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Geekdays #836: Week Starting April 22nd
April 27, 2019 01:49 - 17 minutes - 25.1 MBShow notes and links: Disney+ app and worldwide rollout plans revealed (engadget.com) Facebook’s latest mishap involves bizarre messages printed on Oculus controllers – BGR (bgr.com) Every video game reference in Carolina Panthers 2019 NFL schedule video (polygon.com) Bloomberg - Are you a robot? (bloomberg.com) Foxconn and the village: the $10B factory deal that turned one small Wisconsin town upside down (theverge.com) Wisconsin Is Fighting to Renegotiate Its Foxconn Deal (vice.com)...
Geekdays #835: Week starting April 8th
April 12, 2019 07:56 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBAnother week, another headache. Isn't that how the expression goes? No? Another week, another bug-infested hell-hole for us to crawl out of? No? Dang it; I'm supposed to know this one. Another week, another florg driddy fnoop dardidae laminosa. ... Okay, now I'm either having a stroke or reliving a past life. Is this thing even on? Show notes and links: Amazon shoppers misled by 'bundled' star-ratings and reviews | Technology (theguardian.com) Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Wer...
Geekdays #834: Week Starting April 1st
April 05, 2019 17:54 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBNow, this episode might be about the week that started on April first, but we make not a single reference to April Fools or the jokes told by the Internet At Large on said day. Instead, it's all about Apple, Body Parts, Garfield Phones and Human Engineering. Also, ... COME ON! Show notes and links: Should I stand or walk for an efficient ride? (theconversation.com) The severed feet found on beaches near Seattle and Vancouver, explained (vox.com) Garfield beach phone mystery solved after...
Geekdays #833: Week Starting March 25th
March 29, 2019 00:43 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB"It's been a while", he said, remembering how often in the past he had spoken those very same words. "I come bearing news. News of the geeky variety. News to astonish and amuse; words to educate and entertain." The words sounded hollow in his ears and he hoped nobody would hear the falseness in his tone. He was neither educational nor entertaining. At best, he spoke in trivia and puns, the lowest forms of both wisdom and comedy. But he smiled on, hoping that somebody would find some benefit...
Geekdays #832: Week Starting March 4th
March 07, 2019 06:17 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBShow notes and links: Twitter says it’s building a feature that lets you hide replies to your tweets (theverge.com) YouTube CEO: Disabling comments on minor videos was 'trade-off' for child safety (cnet.com) A Child Explains Why He Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Playroom (vice.com) Bowser will replace Reggie Fils-Aimé as Nintendo of America president (arstechnica.com) Rumor: Microsoft Bringing Game Pass And Published Titles To Switch (gameinformer.com) Americans Are Literally Flushing...
Geekdays #831: Week Starting February 25th
March 01, 2019 11:42 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBIt seems every episode begins with an excuse for why we're late, so here goes... Sorry about this; I really thought we'd be on time this time around! We had our lineup of stories ready on Saturday, Breki had done his initial read-through on Sunday and was happy with how everything looked, but - come Monday - he started getting a nasty cold and couldn't do his read... So, until we've perfected the artificial intelligences that will replace him, that kind of a thing is pretty much a showstopp...
Geekdays #830: Week Starting February 11th
February 17, 2019 15:48 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBWe're late, I know, but like anything good in your life - we're worth waiting for. Yeah, we're that confident in ourselves and the quality of our show that we're going to go out on a limb and say that even when we release an episode almost in time for next week's episode, you're still going to enjoy it. ... Please don't tell us we're wrong about our inflated self-confidence? Show notes and links: Troubled Bitcoin trader QuadrigaCX takes another bizarre turn (vancouversun.com) Is This Yo...
