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What does "the ghost in the machine" mean? From philosophy to artificial intelligence, we explore this idiom to understand what it means, how it's used and if the dream of strong AI is realistic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 118 – Chris Levandowski, owner of Cactus Corn in Arizona, talks about his poppin' popcorn business here in Arizona

BestPodcastintheMetaverse.com Canary Cry News Talk #692 11.27.2023 - Recorded Live to 1s and 0s WHIMSICALLY SCRIPTURLY | Space War, 10 Alien Bodies, Killer AI, TrumpGPT, Media Literacy Deconstructing Corporate Mainstream Media News from a Biblical Worldview Declaring Jesus as Lord amidst the Fifth Generation War! The Show Operates on the Value 4 Value Model: http://CanaryCry.Support      Join the Supply Drop: https://CanaryCrySupplyDrop.com                                  Submit Articles: https://CanaryCry.Report                           Submit Art: https://CanaryCry.Art     Join the T-Shirt Council: https://CanaryCryTShirtCouncil.com Resource: Index of MSM Ownership (Harvard.edu) Resource: Aliens Demons Doc (feat. Dr. Heiser, Unseen Realm) Tree of Links: https://CanaryCry.Party   This Episode was Produced By: Executive Producers Sir LX Protocol V2 Knight of the Berrean Protocol*** Felica D*** JameyG***   Producers of Treasure Sir Marti K Knight of the Wrong Timeline Sir Jacob Hi-Line Hoss and Knight of the Issachar Pursuit DrWhoDunDat Sir Morv Knight of the Burning Chariots Sir Darren Knight of the Hungry Panda's Malik W Veronica D Sir Scott Knight of Truth Dame Gail Canary Whisperer and Lady of X's and O's Sir Casey the Shield Knight   Speakpipe James, SGLD   CanaryCry.ART Submissions LittleOwen JonathanF Sir Dove Knight of Rusbeltia Pizza Rat Mark A Elias   MICROFICTION Stephen S: BuyMyTek announced their AI robotic wearable, the Serpent. Inspired by nature, it gently coils around its friend providing comfort and absorbing  clean energy for its own power.  It softly whispers answers to life unending questions into her ears.    JOLMS: (Part 1/7) A cold and open outer space with the stars spread out vertically. Echoing a symphony of silence. They illuminate the ships. Twirling around each other. With battered hulls, shattered wings and iron debris swimming alongside them. Amidst them are the corpses. Frozen stiff. Limbs littering the halls of a once great communications central.   CLIP PRODUCER Emsworth, FaeLivrin, Joelms, Laura   TIMESTAPERS Jade Bouncerson, Morgan E   CanaryCry.Report Submissions JAM   REMINDERS Clankoniphius   SHOW NOTES/TIMESTAMPS T - 3:43 from D-Live   HELLO, RUN DOWN 6:40 V / 2:57 P BIBLICAL/SPACE FORCE 8:41 V / 4:58 P Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle (Gizmodo) → Daniel 11:37-29 → Revelation 13:13 → Jeremiah 50:9    ALIENS/DAYS OF NOAH 18:44 V / 15:01 P US has found ‘at least ten alien bodies in crashed UFOs' (MSN/Metro) → Dataism, Digital Aliens Gizmodo article, 2018   DAY JINGLE/V4V/EXEC./supply 33:35 V / 29:52 P   FLIPPY/AI/DRONES/IT WILL KILL 50:22 V / 46:39 P Pentagon moves Toward Killbots (Business insider) → Joel 2   TRUMP/AI/BEAST SYSTEM 1:01:58 V / 58:15 P Former Google engineer, Trump pardonee, Levandowski relaunches AI church (BI) Here's what happens if Donald Trump dies while running in the 2024 presidential election (BI)   AI/WORLDCOIN  1:14:030 V / 1:10:47 P Sam Altman returns to OpenAI (Time) OpenAI Employees, Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (Yahoo/futurism)   SPEAKPIPE/TALENT/TIME 1:30:29 V / 1:26:46 P   5GW/ALT MEDIA LITERACY 2:03:31 V / 1:59:48 P Media literacy k-12 in California (NPR) (Media Literacy Info CA.gov)   V4V/TIME 2:19:11 V / 2:15:28 P END

Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life's Best Medicine. At age 17 Frank Levandowski graduated as an EMT to follow in his family's footsteps as a firefighter, but he realized that his urge to help people hadn't been fully realized. At age 20 he joined the Air Force solidifying many of the core values he has instilled into his business integrity, discipline, and an unyielding will to not give up. Frank finally found himself in health care where his talents really shone through. He is the founder of a health care practice specializing in a non-surgical approach to alleviating joint pain through the use of stem cell therapy, plasma rich protein (PRP), and steroid injections. Frank believes that an approach to healing and pain relief that focuses on regenerative health, diet, and exercise has the ability to transform his patients' lives for the better. In their conversation, Brian and Frank talk about Frank's experience as a person who suffers from bipolar disorder, the spectrum of bipolar, bipolar/depression medication and side effects, Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction, what it is like to experience hypomania, the brain's ability to hide traumatic memories, how quitting alcohol and following a ketogenic diet can help with bipolar, the variety of different things that can trigger a bipolar episode, mental health stigma, and how a hug can save a life. Life's Best Medicine According to Frank: “I have gained so much empathy because of my struggle with suicidal depression that my life purpose and mission is to help as many people as I can while enjoying this life. Every day I wake up thinking, ‘if I can help one person by sharing my story, or by sharing what's helping me, or by sharing science, that's a pretty good life.'”1 Thank you for listening. Have a blessed day and stay healthy!   Links:   Frank Levandowski: Instagram Twitter Website   Dr. Brian Lenzkes:  Website Low Carb MD Podcast   Simply Snackin'

