Future Rides and Rogue Robots: The Tech That's Shaping Tomorrow

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In this episode: 

• All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics
• The Next Android Update May Add a New Way to Charge Wirelessly
• Elon Musk’s X Launches TV App as It Pushes Video Ambitions
• Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the US
• After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin
• A First Look at the New High-Speed Train That Will Connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas

• Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road
• Tesla Driver Charged With Killing Motorcyclist After Turning on Autopilot and Browsing His Phone
• Tesla recalls Cybertruck over ‘trapped pedal’ issue seen in owner’s viral TikTok video
• Tesla announces Cybertruck recall at the worst possible time for Elon Musk

• I Used AI To Plan My Wedding: Here's How It Went
• ​​What is the Meta AI tool? Can you turn it off? New feature rolls out on Facebook, Instagram
• Teacher arrested, accused of using AI to falsely paint boss as racist and antisemitic

• Samsung tells its executives to work a 6-day week to ‘inject a sense of crisis’ after posting its worst financial year in over a decade
• The House Passes a TikTok Ban Bill That’s on the Fast Track

• Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
• Roku Says 576K Accounts Compromised in Data Breach

• Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming
• Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again

• WordPress.com Owner Buys Beeper, App That Enabled iMessage on Android
• Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
• FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
• Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense

Weird and Wacky: 

• Relief as San Francisco public toilet finally opens – and not for $1.7m after all
• Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts
• Utahns reunited with pet cat they accidentally shipped with Amazon return
• Meet Thermonator, a flame-throwing robot dog with 30-foot range being sold by Ohio company

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Flic Twist 
• Adam - Momentum Dash

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• sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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