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6:59

City Driving Is Silly Fun in Arcimoto's Electric...

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2018/12/26

“It’s fully electric!” Mark Frohnmayer yells to the guy in the pickup truck idling next to us. It’s a sunny Friday afternoon on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, and Frohnmayer and I are the center of attention at this red light. Now there’s another guy in another pickup truck, on the other side of the first one, who also has questions about the vehicle we’re sitting in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:52

This Book Will Make Einstein Relevant to Kids Today

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2018/12/25

The new children’s book Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment, written by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, aims to introduce small children to the work of Albert Einstein. It’s a challenge that Patterson initially found a bit daunting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:52

The Future of Work: Compulsory, by Martha Wells

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2018/12/24

“Human enhancement with in-the-body technologies introduces new potential for both individual opportunity and individual exploitation.” —“Cyborgs, Robots and Society,” Technologies (2018) It’s not like I haven’t thought about killing the humans since I hacked my governor module. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:34

Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 12/21/18

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2018/12/21

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6:38

The Future of Work: The Branch, by Eugine Lim

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2018/12/21

“A library of the future might also be, at its best, a sanctuary where we are encouraged to spend entire hours looking at just one thing.” —Michael Agresta, “What Will Become of the Library?” Slate (2014) The library of the future is more or less the same. That is, the branch is an actual and metaphoric Faraday cage. You enter, a node and a target, streamed at and pushed and yanked, penetrated by and extruding information, sloppy with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:33

Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 12/20/18

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2018/12/20

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7:18

With the E-tron, Audi Shows What an Electric SUV Can Be

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2018/12/20

Masdar City, a squeaky-clean planned city under development outside Abu Dhabi, grew from the sand with a single vision: help the United Arab Emirates wean itself off its own vast oil reserves. The 10-year-old micro-metropolis serves as an incubator for clean-technology companies. It incorporates the latest design and construction strategies to minimize its energy consumption. It runs solely on renewable energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:04

Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 12/18/18

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2018/12/18

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9:07

The Future of Work: Placebo, by Charles Yu

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2018/12/18

“Roughly half of Americans would feel better about the concept of a robot caregiver if there was a human operator who could remotely monitor its actions at all times.” —“Automation in Everyday Life,” Pew Research Center (2017) The thing is beeping at Brad. > Begin EOL protocol. OK? > Beep. > OK to begin? All he needs to do is accept. Click it and the action cascade will download to his tablet, setting into motion the procedure. End of Life. > Beep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:33

How to Save Money Just By Going Into Your Phone’s...

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2018/12/17

Online shoppers, media consumers, and app lovers are increasingly sucked into the world of recurring payments. On the bright side, subscription services offer convenience. They also establish a relationship between the company making a product and the person buying it; if you’re on the buying side, it means paying only as long as something is valuable to you. Plus, subscriptions often come bundled with perks. (Like, for example, this publication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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12:01

Postmates' Quest to Build the Delivery Robot of the...

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2018/12/14

Hanging on the wall of Postmates' stealth R&D laboratory, there's a framed photo of an iconic scene from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker bent down beside R2D2. Except someone has used Photoshop to replace Luke's face with Ali Kashani, Postmates' VP of Robotics. Nevermind that Kashani has never seen Star Wars (he considers this a point of pride). Kashani recognizes the symbolism of his face in a world where robots roll around next to people, where bots act almost like friends. Learn more about your ad

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3:51

Wired’s Most Interesting Thing in Tech 12/13/18

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2018/12/13

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5:44

How Robo-Cars Handle the Frustratingly Human Act of...

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2018/12/13

No, self-driving cars aren’t here yet. But they are roaming a few select sections of American road. Waymo just launched a limited service in metro Phoenix (albeit with a safety driver behind the wheel); General Motors’ Cruise is testing in San Francisco; Ford is noodling around Florida; Aurora and Argo (which is closely aligned with Ford) swing through the hills of Pittsburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:14

Wired's Most Interesting Thing in Tech 12/12/18

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2018/12/12

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4:57

Burger King’s 1¢ Whopper Gives a Taste of the...

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2018/12/12

At first bite, it seems no more than a clever way to boost sales at the expense of a competitor. When a hungry customer walks into a McDonald’s (or within 600 feet of one), they can use the Burger King app to order a Whopper for a single cent. The app will then provide directions to the nearest BK, where the now certainly famished customer can pick it up. The promotion, good until December 12, is called the Whopper Detour. Is it trollish? Sure. Has it worked? Apparently. Learn more about your ad

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7:15

Cake's Electric Motorcycle Makes Dirt Biking a Silent...

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2018/12/12

I’d ridden the motorcycle part of the way up a small dirt hill, and was trying to simply reverse my way back down when I fell off the machine. As I went down, I tightened my grip, inadvertently pinning the throttle. I soon found myself underneath a pirouetting motorcycle. It was my first experience with the so-called whiskey throttle—and indeed my first experience of any kind on a motorcycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:16

How to Use Siri to Automate Every Step of Your Daily...

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2018/12/11

For the productivity-obsessed, a more joyful and efficient life starts with good habits. Our sensible routines prepare us for success: plan your day, wash your face, early to bed, early to rise, etc. If you have an iPhone and you've updated to iOS 12, you can streamline those routines on your phone across apps, and maybe even create new habits. Shortcuts (née Workflow) was introduced to iPhones and iPads in this fall's software update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:50

The Empress of Facebook: My Befuddling Dinner With...

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2018/12/11

To recap: Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook as chief operating officer in 2008, promising to make the popular but weird social network profitable. She went hard into advertising, marketing, and data-mining—and, by 2010, Facebook was going great guns. It’s been well in the black ever since. During these explosive years, the company enabled Russian troll farms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:30

This Robo-Truck’s Cameras See Twice as Far as Any Lidar

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2018/12/10

We’re heading southeast on Interstate 10, headed into Tucson, Arizona, when we pass the group of men in orange jumpsuits and hard hats working on the side of the highway. “Inmates Working,” the sign on the back of the truck parked on the shoulder says. It’s the sort of sight that can generate a swirl of curiosity, pity, and distaste in a person, but the robot doesn’t register anything about who these men are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:14

Review: Lenovo Yoga Book C930

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2018/12/10

If you could get rid of the keyboard on your laptop and replace it with a second tablet-like display, would you do it? In other words, would you prefer to work with two screens, Nintendo DS-style, instead of just one, like the MacBook-toting plebes of the world? Before you answer either way, you should spend some time with Yoga Book C930, a triumphantly pointless piece of technology that stands before the world with its fists on its hips and proudly proclaims, "We did it because we can. Learn more

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