academia have left or taken leave from their professorships at Stanford University. At the University of Washington, six of 20 artificial intelligence professors are now on leave or partial leave and working for outside companies. Nonprofits like Fast.ai and companies like Deeplearning.ai, founded by a former Stanford professor who helped create the Google Brain lab, offer online courses.     Future iPhones could boast curved displays and touch-free controls https://www.cultofmac.com/539239/future-iphones-could-boast-curved-displays-and-touch-free-controls/ According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on touchless gesture controls and curved screens for future iPhones The touchless control feature would be a bit like the Air Gestures feature Samsung introduced several years back. This allows users to accept calls and navigate through web pages by waving their hands across the screen. The other new technology is for a curved display more noticeable than the slight curve seen on the iPhone X’s OLED screen. Unlike Samsung’s curved handsets, which curve down at the edges, Apple’s approach reportedly curves “inward gradually from top to bottom.”   iOS 11.4 public beta arrives with AirPlay 2, but it won’t work with your HomePod just yet https://www.cultofmac.com/539063/ios-11-4-public-beta-arrives-with-airplay-2/     Apple plans to ditch Intel processors on the Mac  https://www.cultofmac.com/538829/apple-plans-to-ditch-intel-processors-on-the-mac/ Apple is pushing forward with plans to ditch Intel’s processors in favor of its own chips, according to a new report that claims the transition away from Intel CPUs will likely take multiple steps. Bloomberg says that Apple executives have already approved the project to make the Mac run on ARM-based processors by 2020. Moving to its own chips inside Macs would let Apple release new models on its own timelines, instead of relying on Intel’s processor roadmap. Making the move to ARM chips won’t be easy though. All software would basically have to be rewritten for the new processors, which certainly won’t make developers happy. Pluses  Intel chips have stalled in major progress, leaving little reason for many to update from older computers. The A11 bionic chip inside the iPhone X beats meets or beats Geekbench scores of the fastest 2017 13” MacBook Pro No more waiting on Intel!  More regular releases of Macs with updated hardware. Even tighter integration of your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and other  devices Concerns Machines not capable with doing pro work.  Sure the X beats a 13” MBP, but what about a desktop  4-core or 6-core chip with hyper threading? is this going to mean Macs that are more like phones and iPads? (efficient but not very powerful) Even more of a walled-garden as Apple fine-tunes it’s machines to work best with it’s own software, but 3rd party apps may not follow

The engineer at the heart of the upcoming Waymo vs Uber trial is facing dramatic new allegations of commercial wrongdoing, this time from a former nanny. Erika Wong, who says she cared for Anthony Levandowski's two children from December 2016 to June 2017, filed a lawsuit in California this month accusing him of breaking a long list of employment laws.

Host George Rettas finishes his analysis of the Jacobs Uber Whistleblower which alleges Uber used illicit information obtained through alleged criminal activity tasked by an overreaching Cyber Security program to artificially inflated the companies valuation amid a huge $21 billion dollar dip in the companies estimated worth by investors. Rettas also analyzes a New York Times story where reporter Nicole Perlroth obtained internal Uber emails that memorialize the $100,000 payment made to a hacker was part of the companies bug bounty program and that the company was not paying hackers hush money to cover the now highly public breach to their systems. You're not going to want to miss this episode of Task Force 7 Radio, as drama at Uber reads more like a nation state spy novel than the security operations of a cab company.

The partial release of a 37 page redacted letter by former Uber employee Richard Jacobs outlining all kinds of questionable practices by the ride haling giant has rocked Uber and has now been introduced into both a DOJ Criminal Investigation into Uber and a Civil Case in which Uber is a defendant. The letter details some outrageous accusations, some of it shocking, and if it proves to be true, puts the entire Uber culture into question. Listen to host George Rettas as he provides details of the letter and gives you expert commentary that takes you through the wild ride one Uber employee had with a company that was seemingly out of control on this latest episode of Task Force 7 Radio.

Way Of The Future, the first A.I. Church, has come back into the light as founder Anthony Levandowski has sat down with Wired to give his first interview.   Christian and Stephen sit down to discuss the merits of Anthony's arguments and discuss how legitimate we think the idea can be and if this is a true passion project or a grab for the headlines.

