Diginauts 0012 -- Amazon’s Many Plans To Replace Humans, Politics & Your Brain, Are We Evolving into a New Species?

This week all the headlines have something to do with masculinity?  Which one did Deron make up, and will Eric guess correctly.

Human impact on the moon and advances in carbon sinking

Newest start-up from the inventors of Vine, artistic graffiti on privately-owned buildings, six ways humanity might destroy itself with tech.

Kaspersky Labs may have been a way in for Russian hackers.  Artificial intelligence breakthroughs in selecting successful startups, mimicking the human voice, and bluffing.  Renewable energy advances in evaporation, seaweed, blood, and tears. Plus, Can you pick the fake science headline?

Deron & Eric play "Three Headlines & a Lie" with stories about frogs. Other topics include carbon trapping, blockchain in every day life, and a breakthrough in soft robotics

Deron and Eric wonder if sound has been weaponized in Cuba, if computers can tell if you're gay, and whether cars should flip the trolley dilemma switch.

Seven Bill Gates predictions for the future.  Will we reanimate Walt Disney’s frozen head soon?  We’ve discovered ‘lost’ vegetation, and there’s a lot more carbon sink than we previously thought.

Russia's not-a-Terminator project.  3D printing from moon dust. We're NOT on track to stop global climate change.

• segment 1, Top of Mind -- Neuralink: Elon Musk doesn't have enough companies yet, so he's starting a new one to explore connecting human brains with computers.
• segment 2, Future File -- Synthetic Synapses: A team at the National Center for Scientific Research has created a "memristor," a first step in artificial brains.
• segment 3, Juris Prudent -- Patents Versus Ownership Rights:  The Supreme Court is deciding whether companies can continue to maintain control over the use of their products, even after you buy them.  Lexmark doesn't want you to reuse your printer cartridges via third-party suppliers, and we discuss the precedent that might set.
• segment 4,  Let's Dig Some More:  In Deron's Official Omnibus Offering of Mother Earth Dispatches, the Great Barrier Reef is terminally ill.  Stories of robots replacing bricklayers, contractors, pizza delivery folk, financial corporate officers, and even lawyers and creative directors.

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Peter Thiel as both an investor in the NSA spy technology Palantir and a Trump advisor. SpaceX plans to fly two private passengers around the moon.  More about Mamaphants and supeonas for Alexa.