Geekdays #829: Week Starting February 4th
February 07, 2019 20:41 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBIt's another week, so we have another episode of Geekdays. Enjoy the stories and figure out how Jeff handles things when the time machine breaks down. Show notes and links: Online Piracy Can Be Good for Business, Researchers Find (vice.com) Hulu will soon show users ads when videos are paused (theverge.com) Netflix usage surpassed cable and satellite TV for the first time in 2018 – BGR (bgr.com) Mastering Jenga taught this robot real-world physics (engadget.com) Digital exchange loses...
Geekdays #828: Week Starting January 28th
February 01, 2019 20:07 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBAnother week, another delayed episode. Sorry to those of you who caught this on the Coffee With Jeff feed earlier, looks like we made a mistake in publication and put it in the wrong place. Show notes and links: Doomsday Clock frozen at two minutes to apocalypse (bbc.com) The mystery tracks being 'forced' on Spotify users (bbc.com) Amazon made a vest to keep robots from pummeling humans (engadget.com) KFC Announces Major Plastics Pledge, Achievement Of Antibiotics Goal (forbes.com)
Geekdays #827: Week starting January 21st
January 23, 2019 02:08 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBWhile we can't boast the same beautiful transition from poo to peep like in last week's show, we do have several things that speak for the consumption of this auditory geek-themed news programming. Most notably, of course, is that Breki ... "Sings". Kind of. Show notes and links: Massive Collection #1 Breach Exposes 773 Million Emails (gizmodo.com) Fortnite made $2.4 billion in 2018 as free-to-play and mobile games dominated the market (techspot.com) Fortnite V-Bucks Used by Criminals f...
Geekdays #826: Week Starting January 14th
January 17, 2019 00:53 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBThis week's episode starts with poops and ends with peeps. We couldn't have planned it better even if we tried. Show notes and links: Poop research might get a more polite name (theverge.com) People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds (theverge.com) Olay's electromagnetic face wand turns skincare into a mobile game (engadget.com) Costco sells out of 27-lb. bucket of mac and cheese (usatoday.com) Peeps-flavored coffee creamer does, in fact, taste like Peeps (masha...
Geekdays #825: Week Starting January 7th
January 06, 2019 23:50 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBOh, hi. I'm Breki. You might remember me from the last time I made a joke like this. Show notes and links: This link has no title (phys.org) Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe – what my research suggests (theconversation.com) The lies Comcast allegedly told customers to hide full cost of service (arstechnica.com) AI-equipped cameras will spot poachers in Africa before they can kill (theverge.com) Google's Year in Search - Google Trends (g.co) Worst pa...
Geekdays #824: Week Starting December 10th
December 12, 2018 08:23 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBSorry for the missing week, but here we go! Show notes and links: This link has no title (adweek.com) Six people swallowed LEGOs and pored through their own poo for science (arstechnica.com) Scientists Have Found The Funniest Words in The English Language (sciencealert.com) This link has no title (news.com.au) Here's the Truth Behind a NASA Document on Aliens Visiting Earth (livescience.com) 2 Milly files a lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games over dance move – TechCrunch (techc...
Geekdays #823: Week Starting November 26th
November 28, 2018 21:23 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBIt's that time of year - things are slowing down as people begin to wind down before Christmas, but we're not at the point where all of the major releases for the Christmas season are coming out... In other words, a perfect time for stories about wombat poop, global warming and scanning the human body ... with technology! Show notes and links: A Scanner That Can See Inside The Entire Human Body at Once Just Took Its First Images (sciencealert.com) We Finally Know How Wombats Produce Thei...
Geekdays #822: Week Starting November 19th
November 22, 2018 23:17 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBHow embarrassing. I'd recorded this episode and prepared the shownotes, but forgotten to publish it. It wasn't until I realized that Geekdays wasn't showing up in my own feed that I realized that I hadn't actually published it... So here it is, better late than never! Show notes and links: This link has no title (cnn.com) Former NASA administrator says Lunar Gateway is “a stupid architecture” (arstechnica.com) Police Think Amazon's Alexa May Have Witnessed a Double Murder (people.com) ...
