The tech year's getting into full swing again, so we've got a bunch of great things to discuss this week! Here's what we talk about on Charged 002:
- Google's AI beating humans 4-1 at the infinitely complex game of Go
- Here's the link to the book Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom mentioned by John
- WIRED's insightful article on why an AI beating a human is both beautiful and sad
- Opera adding ad-blocking software natively into its browser
- Blendle, the service that lets you pay for news without any hassle
- Sonos laying off some employees
- Transmission delivering the first OS X malware to unsuspecting users
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Our amazing jingle: Mitch Anicas