Meet Your New Meat
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| Meet Your New Meat | |
| Number | 3568 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 8, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 29:36 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang |
| Guests | Blair Bazdarich |
How do you get people to accept lab grown meat and is the fear just a matter of incorrect marketing?
Guest
Quick Hits
- MoviePass shut down services to customers as of July 4th at 5am. According to CEO Mitch Lowe, the shut down will last several weeks to complete work on a new app. During this time, the service won't accept new sign ups or charge existing customers. Subscribers who have already paid for the month will be automatically credited for downtime once MoviePass resumes service.
- Apple is testing biometric sign-ins on the web with iCloud.com. Users running the betas of iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina who go to beta.icloud.com can choose to sign in with FaceID or TouchID. At WWDC this year, Apple announced that Sign in with Apple tools would be available to developers this summer, ahead of the feature’s public launch in September.
Top Stories
- The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office announced plans to fine British airways £183 million for violating GDPR rules in a 2018 data breach that affected 380,000 people. The ICO's investigation found that "poor security arrangements" led to the breach of of credit card information, names, addresses, travel booking details, and logins. GDPR allows for fines up to 4% of a company's worldwide turnover, with the British Airways fine amounting to 1.5% of 2017 revenue. British Airways has 28 days to appeal the ruling. British Airways says no fraudulent activity has been found on accounts linked to the breach.
- Waymo began testing complimentary Wi-Fi for some customers of its Phoenix-based Waymo One self-driving fleet. Waymo also makes sure all minivans come with an installed child seat and are cooled to 72 degrees. This follows the addition of ad-free music streaming from Google Play Music for passengers, launched in April. Waymo One service is currently being trialed by 1000 users, in a 100-square-mile service area around Phoenix, Arizona.
- Researchers from Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute found up to 1,325 Android apps that were gathering data from devices after people explicitly denied them permission. The apps don't violate the permissions, but find other ways top access data such as gleaning location information from photos which are approved for access by the app or using WiFi to estimate location. In Google Q location information in photos will be hidden and apps wanting special access to WiFi must also get approval for location information. 13 apps accessed unprotected files from other apps to look for info like your phone's IMEI number.
- Mozilla denied claims by the UK's Internet Services Providers Association that it plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in the Firefox browser in the UK. The system encrypts DNS requests so they cannot be intercepted by man-in-the-middle attacks which can hijack DNS to load malicious pages. DNS over https also speeds up browsing. The ISPA and the UK government have expressed concern that DNS-over-HTTPS would also get around ISP blocks on sites banned by the government for copyright infringement or blocked by ISPs at the request of child protection groups or parents. Mozilla said in a statement that "a more private DNS would not prevent the use of content filtering or parental controls in the UK." Firefox has included support for DNS-over-HTTPS since November 2018, but is not enabled by default.
- The Asahi Shimbun has an article talking about how Japanese car-sharing service Orix Auto found an unusually high number of people who rented a car logged zero miles driving. Other car-sharing services have noticed the same oddity. NTT Docomo found in 2018 that one in 8 of its car-sharing customers used ti for purposes other than transportation. So car-sharing service Times24 Co conducted a survey asking its users how they used their car rentals. Taking naps and making private calls led the way in non-driving uses along with, eating lunch, temporary workspace, storing bags when coin lockers were full, and recharging cellphones after the 2011 earthquake. Other less frequent uses were watching TV, getting dressed for a halloween party, practicing your rapping or singing, practicing English and facial stretches to reduce face size. Cars cost around 400 yen (close to US$4) for 30 minutes plus mileage. Unless you don't drive it for any miles.
Discussion
- How to sell labriculture: Less lab, more culture
- The Impact of Framing on Acceptance of Cultured Meat
Thing of the Day
- Nate Lanxon has some notes on 5G service in the UK.
Mailbag
- I used to do exactly what Uber Eats is offering. When I worked next to a few restaurants and got a 30 minute lunch break, I would commonly call the restaurant, place my order for a certain time, then sit down and have a nice lunch before heading back to work.
Uber makes so much more sense, because I wouldn't have to even call; sometimes cutting out five minutes of my time. Honestly, since I started doing that for work, I have call the other restaurants a few times and placed orders before showing up, it's just so much more convenient. - Sent by Princess Willy
- I used to do exactly what Uber Eats is offering. When I worked next to a few restaurants and got a 30 minute lunch break, I would commonly call the restaurant, place my order for a certain time, then sit down and have a nice lunch before heading back to work.
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Meet Your New Meat |
Followed by: "You Can Do The Same Thing With Your Mouth" |