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Episode 191
Supreme Court allows retroactive justifications for unconstitutional traffic stops.

Update: Daily Fantasy Sports is legal again in New York.

Russia to require encryption backdoors in messaging apps.

Net Neutrality prevails in federal court challenge.

Santa Clara county enacts laws to limit surveillance tech until privacy policies are enacted.

The Arecibo Radio Observatory is in danger of being defunded.

China is to build an underwater observatory platform.

Spoiler Alert:
The Warcraft movie looked pretty, but it was bad. It was pretty bad.

Episode 190
It’s Primary voting day in California

Buffalo Wild Wings sponsors but might not show eSports.

Scripps Media buys podcast distribution network Stitcher Radio for 4.5 million.

The Navy looks into augmented reality for dive helmets.

Luxembourg set aside investment money for asteroid space mining.

Spoiler Alert:
We got no monies from the Stitcher Radio purchase.

Episode 189
North Korea’s state-run media engine endorses Donald Trump

An apartment complex adds mandatory Facebook Likes to their rental agreement.

Bonus: Man-Made Meteor Shower being researched for Japanese Olympics.

China looks to elevated buses to ease congestion and pollution.

The Ekin patrol lightbar for police vehicles combines license plate reading, facial recognition, and speed cameras.

The SkinGun uses one’s own skin stem cells to regrow skin for burn victims.

Scientists combine an engineered virus and drug to limit brain cancers.

Spoiler Alert:
We talk about X-Men Apocalypse and The Nice Guys

Episode 188
Utah Senator introduce censorship bill to combat pornography.

Findface facial-recognition app 70% effective in Russia.

Facial-re-enactment software is real-time face puppeteering.

Robots join Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad.

Crowdfunding a live language translation earpiece.

Processing wood to keep (or even enhance) its strength but make it transparent.

India launches a reusable spaceplane.

Spoiler Alert:
These podcasters are over 30 years old.

Episode 187
MIT researchers create an ingestible origami-bot for cleaning up the digestive tract.

Psilocybin magic mushrooms are shown to be very effective in antidepressant study.

Doctors complete the first United States penis transplant.

New wearable Skintrack creates a trackpad on your arm.

Social networking algorithms are linked to conspiracy theories.

The Space Belt hopes to provide data storage and computing power… in Spaaaaace.

Spoiler Alert:
We’re one step closer to the #PodcastSingularity

Episode 186
China is banning seductive banana eating on camera.

The VOID is a VR theme park coming soon to Utah.

Scientists demonstrate 30MBps communication speeds through meat.

A 3000-year-old mummy is found to have tattoos.

A current day company is looking into tattoos that only last a year.

Budweiser is rebranding their flagship beer as America.

Spoiler Alert:
We talk about Captain America: Civil War

Episode 185
A New York Senator wants an investigation into wifi-tracking billboards.

The US Marines are testing a land-air combo combat drone.

Canadian auto expert linking self-driving cars to more sex in cars.

Chinese company Baidu testing Deep Speech neural network for speech to text input.

Biotech CEO tests anti-aging gene therapy on herself.

Extreme sports CEO tests untethered flying platform by himself.

Spoiler Alert:
Bonus: the Kylo Ren Outtakes are hilarious.

Episode 184

Fiat is the latest car company to be accused of cheating diesel emissions.

Mississippi doesn’t recognize domestic violence as grounds for divorce.

There’s now a bluetooth-enabled pregnancy test and mobile app.

The NBA is looking to put ads on player jerseys.

The next Call of Duty game may include a remaster of CoD4 Modern Warfare.

The Solar Impulse plane completed a fuel-less flight from Hawaii to California.

SpaceX codenames its future missions to Mars the Red Dragon missions.

Spoiler Alert:
VW, Mitsubishi, Fiat… The Axis powers are back!

Episode 183
Drone maker DJI admits they can and do turn over data to the Chinese government

Autonomous cars are getting a day at the racetrack.

Mitsubishi admits to cheating fuel efficiency ratings.

Volkswagen nears a deal in their emissions-cheating scandal.

The Fairphone looks to be the most ethical smartphone.

Sony is rumored to upgrading the PS4 without replacing it.

Spoiler Alert:
We watched The Jungle Book

Episode 182
55 million voters were doxxed in the Philippines.

The AMC movie chain may relax the ban on mobile use in theaters.

CIA director says they will not waterboard.

MS adds QR codes to their BSOD.

Facebook users share less original content.

New rideshare company Chariot opens exclusively for women.

Stephen Hawking and others play to send spacecraft to Alpha Centauri.

SpaceX lands a rocket on a boat!

Spoiler Alert:
Space Exploration is still A Thing.