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Episode 45: At 3 AM Every Echo Dot Plays Rick Astley

In This Episode:

  • DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% (3:05)
  • German Researchers Have Built a Quantum Transistor Using Just a Single Atom (5:01)
  • Hackers can seize practically all your online accounts, and it's your voicemail's fault (7:45)
  • Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report (11:16)
  • NASA finds ice on the surface of the moon (14:36)

Weird & Wacky Tech:

  • This company embeds microchips in its employees, and they love it (16:45)
  • St. Louis University is putting Amazon Echo Dots into every dorm room this fall (18:32)
  • Weird Al Yankovic's new VR film will probably be weird (20:03)
  • UFC champ Robert Whittaker uses Excel, gaming to get into shape (21:24)

Tech Recommendations (23:55):
Sanjay - Miniature Pac Man cabinet
Adam - Living Wine Labels & Costco travel pants
Shannon - Seconds

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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.
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Sanjay Parekh

Sanjay (suhn' jey) is a serial technology entrepreneur. Currently, he is Entrepreneur in Residence at United Way of Greater Atlanta, a co-founder of TogetherLetters, a service for groups to share updates without using social media, and Edgewise, 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.