Fri. 06/05 - What If Self-Driving Cars Won’t Prevent As Many Accidents As We Hoped?

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

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Amazon and Slack form an interesting alliance. Google outlines evidence hackers are already attacking the Presidential campaigns. What if self-driving cars won’t prevent as many accidents as we hoped? And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Go.Rims.org/ridehome TinyCapital Links: Amazon licenses Slack for all employees, while Slack adopts AWS video-calling tech (CNBC) Google says Iranian, Chinese hackers targeted Trump, Biden campaigns (TechCrunch) Twitter has a record-breaking week as users looked for news of protests and COVID-19 (TechCrunch) Study: Autonomous vehicles won’t make roads completely safe (Associated Press) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Worst. Deal. Ever. (Forbes) The Font That Solves The Big Problem With Dark Mode (Forbes) Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games (Engadget) Charli D’Amelio is TikTok’s biggest star. She has no idea why. (Washington Post) From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush (OneZero) Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (Nautilus) Subscribe to the Ad-Free Feed Right Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Friday, June 5th, 2020.
0:07.0	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Amazon and Slack form an interesting alliance.
0:12.0	Google outlines evidence hackers are already
0:14.0	attacking the presidential campaigns, what if self-driving cars won't
0:17.9	prevent as many accidents as we had hoped, and of course the weekend long read
0:22.1	suggestions? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:32.0	Interesting times make for interesting allies I guess. Amazon announced late
0:37.0	yesterday that it was licensing Slack for all of its employees. As part of a deeper alliance,
0:43.7	Slack has also agreed to use underlying technology
0:47.6	from AWS's Chime Video Calling Service
0:50.8	to improve its video and audio calls.
0:54.2	So who is this tie-up designed to combat more?
0:57.9	Would it be Microsoft with its team's product?
1:01.2	Would it be Zoom? Would it be all of the above? Quoting from
1:05.8	CMBC. Amazon and Slack have a long history. Slack has run its services on
1:11.9	Amazon Web Services infrastructure since launching in 2014 and
1:16.2	it has continued to lean on AWS to accommodate additional demand during the pandemic.
1:21.6	The new deal was negotiated separately from
1:24.2	Slack's cloud contract, the company said, declining to disclose exact terms. A
1:29.7	filing on Thursday disclosed that Slack will now pay AWS at least 425 million
1:34.4	dollars over a five-year period that ends April 2025 up from a previous
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