Amazon Go opens in downtown Seattle. Is the future of grocery shopping here? Montana’s governor signs an executive order to preserve Net Neutrality. US Childcare research suggests parents should not limit screen time but rather ensure its creative not passive time.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Veronica Belmont and Roger Chang
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- Quick Hits
- (00:55) Facebook’s Latest Fix For Fake News: Ask Users What They Trust | wired
- (01:20) Microsoft challenges Chromebooks with $189 Windows 10 laptops for schools | the verge
- (01:50) Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issues | the verge
- (02:15) Netflix is now worth more than $100B | tech crunch
- More Top Stories
- (02:50) Nokia removes the cardiac-tracking feature that made its smart scale different | the verge
- (05:55) Amazon Go, a high-tech version of a 7-Eleven, will finally open on Monday — with no checkout lines and no cashiers | recode
- (12:20) Montana governor signs executive order to keep net neutrality in the state | the verge
- (15:30) Uber Eats acquires Ando, the food delivery startup from David Chang that makes its own food | tech crunch
- (18:50) Consensus view now appears to be to guide children’s screen-time, not limit it | 9to5mac
- (24:20) You could soon be manufacturing your own drugs—thanks to 3D printing | science mag
- Thing of the Day
- (28:15) Tech In Travel Minute
- Message of the Day
- (30:55) Erik – How It’s Made (DTNS Edition)
- Today’s Contributor
- Friend of the show Wil Harris is fundraising for Campaign Against Living Miserably, a charity that encourages men to get help with their mental health.
I am a Radiologist and at this moment am reading a Lower Extremity Doppler exam which made me think of yesterday’s show. While a person getting information on Pulse Wave Velocity readings would usually be pretty innocuous and possibly helpful, it could also be pretty detrimental. A big problem in medical imaging is unnecessary further testing . This can simply mean wasted money, but could also mean a patient getting invasive exams and procedures for something for which the patient never had symptoms. I can easily see a patient’s primary care physician getting presented with this data, then feeling obliged to order a truly diagnostic ultrasound which shows findings. Then the patient is sent to a vascular specialist for more tests and possible intervention. All because the bathroom scale said something even though the patient never truly had any complaints and possibly never would.