What does "the ghost in the machine" mean? From philosophy to artificial intelligence, we explore this idiom to understand what it means, how it's used and if the dream of strong AI is realistic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.10.18.512442v1?rss=1 Authors: Krienen, F. M., Levandowski, K. M., Zaniewski, H., del Rosario, R. C., Schroeder, M. E., Goldman, M., Lutservitz, A., Zhang, Q., Li, K. X., Beja-Glasser, V. F., Sharma, J., Shin, T. W., Mauermann, A., Wysoker, A., Nemesh, J., Kashin, S., Vergara, J., Chelini, G., Dimidschstein, J., Berretta, S., Boyden, E., McCarroll, S. A., Feng, G. Abstract: Within the vertebrate neocortex and other telencephalic structures, molecularly-defined neurons tend to segregate at first order into inhibitory (GABAergic) and excitatory (glutamatergic) types. We used single-nucleus RNA sequencing, analyzing over 2.4 million brain cells sampled from 16 locations in a primate (the common marmoset) to ask whether (1) neurons generally segregate by neurotransmitter status, and (2) neurons expressing the same neurotransmitters share additional molecular features in common, beyond the few genes directly responsible for neurotransmitter synthesis and release. Unexpectedly, we find the answer to both is "no": there is a surprising degree of transcriptional similarity between GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons found in the same brain structure, and there is generally little in common between glutamatergic neurons residing in phylogenetically divergent brain structures. The origin effect is permanent: we find that cell types that cross cephalic boundaries in development retain the transcriptional identities of their birthplaces. GABAergic interneurons, which migrate widely, follow highly specialized and distinct distributions in striatum and neocortex. We use interneuron-restricted AAVs to reveal the morphological diversity of molecularly defined types. Our analyses expose how lineage and functional class sculpt the transcriptional identity and biodistribution of primate neurons. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Papo autoral com o guitarrista e cantor Lauro Levandowski. Um papo descontraído sobre carreira, escolhas, preferências, influências, curiosidades, etc...

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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

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 20th, 2021Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech FraudWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for September 20th, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on September 20th included Land Belenky, Toasterson, Cole Frederick, and Simeon Miteff. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: John Carreyrou on Theranos  “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” 2018 book “Bad Blood the Final Chapter” podcast as the trial proceeds (announcement), on apple, spotify Cole's tweet linking to a ~5min video of a would-be Theranos competitor commenting on its collapse > The lone inventor is a dangerous impression to give people. Related: Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman “The Myth of the Genius Programmer” 2009 talk ~55mins [@9:47](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=587) Companies that drive scientific people nuts  uBeam “claims to be developing a wireless charging system to work via ultrasound. Scientists have strongly criticised the plausibility under physics of this proposal.” uBiome > To innovate, you have to balance the world as it is with the world as it isn't. [@13:44](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=824) Theranos' fantastical vision. European attitudes around business and innovation.  PCR Polymerase chain reaction invented 1983 by Kary Mullis. [@18:39](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=1119) Fake it till you make it?  Optative voice > The secrecy of Theranos should have been a red flag [@23:57](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=1437) Whistleblower Avie Tevanian. Smoke and mirrors, giving the board the run around. [@29:05](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=1745) “Everyone was relying on someone else to do their due diligence”  Tech risk, venture capital Cerebras Systems wafer scale processors Ellen Pao NYT editorial “The Elizabeth Holmes Trial is a Wake-up Call for Sexism in Tech” [@35:20](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=2120) Software cure-all 737 MAX failures [@40:14](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=2414) Founding myths  Jean-Louis Gassée 2015 “Theranos Trouble: A First Person Account” blog 2018 “Theranos Could Have Been Stopped” blog [@44:06](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=2646) Tesla “Autopilot”, Uber self driving  Anthony Levandowski > Judge Alsup: This is the biggest trade secret crime I have ever seen. > This was not small. This was massive in scale. [@48:21](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=2901) March Madness of Silicon Valley Fraudsters  Solyndra bankrupt 2011 Tether [@59:02](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=3542) Levandowski jeopardizes employee  Better Place The Economist Obituary Juicero Flip Video bought by Cisco 2009 [@1:04:35](https://youtu.be/YWdk9CKML2g?t=3875) Warning signs of fraudulent companies  Transparency, celebrity boards Optane Inconsistency between board and leadership on what the coming milestones are If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Über 40 Tore hat Sven in seiner besten Saison geschossen genau wie Robert Levandowski in der letzten Saison. Heute ist er Trainer der 1. Herren TSV Friedrichkoog. https://www.tsv-friedrichskoog.de/tsv-fussball/ https://www.facebook.com/TSVFriedrichskoog Du möchtest mit deiner Mannschaft oder deinem Verein ein Mentaltraining vor Ort ? Melde dich einfach bei mir. Abonniere auch unsere Instagram Seite damit du noch mehr Informationen bekommst. https://www.instagram.com/deineklasse.deineliga/ Höre gerne mal in meinen 2. Podcast rein. VERSICHERUNGS FUCHS https://open.spotify.com/show/3CjrX8qJeVQIJz5aUBtqyx Impressum https://wobig.maklerkontakt.de/impressum-353881.html

