Terrifying Robot Dog

A discussion of the book Driverless by Hod Lipson

JS is on vacation this week, so we uploaded this short interview with Cooper talking a bit about making animations. For the record, he also edited the episode and created the outro music. See you next week! Related Links Cooper's YouTube Channel Cooper on Twitter Cooper on Newgrounds Cooper on Hyun's Dojo

Kelli's Gencon recap Related Links Kelli's Gencon Haul Kelli's Game Collection These New Worlds The Terminology of Modern Boardgames

Mmmm... a short stack of waffles Talking Points Liquid water on Mars? Connected hoodies tracking your location Destination specific self-driving cars Links We Mentioned These New Worlds TNW Part 5 - Taking a moment to work on story Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars Tommy Hilfiger smart clothes track wearers Omega Speedmaster Moon Watch Google Latitude Nike+ Shoes Walmart will chauffeur shoppers in self-driving Waymo cars The Expanse Roleplaying Game Kickstarter Cooper's Twitter Cooper's YouTube Titles We Considered Very Small Tools Problematic Hot End Not Unfun Martian Santa Dumbclothes Self-Driving Segue

Are computers better at entertaining us than we are? Links We Mentioned Uber Car Seat These New Worlds website These New Worlds story - part 1 The Iron Giant Star Wars Trivial Pursuit The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today Voxel Finger Family Song Titles We Considered Brain Off Kissy Teenage Stuff Lazy Electrons

Is machine learning the new relational database? Titles We Considered Infinite Interns Unstructured Query Language Links We Mentioned Ways to think about machine learning

Robot cats, flying androids, and motorcycle drones, oh my!

A fake photo is worth a thousand fake words.

Can VR be used as a legitimate medical therapy? Links We Mentioned A French hospital is using VR as a drug-free pain solution Distraction isn’t only way virtual reality might ease pain How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics

Plants in space, a psychotic AI, and cringe-y WWDC news. Titles We Considered Schrodinger's Lawnmower Angry Canadian Martian Fanzines Just Draw It Out Sympathy Logic Loser AI Duster Diamonds Links We Mentioned Nasa Mars rover finds organic matter in ancient lake bed Scientists created a psychopathic AI using Reddit images WWDC App Stores are for Suckers Cheers! —J&K

Rat Fingers Yeah... robots coated in rat flesh is now technically a thing. Links We Discussed New Hybrid Robot Uses Living Muscles to Move Jeff Bezos saved The Expanse TV show Anon Black Mirror: The Entire History of You Where the heck is Peace Talks? Oculus Go review by Swizec Part 1: Ready Player One - GenCon Cosplay Part 2: Ready Player One - GenCon Cosplay Titles We Considered Finger Bot Cheeseburger Slot Rat Fingers Blockchain Lawn Drip Dry Tusks

WARNING: This is our most epic wafflecast yet After lawn care, lame warrantees, and stacking hay, we do eventually get to talking about tech :)

Hello, dear listener! Kelli and I are back with episode 1 of season 7 to review the book Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. It's a very good book with lots of cool technology that holds all sorts of implications for future society. Enjoy! Links We Mentioned Altered Carbon on Amazon Altered Carbon on Audible Altered Carbon on Netflix #SaveTheExpanse Petition on Change.org Peace Talks (Book 16 of the Dresden Files) PPG from Babylon 5 John Legend is your new Google Assistant Titles We Considered Sleeve Death Organic Damage Needlecast Boyfriend's Ex-Body Nudal Frontity Twin Of All Twins Git Merge Brain Season X Thanks —JS & KS

We can preserve your brain perfectly. There's just one catch... Brainectomy Links TRD Book Club Book: Altered Carbon Startup offers a path to immortality. The catch? It's "100% fatal" Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’ is the Standout of the Season We Are Bob Travelers TV Show Neuromancer Titles We Considered Old Fartism Brainectomy 100% Fatal Bodyhoppers Skinbag In The Closet

Gadget week! Links https://sentraq.com/ https://1upkeyboards.com/ https://kbdfans.myshopify.com/ https://i.imgur.com/e1Ph6yA.png https://kellishaver.com/misc/keyboards/

Links Blender Unity 3D Adobe After Effects Andy Serkis Netflix Eyeing Total of About 700 Original Series in 2018 Arrow Neill Blomkamp The Lefsetz Letter Marshmellow

Who do you trust? LINKS Deep learning technology is now being used to put Nic Cage in every movie We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now People Are Using AI to Create Fake Porn of Their Friends and Classmates People Can Put Your Face On Porn—and The Law Can't Help You

Is tracking maybe kinda sorta okay when cars are involved?

Geeking out about Falcon Heavy test launch ###Links The Incredible Sounds of the Falcon Heavy Launch Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code

The banking needs of teenage digital content creators. Titles We Considered Hey, Can You Break A Magic Sword? 5,000 Bananas Rogue Knitting Cell Yarngate An Army Of 13 Year Olds