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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.
Biometrics and You
- Episode 565
- July 18, 2018
- 275
This week we welcome back Robert Capps from NuData security to discuss the recent data breach at Timehop, and how biometrics and behavioral analytics can help protect user data. We'll also unbox a shiny new Rock64 SBC with 4 GB RAM, and of course, cover the week's tech news stories as well.
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A Long Term-Supply SBC and an Improved Photoshop Alternative
- Jul 11, 2018
- 1,411
Marie Kondo Method for Computers
- Jul 4, 2018
- 1,621
Internet, AI E-Sports and ODROID N1
- Jun 27, 2018
- 2,409
A Better Hearing Amplifier and E-Paper That Saves to PDF
- Jun 20, 2018
- 5,322
When There's No Power
- Jun 13, 2018
- 681
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,852
We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.
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Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Nov 12, 2013
- 743,757
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 737,109
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 728,197
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 703,146
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 July 11, 2018
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- New homes in suburban England will need to be fitted with electric car charging points under a government proposal to cut emissions.
- A migrating, tagged, male white stork—known to the Polish environmentalists who were tracking him as “Kajtek”—blipped out of contact on April 26.
- Amazon's move into retail has largely hinged around opening or acquiring brick-and-mortar stores. But this holiday season, the online retailer will reportedly try something different: printed catalogs.
- For the past several years, Google has moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, they've helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not secure.” Effective this month with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure.”
Top Stories for the Week of July 4, 2018
- 106
- Amazon has purchased PillPack, an online pharmacy, for nearly $1B.
- Adidas warned late on Thursday that hackers may have lifted customer data from its US website.
- An experimental robot with an animated cartoon face has been sent to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
- Facebook is giving up on its plan to create drones that beam down internet connectivity.
Top Stories for the Week of June 27, 2018
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- The Reserve Bank of India has given the country's banking sector a hard deadline to get Windows XP out of its ATMs: June 2019.
- Dozens of carbon monoxide alarms sold via Amazon and eBay have been taken offline after failing safety tests.
- Tesla plans to downsize its solar production: The company will cut 9 percent of its workforce, close more than a dozen installation facilities, and end its partnership with Home Depot.
- Pornographic images have begun appearing in Super Mario Odyssey.
Top Stories for the Week of June 20, 2018
- 1,281
- The inventor of a sophisticated compression technique is fighting back as Google tries to patent his open source work.
- Both Dubai and China have rolled out urban robots.
- A couple who admitted to stealing more than $1.2m worth of goods from Amazon has been sentenced to nearly six years in jail.
- A software bug meant millions of Facebook users may have unknowingly posted private information to the public.
Top Stories for the Week of June 6, 2018
- 1,020
- Microsoft is acquiring GitHub. After reports emerged that the software giant was in talks to acquire GitHub, Microsoft is making it official on Monday.
- The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of thousands devices.
- Apple on Monday previewed a variety of security and privacy features it plans to add to macOS and iOS operating systems, including encrypted Facetime group calls, password-management tools, and camera and microphone protections.
- ASUS has staged its annual Computex keynote and shown off laptops with dual screens--but it's not at all what you're imagining!
Top Stories for the Week of May 30, 2018
- 140
- YouTube is launching a music streaming service, offering both videos and audio tracks, in an attempt to compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music.
- London, England has a solution to the cashless-society problem facing street performers, and it involves an investment in contactless payment systems.
- Two Canadian banks say accounts have been compromised: CIBC says 40,000, and BMO says up to 50,000 customer accounts are affected.
- Ride-hailing firm Uber will give its European drivers access to medical coverage and compensation for work-related injuries.
New Every Day
Join Jeff Weston and Pastor Lawrence Crews as they sit down for a practical heart to heart conversation each week exploring everyday life as a Christian in today's society.
5 Love Languages of Kids
- Episode 157
- July 20, 2018
- 2
In the life-changing book "The 5 Love Languages of Children," author Gary Chapman helps us understand how our children (or grandchildren) perceive love, and how to better express our love for them in ways they respond to. This week on the show, Jeff shares an overview of the concepts presented, providing a foundation toward loving our children better.
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Bearing Fruit ... For Others
- Jul 13, 2018
- 53
What Is Truth?
- Jul 6, 2018
- 1,015
Go Ahead and Do What You Want
- Jun 29, 2018
- 1,055
The Lasting Impact of Children's Ministry
- Jun 22, 2018
- 1,008
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,465
Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.
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Jesus' Claims to Deity
- Sep 11, 2015
- 339,032
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,974
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,547
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,489
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
- 5,278
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
- 3,245
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,260
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,926
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,667
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 149,147
On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode! Here are the main topics of this episode: - Mining wood and stone. - Crafting wood sticks. - How to make wooden planks. - Crafting a furnace. - Smelting glass from sand. - Granting fast and fly privileges. - Making a pickaxe. - Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod. - Crafting a storage chest. - Crafting ladders. - Crafting a survival house. Hope you enjoy the show! Please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and share!
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Building a Mine in Minetest
- Jan 3, 2016
- 149,101
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,157
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 142,661
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,438
Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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