Geekdays #821: Week Starting November 12th
November 14, 2018 20:46 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBA bit late, but it's worth it. I promise. Show notes and links: Stan Lee - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Vast Majority of YouTube Users Hit the Site for How-to Videos (digitaltrends.com) Remnants of Earth's Oldest Dirt May Have Been Found in Greenland (gizmodo.com) Threatin's Fake Fanbase Fails To Show Up For European Tour (stereogum.com)
Geekdays #820: Week starting November 5th
November 06, 2018 13:55 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBAnother week, another Geekdays. Sometimes I wonder if we should rename the show now that we're weekly. The old gimmick was that we publish on weekdays, hence Geekdays. But now that we publish weekly, maybe the show should be called Geekly instead? ... Only, that sounds like a terrible "Web 2.0" name and I'm sure the domain name geek.ly is already taken... Show notes and links: 'Test tube trees': An insurance policy against extinction? (bbc.com) Lime and Segway Can't Agree Over Alleged Fl...
Geekdays #819: Week Starting October 29th
October 30, 2018 19:39 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBWhile we do manage to start this show with a semblance of theme and topic, it rapidly devolves into ... not that. Show notes and links: Here’s what’s really going on in red planet ‘explosion’ IMAGES — RT World News (rt.com) Boba Fett spin-off Star Wars movie is no longer happening, apparently (mashable.com) We might be able to rate future films with a sniff test, study says (arstechnica.com) California strikes deal with FCC to delay state net neutrality law (theverge.com) 'The Blowjob...
Geekdays #818: Week Starting October 22nd
October 22, 2018 18:46 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBWe're back with another episode, presenting you with the hard-hitting facts about NASA, Apple, Bloomberg, eBay, Amazon, and - of course - Taco Bell. Enjoy! Show notes and links: NASA Unveils 21 New Constellations Invisible to The Naked Eye (sciencealert.com) "🚨 Something is wrong. Blanket denials from companies, NCSC and DHS are v. unusual. The only precedent for this is a 2014 Bloomberg article, by the same author, which claimed NSA exploited Heartbleed, and was vigorously knocked down ...
Geekdays #817: Week Starting October 15th
October 15, 2018 04:48 - 27 minutes - 27.3 MBWe're finally back from our hiatus! Sorry it took so long, but we're going to make up for it! Twice the excitment! Twice the fluctuation in pitch in Breki's voice! Twice the amount of unsuitable sexual references! Twice the amount of Tom! ... No, wait, sorry. Still just the one Tom. Show notes and links: 4K upgrades could be coming soon to Google Play Movies, and they might be free (androidcentral.com) Is Your Orgasm Face The Same as Your Pain Face? Researchers Ask The Ultimate Question...
Geekdays #816: Week Starting September 3rd
September 05, 2018 17:28 - 12 minutes - 13.5 MBIt's another Geekdays - but it's also the last Geekdays you'll be hearing in a while. After this one, we're taking the rest of September off. And this has nothing to do with the rumors that the Health and Safety people heard our writers shouting from the basement when they were doing a routine inspection... Despite the efforts that we put into soundproofing that place so that we wouldn't have to hear them ... Amazing, really. Anyway - it has nothing at all to do with that. Show notes and l...
Geekdays #815: The Week Starting August 20th, 2018
August 23, 2018 06:33 - 15 minutes - 12.6 MBIt almost didn't happen - but then it happened! A new episode of Geekdays, for your listening pleasure! Show notes and links: HBO's Watchmen Is Coming in 2019 (gizmodo.com) End of the Rainbow? New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind (scientificamerican.com) Blue light from phone screens accelerates blindness, study finds | Society (theguardian.com) The Drive-Thru Speaker at a Dunkin' Donuts Broke. So Employees Did Something Truly Brilliant (inc.com)
Geekdays #814: The Week starting August 13th, 2018
August 13, 2018 13:21 - 21 minutes - 23 MBSorry about the lost week! I wish there was some way we could make it up to you that isn't just ... being on time and doing six stories as we've promised all along. But hey, hopefully we'll be better at that. Maybe. You know - if fate wills it, etc. Show notes and links: Superbugs Are Growing More Resistant to Hand Sanitizer, Scientists Warn (sciencealert.com) Condoms shouldn't be washed or reused, according to CDC (businessinsider.com) Massive study finds nearly no increase to diversit...
