As on every year, here is an episode I released a few days after the murders at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.
African Tech Roundup - South Africa’s New Banking Wave + Huawei Or The Highway? + Kenyan Repat Diaries feat. Mark Karake
Joining Andile Masuku and guest co-host, Vije Vijendranath, for this episode of the African Tech Roundup podcast is Kenyan repat, founder of Impact Africa Network and host of the Chini ya Maji podcast, Mark Karake.
Following professional stints in Silicon Valley, working for the likes of Google, TrustArc and Oracle, Mark decided to return to his native Kenya in March 2018 to get involved in early-stage startup acceleration and investment activities in Nairobi.
In this show, Andile, Vije and Mark will unpack three weighty questions:
1) What is behind the new wave of banking currently sweeping South Africa? [18:28]
2) Is the African Union's decision to maintain Huawei's preferred partnership status well-advised? [47:07]
3) What are the critical, yet not-so-obvious grassroots issues in Nairobi's early-stage startup ecosystem that must be seen to if a sturdy pipeline of local investible prospects is to be built? [59:10]
Image credit: Shalom Mwenesi
The Best One Yet - Mary Meeker’s epic “Internet Trends Report”, Grubhub jumps after Amazon Restaurants ends, and Brex hits $2.6B as our “Unicorn of the Day”
Mary Meeker dropped her annual 333-slide Internet Trends Report, so we pulled out 3 keys for you. Grubhub shares jumped 8% on word Amazon is ending its restaurant delivery service. And our “Unicorn of the Day” is Brex as it hits a $2.6B valuation giving credit cards to startups.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Once more, with felines: half the world gets online
Half of humanity is now online. What will the second half do when it logs on? The same as the first: friendly chat, personal expression and a lot of cat videos. Despite appearances, racism in America is actually going down; the problem is that America’s politics is increasingly fractured along racial lines. And, why is it that screams are so prevalent in popular culture?
What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – It’s Mitch McConnell’s Swamp. We Just Live in It.
If you walk to the Ohio riverfront from Owensboro’s City Hall, past the Courthouse, and the Museum of Science and History, you’ll get to McConnell Plaza. Mitch McConnell Plaza. For years, this town has been courting the Senate majority leader and, recently, its paid off. What does the relationship between his office and his wife, Elaine Chao’s, office have to do with the grants this small city is receiving? Are ethics being violated?
Guest: Tanya Snyder, transportation reporter at POLITICO. Read her latest story on Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - It’s Mitch McConnell’s Swamp. We Just Live in It.
If you walk to the Ohio riverfront from Owensboro’s City Hall, past the Courthouse, and the Museum of Science and History, you’ll get to McConnell Plaza. Mitch McConnell Plaza. For years, this town has been courting the Senate majority leader and, recently, its paid off. What does the relationship between his office and his wife, Elaine Chao’s, office have to do with the grants this small city is receiving? Are ethics being violated?
Guest: Tanya Snyder, transportation reporter at POLITICO. Read her latest story on Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao.
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The NewsWorthy - Merger Lawsuit, World Cup Record & Air Taxis – Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
The news to know for Wednesday, June 12th, 2019!
Today, we're talking about why the president's son is on Capitol Hill, why several states are trying to block two companies from merging, and why big tech is in the hot seat.
Plus: how the U.S. just made World Cup history, and what to expect from air taxis within just a few years.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned under the section titled 'Episodes' or see sources below...
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Sources:
Trump Jr. on Capitol Hill: Washington Post
Subpoena Fight: CNN, ABC News, Washington Post
Democratic Debate: NBC News
States Sue Over Merger: NPR, Bloomberg, WSJ
Big Tech in Trouble?: NPR, AP, CNBC
Record Heat: USA Today, ABC News, Accuweather, National Weather Service
World Cup Record: CBS News, ESPN
Facebook Data App: TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge
Facebook Solar Project: AP, CBS Dallas
Uber Air Taxis: The Verge, Business Insider, Mashable
Amazon Restaurants: GeekWire, WSJ, CBS News
Python Bytes - #134 Python proves Mercury is the closest planet to Earth
Topics covered in this episode:
- Three scientists publish a paper proving that Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth. using Python
- Github semantics
- flake8-black
- Python Preview for VS Code
- Create and Publish a Python Package with Poetry
- Pointers in Python: What's the Point?
- Extras
- Joke
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Philosophers In Space - 0G60: Voyager and Procreation
This week we're bring together a variety of fan favorites:
1. The best Star Trek captain
2. The right to procreate
3. Substrate Chauvanism
Hopefully this will be enough fan service to pay off the rage we'll likely incur with next weeks episode. The topic for this week is Voyager season 2, episode 13: Prototype. It's one of many in the constellation of AI reproduction trek episodes and a fun intro to the Voyager crew.
Procreation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parenthood/
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Recent appearances: We were on the most recent episode of GAM! It gets graphically sexual, as usual. https://audioboom.com/posts/7266235-gam196-alien-intrusion-unmasking-a-deception
Aaron is also going to be on a panel at NECSS this summer in NYC discussing mutant ethics. Come do some nerdcore philosophy!
CONTENT PREVIEW: Next week we're back to Black Mirror to celebrate soon to be season 5. We're talking about The Waldo Moment, a personal favorite of Aaron's that everyone seems to hate for some reason, and we're gonna discuss the entertainification of politics and the ethics of playing into that trend.