Episode 139: Good Sci Fi Nerd Stuff

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In this Episode: * Amazon bans police use of facial recognition technology for one year * IBM is exiting the face recognition business * This bricklaying robot can construct a house in 48 hours * Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun * Battery giant CATL ready to make million-mile, 16-year batteries for more than Tesla * Twitter Locks Account That Posts Trump’s Tweets Verbatim After Less Than 3 Days * Twitter to launch a revamped verification system with publicly documented guidelines * SoftBank-backed Lemonade files to go public * Elon Musk says Starship is SpaceX's 'top priority' from now on Weird and Wacky: * Someone paid $2.6 million in fees to move $134 worth of crypto and oops * Man tormented by mystery pizza deliveries to his house for almost a decade * A treasure chest hidden in the Rocky Mountains for a decade has finally been found * A teen who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a protest is rewarded with a car and a college scholarship