G-Suite predicts spelling errors as you type, YouTube might start behaving better for your kids, and LinkedIn culls spam accounts.

Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, and Roger Chang.

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Starring Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, and Roger Chang

We discuss how many streaming subscriptions is too many and what criteria people will use to decide which ones they stop and which ones they keep.

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Reddit is testing its Public Access Network, or RPAN, as a limited-time livestream experiment, set to run from 9 am to 5 pm through the end of this week before a full rollout in the coming months. The cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced plans to launch an “independent regional version of Libra,” called Venus. Nvidia announced its competing GeForce Now streaming service will be coming to Android through a new mobile later this year, similar to Google’s upcoming Stadia service.

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The consumer digital camera market declined about 80% to 19 million unit sales in 2018, versus more than 400 million smartphones sold globally the same year. What can camera companies do to cope with a shrinking market and what will it mean for consumers?

Starring Sarah Lane, Ant Pruitt, Roger Chang and Len Peralta

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Apple, Amazon ,Facebook ,Google and Microsoft have all been criticized for allowing humans to listen to users’ private conversations in order to test their AI products for quality. Is it truly necessary or is it just easier and cheaper to develop that way?

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Amazon Rekognition facial recognition software is adding the capability to detect fear and Elon Musk wants a better man to machine interface. 

Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johns 

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Shannon breaks down all the highlights from this year’s Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas.

Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang.

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Samsung unveils a new smartphone camera sensor that offers up to 108 megapixels of resolution. The US Navy announced it will revert destroyers from touchscreens to mechanical throttle and helm control system over the next 18-24 months, DARPA showed off an open-source secure voting machine with chips designed as open hardware with no proprietary components.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang. 

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Chris Ashley from the SMR Podcast chats with Tom about Amazon’s cooperation with Police on promoting Ring doorbell video sharing, how that might feed into Amazon’s imperfect Recognition facial recognition system and what we need to do to make this work better for all of us.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756555/amazon-ring-police-security-camera-footage-warrant-privacy-surveillance

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/29/20746156/amazons-ring-law-enforcement-partnerships

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/07/18/orlando-cancels-amazon-rekognition-capping-15-months-of-glitches-and-controversy

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We talk with Tonya M. Evans, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Director, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & Law Certificate Program at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law about Libra, its misconceptions, why it’s not truly a cryptocurrency and what the future may hold for it.

What are in your view the main misconceptions about Libra?

What in your view are the main problems/challenges for Libra

What would the reception of Libra be if Facebook wasn’t involved?

Could something like Libra take off without Facebook behind it?

– Walmart’s new patent filing signaling they may follow in FB’s footsteps. (pegged to dollar, stored value card, not global, just a patent for now)

“Generating one digital currency unit by tying the one digital currency unit to a regular currency; storing information of the one digital currency unit into a block of a blockchain; buying or paying the one digital currency unit.”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/walmart-is-trying-to-patent-its-own-libra-like-digital-currency

What already exists that is similar to Libra?

Tell me a little about the Blockchain Cryptocurrency & Law online professional certificate program (law.unh.edu/blockchain).

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