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Category5 Technology TV
Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 and 2017 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Headphone Showdown
- Episode 631
- November 6, 2019
- 370
Enjoying our music and videos depends a lot on finding the right set of headphones, but it's not always easy to know from an online shop which is going to be best suited for us. The Category5 team compare 5 sets of Bluetooth headphones and discuss their opinions of each to help you get an idea for which may be the one for you, or the person on your list.
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Soldering PCB Headers and Powering a Pi from Battery
- Oct 30, 2019
- 808
Jeff Thinks He's So Hot, And Proves It
- Oct 23, 2019
- 671
THE ORVILLE Interview with Tom Costantino and Brooke Noska
- Oct 9, 2019
- 15,889
Amie DD - The Person Behind The Tesla RFID Implant Hack
- Oct 2, 2019
- 6,089
Models Who Aren't People
- Sep 25, 2019
- 2,469
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 757,332
Not a big fan of the new "start screen" on Windows 8? We'll show you how to return the traditional Start Menu to the latest version of Microsoft's desktop operating system.
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Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Jan 5, 2016
- 753,992
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,587
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 729,868
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 704,369
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of October 30, 2019
- 268
- Robbie called it last week when he said we may start to see legitimate companies moving content onto the dark web in light of recent government sanctions. Well, now BBC News announced it has launched a 'dark web' Tor mirror of its news service.
- The Bloodhound supersonic car has completed its first drive across the Hakskeen dry lake in South Africa.
- Two reports published in the last few months show that malware operators are experimenting with using WAV audio files to hide malicious code.
- Google built an advanced computer that has achieved "quantum supremacy" for the first time, surpassing the performance of conventional devices.
Top Stories for the Week of October 23, 2019
- 137
- Access to Photoshop and other Adobe software has been cut off in Venezuela as the firm seeks to comply with US sanctions.
- A dog who survived in the rubble left in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has earned its new name — Miracle.
- The official Sesame Street online store, along with thousands of other retailers, has been targeted by a credit card-stealing hack.
- Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship.
Top Stories for the Week of October 9, 2019
- 158
- PayPal has dropped out of the alliance that is trying to launch Facebook's digital currency Libra.
- A man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs with a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit.
- In what serves to confirm we are currently living in the end times, Microsoft has made a new mobile phone that has two screens, and runs Android.
- Canada’s busiest airport will soon be using artificial intelligence-powered technology to detect weapons.
Top Stories for the Week of October 2, 2019
- 174
- Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who'd been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout.
- The World's Most Freakishly Advanced Robot Dog Is Now For Sale.
- American entrepreneur Elon Musk has given an update on his Starship and Super Heavy rocket system.
- An injured tortoise who lost its shell in a fire has become the world's first recipient of a 3D-printed shell.
Top Stories for the Week of September 25, 2019
- 113
- Chipotle Mexican Grill has been leaving money on the table, thanks to an apparent bug in the restaurant chain's e-commerce operation.
- Payment card thieves have hacked the Click2Gov bill paying portals in 8 cities.
- The German Ministry of the Interior wants to take back control of their 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft and looking for alternatives.
- An anonymous bug hunter has publicly disclosed a zero-day flaw in the popular vBulletin forum software than can be exploited over the internet to hijack servers.
Top Stories for the Week of September 11, 2019
- 229
- Facebook has confirmed that at least 200 million phone numbers from members have been exposed in an online database. It could be more than twice that.
- An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks.
- To protect query privacy, Mozilla will begin a slow rollout of DNS-over-HTTPS by default in its Firefox browser at the end of the month, moving all DNS queries to Cloudflare.
- A blind man has helped develop smart cane that uses Google Maps and sensors to navigate the world.
Top Stories for the Week of September 4, 2019
- 239
- The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter had his own account on the service briefly taken over by hackers.
- Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing its exFAT filesystem support to the Linux kernel, and licensing the contributed code under GPLv2.
- The rash of ransomware infiltration continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools.
- A watchdog has penalised a local authority for trialling facial recognition on high-school students in Sweden to keep track of attendance.
Top Stories for the Week of August 28, 2019
- 328
- A ransomware strike took down 23 government agencies in Texas.
- Walmart is suing Tesla's energy division, after solar panels on seven of its stores caught fire.
- Researchers have found 85 Google Play apps with more than 8 million combined downloads that forced users to view fullscreen ads.
- Mario Kart Tour was supposed to be available in March 2019 until Nintendo delayed its release to give it a bit more polish. Now, the gaming giant is finally ready to roll it out and has announced an official launch date.
Top Stories for the Week of August 21, 2019
- 307
- As if we needed another reason not to trust Kaspersky: it was discovered that their antivirus injected a unique ID that allowed sites to track users, even in incognito mode.
- Ubuntu 19.10 Will Offer an Experimental ZFS File System Option.
- There's a new attack exploiting serious Bluetooth weakness that is capable of intercepting sensitive data.
- If This Then That warns against migrating Nest devices to Google accounts.
Top Stories for the Week of August 7, 2019
- 175
- An Airbus A350 software bug forces the airlines to turn planes off and on again every 149 hours.
- Virgin's Hyperloop One company has signed a deal with the government of Saudi Arabia to build a test track for its futuristic transport concept.
- Yet another crowdfunded game has become an exclusive to the Epic Games Store. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries' release has been delayed to December, and it won't be on Steam as its backers expected.
- You can run Android on Nintendo Switch, and it runs entirely from your SD card. That's right: the built-in OS remains intact and you can jump back and forth between OS's by simply rebooting.
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