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As countries like Sweden push for cashless payments it seems the future of currency is electronic payments but is this a necessarily a good thing? Plus Facebook CEO Zuckerberg gets a grilling on Capital Hill and the W3C and FIDO Alliance announce WebAuthn, a password-free open standard supported by the latest version of Firefox.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.

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• Quick Hits
  • (00:50) LG’s flagship G7 will launch in May | engadget
  • (01:35) Google Home and Home Mini are now available in India | the verge
  • (02:05)Bots in the Twittersphere | pew research center
  • (02:45) Walmart taps Postmates for grocery delivery service
• More Top Stories
  • (03:20) Update: Facebook rolls out $40K user data abuse bounty ahead of Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony | tech crunch
    • Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s first congressional hearing at 2:15PM ET | engadget
    • Mark Zuckerberg isn’t ruling out a paid version of Facebook | the verge
  • (06:05) Chrome and Firefox will support a new standard for password-free logins | the verge
  • (07:45) First look at Instagram Nametags, its clone of Snapchat QR codes | tech crunch
  • (09:30) Westworld trolls Reddit with spoiler video | bbc
  • (11:55) Google launches an improved speech-to-text service for developers | tech crunch
• Discussion Story (14:55)
  • The Swedes rebelling against a cashless society | bbc
  • Going Cashless? Bad for Tax Cheats, Privacy, Poor | bloomberg
  • Sweden’s March Toward a Cashless Society | bloomberg
  • Megan McArdle: The downside of a cashless society | national post
• Thing of the Day
  • Tech In Travel Minute
• Messages of the Day
  • (27:15) David – Piling on Facebook
• Today’s Contributor
  • Patrick Beja