Episode 51: Leafy Lettuce on the Blockchain

In This Episode:

• Apple delays original shows over mature content (1:24)
• YouTube is replacing textbooks in classrooms across America (4:33)
• Japan successfully lands robot rovers on an asteroid's surface (7:32)
• Lime Scooters Has Its Second Fatality in a Month (9:45)
• Inside Facebook Dating (12:08)
• Twitter may have sent your private DMs to the wrong people -- but probably not (16:03)
• Walmart wants to track lettuce on the blockchain (18:41)
• Google started quietly logging you into Chrome (22:18)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

• An electric implant helps a paralyzed man walk the length of a football field (24:15)
• Original working Apple-I computer fetches $375,000 at auction (26:05)
• This device can charge your phone with wind or water (27:49)

Tech Recommendations (29:25):

• Adam - Chick-fil-A App
• Sanjay - Libby

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Links:

• Apple reportedly delays original shows over mature content
• YouTube is replacing textbooks in classrooms across America - Axios
• Japan successfully lands robot rovers on an asteroid's surface - CNN
• Second E-Scooter Company Lime Rider Dies | Fortune
• Inside Facebook Dating, launching today first in Colombia
• Twitter may have sent your private DMs to the wrong people -- but probably not - CNET
• Walmart will be tracking leafy greens on the blockchain
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