Geekdays #813: The Week Starting July 30th, 2018
August 02, 2018 10:56 - 17 minutes - 18.5 MBIt's another late episode, but if you're waiting for something good; you're never let down when an episode of Geekdays appears in your inbox. And don't worry - we're getting back on track with the schedule soon enough, as work in other spheres of our lives is finally settling down. Show notes and links: Tommy Hilfiger tracks, rewards you for wearing its smart clothes (engadget.com) Orlando Bloom stops play twice to scold audience member he thinks is using an iPad (9to5mac.com) Google Sa...
Geekdays #812: Week starting July 23rd, 2018
July 27, 2018 06:15 - 24 minutes - 26 MBLate. Late as all heck, I know. But I have an excuse. A real, honest-to-goodness kind of excuse. Show notes and links: The 21st Century Internet Act aims to enshrine net neutrality in law – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) Discovery of 14,000-Year-Old Toast Suggests Bread Can Be Added to Paleo Diet (gizmodo.com) U.S. Army develops algorithm that shows how to get ‘optimal alertness’ from caffeine (bigthink.com) Should Your Family Be Able to Inherit Your Facebook Messages? (gizmodo.com) 3D-p...
Geekdays #811: Week starting July 16th, 2018
July 19, 2018 07:32 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBSorry about the delay on this one, it got stuck in the publication queue and didn't get into the feed for some reason. But here it is, better late than never! Show notes and links: Nintendo reportedly closes 'unpatchable' flaw in new Switch units (engadget.com) Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns (buzzfeed.com) California mall owner's license plate readers send info to ICE (updated) (engadget.com) Scientists have developed the worl...
Geekdays #810: Week Starting Monday, July 9th
July 10, 2018 15:32 - 27 minutes - 28.4 MBWe're on Facebook, we're on Google, we're in your machine learning artificial intelligences - but most of all, we're in space trying to avoid the most annoying sound on Earth. Show notes and links: Facebook finds Independence document 'racist' (bbc.co.uk) Google tries to calm controversy over app developers having access to your Gmail (theverge.com) IBM to release world’s largest facial dataset for studying AI bias (ibm.com) Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enfor...
Geekdays #809: The week starting July 2nd, 2018
July 03, 2018 00:31 - 19 minutes - 21 MBFacebook, streaming music, Facebook, Playstation ... and a Hawaiian love song for a comet. Show notes and links: Facebook patent turns phone mics on to record reactions to ads (engadget.com) Independent record labels get boost from streaming music services (reuters.com) Facebook's 'keyword snooze' hides phrases from your News Feed for 30 days (venturebeat.com) Sony admits PS4 has a cross-play problem, tries to offer hope (cnet.com) First Known Interstellar Object Gets Unexpected Speed...
Geekdays #808: The Week Starting June 25th, 2018.
June 27, 2018 07:52 - 27 minutes - 29.1 MBNetflix accounts, video game consoles, life in space. If this isn't your average episode of Geekdays, then I don't know what is. Show notes and links: Here are the People We're Most Commonly Borrowing a Netflix Login From (exstreamist.com) Netflix's approval among Republicans has declined in 2018: Survey (businessinsider.com) PlayStation 4 Was the Best Selling Console for May 2018 (ign.com) Why Is Nintendo's Switch So Successful? It's All About The Marketing (forbes.com) Xbox One won'...