In this episode, we travel to a future where a tech mogul feeds a machine learning system all the religious texts he can find, and asks it to generate a “super religion.”    Buckle up because this is a long episode! But it’s fun, I promise.    For the intro of this episode I worked with Janelle Shane to actually train a machine learning algorithm on a big chunk of religious texts that I assembled, and spit something back out. The specifics of the texts and the machine learning algorithm come with a handful of caveats and notes, which you can find at the bottom of this post. Janelle has done of ton of really funny, interesting things with machine learning algorithms that you can find here.    To analyze the text that this algorithm generated, and talk about the limitations of this kind of project, I spoke with a big group of people from a variety of backgrounds:    Linda Griggs is an Episcopal priest and an assisting priest at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Providence Rhode Island.  Lauren O’Neal and Niko Bakulich are the hosts of a podcast called Sunday School Dropouts, whose tagline is: "an ex-Christian (Lauren) and a non-believing sort of Jew (Niko) read all the way through the Bible for the first time."  Elias Muhanna is the Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, and director of the Digital Islamic Humanities Project.  Beth Duckles is a sociologist (who you heard last episode talking about peanut allergies).  Carol Edelman Warrior is an Assistant Professor of English at Cornell’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. She is also enrolled with the Ninilchik Village Tribe (Dena'ina Athabascan / Alutiiq), and is also of A'aninin (Gros Ventre) descent.  Mark Harris is a journalist who writes about technology, science and business for places like WIRED, The Guardian and IEEE Spectrum. He wrote a great piece about Anthony Levandowski’s new religion of artificial intelligence called Way of the Future.    Further Reading:    Sunday School Dropouts: Robobible  Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence  God is a Bot and Anthony Levandowski is His Messenger  Way of the Future  Nine Billion Names by Arthur C. Clarke  Dataism + Machine Learning = New Religion  Machine Learning May Help Determine When the Old Testament Was Written  Indigenous Writers of Speculative Fiction  Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion  The Space NDN's Star Map  Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation   For more caveats on the algorithm itself and the source text, see here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a movement starting up to worship A.I. called Way of The Future by Anthony Levandowski, a silicon valley multimillionaire who led the robotics team for Uber's self driving program and Waymo, Google's self driving car company.  This seems to be the beginning of the worship of the beast prophesied in the book of Revelation.  Also black friday has been more violent than ever with one man being shot outside of a mall in Missouri.  There is total crisis in Yemen right now with drought, famine, and 1 million people with cholera and all ports have been closed so no humanitarian aid can come in.  Tens of thousands of violent criminals have been removed from the firearms background check system because of a new law which will allow them to purchase firearms.

Ex-Google executive Anthony Levandowski is founding a church where people worship an artificial intelligence god KIF LESWING NOV 16, 2017, 2:32 AM Anthony Levandowski. Anthony Levandowski, the former Google and Uber executive currently at the center of a bombshell lawsuit filed by Waymo, says he’s serious about starting a religion centered around super-smart artificial intelligence. In a rare interview with Wired, his first public interview since the Waymo lawsuit, Levandowski shed more light on his new church, “Way of the Future.” Here are some highlights: The “Way of the Future” church will have its own gospel called “The Manual,” public worship ceremonies, and probably a physical place of worship. The idea behind his religion is that one day — “not next week or next year” — sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans, and will effectively become a god. “Part of it ...

Ex-Google executive Anthony Levandowski is founding a church where people worship an artificial intelligence godKIF LESWINGNOV 16, 2017, 2:32 AMAnthony Levandowski.Anthony Levandowski, the former Google and Uber executive currently at the center of a bombshell lawsuit filed by Waymo, says he's serious about starting a religion centered around super-smart artificial intelligence.In a rare interview with Wired, his first public interview since the Waymo lawsuit, Levandowski shed more light on his new church, “Way of the Future.” Here are some highlights:The “Way of the Future” church will have its own gospel called “The Manual,” public worship ceremonies, and probably a physical place of worship.The idea behind his religion is that one day — “not next week or next year” — sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans, and will effectively become a god.“Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it,” Levandowski told Wired. “I would love for the machine to see us as its beloved elders that it respects and takes care of. We would want this intelligence to say, ‘Humans should still have rights, even though I'm in charge.'”Levandowski is not the only tech luminary to worry about an super-intelligent AI, which others refer to as “strong AI” or the Singularity, although he prefers the term “Transition.”Levandowski is currently at the center of a major lawsuit. His former employer, Google, alleges that he helped Uber steal intellectual property about self-driving car technology. Levandowski's startup, Otto, was sold to Uber for $US680 million in 2016.

