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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

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In more light-hearted news, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant unsettled users by randomly laughing , which, somewhat unsurprisingly, caused many Twitter users to draw comparisons with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”.