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One Forty starts with the birth of Punchy, a fork race of Flippy, Joe Rogan’s creepy AI voice means doom for all podcasters, DNA scam alert, man is fined for avoiding UK face scan, and China plans to clone an army of police dogs. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of May 16th-May 22nd YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! Washington becomes first state to legalize human composting – The Seattle Times This AI-generated Joe Rogan fake has to be heard to be believed - The Verge Office worker launches UK's first police facial recognition legal action | Technology | The Guardian Philip Nitschke's 3D-printed Sarco "death pod" lets users die TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! Schrödinger's Art: Spooky physics paints microscopic artworks on "quantum canvas" The Potential New World Of The Electric and Robotic RV Stanford University’s newest robot is Doggo, a cute four-legged open-source bot - The Verge This walking robot could soon be delivering your packages 'Spidey senses' could help autonomous machines see better DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Drones With Their Thoughts CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIME S FACTS! 12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country - The Atlantic MMS: Jim Humble, YouTube hyped bleach as autism cure, reached millions QAnon Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader J.Z. Knight SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs NASA and Virgin Orbit have 3D-printed a working rocket engine part - MIT Technology Review In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo | Space Stanton T. Friedman, Scientist Who Tracked U.F.O.s, Dies at 84 - The New York Times BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM World's First Telescopic Lens Capable of Zooming Your Vision Three Times China awaits third genetically modified baby amid questions of CRISPR's ethics China Clones Top Police Dog, With Goal of “Mass Production” Airbnb Partners With 23andMe to Make It Easier for People to Get In Touch With Their Roots or Something BECAUSE SCIENCE! Raytheon Says Laser Weapon Will Blast Nuclear Missiles From Sky Putin: Russian Military Has “Science Fiction” Laser Weapons FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Tesla Autopilot suggests lane change into oncoming traffic - Electrek Tesla hires the 'absolute unit' meme guy to run its social media Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Could Be Online Before 2021 | Digital Trends SpaceX Delays Launch of Starlink Internet Satellites (Again), Bitcoin Blockchain Already in Space - BeInCrypto Jeff Bezos finally gets .Amazon after DNS overlord ICANN runs out of excuses to delay decision any further • The Register Jeff Bezos to employees: 'very excited' about auto industry SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years - The Verge Silicon Valley: Living In A Van In Google's Backyard? Some Employees Make It Work Amazon Is Teaching Alexa to Analyze Your Emotions Ice-T calls out Amazon after he 'almost shot' one of the company's delivery drivers | Fox News
On this episode, Basil is sick, China has a Flippy army restaurant, Norcal has a new Flippy burger joint, AI decodes rat speech with DeepSqueak, Trump signs AI EO, AI discovers hybrid in human genome, and Russia plans to exit the regular Internet for their own. Go follow us on our new Twitch channel and stay tuned, as we will soon announce the date of our first live stream! And we know it’s not the best platform right now, but join us on Patreon to get MORE! AGG for the WEEK of FEB 7-13 YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! AncestryDNA genetic test review ancestry update - Business Insider FLIPPY’S FAM! Robot-made coffee, burgers in SF: on automation and jobs TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! Can AI love? Two robots just fell in love over talk of humanity’s demise | Verdict Artificial intelligence used to decode rodent chitchat - Science Focus - BBC Focus Magazine Monkeys With Superpower Eyes Could Help Cure Color Blindness | WIRED What Games Are Humans Still Better at Than AI? AI gets carded, China and US agree on robot wars, Amazon claims Rekognition is just fine BBC - Future - The robot that learned how to skate on ice They Asked if People Would Rather Kill a Human or a Sentient Robot China is unleashing killer robots and stealth drones that carry out targeted airstrikes without a human pressing the fire button DARPA wants smart bandages for wounded warriors | TechCrunch Robots and virtual reality are the future of sex | The Independent Baidu made a smart cat shelter that uses AI to tell cats and dogs apart - The Verge IBM’s AI competed against a human in a debate. The results are telling. - Vox Google and Microsoft Warn That AI May Do Dumb Things | WIRED Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times This art has been created by AI. Will collectors want it? - Art & Culture - The Jakarta Post Meet Ai-Da, the world's first humanoid robot portrait artist | TechRadar Europe must avoid 'over-hasty' regulation on AI or risk missing out on economic benefits “Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data | Ars Technica CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! QAnon Finally Returns. What's Next For His Rowdy Followers? Why so many people believe conspiracy theories - BBC News BECAUSE SCIENCE! US Geologist REVEALS How Fast-Shifting North Magnetic Pole Will Affect Humanity Earth's magnetic shield booms like a drum when hit by impulses THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECNOCHALYPSE Bill Gates Gets Why People Are Doubting Billionaires—And He Has A Defense (Even For Mark Zuckerberg) SpaceX: Elon Musk Reveals Future Price Plan for a Return Ticket to Mars | Inverse Remember When Jeff Bezos Told Peter Thiel To 'Develop a Thick Skin'? Bill and Melinda Gates letter on at-home DNA tests like 23andMe - Business Insider SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs NASA to find aliens 'IN YEARS': Shock study reveals countdown to alien discovery Bible ALIEN SHOCK: Ancient ‘religious remains’ fuel extraterrestrial claim Tell RoboCallers you were abducted by aliens BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Gene Editing Tools Like CRISPR May Help Us Cure Herpes One Day UC Berkeley Team to Be Awarded CRISPR Patent | The Scientist Magazine® The Genetic Case for Monogamy | Psychology Today The FDA Is Trying to Figure out How to Regulate Smart Pills Artificial Intelligence Has Found an Unknown 'Ghost' Ancestor in The Human Genome CRYPTOCURRENCY AND B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN! Software Giant Oracle Expands Its Enterprise Blockchain Platform SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Is Now a Company Nemesis Google, Facebook, Apple news should be regulated: UK government report Here's What Amazon's Eero Acquisition Means