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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 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.

Picking The Parts and Free E-Books

  • Episode 517
  • August 16, 2017
  • 4,466

For a few days this weekend, Amazon is giving away some books on its Kindle platform. Robbie shares the details, and we get started on selecting the hardware for Sasha's computer build.

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Miracast and a Community Computer Build

  • Aug 9, 2017
  • 7,123

The Tiny, Easy-To-Use Video Player

  • Aug 2, 2017
  • 10,310

Things You Should Know From The World of Tech

  • Jul 26, 2017
  • 4,425

Taking A First Stab At Kodi

  • Jul 19, 2017
  • 4,648

Hexachords Orb Composer - The AI Musician

  • Jul 12, 2017
  • 13,651

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 August 16, 2017

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  • On Monday, the United States will witness a total solar eclipse, the first for almost 99 years, and the likes of which the world has never seen.
  • The world’s first wireless fridge camera goes on sale in the UK next month aimed at helping households slash food waste by being able to check exactly what they have in their refrigerator at any time.
  • Hardware company Lockstate has managed to brick hundreds of internet-connected so-called smart locks on people's front doors with a bad firmware update.
  • Good news for those of you who live on Earth: The European Space Agency has confirmed there is no danger of asteroid 2012 TC4 hitting our beloved planet in October, despite what some panicky YouTube videos might tell you.
  • A teenager in Uruguay has scored big after finding and reporting a bug in Google's App Engine to view confidential internal Google documents.
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Top Stories for the Week of August 9, 2017

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  • Remember ‘Marcus Hutchins’ - the security researcher who single-handedly found and used the WannaCry kill switch? Well, he has now been arrested and charged with unrelated malware offences in the U.S.
  • Scientists at IBM Research have created a new world record for storing over 330TB of uncompressed data on a single tape cartridge that can easily fit into the palm of a person’s hand.
  • Although always the ultimate plan, Ubuntu devs expressed doubts about making the switch to Wayland last month, with Will Cooke, Ubuntu's desktop team leader saying he felt “Wayland isn’t ready yet”. But several weeks later, after a lot of testing, a decision is now in place: Ubuntu 17.10 will ship with Wayland as the default session.
  • If you thought American or British copyright fights were petty, consider the case of Canadian Adam Lackman – who had a bailiff, lawyers, and computer experts burst into his home, seize his gear, and grill him for hours.
  • The U.S. Army has ordered its members to stop using drones made by Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd because of "cyber vulnerabilities" in the products.
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Top Stories for the Week of August 2, 2017

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  • The UK government recently launched a £400m fund to boost investment in "full-fibre" broadband.
  • A car made from biodegradable natural materials has passed road safety tests in the Netherlands.
  • The relentless march of the self-driving car is in danger of grinding to a halt in Australia because the technology cannot cope with kangaroos.
  • If you want to play the original version of Doom II, the game will set you back just £1.49 during the current Steam Summer Sale. If you want a boxed copy of the original floppy disk version, circa 1994, there's a copy available on eBay right now for $75.
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Top Stories for the Week of July 26, 2017

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  • A crewless ship to be christened the Yara Birkeland is expected to start sailing in 2018, initially delivering fertilizer along a 37-mile route in southern Norway.
  • Those disappointed when Britain rejected the name Boaty McBoatface for a polar research ship should find joy in the name of a new train in Sweden.
  • Google’s healthcare arm Verily announced just before the weekend it will release twenty million sterile male mosquitoes into the wild, in Fresno County, California.
  • According to the Federation Against Copyright Theft, British magazine "KODI" is directing readers to copyright-infringing software.
  • Transport Canada has issued an update in recent weeks to its interim order governing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, which include consumer and professional drones.
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Top Stories for the Week of July 19, 2017

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  • The sleek, low-slung driverless Roborace car was on display in New York City for the Formula E races this weekend, but it was the workhorse DevBot that took to the track.
  • The science of prosthetics has been advancing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, and research into soft robotics has been especially complementary. The same techniques that go into making a robot arm that flexes and turns like a real one can go into making more complex, subtle organs — like the heart, as Swiss researchers have demonstrated.
  • A security robot in Washington DC suffered a watery demise after falling into a fountain by an office building.
  • Google is reviving its failed Glass project, the smart headset designed to augment everyone's vision, as a product for businesses.
  • Microsoft's long, gentle embrace of Linux continues with the first release candidate of SQL Server 2017.
  • Are you an Ubuntu user? If you're using Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, it hits end of life tomorrow, July 20.
  • Unwitting customers in the United Kingdom who didn't read the terms and conditions for use of a public WiFi hotspot agreed to perform 1,000 hours of community service, including unclogging sewers and scraping gum off the street.
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Top Stories For The Week Of July 12, 2017

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  • In May of last year, speaker and fitness tracker company Jawbone ended production of its fitness trackers and started seeking a buyer for its speaker business, leading to speculation that the company was going out of business.
  • RED, the company that makes professional digital cameras for shooting Hollywood movies, is making a "holographic" phone called the Hydrogen.
  • Most experts believe the first industry to be upended by autonomous driving will be the trucking sector. What better use case for driverless technology than long-haul trucking where most of the driving is confined to the highway?
  • Intel is shedding nearly 140 staff from its Internet of Things business lines.
  • Tuxedo, a German computer company selling a range of Linux laptops, has announced it is launching it own Ubuntu-based Linux distro.
  • Linux users need to check out their distributions to see if a nasty bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched.
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New Every Day

Join Jenn Wagar and Carrie Webb as they sit down for a heart-to-heart discussion each week, addressing many of the issues Christians face in their day to day lives, and building your faith and focus through relevant conversation.

I Didn't See That Coming - Part 5

  • Episode 112
  • August 18, 2017
  • 1,219

When Saul encountered Jesus, he went through an amazing transformation. These kinds of transformations still happen 2000 years later. This week we welcome Josh Holden to the show, who having encountered Jesus has gone from using and selling drugs to serving the Lord. Join us as he shares where he has come from.

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I Didn't See That Coming - Part 4

  • Aug 11, 2017
  • 1,293

I Didn't See That Coming - Part 3

  • Aug 4, 2017
  • 1,233

I Didn't See That Coming - Part 2

  • Jul 28, 2017
  • 1,245

I Didn't See That Coming - Part 1

  • Jul 21, 2017
  • 1,274

The Pixel Shadow

Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.

Discovering Xanadu

  • Episode 24
  • April 23, 2017
  • 4,278

A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.

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The Mysterious Room

  • Apr 9, 2017
  • 2,734

Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)

  • Apr 1, 2017
  • 3,816

Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)

  • Mar 19, 2017
  • 7,486

Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)

  • Mar 11, 2017
  • 6,279

Immersive Nature Sounds

Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.

Bonus Episode: 12 Hours Gentle Thunderstorm 3D Nature Sounds for Sleep, Study or Tinnitus Relief

A Calm Storm

Rain on the Lake in Cottage Country

Green Frogs in Mayers Marsh

Waves on Kempenfelt Bay

Bird Song of Happy Canaries

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