Technologist Powell Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories.

How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered.

We generated tens of images, and then she saw two images that was like, that was it.

Ideas about the future of memory.

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.

Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,

Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week, ready for this,

from the center for the revision of cruel stereotypes here at Car Talk Plaza.

Now, for years, car mechanics have been branded unfairly for many of us as either incompetent or worse.

And as you and I know, it's not a case of mechanics being either crooks or incompetence.

That's right.

It's actually a delicate balance of the two.

Now, the folks at Reader's Digest, I guess, decided to put the stereotype to the test.

Yeah.

So they recently undertook a cross-country sting operation.

Sure, I love these.

They send a guy out with a...

They had an expert driving in a 95 torus with a minor easily detectable problem.

They disconnected the mass airflow sensor, and that turns the check engine light on.

Right.

So they took this otherwise perfect car.

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