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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.
Web Sites as Apps and a Single Charger for All Our Devices
- Episode 642
- February 12, 2020
- 4,501
Jeff shares a USB charger that lets us charge up to 6 phones at a time, Robbie's got a cool Linux application that runs web sites as if they're apps, and Sasha's got the week's tech news.
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The $200 Pinebook Pro ANSI Linux Laptop Has Arrived
- Feb 5, 2020
- 8,756
Understanding Modern Cyber Threats
- Jan 22, 2020
- 4,157
Image Vector Tracing and DIY Presence Monitoring
- Jan 15, 2020
- 6,298
Tech to Help New Year's Resolutions
- Jan 8, 2020
- 5,238
Robbie's Solo and Starting The Custom NAS Build
- Dec 18, 2019
- 2,614
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 758,835
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
- 754,138
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,773
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 730,058
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 704,560
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Cloud Gaming is The Future, Artist Tricks Google Maps, New ARM NPU, Ransomware Bypasses Protection
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- Facebook lost control of its own Twitter account on Friday.
- Something — or someone — has its deep-space music on repeat.
- An ARM based NAS solution
- Microsoft no longer sees PlayStation-maker Sony and Nintendo as the biggest competition for its Xbox platform, and you won't believe who they see as the biggest threat.
- An artist tricked Google into thinking there were major traffic jams by pulling a wagon filled with smartphones down empty streets.
- Arm is getting "edgy" with two new processor designs which bring slimline AI workloads to smart speakers and other Internet-of-Things devices.
- Windows' trust in abandoned driver code lets ransomware burrow deep into targeted machines.
Free Antivirus Selling Your Info, YouTube Poaching Twitch Streams, No Rocket League Linux
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- The good old FreeDB CD database service and it's services will be shut down on march 31, 2020.
- In an odd turn of events, Microsoft has had to push out an update to Windows 7 — despite the operating system reaching end of support — to fix a bug it introduced.
- At FOSDEM this week, PINE64 have announced what they're up to for the first half of 2020.
- Some of the biggest Call of Duty, Overwatch and Hearthstone e-sport leagues will be streamed exclusively on YouTube.
- Rocket League is ending support for Linux and Steam OS.
- We're in an Antarctica frenzy as a Google Earth user has found a ‘2,000ft structure’ emerging from the snow.
- Sometimes free isn't actually free at all: It's been revealed that Avast's "free" antivirus is tracking users' online behavior and mining the data.
Cancer Breakthrough, Guinan's Back, Stop Using IE, Pinebook Pro US Keyboard, Microsoft Data Leak
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- Following a personal (yet very public) invitation from Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg will be returning to the character of Guinan in Star Trek: Picard.
- Hey Windows users: Are you still using Internet Explorer? Stop it! There's yet another zero-day exploit that will give hackers the ability to remotely take over your computer.
- Pine64's $200 pro-grade Linux laptop is now available with a US keyboard, and customers who pre-ordered theirs are receiving the first shipment now.
- A security shocker out of Microsoft as it has been revealed that 250 million customer records have been exposed online.
- Not to create false hope, but this is too huge not to mention: Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered a part of our immune system that can kill prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.
PayPal Hacked, Scary Router Hijack, PinePhone, Mac Pro Server
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- A Citrix exploit lets hackers take over compromized systems with little effort and no credentials needed.
- Windows 7 support has come to an end.
- PayPal has confirmed that a researcher found a high-severity security vulnerability that could expose user passwords to an attacker.
- Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems at risk of remote hijacking.
- Apple is now selling rack-mountable cheese graters.
- The PinePhone Brave Heart edition is available now for early adopters and we'll tell you about this $150 smartphone from Pine64.
Impossible Pork, Wawa Customers Beware, Mind-Reading Speech, Ring and Google Assistant Security
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- Dell’s new Concept UFO puts PC gaming on a Nintendo Switch-like device.
- Sony has developed an impressive electric car.
- Sony's latest displays are made specifically with the next-gen PlayStation 5 console in mind.
- A US convenience store and gas station chain had malware that stole customer payment info for more than half of 2019. If you live in the US, stick around - you may be affected.
- A brain implant has been invented that can read people's minds and turn their thoughts into speech.
- Amazon's Ring devices were a privacy nightmare in 2019. Now, the company wants to improve its image by giving users control over their security.
- The company that brought us the Impossible Burger is now doing a plant-based meat substitute as well.
- Google is adding new privacy and scheduling features to their virtual assistant.
BBC AI News, Nginx raided, Linux pwns ALL Competitors, Is QuadrigaCX Founder Really Dead?
- 645
- HP is fighting a very real environmental problem by building their laptops out of ocean-bound plastics.
- A new Linux laptop has launched that blows the Macbook Pro out of the water.
