This article was published on March 19, 2018

TNW’s Big Spam: Too much peen for a Monday?


TNW’s Big Spam: Too much peen for a Monday?

Today, blockchain wizard Alex Mashinsky is joining us on TNW Answers. Have you asked your questions yet???


Top trending tech news:

? Whistleblower Christopher Wylie came forward to reveal Facebook users’ data was obtained and kept by Cambridge Analytica, a data firm which helped Trump win the 2016 presidential election (The Guardian)

? … and now Zuck is in hot water over failing to inform users (BBC)

? Twitter suspended Wylie’s account (TechCrunch)


What we’re talking about:

We really shouldn’t worry about robots taking our jobs… in fact, we should be giving them all the jobs.

“Once untrustworthy, always restricted.” No, that’s not a Black Mirror episode title or text from your mother. China is going to start banning citizens with bad “social credit” from certain forms of travel.

Why Facebook will carry a health warning within five years.

You’ve been spending all your life not worrying about Nintendo characters’ sex lives… until Nintendo released an image of Luigi’s bulge. How did we get here and how do we go back.

Speaking of peen, the Amsterdam Pirate Party is using its leader’s penis to promote piracy.

Not speaking of peen, our EIC went to the first ever Vatican City hackathon. Here’s why VHacks made a lot of sense.

P.S. TNW’s Amsterdam Conference is coming up… and the line-up of speakers looks banging. Come say hi.


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