Heidi worries she may be falling for a conspiracy theory about self driving cars, the singularity, and the one world government. Sydney explains her long-running feud with Elon Musk. Friday, October 6, 2017 Links! That profile of Anthony Levandowski: http://bit.ly/2xnjC5X Why the singularity probably won’t happen in your lifetime: http://nyti.ms/2y5u6uv David Icke on the campus of Singularity University: http://bit.ly/2yMXG5a Talk to us! On Twitter: twitter.com/trustissuespod By email: trustissuespod@gmail.com Got a show idea? Submit it at www.wehavetrustissues.com

Documents revealed by Wired show that former Googler Anthony Levandowski has founded a church known as Way of the Future which aims to develop a "Godhead based on artificial intelligence." This sci-fi religion has kept things under wraps thus far, but we take a look at the implications of such a movement and possible motivations and consequences of a "god-bot." Links: God is a bot and Anthony Levandowski is his messenger Deus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

Duration: 21:16 The lawsuit by Waymo, Google’s autonomous car division, against Silicon Valley rival Uber is not your normal trade secrets case. The litigation has moved at a breakneck clip since being launched at the end of February. Waymo has alleged an elaborate plot by Uber to steal highly valuable technology and cover its tracks. A top engineer at Uber has invoked the Fifth Amendment. And the judge has flagged the case to federal prosecutors for a possible criminal investigation. In this episode of Unprecedented, we talk with veteran federal prosecutor-turned-white collar defense lawyer Jeffrey Bornstein of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld. Speaking at his San Francisco office, Bornstein gives us a look at how the criminal aspects of this case could play out, and also argues that the judge in the case may be setting a “dangerous precedent” by pressuring the Uber engineer, Anthony Levandowski, to yield his Fifth Amendment rights. We also hear from James Pooley, a lawyer for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Palo Alto who has been on the front lines of efforts to strengthen legal protections for trade secrets. He tells us that while Waymo’s lawyers have enjoyed some limited success, they’ll have to jettison at least some of their 121 claimed trade secrets moving forward. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that they’re going to winnow down that list,” he said. “The first rule of something like this is, ‘Listen to the judge,’ and the judge has told them he thinks this is way too broad.”

Following our deep dive on Apple’s WWDC news on Monday, here is our News Roundup episode for the week. We kick things off with a bunch of Uber news, much of it involving hiring and firing of executives and others, in a sign that Uber may finally be taking its cultural problems seriously. Secondly, we talk about Alphabet’s sale of its Boston Dynamics and Schaft robotics businesses to SoftBank. And third, we talk about two other bits of Apple news from later in the week: Apple’s launch of Business Chat, and news that it won’t include “gigabit” modems in its next iPhones. As usual, you'll find links to other relevant material in the show notes below: News stories we covered (Tech Narratives links unless otherwise noted): Uber fires Anthony Levandowski: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/30/★-uber-fires-anthony-levandowski-for-refusal-to-cooperate-in-lawsuit/ Uber hires Frances Frei: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/05/uber-hires-harvard-business-school-professor-to-help-with-culture-and-strategy/ Uber hires Bozoma Saint John: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/06/bozoma-saint-john-leaves-apple-music-to-become-ubers-chief-brand-officer/ Uber fires Asia business exec: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/07/uber-fires-exec-loses-bid-to-keep-doc-private-says-management-changes-coming/ Uber fires 20 as a result of investigation: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/06/★-uber-fires-20-and-takes-action-against-others-over-inappropriate-behavior/ Alphabet sells Boston Dynamics and Schaft to SoftBank: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/09/★-alphabet-sells-boston-dynamics-and-schaft-robotics-businesses-to-softbank/ Apple Business Chat: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/09/apple-announces-developer-preview-of-business-chat-for-imessage-customer-service/ Apple "gigabit" iPhones: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/06/09/apple-reported-to-hold-off-on-gigabit-modems-in-next-iphones/ Additionally: • Episode 85 was our deep dive on Uber – find it in your podcast app or on the site at: http://podcast.beyonddevic.es/2017/03/episode-85-ubers-ethical-vacuum-mac-vs-pc/ • Aaron mentioned a friend's article on compliance crises being a terrible thing to waste, and you can read it here: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/natural_resources_environment/Winter%202016/NRE_v030n03_feat02_Galli.pdf As ever, we welcome your feedback via Twitter (@jandawson / @aaronmiller), the website (podcast.beyonddevic.es), or email (jan@jackdawresearch.com).