Geekdays #807: The Week starting June 18th
June 19, 2018 19:29 - 19 minutes - 20.4 MBAnother week, another Geekdays. It's funny how those two things go hand in hand. It's almost hard to imagine one without the other. Do you think that weeks would stop happening if Geekdays were to stop happening? Is this show responsible for us having weeks? I don't know ... And I'm scared to find out. Show notes and links: Spanish soccer league app spied on fans to catch pirate broadcasts (engadget.com) Hi rez images from NASA's 1967/8 Lunar Orbiters were withheld to hide US spying capa...
Geekdays #806: The week starting June 11th, 2018
June 13, 2018 05:38 - 23 minutes - 25 MBIt's another technically challenged week, so my apologies for this coming out later than normal! Show notes and links: California Weed Dispensaries Can Legally Sell Customer Information to Data Brokers (vice.com) Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) iOS 12's Biggest Upgrade: An End to Planned Obsolescence Conspiracy Theories (vice.com) Drones taught to spot violent behavior in crowds using AI (theverge.com) macOS Mojave brings Dark Mode, enhanc...
Geekdays #805: Week starting June 4th, 2018
June 05, 2018 12:50 - 26 minutes - 29.2 MBI don't think I have to promote this show more than saying the following: Angelina Jolie. Sex in space. Pooping in space. Govenment surveillance. This may or may not be the same story (it's not), but it's going to be a good one! Show notes and links: Papua New Guinea Is Banning Facebook For A Month (buzzfeed.com) Scientists invented a real-life flux capacitor, but not for time travel (engadget.com) FCC asks Amazon and eBay to stop selling fake pay TV boxes – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) ...
Geekdays #804: Week starting May 28th, 2018
May 29, 2018 19:18 - 21 minutes - 23.1 MBIt's another week! That means another Geekdays! With Time Travel, dead celebrities in advertisement, and yet another data intrusion. Show notes and links: Browsing The Internet at Work May Not Make You Less Productive, Says Study (sciencealert.com) Teen-monitoring app TeenSafe leaks thousands of user IDs and passwords (theverge.com) Stephen Hawking's Memorial Service Will Be Open to Time Travelers (extremetech.com) Hitler not alive on the moon, study confirms (syracuse.com) McDonald’s...
Geekdays #803: Week starting May 21st, 2018
May 23, 2018 00:05 - 26 minutes - 28.3 MBAnother week, another geekdays. Sorry about us being a day late again, I was really hoping we could avoid this trend now that we were going weekly, but sometimes tech will throw the weirdest little hurdles in your way when you least expect them to. Oh, and here's the trailer for Future World. Doesn't this just look like the best worst movie of the year already? I've just got to see this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwl5EUe8Gc Show notes and links: Aliens May Well Exist in a Paralle...
Geekdays #802: Week starting May 14th, 2018
May 15, 2018 03:41 - 17 minutes - 22.7 MBAnother week, another Geekday. Unfortunately, Breki had a migraine during the recording and was forced to do most of it with his eyes shut. In a dark room. Wearing sunglasses. So if you find it lacking - that's the reason why. Show notes and links: Niantic recruiting Pokémon GO players to create AR map of the world (9to5mac.com) Nintendo Switch won’t have a Virtual Console (engadget.com) Marvel Studios' Original Iron Man Armor Appears to Have Been Stolen (gizmodo.com) Scientists Didn't...
Geekdays #801: The Week Starting May 7th, 2018
May 07, 2018 16:57 - 23 minutes - 30.5 MBIt's another week, another Geekdays. Another Weekly Geek. Geekly week. Whatever the case may be, it's monday, and we have a new episode for you! Show notes and links: Tesla posts record $710m net loss as it struggles to produce Model 3 cars | Technology (theguardian.com) The Pentagon is working on a radio wave weapon that stops a speeding car in its tracks – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) West Virginia candidate distorts reality in campaign ad (yahoo.com) Google Play Newsstand (google.com...