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

In this episode, we talked about OKR, Biden sworn in, Amanda Gorman, Trump's last pardon and Levandowski, a rumor about iMac redesign, Magsafe, and BTC price free fall and the double spend. このエピソードでは、OKR、バイデン就任、アマンダ・ゴーマン、トランプの恩赦とレバンドフスキ、iMacデザイン刷新の噂、マグセーフの復活、ビットコインの価格下落とダブルスペンド問題について話しました。 関連トピック：シリコンバレー, Biden, Amanda Gorman, Apple, iMac, Magsafe, BTC, Bitcoin, double spend

- Chip Shortage Could Last Until End of Q1- Mexico Wants Ford to Relocate Brazil Production- Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski- Audi Develops 3D Virtual World for Employees- Rivian Raises Billions More in Investments- GM and Cruise Teaming with Microsoft- Hottest Automotive Stocks- Cruise Sending AVs to Japan for Honda- New Bolt EV and EUV Debuting on Valentine's Day- New RWD Taycan Much Cheaper- Mercedes Reveals New EQA EV- New Defender Hitting in the Nick of Time

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the ecommerce boom and how Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise and Fast COO/co-founder Allison Barr Allen are helping to reshape how online purchasing is handled. Plus, Levandowski pardoned, US B2B spending accelerated as 2020 closed out, ecommerce and supply chain top LinkedIn’s jobs on the rise, pizza drones and drone mailboxes, more.Subscribe to the WTT newsletterWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsVisit our sponsor

On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the ecommerce boom and how Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise and Fast COO/co-founder Allison Barr Allen are helping to reshape how online purchasing is handled. Plus, Levandowski pardoned, US B2B spending accelerated as 2020 closed out, ecommerce and supply chain top LinkedIn’s jobs on the rise, pizza drones and drone mailboxes, more.Subscribe to the WTT newsletterWatchApple PodcastsSpotifyMore FreightWaves PodcastsVisit our sponsor

- Chip Shortage Could Last Until End of Q1 - Mexico Wants Ford to Relocate Brazil Production - Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski - Audi Develops 3D Virtual World for Employees - Rivian Raises Billions More in Investments - GM and Cruise Teaming with Microsoft - Hottest Automotive Stocks - Cruise Sending AVs to Japan for Honda - New Bolt EV and EUV Debuting on Valentine's Day - New RWD Taycan Much Cheaper - Mercedes Reveals New EQA EV - New Defender Hitting in the Nick of Time

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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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. 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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/

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South African Airways suspends all international flights South African Airways has halted all international flights until the end of May in response to the government's travel ban aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus. Earlier this week, president Cyril Rama-posa banned travel to countries considered high-risk. The airline flies to destinations including the US, Britain, Germany, Australia and Brazil. Casino to sell Leader Price assets to rival Aldi for $792M French supermarket retailer, Casino, has agreed to sell some Leader Price assets to German discount rival, Aldi, for 792-million dollars. The sale involves 567 Leader Price stores in France out of an existing network of 656 stores, as well as 3 warehouses. The move comes as part of Casino's plans to cut debt and improve its financial position. Former Uber self-driving head pleads guilty to trade theft Engineer Anthony Levandowski has agreed to plead guilty to stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Google, before joining rival, Uber. Levandowski left the internet giant in 2016 to start his own self-driving car business, which Uber quickly acquired. As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, he'll serve no more than 30 months in prison.

