TechCrunch Mixtape

Your brain on ice and the alleged inaccessibility of Lyft

Episode Summary

There is a company out of startup accelerator Y Combinator that says it's "committed to the goal of archiving your mind." Okay. We also talk software developer ethics and the alleged inaccessibility of Lyft.

Episode Notes

There is a company out of startup accelerator Y Combinator that says it's "committed to the goal of archiving your mind." Okay. We also talk software developer ethics and the alleged inaccessibility of Lyft.

Links:

• Here are some real things people said about brain preservation
  startup Nectome
• A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent
  fatal” (MIT Technology Review)
• Chelsea Manning says software developers need a code of ethics
• Lyft faces discrimination lawsuit

Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet

Producer and editor: Christopher Gates

Executive producer: Yashad Kulkarni