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Recode Daily

The internet, from SpaceX

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Starlink, a constellation of satellites launched by SpaceX, has the ambitious goal of bringing internet connectivity to the globe. Featuring @lorengrush Links to resources discussed: SPACEX CONTINUES TO BLAST SATELLITES INTO ORBIT AS THE SPACE COMMUNITY WORRIES Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today's businesses are using verification to prevent fraud, but doing that means that they're often collecting way too much personal data in the process.

0:09.0

With increasingly strict data protection regulations.

0:13.0

Evident offers a solution that lets companies successfully verify user data

0:17.4

without the risk and expense of handling personal data.

0:21.1

Learn more by visiting W.W. dot evident ID.com slash reset. The night sky,

0:35.0

sky, vast, dark, and if you don't live in a city like I do, dotted with stars.

0:42.0

Over the last few months, a few more bodies of light have been spotted up there,

0:46.0

and a Dutch astronomer caught them on video.

0:49.0

Here's reporter Lauren Grush.

0:51.0

And if you look at the video it looks a bit like a line of glowing army ants

0:56.8

army ants yeah whoa okay so you're playing the video for me right now and what I am

1:01.7

seeing is incredibly bright dots across

1:05.8

the night sky. They're way brighter than the stars. Oh yeah definitely and

1:10.4

from what I've heard from multiple people who've seen them, you can easily capture them and see them with your naked eye.

1:16.0

It's not difficult to find them.

1:18.0

Has anybody mistaken them for UFOs?

1:23.0

Oh, a bunch at times.

1:25.0

Wait, seriously?

1:26.0

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed. Those glowing orbs aren't UFOs, they're satellites, and they were put up there by

1:45.6

SpaceX, the private rocket company. So Lauren Grush, senior science reporter at The

1:50.2

Verge, what's the company up to? So SpaceX is trying to build the idea of beaming internet coverage down to the earth below. This isn't an entirely new

2:04.8

concept. We already have satellites in orbit and they can provide internet

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