疫情防控若研制成功，也将成为全球首创。【上海研发新冠人源细胞疫苗，科学家已亲试第一针】上海科学家独辟蹊径，尝试探索安全性更高的人源细胞载体疫苗，并为此完成了第一针注射。但人源细胞疫苗的免疫效果、以及能否最终取得成功仍然面临挑战。2月26日，上海公共卫生临床中心的徐建青研究员给自己注射了一针新冠核酸（DNA）疫苗，大约两周后，他还将接受第二针疫苗的注射。这是全球首个以人源细胞为载体的疫苗。（一财） 【国家卫健委：湖北以外省份首次无本土确诊病例】国家卫健委表示，湖北以外其他省份新增确诊均为境外确诊病例，首次无本土确诊病例。湖北除武汉外连续3日无新增病例，武汉新增确诊降至50例以下，说明当前防控措施有效，疫情防控形势持续向好。但国际输入我国病例不断出现，防疫仍然面临不小风险压力。 完善临时补助政策，违规将严肃处理。【抗疫补助的发放有什么标准？】国家卫健委表示，临时工作补贴的范围，以是否直接接触疑似患者确诊患者为依据；临时工作补贴的发放，以实际参加现场处置患者救助的工作情况为依据。临时工作补贴根据一线医务人员承受风险的不同，补贴标准分为两档。（人民日报） 滞留者终于可以回家了。【分次分批推动滞留武汉人员离汉】中央指导组副组长陈一新：在集中力量打好歼灭战的同时，提前谋划复工复产、分次分批推动滞留武汉人员离汉等工作。（长江日报） 宏观经济【专家：疫情引发金融危机的风险较低】近期，新冠肺炎疫情在多国迅速扩散加剧了投资者恐慌情绪，掀动全球金融市场波澜。专家认为，短期内疫情仍可能不断搅动市场，但引发金融危机的风险较低。疫情固然是近期金融市场动荡的直接诱因，但市场之所以表现得如此脆弱，根本原因还在于全球经济增长动能不足、政策空间受限、前期市场估值偏高等因素。在这种背景下，一旦出现突发情况，全球金融市场大幅波动很容易被触发。（新华社） 【我国农村集体产权制度改革试点全面推开】中央农办、农业农村部7日发布，今年，农村集体产权制度改革试点将在31个省份全面推开。2015年我国开展农村集体产权制度改革试点以来，超过22.7万个村完成股份合作制改革，全部试点任务将于明年10月底前基本完成。（央视网） “过桥”资金难倒过多少企业家。【广州将设转贷服务中心降低中小企业“过桥”成本】广州将设立企业转贷服务中心，为符合银行信贷条件、还贷出现流动性暂时困难的企业还贷、续贷提供短期周转资金服务。预计每年可为当地中小微企业降低融资成本近40亿元。（新华社） 企业动态被称为“专网小华为”。【海能达：被判决向摩托罗拉支付损害赔偿53.34亿元】海能达8日公告，因商业秘密和版权纠纷，美国伊利诺伊州法院作出一审判决，判决公司、美国公司及美西公司向摩托罗拉支付76,456.12万美元（约合人民币53.34亿元）的赔偿。这笔赔偿金超过其2011年上市以来净利润总和的3倍。海能达1993年成立，系专网设备和解决方案提供商，为政府、公共安全、轨道交通、能源等行业客户提供专网解决方案。 【天猫超市回应大数据杀熟：系新人专享价问题已解决】近日有网友反映，88VIP会员价格比普通用户高，存在大数据杀熟。3月8日早间，阿里巴巴旗下天猫超市在微博回应，其为新用户提供首笔订单时会有“新人专享价”，并在相应商品页面有专门标识，而天猫3·8活动期间，这个标识没有被正常显示，因而产生误解。 【一汽轿车复工急需的零部件“坐火车”紧急从武汉发往长春】湖北省是一汽集团主要的汽车零部件供应地，新冠肺炎疫情发生后，汽车零部件供应不足。一汽由于零部件供应不足，所属的一汽解放、一汽轿车、一汽大众等多家分子公司被迫停产待件。国铁集团承担紧急运输任务，一汽轿车复工复产急需的第一批汽车零部件于9日运达长春，所需的其他部件装车运输计划正在制定中。 【携程CEO孙洁：上亿人次退订，旅游业已恢复10%以上】携程CEO孙洁表示，疫情爆发后电话呼入量增长一二十倍，上亿人次退订，携程第一时间退款。但她对也未来充满信心，目前行业已恢复10%以上。 暖心之举。【马云：给在湖北一线的女医护群体花呗额度翻倍和3年分期免息】花呗昨日在微博表示要给在湖北一线的女医护群体花呗额度翻倍和3年分期免息，马云转发该微博表示“你们是我真正的女神！据不完全统计，目前在湖北省抗疫一线的女性医护人员至少在20万人以上。 【上海电影：出资8000万设立合资公司 对长三角及周边区域内的影院进行投资与整合】上海电影公告，为了保障电影产业的健康有序发展，缓解长三角及周边区域影院的经营压力，公司于3月8日与控股股东上影集团、上海精文投资共同投资设立上影资产管理（上海）有限公司。新设公司注册资本2亿元，将通过并购、增资、参股等形式对长三角及周边区域内的影院进行投资与整合。 【首部抗疫电视剧启动，编剧六六、秦雯等加入创作】耀客传媒称，上海广播电视台联合上海耀客传媒、上海尚世影业启动筹拍“时代报告剧”《在一起》。该剧将集结国内一线制作力量，计划筹拍20集，每2集1个独立故事，内容均由抗疫期间各行各业的真人真事改编，塑造可歌可泣的平民英雄群像。编剧六六、秦雯、高璇、任宝茹、冯骥等，导演张黎、安建、沈严、曹盾、汪俊等已加入该剧的创作。（新京报） 国际视野 迫使对方重回谈判桌！据OPEC代表透露：OPEC+技术委员会会议将于3月18日继续举行。【沙特计划大幅增加原油产量开启原油价格战】据彭博报道，周六沙特大幅降低售往欧洲、远东和美国等国外的市场的原油价格，折扣幅度创逾20年来最大，以吸引国外炼油厂购买沙特原油。与此同时，沙特阿拉伯计划下个月增加石油产量，日产量将超过1000万桶，作为沙特对该国与俄罗斯的OPEC+联盟的崩溃后的激烈反应。某大宗商品对冲基金经理表示，沙特此举相当于在原油市场宣战。 【诺基亚年报显示，它借贷了5.6亿美元资金用于5G研发】据外媒报道，芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚的年报显示，该公司上个月获得了5亿欧元(5.61亿美元)的贷款，以帮助其加快5G技术的研发。 【赔12亿，Uber前联合创始人为支付谷歌赔款申请破产】拉锯了很久的“谷歌-Uber自动驾驶技术剽窃案”最近有了新动向，涉案者——Anthony Levandowski，前Uber联合创始人在庭审中败诉，法院确认他必须向谷歌支付1.79亿美元（约合12.4亿人民币）。本周三，Levandowski申请了破产保护，这一次的赔偿让他几乎倾家荡产。（新浪新闻） 【外国科技产业大会纷纷停办，直接经济损失超10亿美元】据国外媒体报道，新冠疫情在全球各地持续蔓延，引发人员和经济损失。据数据分析公司PredictHQ估计，Facebook的F8开发者大会和移动世界大会(MWC)等大型科技活动接连因为疫情取消，造成的直接经济损失已经超过10亿美元。（网易科技） 【伊朗外长：美国试图耗尽伊朗应对疫情资源】伊朗外长扎里夫日前表示，伊朗民众正在面临疫情的严峻考验，而美国正恶意加强对伊朗制裁，试图耗尽伊朗国内抗击疫情所需的资源。美国的医疗恐怖主义正在接替经济恐怖主义。特朗普上月底称，只要伊朗求助，美国愿意帮助伊朗抗击疫情。伊朗总统回应说，美国如果真心想帮忙，就应解除对伊制裁。（央视） 【黎巴嫩决定拖欠12亿美元债券债务】黎巴嫩总理哈桑·迪亚卜7日宣布，因外汇储备短缺，黎巴嫩将不会支付9日到期的12亿美元债券债务。迪亚卜指出，黎巴嫩债台高筑，公共债务相当于国内生产总值的170%，远超黎巴嫩的负担能力。他表示，接下来黎巴嫩政府将与债权人展开谈判，以重组债务。据悉，黎巴嫩今年共面临大约46亿美元的到期债券债务。（新华社）

