Episode 124: Finger Guns Are The Best - Tech Talk Y'all

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Episode 124: Finger Guns Are The Best

In this episode:

  • The Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away
  • Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs
  • AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria
  • 'They lied to us': Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murder
  • Tesla Teardown Scares Competitors: ‘We Cannot Do This’
  • Hackers can trick a Tesla into accelerating by 50 miles per hour
  • Flywheel owners found out that their bikes were bricked through Peloton
  • Apple may let people pick alternative default apps on the iPhone, marking a radical change of philosophy
  • Samsung blasts Galaxy phones worldwide with weird ‘1’ notification
  • MIT Spinoff WaveSense’s Ground-Penetrating Radar Looks Down for Perfect Self-Driving

Weird and Wacky:

  • Musician performs while surgeons remove brain tumour
  • 62-year-old former Marine sets Guinness World Record by holding plank for over 8 hours

Tech Rec:

  • Sanjay - Cloudflare ESNI Checker
  • Adam - Marco Polo

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Sanjay (sun' jay) is a serial technology entrepreneur. Currently, he is a co-founder of TogetherLetters, a service for groups to share updates without using social media, and Edgewise.Media, a marketing content creation company using podcasts as a content engine. He is also a co-host of Tech Talk Y'all, a tech news comedy podcast.
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Adam Walker

Husband. Father of five. Fractional CMO and Marketing Consultant. Wearer of fedoras. Marketing agency co-founder (with an exit). Nonprofit co-founder (48in48). Podcast host at Tech Talk Y'all and Real Pink. Most recently, I co-founded Edgewise.Media, a podcast-first marketing content agency, and TogetherLetters.com, a software for keeping people connected without social media.