A Robot Named Carol and a Very Lucky Pig

Brought to you by TogetherLetters & Edgewise! In this episode: Robots & Medicine Humanoid Robots Just Performed Live Surgery for the First Time Ever First Robotic Single-Port Mastectomy in the U.S. by a Robot Named "Carol" Data, Privacy & Surveillance Scott McNealy: "You Have Zero Privacy Anyway. Get Over It" WNBA Players Scored a Historic Labor Contract — With One Big Caveat Nearly a Million Passports and Photo IDs Left Unprotected Online Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty Policy, Platforms & Society UK Plans Default Midnight Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds Netflix May Add Always-On Channels. That's Just Cable. Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat Finland's Last Analogue Landline Phones Go Silent After 150 Years Science, Space & the Frontier FCC Approves Orbital Space Mirrors; First Test Satellites Launch This Year Hard but Lightweight "Bio-Metal" Discovered in Sea Worm Jaws How to Hide from Killer Drones Weird and Wacky Autonomous Flying Umbrella Follows and Shields Users from Rain and Sunlight The Uniqlo T-Shirt with an Obfuscated Bash Script on the Back Tech Rec: Sanjay - Knockoff Adam - Granola Find us here: sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com Tech Talk Y’all is a proud production of Edgewise.Media.