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Michael Bloomberg has toyed with running for president many times. He has the money and the political clout, but 2020 is the first time he’s thrown all his weight behind a White House bid. It might also be the only year where his abnormal approach to politics could actually pay off.
Guest: Edward-Isaac Dovere, reporter for The Atlantic.
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Yesterday afternoon the Senate voted to acquit President Trump of two articles of impeachment. Senator Mitt Romney had his “Mitt savior” moment when he voted to convict, drawing the ire of Trump and GOP loyalists.
A nationwide partial vape ban goes into effect today, as a result of an earlier decision by the Trump administration to go after e-flavored cigarettes.
And in headlines: end of NYC broker fees, , No More Deaths gets permission to do good at the border, and Iowa results are still coming in.
The news to know for Thursday, February 6th, 2020!
What to know today about the final vote ending the historic impeachment trial (including something unexpected), a winter storm impacting much of the U.S., and NASA's latest milestone...
Plus: the vape ban going into effect today, a possible foldable iPhone, and Spotify's big purchase.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview. The hosts of the Pantsuit Politics podcast join me to help explain the Iowa caucuses and what to watch for as the election heats up...
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Sources:
Historic Trial Over: NBC News, The Hill, NYT, Washington Post, FOX News, USA Today
More Iowa Results Roll In: AP, ABC News
Coronavirus Latest: CNN, AP, CBS News, Washington Post
Stocks Close at Record Highs: WSJ, Business Insider
Powerful Winter Storm: USA Today, Weather Channel, CBS News,
Christina Koch Returns: The Verge, CNN
Flavored Vape Ban: NBC News, Washington Post
Apple Foldable Phone?: Cnet, Forbes
Spotify Buys The Ringer: Niemen Lab, Cnet, TechCrunch
For Tania Joya, who was raised Muslim in London, it was a long journey to life in the United States.
“I wanted to be in America, but my husband … thought that was bad for my religion and he thought that I would teach my children the wrong values,” recalls Joya. “So he took us to Syria.”
After her husband became an ISIS fighter, Joya worked with U.S. officials, sharing information from her husband. Now she's working against violent extremism. Read the interview, pasted below, or listen on the podcast:
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... because one of your beloved hosts of SIO does not! Needless to say, this was a mind blowing realization to that person. We talk about the extraordinary differences in human internal experience, and some of the current science and philosophy on the topic. This was really one of my favorite episodes in SIO history!
Next week, we will release Season 2 of the Code Story podcast. We’ve taken all of our learnings, paired with your feedback and our expanded network of tech guests, to expose you to more product journeys of the tech you know, love and use. And we dig deeper into he minds of those who built them, to uncover more about their tech, their products… their stories.
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Last June, Illinois passed a bill legalizing sports betting. But almost eight months later, it still hasn’t launched.
Sports betting analyst Sam Panayotovich and Rush Street Gaming CEO Greg Carlin join Reset to discuss.
GUESTS: Sam Panayotovich, sports betting analyst for NBC Sports
Greg Carlin, CEO of Rush Street Gaming
Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and now Intel. He’s known for his work on the AMD K7, K8, K12 and Zen microarchitectures, Apple A4, A5 processors, and co-author of the specifications for the x86-64 instruction set and HyperTransport interconnect.
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, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon.
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Here’s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
00:00 – Introduction
02:12 – Difference between a computer and a human brain
03:43 – Computer abstraction layers and parallelism
17:53 – If you run a program multiple times, do you always get the same answer?
20:43 – Building computers and teams of people
22:41 – Start from scratch every 5 years
30:05 – Moore’s law is not dead
55:47 – Is superintelligence the next layer of abstraction?
1:00:02 – Is the universe a computer?
1:03:00 – Ray Kurzweil and exponential improvement in technology
1:04:33 – Elon Musk and Tesla Autopilot
1:20:51 – Lessons from working with Elon Musk
1:28:33 – Existential threats from AI
1:32:38 – Happiness and the meaning of life
If venture investments and acquisitions provide a window into the sentiment in markets, boy did we get a big dose of information today.
Today we look at investments in the world’s best known developer of the Lightning Network; a new prominent corporate investor for a tokenized securities platform; and Square’s investment in a real-time payments company.
We also look at a set of acquisitions, including a ConsenSys acquisition poised to get them in the $3.8T municipal bond space; a Bakkt acquisition poised to get them ready for a consumer app that includes more than just cryptocurrencies; and an attempt by Bakkt-parent ICE to buy eBay for north of $30b.
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