疫情防控若研制成功，也将成为全球首创。【上海研发新冠人源细胞疫苗，科学家已亲试第一针】上海科学家独辟蹊径，尝试探索安全性更高的人源细胞载体疫苗，并为此完成了第一针注射。但人源细胞疫苗的免疫效果、以及能否最终取得成功仍然面临挑战。2月26日，上海公共卫生临床中心的徐建青研究员给自己注射了一针新冠核酸（DNA）疫苗，大约两周后，他还将接受第二针疫苗的注射。这是全球首个以人源细胞为载体的疫苗。（一财） 【国家卫健委：湖北以外省份首次无本土确诊病例】国家卫健委表示，湖北以外其他省份新增确诊均为境外确诊病例，首次无本土确诊病例。湖北除武汉外连续3日无新增病例，武汉新增确诊降至50例以下，说明当前防控措施有效，疫情防控形势持续向好。但国际输入我国病例不断出现，防疫仍然面临不小风险压力。 完善临时补助政策，违规将严肃处理。【抗疫补助的发放有什么标准？】国家卫健委表示，临时工作补贴的范围，以是否直接接触疑似患者确诊患者为依据；临时工作补贴的发放，以实际参加现场处置患者救助的工作情况为依据。临时工作补贴根据一线医务人员承受风险的不同，补贴标准分为两档。（人民日报） 滞留者终于可以回家了。【分次分批推动滞留武汉人员离汉】中央指导组副组长陈一新：在集中力量打好歼灭战的同时，提前谋划复工复产、分次分批推动滞留武汉人员离汉等工作。（长江日报） 宏观经济【专家：疫情引发金融危机的风险较低】近期，新冠肺炎疫情在多国迅速扩散加剧了投资者恐慌情绪，掀动全球金融市场波澜。专家认为，短期内疫情仍可能不断搅动市场，但引发金融危机的风险较低。疫情固然是近期金融市场动荡的直接诱因，但市场之所以表现得如此脆弱，根本原因还在于全球经济增长动能不足、政策空间受限、前期市场估值偏高等因素。在这种背景下，一旦出现突发情况，全球金融市场大幅波动很容易被触发。（新华社） 【我国农村集体产权制度改革试点全面推开】中央农办、农业农村部7日发布，今年，农村集体产权制度改革试点将在31个省份全面推开。2015年我国开展农村集体产权制度改革试点以来，超过22.7万个村完成股份合作制改革，全部试点任务将于明年10月底前基本完成。（央视网） “过桥”资金难倒过多少企业家。【广州将设转贷服务中心降低中小企业“过桥”成本】广州将设立企业转贷服务中心，为符合银行信贷条件、还贷出现流动性暂时困难的企业还贷、续贷提供短期周转资金服务。预计每年可为当地中小微企业降低融资成本近40亿元。（新华社） 企业动态被称为“专网小华为”。【海能达：被判决向摩托罗拉支付损害赔偿53.34亿元】海能达8日公告，因商业秘密和版权纠纷，美国伊利诺伊州法院作出一审判决，判决公司、美国公司及美西公司向摩托罗拉支付76,456.12万美元（约合人民币53.34亿元）的赔偿。这笔赔偿金超过其2011年上市以来净利润总和的3倍。海能达1993年成立，系专网设备和解决方案提供商，为政府、公共安全、轨道交通、能源等行业客户提供专网解决方案。 【天猫超市回应大数据杀熟：系新人专享价问题已解决】近日有网友反映，88VIP会员价格比普通用户高，存在大数据杀熟。3月8日早间，阿里巴巴旗下天猫超市在微博回应，其为新用户提供首笔订单时会有“新人专享价”，并在相应商品页面有专门标识，而天猫3·8活动期间，这个标识没有被正常显示，因而产生误解。 【一汽轿车复工急需的零部件“坐火车”紧急从武汉发往长春】湖北省是一汽集团主要的汽车零部件供应地，新冠肺炎疫情发生后，汽车零部件供应不足。一汽由于零部件供应不足，所属的一汽解放、一汽轿车、一汽大众等多家分子公司被迫停产待件。国铁集团承担紧急运输任务，一汽轿车复工复产急需的第一批汽车零部件于9日运达长春，所需的其他部件装车运输计划正在制定中。 