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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.

Taking A First Stab At Kodi

  • Episode 513
  • July 19, 2017
  • 2,569

Things don't always go to plan on a live broadcast, and this week is one of those times. Kodi is an awesome application for multimedia, but during our live broadcast our demo system had some trouble doing what Robbie intended. We learned one thing: Linux is awesome, and the ability to reach out to the community for support makes even those trying times okay, because you have a powerful support system ready to help you when things don't quite work as they should.

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Hexachords Orb Composer - The AI Musician

  • Jul 12, 2017
  • 12,716

Virtual Reality And Reality

  • Jul 5, 2017
  • 15,206

Linux Desktop Environments on Debian Stretch

  • Jun 28, 2017
  • 12,237

Debian Stretch Release Celebration

  • Jun 21, 2017
  • 24,543

Unveiling Kingston's 2TB USB Flash Drive

  • Jun 14, 2017
  • 20,218

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 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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Top Stories for the Week of July 5, 2017

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  • A drone flying close to Gatwick Airport led to the closure of the runway and forced five flights to be diverted.
  • Facebook has completed its second test flight for its solar-powered, internet-beaming drone called Aquila.
  • A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Facebook accusing it of tracking users' internet usage between April 22, 2010, and Sept. 26, 2011, regardless if they've logged out of the network.
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Top Stories for the Week Of June 28, 2017

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  • Last week, Beta Archive posted Windows 10 source code related to USB, storage and WiFi drivers on its free FTP site. Since then, a spokesperson for Microsoft has confirmed that this code is genuine.
  • Linux is still running on more than 99% of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. Same as last year, 498 out of top 500 supercomputers run Linux while remaining 2 run Unix.
  • NASA says the preliminary design review of its Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) project suggests it is possible to create a supersonic aircraft that doesn't produce a sonic boom.
  • Super Mario World, Starfox and Yoshi's Island are set to be re-released later this year as part of a new classic SNES console.
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Top Stories for the Week of June 21, 2017

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  • Canada's broadcast regulator has ruled that cellphone networks may no longer charge fees for carrier-unlocking handsets nor sell new phones locked to their network.
  • Online retail giant Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a $13.7bn deal that marks its biggest push into traditional retailing yet.
  • Apple's chief executive has confirmed it is developing a self-driving car system.
  • A European Parliament committee is proposing that end-to-end encryption be enforced on all forms of digital communications to protect citizens.
  • The latest chapter in the Star Trek saga finally has its premiere date -- with the 15-episode season set to be released in two chapters.
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Top Stories for the Week of June 14, 2017

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  • The days of listening to the captain speaking on a flight may be numbered, according to Boeing.
  • Fake books – powered by clickfarms – are gatecrashing Amazon’s charts. And despite being aware of the issue for well over a year, Amazon has thus far failed to resolve it.
  • Pursuing more efficient sources of renewable energy has led to many iterations of the battery. But researchers just brought a really interesting new version to the table, one made from potassium ions and trash.
  • Parker Brothers Concepts, the same Florida-based custom vehicle shop that built a TRON-inspired electric motorcycle, has now designed and built a new NASA rover for humans to drive around on Mars.
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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

  • Episode 108
  • July 21, 2017
  • 67

This week we look at the story of Saul in Act 9, some of the unexpected surprises encountered throughout his journey, and how they relate to us.

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Living in the Danger Zone - Part 4: The Scattering of the People

  • Jul 14, 2017
  • 1,190

Living in the Danger Zone - Part 3

  • Jul 7, 2017
  • 1,177

Living in the Danger Zone - Part 2

  • Jun 30, 2017
  • 1,198

Living in the Danger Zone - Part 1

  • Jun 23, 2017
  • 1,677

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
  • 4,107

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
  • 2,659

Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)

  • Apr 1, 2017
  • 3,749

Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)

  • Mar 19, 2017
  • 7,422

Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)

  • Mar 11, 2017
  • 6,225

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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