Geekdays #800: The Week Starting April 30th, 2018.
May 01, 2018 02:19 - 22 minutes - 27.5 MBIt's our second show in the weekly format, and - more importantly - episode 800. I'm still kind of confused about that number. How did we get ever get it up that high? Did I accidentally skip a few hundred at some point along the way? It doesn't sound reasonable to have recorded eight hundred episodes of anything, let alone a podcast that spent most of its run being a daily show... ... Still, no matter how I look at the data, it all comes back the same - this is the eight hundreth episode ...
Geekdays #799: Week starting April 23rd, 2018
April 23, 2018 23:35 - 23 minutes - 30.7 MBYes, my friend, we are back! Geekdays, the daily show turned weekly, back with a vengeance. This week, we've got stories about exploding ants, French toasat Chalupas, breath-holding and the tale of The Hacker Who Could. To top it all off, Jeff brings us a story from fifty-one years ago today - and we've got a new bumper theme for a beloved old friend on the show... So - dig in, enjoy, and please; mind your step when you're passing the ant hill. Show notes and links: Infinity War' posters...
Geekdays #798: 2018-04-06
April 07, 2018 12:25 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBThe final daily show of Geekdays. It's a solemn and dignified moment - so naturally we talk about how coffee causes cancer, how Korean universities are building killer machines and how Dunkin Donuts needs to rethink the distribution methods of their new food tests. Show notes and links: A Third Of Millennials Believe The Earth Is Flat (unilad.co.uk) No, one-third of millennials don't actually think Earth is flat (sciencealert.com) California needs to stop saying everything causes cancer...
Geekdays #797: 2018-04-05
April 05, 2018 18:46 - 13 minutes - 17.7 MBThursdays... We'll never have Thursdays together ever again. Think of all the great things we've shared on Thursdays. The love. The passion. The thrills. The poop jokes. Think of the many times we ... ooh, look, a new trailer for that movie I'm looking forward to. Show notes and links: Report: Google considering launching a mid-range Pixel phone this summer (arstechnica.com) The ISS will replace its 17-year-old printer this week (engadget.com) Twitch streamer gives a young gamer the mos...
Geekdays #796: 2018-04-04
April 04, 2018 11:48 - 15 minutes - 21 MBIt's the day before the day before the end of all good things. So we have a story about how to kill mosquitos! Show notes and links: There's A Previously Undiscovered Organ in Your Body, And It Could Explain How Cancer Spreads (futurism.com) What If Your Blood Was Deadly to Mosquitoes? (discovermagazine.com) US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC (apnews.com) 'Stranger Things' is coming to Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights (mashable.com) ESPN+ will launch on April 12th fo...
Geekdays #795: 2018-04-03
April 03, 2018 08:57 - 22 minutes - 29.6 MBWe've got some good news and some bad news on this show ... But we also have the end of a long-running series on "where will it crash", as well as a toilet-cleaning-home-automation-bot, so there's always that... Show notes and links: Apple could drop Intel chips from Macs by 2020 - Axios (axios.com) There's a hidden spacecraft dump in the middle of the ocean (sciencealert.com) Tiangong-1: Defunct China space lab comes down over South Pacific (bbc.com) #Flu - Scientific American (scient...
Geekdays #794: 2018-03-29
March 30, 2018 14:56 - 11 minutes - 14.4 MBA quickie before we go on our Easter leave! Enjoy, and stay tuned for next week, as we have an exciting announcement! Show notes and links: FeelReal wants to add haptics and smells to your VR experience (androidcentral.com) NASA chief explains why agency won’t buy a bunch of Falcon Heavy rockets (arstechnica.com) Apple's $329 iPad with Pencil support to take on Chromebooks in schools (cnet.com) Watch Oscar Isaac get slapped by Carrie Fischer a few dozen times (mashable.com)
Geekdays #793: 2018-03-28
March 29, 2018 13:03 - 13 minutes - 17.5 MBSorry, I'll be with you in a moment ... continues looking down at phone and ignores you completely ... Show notes and links: 'Phubbing' can threaten our basic human needs, research shows -- ScienceDaily (sciencedaily.com) Our faces show what we want, not what we feel (futurity.org) Here’s why the snow in Russia turned orange (theverge.com) This Gross Puking Robot Is a Much Safer Way to Mix Rocket Fuel (gizmodo.com) Donald Glover Sets The Record Straight About Deadpool Animated Series ...
