Welcome to the Mootrix

In this episode:

• Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first cardiac arrest patient in Sweden
• These “invisible headphones” sit on your desktop and beam sound directly (and only) to your ears
• Panasonic will start offering workers a four-day working week
  • This company just decided to give employees a 4-day workweek permanently
  
  
• PayPal Is 'Exploring' Launching Its Own Stablecoin
• AP to launch NFT photography marketplace built by Xooa
• Magic Leap Goes After Medical Customers With Augmented Reality Headset
• Signal: New year, new CEO

 

AD BREAK

 

• Uber driver who got a hotel room for teen passenger after being stuck on I-95 gets offered a new job
• A Google Street View car spotted a missing criminal and it led to an arrest
• Airbnb’s new experiment to reduce racism
• Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has an ‘assertive’ driving mode that ‘may perform rolling stops’
• Teen hacker finds bug that lets him control 25+ Teslas remotely
  • So, I now have full remote control of over 20 Tesla’s in 10 countries and there seems to be no way to find the owners and report it to them…
  
  
• T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US [U]
  • I was able to turn this on. I’m not sure this story is accurate
  
  
• Wordle is tech born of love that asks nothing in return

 

Weird and Wacky:

• Farmer Makes His Cows Wear VR Goggles to Increase Milk Production
• Two Los Angeles cops fired for ignoring robbery to chase a Snorlax in Pokémon GO