The London Bridge terror attacks that occurred this past weekend are causing policymakers to once again re-evaluate the efficacy of their counterterrorism efforts against ISIS. ISIS counterterrorism expert Audrey Alexander (@aud_alexander) is a Research Fellow at The George Washington University Program on Extremism. Before joining the Program on Extremism, she worked at King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). At ICSR, Audrey used open source intelligence to identify instances of Western women relocating to enemy-held territories. Previously, Audrey worked at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), where she studied online radicalization and “lone-actor” terrorism. She contributed to the widely acclaimed “Till Martyrdom Do Us Part: Gender and the ISIS Phenomenon” report published by ISD and ICSR. Alexander holds a Masters in Terrorism, Security & Society from the War Studies Department at King's College. In this episode, we discussed: how American institutions have tried and failed to contain the ISIS threat online. alternatives to current technological approaches to containing the enemy's online recruitment efforts. how policymakers can identify warning signs pertaining to potential activity by non-ISIS groups. Resources: The George Washington University Program on Extremism Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick Deep Work by Cal Newport NEWS ROUNDUP Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers partner Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends report last week. Key findings include a slow down in smartphone growth, to just a 3% growth in shipments last year, down from 10% the year before. There's also an uptick in voice searches, which have reached about a 95% accuracy rate. The report found voice searches to be well on their way toward replacing text-based search inquiries. Meeker's report also reveals that some 60% of the most highly valued tech companies in the U.S. were founded by first- or second-generation Americans. These findings only scratch the surface. Here's a link to the slides. Elon Musk announced in a tweet last week that he has decided to leave president Trump's advisory councils following the president's announcement last week that he would be pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement. The Agreement is a multinational accord that brings together 195 countries in a commitment to fight climate change. The U.S. joined Nicaragua and Syria among the nations that will not participate if Trump has his way. However, the earliest possible date the U.S. would be able to make an effective withdrawal from the agreement is November 4, 2020, or one day after the 2020 presidential election. Tech giants Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and hundreds of other businesses have also formed an initiative dubbed "We're Still In", which was organized by Michael Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Sierra Club, and the Center for American Progress, to express their commitment to the Paris Agreement and local and state authorities whom they see as being more influential than the federal government on climate change. The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a key case regarding law enforcement's ability to obtain cell phone data without a search warrant. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Carpenter v. U.S. upheld the district court which sentenced defendant Timothy Carpenter to some 116 years in prison for committing a string of armed robberies of TMobile and Radio Shack stores in Michigan and Ohio back in 2010 and 2011. The evidence admitted at trial against Carpenter included cell phone records showing he was in close proximity to the stores when the robberies occurred. Lydia Wheeler has the story in The Hill. Once again, Booz Allen, the same firm that employed Edward Snowden as an NSA contractor, is the subject of a data breach. Some sixty thousand sensitive documents related to a US military project were found unsecured on on a public Amazon server.  Gizmodo reports the compromised files also contained the encrypted passwords of officials with top security clearance. Dell Cameron reports at Gizmodo. Democratic leaders in Congress have asked Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe to probe the cyberattack that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai claims caused the agency's commenting site to go down. The site went down shortly after John Oliver directed his viewers to go to site domain gofccyourself.com, which redirected to the FCC's actual commenting page. But Chairman Pai said the site went down due to an external cyber attack. Senators Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Al Franken (Minn.), Patrick Leahy (Vt.), Ed Markey(Mass.), and Ron Wyden (Ore.) want answers from the FBI by June 23rd. Morgan Chalfant has the story in The Hill. Finally, Uber fired the former Google engineer accused of stealing secrets from Alphabet self-driving car unit Waymo and bringing them with him when he started his own self-driving car company, Otto, which Uber then acquired. Anthony Levandowski apparently became too much of a liability for Uber, which is currently embroiled in litigation Google brought against it because of Levandowski's alleged actions. Daisuke Wakabayashi and  Mike Isaac report in the New York Times. Greg Bensinger at the Wall Street Journal reports that Uber also posted a $708 million loss in the first quarter. This was on top of the $991 million the company lost in the 4th quarter of 2016. Uber Head of Finance Guatam Gupta will be leaving the company in July to work for an unnamed startup.