- For the first time, BBC News published a news story for every constituency that declared election results overnight - all written by a computer.
- A Russian police raid on Nginx's Moscow office last Thursday has raised concerns among users of the popular web and proxy server software.
- Linux has destroyed every competing OS in the supercomputer market, taking a 100% share of the top 500.
- Remember when the owner of cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX passed away, taking hundreds of millions in customer crypto to the grave with him? Now, investors are beginning to wonder if he actually died, or if he just took the money and ran.
Facebook to encrypt messages, Google AR, Intel's pocket-sized LIDAR camera, credential security
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- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google have stepped down from their positions as its CEO and President, respectively, with immediate effect at its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
- Mexican Cops Have Pre-Ordered a Fleet of Cybertrucks.
- Governments in the UK, US and Australia have asked Facebook, in an open letter, to roll back plans to bring end-to-end encryption to all of its platforms.
- Google is showing off stunning new augmented reality features coming to web and mobile apps soon.
- After analyzing a database containing 3 billion leaked credentials from security breaches, the Microsoft threat research team determined more than 44 million user accounts had a serious security problem. We'll tell you what you need to know.
- Intel is making LIDAR affordable, with a new palm-sized camera.
RPi 4 WiFi Glitch, Can't Trust US .gov Domains, Android Spy Flaw Fixed, Scary Smartwatch For Kids
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- Google wants to bring Android “as close as possible” to the mainline Linux kernel.
- Apple will have to face the law for distributing crappy keyboards.
- Raspberry Pi 4 are having problems with WiFi when connected to high definition displays.
- Someone pretended to be a mayor and the government gave him a .gov domain.
- Google has confirmed that a flaw that allowed hackers to take control of Android phone cameras, microphones and GPS location without the owners’ permission has been fixed.
- A smartwatch advertised as a way to help parents keep track of their children and give them a peace of mind can be turned into a frightening surveillance device.
Google Will Pay $1.5m to Hack Pixel, DOD Fights 5G, WT Social, Monero Wallet Hacked
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- Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested late Tuesday that his company had now received 250,000 pre-orders for the Cybertruck, its “Blade Runner”-inspired electric pickup. Tesla’s unveil event for its first pickup truck was marred by the vehicle’s windows breaking when an executive threw a metal ball at them in an effort to demonstrate their unbreakability. As it turns out, the same test was performed before the event, and went perfectly. The car’s trapezoid shape was also mocked in various memes. Even the official social media pages of LEGO had their go at the Cybertruck, but included innovative modular roof racks. Mr. Musk has said on Twitter that the reason Cybertruck is so planar is that you can't stamp ultra-hard 30X steel, because it breaks the stamping press. Despite the initial social media storm of people mocking the truck's design, others have praised the Cybertruck for bringing something new to the table.
- WyzeCam owners will soon find an update removes the AI-driven person detection from their device due to the unexpected termination of the agreement Wyze had with their AI provider. In Wyze's commitment to offer the feature for free, they are starting their own AI division to bring back person detection and other AI improvements to the motion detection. Wyze is being praised by its users on social media for their transparency through what is no doubt a difficult situation for their staff. The new firmware which removes the AI features is planned for mid-January 2020. There is no ETA yet as to when their new in-house solution will be ready.
- The Department of National Defense is joining the fight against 5G, citing risks to GPS and military operations.
- Google is serious about ensuring the Pixel line of Android phones is secure. They've announced that they'll pay security researchers up to $1.5 million to find hacks and exploits.
- The official site for the Monero digital coin was hacked to deliver currency-stealing malware to users who were downloading wallet software.
- Wouldn't it be nice if there was a Facebook rival? Well, there is! And it's founded by the guy who built Wikipedia.
Disney+ Accounts Compromised, Ring IoT Doorbell Hacked, GitHub Preserves Code Beyond the Year 3000
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- A new AI is combining machine learning and computer vision to detect drowning people in real time. By using object recognition, it's able to tell if a person is swimming normally, or if they are at risk of drowning. What's best is that Drowning-Detector is open source, and can run on a single board computer such as the Raspberry Pi.
- A secretive clean energy company backed by Bill Gates has created a way to use mirrors and artificial intelligence to harness the heat of the sun, replacing the need to use fossil fuels industrial heat applications, cut back on CO2 emissions. Their invention creates concentrated solar energy so hot that they can manufacture steel, glass and cement with a carbon-free source that had not been available before.
- Thousands Of Disney+ Accounts Are Already Up For Sale On Hacking Forums.
- IoT doorbell, Ring, had a bug in its configuration app which sent Wi-Fi setup information unencrypted to some doorbell devices, exposing customers' home networks.
- GitHub Will Preserve Open Source Code In An Arctic Vault.
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