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Podcast Episode 3: What our smartphones say about us

Michael Hainsworth
July 25, 2019

The little glowing rectangles we carry in our pockets can reveal a lot about us. But MIT’s artificial intelligence pioneer Sandy Pentland tells us we can learn a lot without revealing any personally identifiable data. We’ll learn how to leverage the power of the smartphone for good.

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Michael Hainsworth

Michael Hainsworth is a Canadian veteran news reporter and lifelong geek. Hainsworth spent 18 years at BNN, and as Senior Anchor distilled the day’s most important financial and technology stories into understandable and engaging reports for 2.2 million viewers on the network and the CTV Evening News nation-wide. He is the co-host of one of Canada’s most popular podcasts, Geeks & Beats with radio legend Alan Cross. Now in its 6th season, the show has an audience equivalent of packing Massey Hall once a week.

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