【携程CEO孙洁：上亿人次退订，旅游业已恢复10%以上】携程CEO孙洁表示，疫情爆发后电话呼入量增长一二十倍，上亿人次退订，携程第一时间退款。但她对也未来充满信心，目前行业已恢复10%以上。 暖心之举。【马云：给在湖北一线的女医护群体花呗额度翻倍和3年分期免息】花呗昨日在微博表示要给在湖北一线的女医护群体花呗额度翻倍和3年分期免息，马云转发该微博表示“你们是我真正的女神！据不完全统计，目前在湖北省抗疫一线的女性医护人员至少在20万人以上。 【上海电影：出资8000万设立合资公司 对长三角及周边区域内的影院进行投资与整合】上海电影公告，为了保障电影产业的健康有序发展，缓解长三角及周边区域影院的经营压力，公司于3月8日与控股股东上影集团、上海精文投资共同投资设立上影资产管理（上海）有限公司。新设公司注册资本2亿元，将通过并购、增资、参股等形式对长三角及周边区域内的影院进行投资与整合。 【首部抗疫电视剧启动，编剧六六、秦雯等加入创作】耀客传媒称，上海广播电视台联合上海耀客传媒、上海尚世影业启动筹拍“时代报告剧”《在一起》。该剧将集结国内一线制作力量，计划筹拍20集，每2集1个独立故事，内容均由抗疫期间各行各业的真人真事改编，塑造可歌可泣的平民英雄群像。编剧六六、秦雯、高璇、任宝茹、冯骥等，导演张黎、安建、沈严、曹盾、汪俊等已加入该剧的创作。（新京报） 国际视野 迫使对方重回谈判桌！据OPEC代表透露：OPEC+技术委员会会议将于3月18日继续举行。【沙特计划大幅增加原油产量开启原油价格战】据彭博报道，周六沙特大幅降低售往欧洲、远东和美国等国外的市场的原油价格，折扣幅度创逾20年来最大，以吸引国外炼油厂购买沙特原油。与此同时，沙特阿拉伯计划下个月增加石油产量，日产量将超过1000万桶，作为沙特对该国与俄罗斯的OPEC+联盟的崩溃后的激烈反应。某大宗商品对冲基金经理表示，沙特此举相当于在原油市场宣战。 【诺基亚年报显示，它借贷了5.6亿美元资金用于5G研发】据外媒报道，芬兰电信设备制造商诺基亚的年报显示，该公司上个月获得了5亿欧元(5.61亿美元)的贷款，以帮助其加快5G技术的研发。 【赔12亿，Uber前联合创始人为支付谷歌赔款申请破产】拉锯了很久的“谷歌-Uber自动驾驶技术剽窃案”最近有了新动向，涉案者——Anthony Levandowski，前Uber联合创始人在庭审中败诉，法院确认他必须向谷歌支付1.79亿美元（约合12.4亿人民币）。本周三，Levandowski申请了破产保护，这一次的赔偿让他几乎倾家荡产。（新浪新闻） 【外国科技产业大会纷纷停办，直接经济损失超10亿美元】据国外媒体报道，新冠疫情在全球各地持续蔓延，引发人员和经济损失。据数据分析公司PredictHQ估计，Facebook的F8开发者大会和移动世界大会(MWC)等大型科技活动接连因为疫情取消，造成的直接经济损失已经超过10亿美元。（网易科技） 【伊朗外长：美国试图耗尽伊朗应对疫情资源】伊朗外长扎里夫日前表示，伊朗民众正在面临疫情的严峻考验，而美国正恶意加强对伊朗制裁，试图耗尽伊朗国内抗击疫情所需的资源。美国的医疗恐怖主义正在接替经济恐怖主义。特朗普上月底称，只要伊朗求助，美国愿意帮助伊朗抗击疫情。伊朗总统回应说，美国如果真心想帮忙，就应解除对伊制裁。（央视） 【黎巴嫩决定拖欠12亿美元债券债务】黎巴嫩总理哈桑·迪亚卜7日宣布，因外汇储备短缺，黎巴嫩将不会支付9日到期的12亿美元债券债务。迪亚卜指出，黎巴嫩债台高筑，公共债务相当于国内生产总值的170%，远超黎巴嫩的负担能力。他表示，接下来黎巴嫩政府将与债权人展开谈判，以重组债务。据悉，黎巴嫩今年共面临大约46亿美元的到期债券债务。（新华社）

