It’s not been a great week for the algorithms: Elon Musk downloaded a few concerned thoughts on the state of artificial intelligence to Vanity Fair, the F.B.I.’s facial recognition database has some glitches and Amazon’s shopper-tracking software gets confused when you put something back on the wrong shelf. But on the bright side, Hidden Figures, story about real human intelligence, arrived as a digital home-video download, so the week wasn’t all bad. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss it all — and a bunch of other tech news in between — on this week’s handcrafted episode of Pop Tech Jam.
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- Introducing Live Location in Messenger (Facebook Newsroom)
- More ways to share with the Facebook Camera (Facebook Newsroom)
- Samsung to set the principles to recycle of returned Galaxy Note7 devices in an environmentally friendly way (Samsung Newsroom)
- Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears (Guardian)
- Elon Musk takes on the “A.I. apocalypse” (Axios)
- Elon Musk’s billion-dollar crusade to stop the A.I. apocalypse (Vanity Fair)
- Elon Musk forming company dedicated to merging humans with machines (Consumerist)
- Apple releases iOS 10.3 with Find My AirPods, Apple File System, CarPlay updates, more (9to5Mac)
- Pages, Numbers, & Keynote for Mac and iOS add editing features & Touch ID for password protected docs (9to5Mac)
- Download iOS 10.0 – iOS 10.3 information (Apple)
- Security Update for the LastPass Extension (Last Pass blog)
- Amazon’s store of the future is delayed. Insert ‘Told ya so’ from skeptical retail execs (Recode)
- Amazon unveils 2 grocery pickup locations in Seattle (Seattle Times)
- Expanding pre-roll ads to Periscope video (Twitter blog)
- Comcast plans to launch low-cost broadband skinny TV bundles across U.S. footprint in Q3 (Variety)
- “Rogue One” now available for digital download (StarWars.com)
- “Hidden Figures” now available for digital download (Fox Digital)
