Month: October 2019

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The NewsWorthy - ISIS Leader Killed, Wildfire Emergency in CA & Microsoft’s JEDI deal – Monday, October 28th, 2019

The news to know for Monday, October 28th, 2019!

Today, we're talking about the ISIS leader killed by U.S. forces during a raid in Syria and the wind-driven fires prompting a state of emergency in California.

Plus: hear about the tech company that just won a $10 billion contract with the Pentagon, and the movie "Joker" just smashed another record at the box office. 

Those stories and more -- in less than 10 minutes!

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:

U.S. Kills Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi: Washington Post, NBC News, AP

Impeachment Update: NYT & TIME

John Conyers Dies: NPR, Vox, Reuters

Texas College Shooting: USA Today, CNN, Fox News

California Fires: LA Times, Weather Channel, AP, NYT

Calfire

African American Face Transplant: CNN, TIME

Microsoft JEDI Contract: The Verge. CNBC, CBS News, NPR

Hyundai Robot Taxi: Cnet, The Verge, Engadget

UberEats Classes: Forbes, TechCrunch

Google Search Results: TechCrunch, The Verge

Joker Box Office: Variety, Deadline, CNN

Money Monday: Holiday Spending (USA Today)

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The Daily Signal - College Student Stands Up for Vice President Pence Amidst Leftist Protests

“I Like Mike” was the campaign Taylor University freshman David Muselman created when a handful of progressive students tried to keep Vice President Mike Pence from visiting Taylor’s campus. 


The Vice President was invited to deliver the 2019 commencement address at the Christian college in Upland, Indiana. When a few leftist students tried to block the Vice President's visit, Muselman rallied the student body in support of Pence through the “I Like Mike" campaign, that spread like wildfire across campus.


Muselman joins the Daily Signal podcast to discuss how the campaign was created and why he chose to take a stand-up for the Vice President.


Also on today's show:


  • Vice President Mike Pence joined 1,500 Heritage Foundation members and friends last week at the first ever Heritage honors gala. The vice president addressed a number of the key issues facing our nation right now, including our First Amendment rights. 


  • We also read your letters to the editor. You can leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com.



The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your favorite podcast app. All of our podcasts can be found at dailysignal.com/podcasts.


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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs - Episode 54: “Keep A Knockin’” by Little Richard

Episode fifty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Keep A Knockin'” by Little Richard, the long history of the song, and the tension between its performer’s faith and sexuality. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “At the Hop” by Danny and the Juniors.

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Lex Fridman Podcast - Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin

Garry Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, he dominated the chess world, ranking world number 1 for most of those 19 years. While he has many historic matches against human chess players, in the long arc of history he may be remembered for his match again a machine, IBM’s Deep Blue. His initial victories and eventual loss to Deep Blue captivated the imagination of the world of what role Artificial Intelligence systems may play in our civilization’s future. That excitement inspired an entire generation of AI researchers, including myself, to get into the field. Garry is also a pro-democracy political thinker and leader, a fearless human-rights activist, and author of several books including How Life Imitates Chess which is a book on strategy and decision-making, Winter Is Coming which is a book articulating his opposition to the Putin regime, and Deep Thinking which is a book the role of both artificial intelligence and human intelligence in defining our future. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts or support it on Patreon. Here’s the outline with timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the timestamp to jump to that point in the episode):

00:00 – Introduction
01:33 – Love of winning and hatred of losing
04:54 – Psychological elements
09:03 – Favorite games
16:48 – Magnus Carlsen
23:06 – IBM Deep Blue
37:39 – Morality
38:59 – Autonomous vehicles
42:03 – Fall of the Soviet Union
45:50 – Putin
52:25 – Life

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Unexpected Elements - Is quantum supremacy ‘garbage’?

A quantum computer has performed a calculation considered impossible for conventional computers, but how meaningful is the result? As our guest reveals, this quantum state can be hugely significant and garbage – at the same time.

Also we look at a new method of gene editing, which avoids cutting up DNA, get to grips with where the worlds worms live and watch elements being created in distant solar collisions.

Listeners Michael and Ricky have been walking a tributary of the River Thames in London, UK. They’ve noticed that there are loads of fish, which have only returned in recent years thanks to clean water initiatives. But what about salmon, they wonder? Could they one day return too? If they popped some salmon eggs in the river, would they return to spawn later on in their lives?

We head to Norway to find out whether it’s possible. There, we follow the life cycle of salmon, from birth to death and travels to the salmon’s spawning grounds, before following their path out to sea and beyond. We explore the science behind ‘natal homing’ - returning to the place of your birth in order to reproduce. It isn’t just confined to salmon. But how does it work?

(Photo: A quantum circuit from Google's Sycamore computer. Credit: Google)

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Poet Saeed Jones Searches For His Authentic Self

Poet Saeed Jones’s new memoir How We Fight For Our Lives is at once raw and painful...and achingly beautiful. Jones writes about growing up black and gay and trying figure out how to carve out an identify separate from the people he loves most. An identity that is authentically him...and space where he can find joy in himself.