Geekdays #792: 2018-03-27
March 28, 2018 02:19 - 22 minutes - 29.8 MBAnd so it came to be, that the man with the thing was late to the stuff and instead went and placed said stuff together with the things that he would do on the next day, thereby freeing himself for more gramming of prose on one day and far less of this activity on the other day. It was a desperate attempt to complete work before a deadline, and so he worked through the night and was not rewarded for his effort. Sucks to be him. So sayeth Our Lorde and Professor Xavier. Show notes and link...
Geekdays #791: 2018-03-23
March 24, 2018 01:10 - 12 minutes - 16.3 MBI am in your DMs, reading your secrets! Unfortunately, they're not as interesting as I would have hoped. Show notes and links: Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) People were asked to name women tech leaders. They said “Alexa” and “S (fastcompany.com) Netflix Created a Clean, Custom Font That Could Save the Company Millions – Adweek (adweek.com) YouTube wants to ruin music videos with more ads (thenextweb.com) Slack's new policy lets bosses read em...
Geekdays #790: 2018-03-22
March 23, 2018 07:28 - 24 minutes - 32.8 MBAnother twofer? But Breki, you're too generous! Compensating us for one missing show by making the next one twice as long? Will your generosity never end?! Show notes and links: Video Looks Most Natural Horizontally, but We Hold Our Phones Vertically (scientificamerican.com) Kohler Is Selling A Toilet With A Built-In Voice Assistant (psfk.com) Rachio announces a new smart sprinkler controller, raises $10M – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) Telegram is being ordered by Russia to hand over us...
Geekdays #789: 2018-03-20
March 21, 2018 06:18 - 11 minutes - 14.7 MBHearts and the lack thereof. Show notes and links: Uber Halts Autonomous Car Tests After Fatal Crash in Arizona (bloomberg.com) This 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart (sciencealert.com) A woman has died after getting 'acupuncture' from live bee stings (sciencealert.com) Pokémon Go player, upset at losing a gym, assaults other players, say cops (polygon.com) Internet Archive adds a treasure trove of handheld games from the '80s (mashable.com)
Geekdays #788: 2018-03-19
March 20, 2018 06:17 - 12 minutes - 16.2 MBIt's Thursday Afternoon. Do you know where your data is? Show notes and links: Science Finds Once Again That Violent Video Games Don't Turn People Into Rage Monsters (gizmodo.com) Apple removed the calendar app that mined cryptocurrency for not being power efficient (theverge.com) Roughly one in four Americans is online ‘constantly’ (recode.net) Police Obtain Warrants To Find Out Which Google Users Were Present At Crime Scenes (inquisitr.com) Toyota's basketball robot uses AI to shoot...
Geekdays #787: 2018-03-16
March 17, 2018 03:59 - 24 minutes - 31.5 MBIt's a two-fer! It's an episode where Breki talks - and sings! - in Japanese, where we get a kiss from a rose, where we learn about world records in Lego construction, and more disabled-friendly app:age from Google. Show notes and links: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Has Only a Few Months to Live (gizmodo.com) No, a Massive Geomagnetic Storm Will Not Hit Earth on March 18 (newsweek.com) Japan Is Getting A Hello Kitty Bullet Train (kotaku.com) Anime Lyrics dot Com - Zankoku na Tenshi n...