Mary Levandowski, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University, discusses her research on wetland biodiversity in Grand Teton National Park. She also discusses here passion for nature and her passion is contagious!

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!

Swann Security. Jeremy Stewart, VP of Global MarketingSwann has always been a leader. From humble beginnings in the basement of David Swann's family home in Melbourne, Australia the business now has offices in the USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Hong Kong and China and a presence in over 40 countries on 6 continents. Swann pioneered the category of Do-it-Yourself security and is proud of the work it has done to make local communities safer. Today, Swann is part of the Infinova Group, providing the business with enhanced manufacturing capabilities, cutting-edge research and development of security and networking solutions, and access to an expanded international network.Topics:Spotlight Outdoor Security Camera USAWireless Home Security Systems | Swann Security USAInnovation Award Honorees – CES 2020Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys | WIREDEx-Waymo engineer Levandowski ordered to pay Google $179 million | EngadgetFor full show notes, check out ComputerAmerica.com!

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)

In this week's show, we ask if Levandowski is the messiah or just a very naughty boy, we explain why you should not take a nice car to Creamfields music festival, Highways England are being sued over smart motorways, a modified Bugatti Chiron goes jolly quickly, a roadmap for UK connected and automated mobility is released, Toyota and Suzuki tie into a closer alliance, Frankfurt Motor Show tightens security, Toyota will pause production for one day after Brexit, 'Play Streets' will be easier to create, Porsche reveals their Formula E car and livery, the Jim Clark museum is opened, a rapid List of the Week, a Lunchtime Read that's a little different and an And Finally that makes Alan regret a recent decision. As ever, we really hope you enjoy the show and feel free to get in touch with news items and feedback!

In this episode we delive into NZ technology startup Spidertracks, we discussing killing the steering wheel, Australia vs online extremism, US customs vs social media, robot taxi dissatisfaction, Ex-Uber engineer Levandowski charged, Huawei Mate 30 to launch under cloud of US ban, Intel vs AMD and news of new Microsoft Surface devices - including possibly an innovative new form factor. NZ Tech Podcast Paul Spain Gorilla Technology 1500kms of free Tesla Supercharging

- Roboter und User-Experience https://www.fastcompany.com/90395843/walmarts-robot-army-has-arrived https://www.fastcompany.com/90395110/how-googly-eyes-solved-one-of-todays-trickiest-ux-problems https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/30/investors-are-joining-a-sizable-funding-round-for-bear-robotics-whose-robots-serve-food-to-restaurant-patrons/ - Kryptowährungen: Wettlauf zwischen Unternehmen und Nationalstaaten https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2019/08/27/alibaba-tencent-five-others-to-recieve-first-chinese-government-cryptocurrency/#52ed197a1a51 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/technology/telegram-cryptocurrency-gram.html https://www.coindesk.com/tensions-rising-at-facebook-libra-as-backers-consider-quitting-report - Peloton-IPO https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/peloton-files-publicly-for-ipo/ - Was macht eine Tech-Company zur Tech-Company? https://hbr.org/2019/08/no-wework-isnt-a-tech-company-heres-why-that-matters - Vermieter klagt gegen WeWork https://dealbreaker.com/2019/08/wework-sued-by-landlords-who-arent-wework-ceo - Waymo verklagt Levandowski und das Geheimnis von Tech-Innovationen https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/27/20835368/google-uber-engineer-trade-theft-secrets-anthony-levandowski-charged https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-the-anthony-levandowski-indictment-helps-big-tech-stifle-innovation-in-silicon-valley - Uber und Lyft schlagen Mindestlohn von $21/Std. vor https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-lyft-propose-21-hour-minimum-wage-drivers-california-n1047731 - Google Maps mit Multimodalität und Zukunft der Mobility https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/27/20835131/google-maps-combine-transit-biking-ride-sharing https://www.creativeconstruction.de/lp/trends2016/trends-2016-api-economy/ - Gehirn-Roboter vom MIT https://gizmodo.com/mit-researchers-designed-this-robotic-worm-to-burrow-in-1837670647 - Buchtipp: Die Optimierer https://www.amazon.de/Die-Optimierer-Roman-Theresa-Hannig/dp/3404208870/ Many thanks for the music by Lee Rosevere http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Music_For_Podcasts_5/Lee_Rosevere_-_Music_For_Podcasts_5_-_05_Start_the_Day

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.