Matt Cagle is a Policy Attorney for Technology and Civil Liberties at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Matt attended law school at Stanford and has a BA in Latin American Studies and Political Science from the University of Arizona. Before joining the ACLU as a Policy Attorney, Matt worked as an associate with BlurryEdge Strategies, a San Francisco-based law practice advising startups on privacy issues. In this episode, we discussed: how the police use social media to track American citizens.  Resources: ACLU of Northern California The Philipp K. Dick Collection by Phillip K. Dick   NEWS ROUNDUP A massive hack infected hundreds of thousands Microsoft Windows-based computers, disabling several large hospitals in the UK, requiring them to turn away some patients, as well as Fedex, Telefonica, and several other institutions. The ransomware, which is a program called "WannaCry", encrypts files so users can't access them and then demands payment, in the form of the digital currency known as Bitcoin, from victims to decrypt their files. WannaCry spread around the world beginning on Friday, although it did so to a lesser degree in other countries than it was felt in the UK. An engineer that goes by the screen name "Malware Tech" found a kill switch in the ransomware. The ransomware relies on infected computers not being able to access a particular domain name. Since the domain name wasn't registered, no computers could access it. Therefore Malware simply registered the domain, stopping it from spreading to additional computers. The U.S. was barely affected by the cyberattack, but researchers are on the lookout for copycats. Microsoft issued a statement saying the cyberattack should be a wake up call for governments as the hack was executed using stolen government data. U.S. Cyber Command head Admiral Mike Rodgers told the Senate Armed Services Committee just last Tuesday that Congress needed to provide clearer guidance as to how his agency should fight cyberattacks. Rogers also told the Senate panel that his agency witnessed Russian intrusions into French systems in the midst of the French election last week.  On Thursday, President Trump had signed an executive order authorizing a sweeping review of all federal agencies to identify the holes that hackers have been exploiting. The ransomware hack happened on Friday.   The Hill reports the ransomware attack has made the perpetrators over $57,000 worth of bitcoins thus far. A federal judge on Monday of this week ordered Uber to turn over some 14,000 documents to Waymo--the self-driving company owned by Google--which Waymo says were stolen by a former Google engineer by the name of Anthony Levandowski. The Waymo lawsuit alleges that Levandowski left Google to start a self-driving truck company called Otto, taking the documents with him. Then Uber subsequently acquired Otto, taking the documents with it.  Waymo also announced a new collaboration with Lyft on Monday of this week. Ali Breland has the story in The Hill. Finally, A number of policymakers are concerned about the ways in which Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) might begin to surveil immigrants or develop a database to track immigrants for deportation. But in an exclusive report for NPR, George Joseph outlined specific ways in which ICE is already using databases maintained by local law enforcement to accomplish the same ends.  Remember last week's John Oliver bit criticizing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to scale back the net neutrality rules? The one where Oliver urged viewers to go to a site the show created called gofccyourself.com, which redirected to the FCC's comments section, and then the comments section crashed? Well the incident left FCC Chairman Pai scrambling to contain his agency's embarrassment, and there was some confusion as to whether the site crashed because of the influx of comments provoked by the show, or by some kind of contemporaneous hack designed to prevent comments from being submitted. Well, the FCC maintains that it was indeed a hack and that the crash wasn't caused by John Oliver's segment. Democrats are saying, "yeah right"-- Senators Ron Wyden and Brian Schatz wrote Chairman Pai saying cyberattacks are a very serious matter and urging the agency to turn over any evidence of a cyberattack happening a few minutes after Oliver's segment. No word yet. But Oliver again this past Sunday rallied his viewers to submit comments.  Harper Neidig has more in The Hill.