We discuss the civil liberty issues and actual effectiveness of facial recognition based surveillance tools.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation in a Financial Times op-ed, ByteDance reportedly put together a gaming division, and TomTom closes a deal with Huawei for map tech.

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Scientists from Tufts University, the University of Vermont, and the Wyss Institute at Harvard published early research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about robots made from heart and skin cells derived from frog embryo stem cells that they call xenobots. What does this mean for robotics and what are the ethical issues at play?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Annalee Newitz

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The Iowa Caucus takes place February 3 and Democratic Party will be using an in-house smartphone app to send out results. Justin shares hits thoughts the party’s latest attempt to leverage smartphone technology.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Justin Robert Young

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When asked about an edit feature for Twitter, company CEO Jack Dorsey said “We’ll probably never do it.” What’s the logic behind his statement and would an edit feature add or detract from the platform?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Scott Johnson

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Quibi insists it’s not competing with traditional streaming incumbents like Hulu or Netflix. But then who is it for and what’s the business case?

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Patrick Beja, Roger Chang.

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Wired spoke with Kayvon Beykpour former founder of Periscope and head of product at Twitter regarding steps the platform is taking to minimize bad behavior. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang.

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Tom talks with Tina Anthony, Director of Digital Marketing for CTA about how CES gets done, along with show trends, key hot product categories, and what’s new about CES. Want to visit 50 countries tech scenes at once? Tina tells us how.

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We wrap up CES 2020 with a look at Engadget’s Best of CES and Verge Awards at CES 2020 winners. Plus Lamarr Wilson’s shares his fav picks of the week. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, Len Peralta, Lamarr Wilson. 

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Facebook offers to reduce the amount of political ads you see, Panasonic shows off VR headset that looks like goggles and a new menu of search engines will appear in setup process for Android phones in Europe. 

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe

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