- Japanese Automakers Avoid U.S. Tariffs- Levandowski Accused of Stealing Waymo Secrets- New BMW X6 Features “World’s Blackest Black” Paint- Roxor Shares Update on North American Operations- Nissan Creates Perfect Golf Ball for Cheaters- Mercedes Shows Off New AMG GLE Coupe- Lamborghini Launches Luggage Transport Service

- Japanese Automakers Avoid U.S. Tariffs - Levandowski Accused of Stealing Waymo Secrets - New BMW X6 Features “World’s Blackest Black” Paint - Roxor Shares Update on North American Operations - Nissan Creates Perfect Golf Ball for Cheaters - Mercedes Shows Off New AMG GLE Coupe - Lamborghini Launches Luggage Transport Service

On the final News Show of the year, the chaps start off with good Follow Up, the Bloodhound project has been saved, there are several articles discussed with regards, to the continued fall out from Carlos Ghosn's arrest, a leaked email shows that Uber allegedly knew their autonomous vehicle project wasn't going well, Levandowski claims his new company has driven across the US with no disengagements, Euro 6 diesel cars can be banned from European cities, Apple hires a Tesla designer, Hyundai to sell a car unlockable with a fingerprint in China, River Severn crossing now free, drivers are warned of 'Frantic Friday', Formula E is back, CEO Agag will become Chairman of Formula E, the chaps discuss last year's predictions and announce their new ones for 2019, Porsche have to tell us how to pronounce Taycan.

This week the chaps discuss the EU voting to approve stricter emission limits after the manufacturers plead for them not to, the November New Car Registrations figures for September 2018, JLR announce they're closing a plant for two weeks soon, Toyota is recalling some hybrid vehicles due to a software glitch, how Levandowski is still a target for Google, Mazda is bringing back the rotary engine, a reminder about when and when not to use a mobile when in the car, the Government is to help 10 councils improve their air quality, WRC Rally GB result, Kevin Rice moves to Chery, the Lunchtime Read is from Matt Prior, a consumer-focused List of the Week, and a Swedish And Finally. Oh, Alan may mention some trainers too, but that's only because Andrew got bored in removing them from the audio in the edit.

Jess Levandowski, director of the Middle Coast Film Festival, sits down with Tom and Conor to discuss the upcoming fest, the hidden difficulties of putting together a festival and what film fans can expect from this year’s programming. In the new segment Get Reel, Tom, Conor and Jess dig into some movies they have to […]

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

The big, knock-down fight between Uber and Alphabet-owned Waymo never was with the two companies reaching a settlement on day 5 of the trial. Did Waymo's case fall apart? What are some of the repercussions of the settlement for both companies? Who are the big winners? And the big question: when am I going to get my AI chauffeur anyway? Links: It's all over: Why the Waymo v Uber self-driving settlement makes sense Episode 36: Return of the AI Church Episode 28: God is the Machine Follow us and leave us a rating! iTunes Homepage Twitter @artlyintelly Facebook artificiallyintelligent1@gmail.com

Umělá inteligence a počítačové algoritmy v dnešní době obchodují na burze, učí se řídit auta, předpovídají zločinnost a rozhodují, jaké zprávy se k vám dostanou ze sociálních sítí. Bývalý zaměstnanec Googlu a Uberu Anthony Levandowski teď chce stvořit umělou inteligenci, která by se stala bohem. Koncept Singularity, umělé inteligence přesahující lidské myšlení, není nový. Málokdo však na jejím vzniku pracuje s takovou samozřejmostí jako Levandowski.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Santosh shares his perspective on: the Uber firings (including the infamous Levandowski), the future of meal delivery, the failure of shipping companies and the Walmart/Amazon saga.

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.

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This is our News Roundup episode for the week. Having discussed the week's big Google news in the Question of the Week deep dive episode, this one covers the other tech news, including Spotify's 2016 financials, developments in the Uber/Waymo lawsuit, and a grab bag of Apple news including its acquisition of Lattice Data, reports of Tim Cook wearing an Apple Watch-connected glucose monitor, and manufacturing iPhones in India. As always, you'll find links to these stories and other things we discussed below. News stories we covered (Tech Narratives links unless otherwise noted): Spotify financials: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/18/★-spotifys-losses-widen-revenue-per-paying-user-drops-in-2016/ Uber/Waymo lawsuit: • Preliminary injunction: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/15/waymo-uber-injunction-made-public/ • Uber threatens to fire Levandowski: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/19/uber-threatens-to-fire-levandowski-if-he-doesnt-comply-with-court-orders/ Waymo/Lyft partnership: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/15/★-waymo-and-lyft-partner-over-self-driving-cars/ Apple Lattice acquisition: • Tech Narratives: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/15/★-apple-acquires-dark-data-analysis-company-lattice-data-reportedly-for-200m/ • TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/13/apple-acquires-ai-company-lattice-data-a-specialist-in-unstructured-dark-data/ Apple manufacturing iPhones in India: https://www.technarratives.com/2017/05/17/★-apple-makes-first-iphones-in-india/ As ever, we welcome your feedback via Twitter (@jandawson / @aaronmiller), the website (podcast.beyonddevic.es), or email (jan@jackdawresearch.com).

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.