This week, Brian and Angelo discuss Amazon's Rekognition project, Alexa recording your every word, how you need to reboot your router, the demise of the Essential phone, Bitcoin ruins everything, and how the math men have overtaken the mad men when it comes to advertising. Shifting over to the paranormal, after Angelo talks about seeing Infinity War, your hosts skew the discussion towards cryptids. Namely, the non-alien octopus, the Loch Ness Monster and her DNA, and finally, the Dogman.

Links:

• Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Face Recognition Technology | ACLU of Northern CA
• Amazon Rekognition – Video and Image - AWS
• Orlando Police Testing Amazon's Real-Time Facial Recognition : NPR
• Here’s Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal - Recode
• The story behind the Echo eavesdropping story - Six Colors
• fbi-reboot-malware.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur" title="F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware - The New York Times">F.B.I.’s Urgent Request: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russia-Linked Malware - The New York Times
• bet051018.php" title="Bitcoin estimated to use half a percent of the world's electric energy by end of 2018 | EurekAlert! Science News">Bitcoin estimated to use half a percent of the world's electric energy by end of 2018 | EurekAlert! Science News
• The Essential Phone 2 has reportedly been canceled - The Verge
• How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men | The New Yorker
• octopuses-are-not-aliens-panspermia.html" title="No, Octopuses Don't Come From Outer Space">No, Octopuses Don't Come From Outer Space
• Legend of Loch Ness Monster will be tested with DNA samples
• Wolf, dog, dogman or some mysterious creature? Montanans look for answers