In This Episode:

• Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses (2:14)
• 18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency (4:00)
• Woman Uses Tinder To Prank Dozens Of Men Into Dating Contest (5:40)
• Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts for Almost 1% of the World's Energy Consumption (7:58)
• Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
• Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users (10:02)
  • Walmart patent filings envision customers strapping on headsets to shop (17:22)

Weird and Wacky Tech:

• Robotic sumo wrestling is a thing (19:15)
• Ghost peppers are saving U.S. grasslands (21:20)
• Naked Labs introducing body-scanning mirror (24:22)
• Researchers gave AI curiosity and it played video games all day (26:01)

Tech Recommendations (27:16):

• Adam - Anker battery
• Sanjay - Home Radon Detector
• Shannon - Pablo

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Weird & Wacky theme music is from "Brainwavves" by Strong Sui

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Links:

• Apple buys startup focused on lenses for AR glasses
• Coinbase Survey Shows 18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency
• Woman Uses Tinder To Prank Dozens Of Men Into Dating Contest
• BITCOIN MINING NOW ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST ONE PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S ENERGY CONSUMPTION
• Trump’s economic adviser: ‘We’re taking a look’ at whether Google searches should be regulated
• Facebook is rating the trustwor --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techtalkyall/message