Episode 75: Human Powered Jet... A Wingman - Tech Talk Y'all

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Episode 75: Human Powered Jet... A Wingman

In this Episode:

  • Philadelphia becomes first US city to ban 'cashless' stores, report says
  • Myequifax.com has yet another security disaster
  • A ‘Creepy’ Assignment: Pay Attention to What Strangers Reveal in Public
  • Scientists Say They Can Recreate Living Dinosaurs Within the Next 5 Years
  • The US Air Force’s jet-powered robotic wingman is like something out of a video game
  • A doctor in California appeared via video link to tell a patient he was going to die. The man's family is upset
  • MoviePass Changing Business Model Yet Again, Will Now Focus On Their Own Films
  • Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~ 60 markets
  • Usain Bolt backs latest e-scooter company taking a run at New York City

Weird and Wacky Tech:

  • Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has an escape hatch in his office in case of emergency
  • China completes world’s first 5G remote surgery in test on animal
  • A Google employee broke the world record for calculating pi

Tech Recommendations:

  • Adam - Door Dash
  • Jess - My Fitness Pal

Ad music is from "Partly Cloudy" by A Tape Full of Mistakes
Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Suit

Special Guest: Jess Walker.

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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.