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Small Business Video Marketing in 2021, and the Digital Marketing News of the Week Web and Beyond Live - August 30, 2021 In this week's episode: OnlyFans' porn ban/reverse ban is a mystery - Vox Google, Microsoft plan to spend billions on cybersecurity after meeting with Biden Microsoft will raise Office 365 business subscription prices in 2022 Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases, email shows Google Podcasts web app now syncs your Queue and listening progress across devices Amazon Just Announced a New Policy, and It's Pure Genius | Inc.com Walmart is launching a new white label delivery service - The Verge Microsoft Teams will no longer see any updates on iOS 13 or older | TechRadar $50,000 grants available to small businesses hurt by pandemic as Hochul expands recovery program - Fingerlakes1.com Video Marketing Statistics 2021 Report Join us in Web and Beyond Community! It's easy and free. Each week, President of W3 Consulting, Managing Director of W3C Web Services (https://web.w3cinc.com/) and host of Web and Beyond Community (https://www.webandbeyond.community) Ray Sidney-Smith broadcasts live to update you on the latest small business digital marketing and business productivity technology updates you need to be effective. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/webandbeyondlive/message
Headlines from re:Invent, how tech is caught up in a tariff war with France, Facebook created a chatbot to help employees explain themselves during the holidays, and let me tell you about the new foldable phone from Pablo Escobar’s brother.Sponsors:MetalabNetgear.com/bestwifiLinks:AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS (ZDNet)AWS launches its custom Inferentia inferencing chips (TechCrunch)Trump Administration Proposes Tariffs Against $2.4 Billion of French Goods (WSJ)Former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing labor charges against the company (Vox)Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back. (Google Walkout For Real Change)TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities (NetzPolitik.org)TikTok prevented disabled users’ videos from showing up in feeds (The Verge)DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens (TechCrunch)Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle (NYTimes)Pablo Escobar's Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With... an 'Unbreakable' Foldable Phone? (Gizmodo)
This week, AI is learning Dad Jokes, Facial Recognition tech receives downgrade by law enforcement, predictive programming isn’t working correctly (climate change/aliens), and the virtual panopticon is in an App! 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 1st-May 8th YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces The Guy Who Bought a SpaceX Ticket to the Moon Is Broke NASA eyes soft robots for dirty jobs on the moon and Mars - CNET THE FUTURE! S-money: Ultra-secure form of virtual money proposed Specific People Are Weirdly Good at Predicting the Future The Spycraft Revolution – Foreign Policy TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTS, AND AI! OH MY! San Francisco is about to be the first city in the U.S. to ban facial recognition. Scientists Figured Out How to Make Neural Networks 90 Percent Smaller—but Just as Smart A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images Artificial Intelligence May Not 'Hallucinate' After All | WIRED These Robotic Objects Are Designed to Be Stabbed and Beaten to Help You Feel Better - IEEE Spectrum Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over Watch This Hulking Robot Play “The Floor Is Lava” Investor Sues After an AI’s Automated Trades Cost Him $20 Million Microsoft Word’s New “AI Editor” Scolds You for Gendered Language This AI Is Spitting Out Coherent, Almost-Funny Dad Puns An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands - BBC News Artificial Intelligence Is Creating A Fake World -- What Does That Mean For Humans? CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SOMETIMES FACTS! NBC reporter scolded on air after comparing UN climate change report to alien invasion | Fox News Instagram May Combat Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation With Pop-up Ads Donald Trump slams Facebook after Infowars Alex Jones, James Woods ban SPACE/ALIENS/ETs/UFOs Could Life on Earth Have Come from Another Star System? | Space Habitability of Planets Will Depend on Their Interiors - Universe Today The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova BIOMEDICAL/GENETICS/TRANSHUMANISM Genetic Editing Goes Rogue Cryptic mutation is cautionary tale for crop gene editing -- ScienceDaily New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing” Google Backs Plan to Use CRISPR to Cure Heart Disease It's time we stopped human evolution – geneticist GAMING! Scientists Identify “Pokémon Region” in Gamers’ Brains — Seriously “Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game - MIT Technology Review China PC online game market report 2019 | PC Gamer This video game can detect early stages of Alzheimer's better than medical tests, researchers say - BECAUSE SCIENCE! The Air Force Just Tested a Laser Weapon for Fighter Jets CERN's flagship travelling exhibition goes to India | CERN CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE B-B-B-BLOCK CHAIN Satoshi Identity To Be Unveiled On May 14th Craig Wright Ordered To List ‘Satoshi’s’ Bitcoins By Florida Court Bitcoin surges by +400%, hits $30,000 on Coin Stats, causing people to 'spill drinks' and have 'mini heart attacks' - AMBCrypto THE NEW AGE AND OCCULT IN THE NEWS A 'witchcraft extortion scheme' led by a 'sorcerer' targeted hundreds seeking love The US just officially recognized the Satanic Temple as a religion - Business Insider How Cults Made America | The New Yorker Is Religious Decline Inevitable in the United States? | The Exchange | A Blog by Ed Stetzer FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE TECHNOCALYPSE Elon Musk reveals terrifying and impressive length of his working week | Metro News SOCIAL MEDIA/GOOGLE/AMAZON Fear-based social media Nextdoor, Citizen, Amazon’s Neighbors is getting more popular - Vox Google says it will address AI, machine learning model bias with technology called TCAV | ZDNet Senate Dems' social media poll finds more users want Supreme Court justices like Kavanaugh than Ginsburg | Fox News Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data - VICE BIRDS AREN’T REAL Drones’ Batteries Could Last Longer if They Could Perch Like Birds
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
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Uber takes GST battle to Federal Court [SMH] We are not playing dirty Uber tells ATO [SMH] The simple reason why Uber is not afraid of the ATO [The Age] PC gaming on the rise, but Australians still suffer from a 'broadband bottleneck' [CNET] Google donates $1m to Aussie STEM students [iTnews] The Entire Internet Is Outraged Over the Hunting of Cecil the Lion [Gizmodo] From Gamergate to Cecil the lion: internet mob justice is out of control [Vox] Google is dropping its Google+ requirement across all products, starting with YouTube [VentureBeat] Windows 10 lands in Australia [iTnews] Windows 10 makes you pay to remove ads from Solitaire [Wired UK] Apple Music hits 10M subscribers in four weeks, report says [AppleInsider] Apple Watch Leading to Healthy Lifestyle Changes Among Early Adopters [MacRumors] MOVE-motorize blinds and shades [Kickstarter] R.I.P. 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper (1954 - 2015) [CraveOnline] Amazon snaps up former 'Top Gear' trio for new motoring show [Engadget] Telstra aggregates Netflix, Stan and Presto with on-demand TV launch [CRN Australia] Quickflix stays in trading halt as company blames Netflix for falling subscriber numbers [mUmBRELLA] Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page. Songs We Played: The Bohicas - "Swarm" [iTunes] Sundara Karma - "Flame" [iTunes] Blondie - "Heart Of Glass" [iTunes] The Prodigy - "Breathe" [iTunes] AC/DC - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" [iTunes] Hot Hot Heat - "Let Me In" [iTunes] The Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way" [iTunes] Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome. Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.