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ICYMI: Silicon Valley Is Building a God-Level AI. Its Backup Plan Is Genetically Engineered Children
Season 2 Episode 187
Artificial general intelligence is what AI companies say they are building. Engineered super children are Silicon Valley's plan for when that AI take…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
NEW - Canada Is Buying a Surveillance Plane. It May Not Plug Into the System It Needs to Use
Season 2 Episode 187
Canada military procurement made a move this week. Canada is looking to buy a surveillance plane built on a Bombardier airframe with Saab technology.…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
NEW - Heavy Metal Has a Reputation for Danger. The Mosh Pit Has Different Rules.
Season 2 Episode 186
Heavy metal community is the subject and the argument is simple. The music sounds aggressive. The culture is not.
Ryan O'Donnell has been to hundreds…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Good News Tuesday: A Thousand People Showed Up for a Six-Year-Old Who Could Not Have a Birthday Party
Season 2 Episode 186
Good News Tuesday lands on one story that earns the name more than most. A six-year-old named Levi has leukemia and could not be surrounded by people…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
SHIFTHEADS:What’s On Your Mind: Jerry Agar Edition - Running Out of Time to Delay the Things You Actually Want
Season 2 Episode 186
Parenting adult kids is the subject and it starts with a phone call. Your daughter says she might come visit. The answer to might is just tell me whe…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Schoolyard Has More Asphalt. The Kids Have More Anxiety.
Season 2 Episode 186
Kids recess in Canada has no legal protection. No legislation. Some schools have it. Some do not. A researcher who has been in this field for twenty-…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
ICYMI: Nobody Told These Kids Metal Wasn't for Them. Now They're Obsessed.
Season 2 Episode 186
Kids metal music has a home and it is called Howdytoons. Mike Whitla started writing heavy songs about dinosaurs for his young children in 2010, real…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Dad Stuff: The Expensive Bass Clarinet His Son Picked is Now Awesome Somehow
Season 2 Episode 186
Kids learning music rarely goes the way anyone plans. Bob Addison's son had never touched an instrument until September. It was mandatory. None of th…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Coming Soon: You Can Hire Digital Ozzy for Your Commercial. He Will Do Whatever You Want.
Season 2 Episode 186
Tech news this week includes a digital Ozzy Osbourne available for commercial licensing, a Ferrari that looks like an Apple product, and a Canadian b…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
NEW - Canada Funded the Research. Someone Else Owns the Patent.
Season 2 Episode 186
Canadian innovation has a cost problem almost nobody talks about. Not the cost of building things, but the cost of giving them away after they work.
…3 weeks, 3 days ago