65: Not Your Parents Sex Toy

For the Birthday of 'Murica episode we discuss the technology of "self-love" and the rise of the F'ables. A little talk about the MKNewsfeed scandal, the future of the indie music biz, and Brian shares his best travel tip to avoid a sprain at the TSA.Listen or subscribe in iTunesIf you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes!If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoatShow NotesYou can now literally have sex with your iPadAutoBlow 2Building A Better Blowjob MachineThe AutoBlow Original for people who are looking for the original.Oh yes! It was Crowdfunded!!!RealTouch has been around for ages.There's the ever popular Fucking Machines for the ladiesArse Elektronika'So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?'Jacob Appelbaum on WikipediaAutomatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital"Feminism is a sexual strategy": Inside the angry online men's rights group "Red Pill"In the "manosphere," men resent women for "withholding" sex. And the scariest part is that they're far from aloneCan We Stop Saying Tinder Is Good for Women Now?An Incompetent Attack on the Innovator's DilemmaWhy we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of criticizing itMKNewsfeed!The background on Project MKUltraFacebook Experiments Had Few Limits. Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little OversightWhat does the Facebook experiment teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation by Danah BoydFacebook Got Permission To Do 'Research' On Users 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation StudyNews feed: 'Emotional contagion' sweeps FacebookFacebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experimentFacebook's science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thoughtFacebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final strawFacebook and Engineering the PublicEverything You Need to Know About Facebook's Controversial Emotion ExperimentThe Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us PlutocratsMedium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to PublisherBlade, a Helicopter-Booking App, to Partner With UberThis Startup Had Over 5 Million Users And A Great Product. Then It FoldedStop predicting music's future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranksIs This The End Of SoundCloud For DJs?An emoji-only social network: Ridiculous … or brilliant? (Or Sharkbaiting?)Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devicesGoogle Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten'Data breaches in 2013 exposed 14% of all debit cardsMicrosoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware FightHow a password changed my life.1Password with Touch ID integration in iOS 8 is truly amazingThe 1s and 0s behind cyber warfareDisqus Wordpress Plugin Flaw Leaves Millions of Blogs Vulnerable to HackersExclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoidRobogenesis: A Novel by Daniel H. WilsonThey're making a Robopocalypse movie. Maybe.Fitbit UpdateReadMe! by Pierre DiAvisooThe Internet's Own Boy (Paid)The Internet's Own Boy (Free)The Internet's Own Boy (Kickstarter)Starz Developing 'American Gods' SeriesSherlock renewed for a 4th season and a Special!Man vs Food star has show taken off air after 'thinspiration' rantSAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUNDMusic by AmungusHosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code "gog" while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!