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This week we surf a garbage wave of tech announcements coming out of CES, FaceBook and the cryptocurrency craze and come out smelling surprisingly clean. New Twin Peaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khwuhgxjoXU New Aibo - official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJciRIZQTg4 Chris Cunningham Bjork video https://vimeo.com/43444347 Aleksandra Domanovic http://www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=445&l=en Wall-e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBZWbg_26A Jordan Wolfson’s robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFP6JHnn9c Miltos Menatos Aibo Painting https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1337074873763774/ Boston Dynamics https://www.bostondynamics.com/ CES https://www.ces.tech/ CES LG keynote https://ru-clip.com/video/YUQ-UO42FGQ/lg-at-ces-2018-in-10-minutes.html August Smart Lock http://august.com/ GM autonomous car https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=MvP82IsGqNc Facebook’s new people centric news feed blog post https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/ Zuckerberg’s post of the announcement https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104413015393571 Flipboard https://flipboard.com/ Echo https://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=9818047011&ref_=fs_ods_fs_aucc_cp OLED rollable TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhO-8gq_LQ&feature=youtu.be Samsung “The Wall” modular TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHV7esppYzg Volocopter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODIvUmH6cs Tulip bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ZR0jMlxX0 Ripple cofounder worth more than the founders of google https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/ripple-co-founder-is-now-richer-than-the-google-founders-on-paper.html Transferwise https://transferwise.com PayPal Payment Gateway (10¢ transactions) https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/payflow-payment-gateway TD bank buys Layer 6 AI startup https://www.thestar.com/business/tech_news/2018/01/09/td-bank-buys-layer-6-a-toronto-based-artificial-intelligence-startup.html Buy a mug at goodpointpodcast.com BYOB http://www.byobworldwide.com/
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This week we surf a garbage wave of tech announcements coming out of CES, FaceBook and the cryptocurrency craze and come out smelling surprisingly clean. New Twin Peaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khwuhgxjoXU New Aibo - official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJciRIZQTg4 Chris Cunningham Bjork video https://vimeo.com/43444347 Aleksandra Domanovic http://www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=445&l=en Wall-e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBZWbg_26A Jordan Wolfson’s robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSFP6JHnn9c Miltos Menatos Aibo Painting https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1337074873763774/ Boston Dynamics https://www.bostondynamics.com/ CES https://www.ces.tech/ CES LG keynote https://ru-clip.com/video/YUQ-UO42FGQ/lg-at-ces-2018-in-10-minutes.html August Smart Lock http://august.com/ GM autonomous car https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=MvP82IsGqNc Facebook’s new people centric news feed blog post https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-on-social-media-bad-for-us/ Zuckerberg’s post of the announcement https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104413015393571 Flipboard https://flipboard.com/ Echo https://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=9818047011&ref_=fs_ods_fs_aucc_cp OLED rollable TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBhO-8gq_LQ&feature=youtu.be Samsung “The Wall” modular TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHV7esppYzg Volocopter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODIvUmH6cs Tulip bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ZR0jMlxX0 Ripple cofounder worth more than the founders of google https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/04/ripple-co-founder-is-now-richer-than-the-google-founders-on-paper.html Transferwise https://transferwise.com PayPal Payment Gateway (10¢ transactions) https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/payflow-payment-gateway TD bank buys Layer 6 AI startup https://www.thestar.com/business/tech_news/2018/01/09/td-bank-buys-layer-6-a-toronto-based-artificial-intelligence-startup.html Buy a mug at goodpointpodcast.com BYOB http://www.byobworldwide.com/
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