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greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe I hope you enjoyed jeff cannata hosting the show yesterday he's gonna be back again this week but for now let's hit the headlines minecraft is literally a world full of infinite possibilities and a pair of researchers are using that to their advantage to teach kids biochemistry mark Lorch and Joel Mills recently launched mall craft that's short for molecules in Minecraft and it's a server dedicated to educating kids about molecular structures and how they form proteins in an interview on vices motherboard the creators explained that they used to use PowerPoint presentations to teach kids but they actually realized they could grab kids attention much better through Minecraft ha imagine that getting kids attention through video games much easier than PowerPoint presentation the way the server works is there are large models of molecules scattered around the world and a scavenger hunt guides players around teaching them about each structure through clues and other objects going forward lore channels hope to add more and more complex levels to the server and the University of Hull has a website with information on how to access the server itself also this would look super cool if you experienced it through hololens right amazing alright so yesterday Jeff talked about MIT and their living bioscan and today I'm going to talk about MIT and their take home bio lab we've all had dreams of genetic engineering from the comfort of our own home haven't we okay well maybe we haven't but MIT Media Lab is hoping to make that dream come true for the people who have had that dream with amino there at home bio lab for growing cells in a controlled environment it's not unlike the mole craft server actually in that its founder wanted to create a fun easy way for people to experience synthetic biology it's a countertop bioreactor that allows users to run amino apps which combined DNA programs and growth liquids it automates more difficult processes and helps people learn by doing if you want to run a different app you can as amino allows users to run a cleaning cycle between programs making it easy to change up your experiment by democratizing scientific processes usually confined to professional labs MIT hopes amino will help pave the way for anyone to help problem solve using synthetic biology when it's relevant this is actually a crowdfunding campaign over on IndieGoGo but they're already funded beyond their goal and there aren't too many first edition runs left in the campaign itself so I figured I'd mention it just in case a lab or a school or you wanted to get in on it it's up to you guys let me know if you get well no cuz it looks so awesome alright everybody who is of legal drinking age in your country get out your favorite liquor and if you're not a legal drinking age get out your favorite juice because there's a robot bartender that's going to make a custom shot based on your personality social shot is a project featuring a mobile cart with a robot bartender on board five ingredients representing personality traits hang up on top of the cart those are openness conscientiousness extraversion agreeableness and neuroticism here's where it gets weird if that wasn't weird enough already a user can log into their facebook profile via a terminal that is right there on the cart and then the terminal collects data from that person's facebook profile and determines their personality through an algorithm that analyzes the user's likes after all that data gets crunched the robotic barkeep puts together those five different ingredients into a custom shot based on your very own personality fun unless you're totally one hundred percent neurotic in which case it's all going to be one ingredient three solid liquor and honestly if this team finds their way to vegas for CES I am totally right now officially inviting them to our show so that we can test out social shots on tomorrow daily cuz honestly it seems like it'd be pretty fun oh hey guys it's Tuesday let's check out what's gonna empty our wallets this week this week's new releases of course again some great video games coming out call of duty black ops 3 is available this week obviously the continuation of one of the best-selling video games of all time call duty black ops 2 there's going to be all kinds of different modes people are pretty excited about this it actually looks really really good and I'm sure any of you who like shooting man games will enjoy it and then on the other side of video gaming from shooting at people to driving around with them need for speed is out this week for the playstation 4 xbox one and pc so if you really have a need for speed games available for you go for it have a great time if you find yourself heading to the cinema this weekend make sure you check out maybe spectre if you're in the mood for a little James Bond action this is daniel craig's very last forte as the titular british spy but if you're not in the mood for Spectre you want something a little bit more fun you can head over and check out the peanuts movie which apparently is getting pretty good notices as far as I've seen but that's it for your new releases let's check out our photog refer the day this week's khan taki fur is yaki at least that's how he says you pronounce his name so I'm gonna trust you on this one yaki that's what you wrote in your email and he took this picture with his ipod touch 5th gen he says hey guys my name is yucky and this is a photo I took with my old ipod touch 5 it isn't a phone but it is an awesome photo this was taken at Red Cliffs lodge and mob Utah of a morning sunrise I have an iphone 4s and will hopefully get an iphone 6s for christmas of course you have permission to use my photo on the show because it would be stupid if i send in this photo and not give you permission keep up the awesome show i really love it and enjoy listening to it on the bus ride to school every morning i hope i see it on the show thanks well yaki I there it is your picture right there on tomorrow daily congratulations and also I think if a silent K in your name that's out to get you should really keep an eye on that if you guys want to send in your phone geography to be featured on the show you can email it to us tomorrow at cnet com make sure you give us permission use it on the show and tell us a little story about it and what device you took it on and if you want to find us on social media we are tomorrow daily on facebook and twitter i'm at ashley skele jeff is that at jeff cannata with 2 n's and won t and logan is at logan muy you want to share the show we would love that that would be great of you just send somebody to tomorrow daily com it's that easy I left it for the show today guys will be back tomorrow with a brand new docket of weird science fact mating science fiction but until then vegan humans we'll see you next 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