Human Factors Cast E039 - Build Your Own Episode

Today is April 17th, 2017 and it's an all new Human Factors Cast hosted by Nick Roome with Blake Arnsdorff, and Mia Jaramillo.

-MasterCard trials biometric bankcard with embedded fingerprint reader
-Facebook is building a brain-computer interface
-Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform
-MIT's app only needs a second to teach you a new language
-Google Home can now recognize up to six voices and give personalized responses
-Amazon Lex, the technology behind Alexa, opens up to developers
-Eerie tech promises to copy anyone's voice from just 1 minute of audio
-Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
-25 is 'golden age' for the ability to make random choices: At their peak, humans outcompete many computer algorithms in generating seemingly random patterns

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