Geekish

Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.

Geek Culture

A "Race to the bottom of the Brainstem"

Posted 4 years ago

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All the Thunderbird launches!

Posted 4 years ago

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The Joy of Tech

TikTok gets banned!

Posted 41 hours ago

JoT thumb Oh dear me! [Link]

What's with TV channels these days?

Posted 5 days ago

JoT thumb Names will not define thee! [Link]

Slashdot

Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026

Posted 4 hours ago

An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe's first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the device will be made publicly available, providing scientists with a tool for quantum calculations and simulations. The project is funded by the … [Link]

Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement

Posted 6 hours ago

The FTC is issuing more than $5.6 million in refunds to Ring customers as part of a privacy settlement. The Associated Press reports: In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security provider of allowing its employees and contractors to access customers' private videos. Ring allegedly used such footage to train algorithms without consent, among other … [Link]

New Scientist – News

How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic

Posted 5 hours ago

As the US grapples with an ongoing bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle, the country’s health agencies are ramping up surveillance efforts and working to develop a vaccine if needed [Link]

Bowhead whales still harmed from whaling that ended a century ago

Posted 10 hours ago

Commercial bowhead whaling ended in the early 20th century, but the industry’s lasting effects on the whales’ genetic diversity are leading to declines again [Link]

O'Reilly News and Commentary

#Ebook Deal/Day: Juniper MX Series – $33.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL

Posted 18 months ago

Get "Juniper MX Series" today using code DEAL and save 50%!This sale ends at 2:00 AM 2017-06-22 (PDT, GMT-8:00). [Link]

Four short links: 6 May 2016

Posted 2 years ago

Apple Stole My Music, No Seriously — Amber relayed to me that shes had to suffer through many calls from people who cancelled their Apple Music subscription after the free, three-month trial, only to discover that all of their own … [Link]

Geeks are Sexy Technology News

Teaching [Comic]

Posted 9 months ago

I love Lunar Baboon, such an awesome webcomic! [Source: Lunar Baboon | Like Lunar Baboon on Facebook | Follow Lunar Baboon on Twitter] Click This Link for the Full Post > Teaching [Comic] [Link]

First Room-Temperature Superconductor Announced

Posted 9 months ago

South Korean scientists have allegedly created a superconductor that works at room temperature and regular pressure. This is a big deal because superconductors transmit electricity with zero resistance and have special magnetic properties that are very useful in technology. Normally, superconductors require extreme cold temperatures, but this new one can apparently work outside the lab […] Click This Link for … [Link]

Mashable

The Qatar World Cup is already going viral for all the wrong reasons

Posted 17 months ago

a soccer ball in qatar The 2022 World Cup in Qatar hasn't even started yet, and it's already going viral for all the wrong reasons. Fan accommodations are reminiscent of Fyre Fest, the food doesn't look great, everything is expensive, and some of the fears of Qatar hosting an international community are already coming true. So, yeah, not going great thus far. The feasibility and morality … [Link]

Need a new sound system? These Klipsch Reference speakers are half off

Posted 17 months ago

Save $200: The Klipsch Reference Series speakers on sale for $199.98 at Best Buy. That's a savings of 50%.A pair of home speakers should sound good and look great — think leather-bound books and rich mahogany. With this pair of Klipsch Reference Series bookshelf speakers, finished in classy black woodgrain with copper-colored accents, you'll add a touch of class to any … [Link]

ProgrammableWeb.com

Weekly API Roundup | Sports & Fitness, Finance, Crypto, AI

Posted 20 months ago

Every day the ProgrammableWeb team is busy updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, Clients, or Source Code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb's directories, we offer forms (APIs, Clients, Source Code) for submitting them to our API research team. [Link]

Amazon Announces New Alexa Developer Tools for Smart Home and Voice Assistance

Posted 21 months ago

This week Amazon announced a number of new features, including a collection of APIs and SDKs aimed at creating new smart home experiences for Alexa users. The new tools include the Alexa Ambient Home Dev Kit, the Alexa Connect Kit SDK for Matter, version 3.0 of the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) SDK and more. [Link]

Lifehacker

How Can I Find Out If Someone’s Stealing My Wi-Fi?

Posted 5 years ago

Dear Lifehacker,Read more… [Link]

How to Protest Safely and Legally

Posted 5 years ago

Hitting the streets to make your voice heard is a fundamental right in the United States, and it’s part of our country’s lifeblood. Whether you’re headed out in support or dissent, you should know what you’re getting into before you go. Even if you think the event is purely peaceful, someone else, another protest…Read more… [Link]

Bad Science

Evidence to House of Commons Sci Tech Select Committee on Research Integrity

Posted 6 years ago

Sorry not to be in regular blogging mode at the moment. Here’s a video of our evidence session to parliament, where they are running an inquiry into research integrity. I think clinical trials are the best possible way to approach this issue. Lots of things in “research integrity” are hard to capture in hard logical […] [Link]

How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments?

Posted 7 years ago

Here’s a paper, and associated website, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare their public commitments on trials transparency. Regular readers will be familiar with this ongoing battle. In medicine we use the results of clinical trials to make informed treatments about […] [Link]

Mac For Translators

Selecting stuff with AppleScript

Posted 6 years ago

There was a tweet about Numbers the other day: #applescript can be such a pain sometimes to use. Simple things, like getting the selection of the current cell in #numbers is not easy info to come by.I totally understand the author's feeling and my first take was based on a misunderstanding: in the tweet where my reply is (that you … [Link]

Finding one's way in an application's AppleScript dictionary…

Posted 6 years ago

The other day I wanted to find a way to accelerate the process of zooming a Word window so that it fits the width of the document. It's something I've done manually thousands of times over the years. Just go to Display, then Zoom, select the option and hit Enter.I know that Word is scriptable but everything looked so complex … [Link]

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