The Journal. - A Conversation with Alphabet’s Captain of Moonshots

Astro Teller, the CEO of Aphabet’s X, runs a lab dedicated to solving some of the world’s most pressing problems while also coming up with viable businesses. After he spoke at the WSJ’s Future of Everything festival, we sat down with him to talk about A.I., self-driving cars, and the changing economy of tech.


Further Watching:

-Astro Teller’s Meaning of Life 


Further Listening:

-Google CEO Sundar Pichai on How AI Could Change Search 

-The Future of Self-Driving Cars Is Here 

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Motley Fool Money - Hindenburg Targets Real Estate Lender

A juicy short report goes up against business fundamentals.


(00:21) Jim Gillies and Ricky Mulvey break down Hindenburg Research’s report on Axos Financial. Plus, Jim discusses why investors should consider adding Academy Sports + Outdoors to their watchlists.


Plus, (16:47) Robert Brokamp interviews Eileen Freiburger, Managing Director of the Garrett Planning Network, about what you should expect from meeting with a financial advisor.


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Companies mentioned: AX, NKLA, CLOV, DKS, ASO


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Jim Gillies, Robert Brokamp, Eileen Freiburger

Engineers: Dan Boyd, Austin Morgan

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: From Consensus 2024 | Global Crypto Regulation Outlook

The latest price moves and insights with Crypto ISAC Executive Director Justin Bone, Fireblocks founding member Shahar Madar and former Director General of Central Bank of Ecuador Andrés Arauz.

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Today's episode is sponsored by BitGo.

This "Markets Daily" segment is from Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas. Hosts Jennifer Sanasie and Helene Braun sit down with Crypto ISAC Executive Director Justin Bone, Fireblocks founding member Shahar Madar and former Director General of Central Bank of Ecuador Andrés Arauz to discuss their outlook on crypto regulation across the globe.

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This episode was co-hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Helene Braun. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Victor Chen, alongside Senior Booking Producer Melissa Montañez. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.

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The Bulwark Podcast - Ritchie Torres and Ben Smith: Pride and Priors

Rep. Ritchie Torres joins Tim Miller to discuss how to win working-class voters, his Dickensian upbringing, and Israel under the microscope of 24-hour news. Plus, mental health, Pride, and Trump as the GOP's new lord and savior. Then, Ben Smith talks about Americans fragmenting the media universe, and the Epoch Times grift.

show notes:

Torres talking about being a Zionist after being heckled
New Yorker piece on Guo Wengui that Ben mentioned 

Federalist Radio Hour - ‘How Sexual Activists Hijacked The Civil Rights Movement’

Voddie Baucham, the founding dean and a senior lecturer in the School of Divinity at the African Christian University, joins Emily Jashinsky to discuss how sexual activists used civil rights movement tactics to advance their false ideology and explain why Christians should care. 

You can find Baucham's book, It's Not Like Being Black: How Sexual Activists Hijacked the Civil Rights Movement, here

If you care about combatting the corrupt media that continue to inflict devastating damage, please give a gift to help The Federalist do the real journalism America needs.  

CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: How Miners Should Think About Ordinals With Mike Hamilton

Chief Research Officer at Bitcoin miner Griid, Mike Hamilton is an experienced & well-known Bitcoin miner. But even more impressive might be his feat of snagging the second Runes ticker once the moment the protocol launched last April. 

Mike talks about how his experience with Bitcoin and tinkerer mentality let him beat all the other teams competing for the top Runes spots. Mike also discusses Bitcoin mining, the role miners may play going forwards, and his personal project “Mutable Trees.”

Follow along on your favorite podcast player of choice by clicking here.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:55 Mike intro

00:08:12 What is etching & hard coding?

00:09:59 Acquiring the Runes ticker

00:15:01 Building Runes tools

00:19:24 Airdropping

00:23:54 Miners learning Runes

00:26:38 Managing UTXOs

00:32:17 Including Runes in business model

00:34:26 Block templates

00:38:43 Miners vs Maxi

00:40:16 Fix the filters?

00:42:35 Mutable Trees

00:48:34 OP_CAT

00:52:07 Miners & soft forks


Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday and a news show on Friday! 

👉 Check out Bitcoin Season 2 and The Gwart Show.

👉 Watch our newest documentary, The Big Empty!

👉 Watch our livestream on Samourai Wallet!

Follow our host on Twitter, @wsfoxley.

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Thank you to our sponsor, CleanSpark, America’s Bitcoin miner! And thank you to Foreman Mining, Master Your Mining!


"The Mining Pod" is produced by Sunnyside Honey LLC with Senior Producer, Damien Somerset. Distributed by CoinDesk with Senior Producer Michele Musso and Executive Producer Jared Schwartz. 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: The Mysterious McKinsey Group

In recent history more and more analysts have been concerned about the rise of privately-owned, multinational corporations wielding the type of geopolitical power once relegated to states and nations. These concerns usually name drop the best known large companies, such as Nestle, Unilever, Halliburton and so on -- but many more companies operate just as effectively in relative obscurity. Tune in to learn more about the controversies surrounding the prestigious and murky world of the global management consulting group McKinsey and Company, an organization so powerful it's often referred to as, simply, "the Firm".

They don't want you to read our book.: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/stuff-you-should-read/

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Focus on Africa - How will Africa benefit from its relationship with South Korea?

The first-ever summit of African leaders and South Korea is underway in Seoul. South Korea has promised to boost development aid for Africa by up to $10 billion over the next six years. The country also aims to tap into Africa's rich mineral resources. How else can Africa benefit from this new forged relationship with South Korea?

Also the UN warns that millions of people in Sudan are at risk of malnutrition and starvation

And new initiatives on tackling bullying, are being discussed and planned in schools on the continent.

Presenter: Richard Kagoe Producers: Nyasha Michelle, Charles Gitonga, Yvette Twagiramariya, Bella Hassan and Emmanuella Aluasa Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi