A horrible injury leaves Lannisport leadership with questions, Gallifrey deals with fallout from racist comments, and even Picard’s taunting the Avengers.
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It’s A Thing- s02e03 – Secret world of vacuum cleaners
Molly’s got a warning about grocery bags and Tom’s into small batch sodas, but the revelation about vacuum cleaner culture sweeps away the rest.
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Health warning over reusable plastic bags
Specialty soda
@bawitdaba1337 Yes, there is a vacuum-cleaner subculture
S&L Video REWIND – #09 – Interview with John Scalzi
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Tech News Today 814: Piracy is a Compliment
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell
Email services shut down because of spies, piracy better than an Emmy! BlackBerry’s almost out of options, and more.
Guests: Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Len Peralta
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Running time:: 0:47:18
YouTube: Tom answers 20 questions
So I decided to maybe use YouTube for something. I have a channel. Might as well do something with it. So I took to Twitter and asked people to ask me questions. I answered the first 20 of them on a video just as an experiment. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Tech History Today – August 9, 2013
In 1859 – US Patent no. 25,076 was issued to Nathan Ames of Saugus, Mass. for the first escalator-type moving staircase.
In 1927 – Computer pioneer Marvin Minsky was born in New York City. Minsky grew up to become a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence research and wrote the book “The Society of Mind.”
In 1995 – Netscape Communications staged an IPO. Shares opened at $28 and shot up to $75 per share in one day, becoming one of the indicators of the beginning of the dot-com boom.
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East Meets West 313 – Say what?
We talk French Polynesia, currency, languages, accents, tourist culture, foreign food, survival food.
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Tech News Today 813: The Next Next Steps
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell
Will Acer dump Windows for Android? YouTube founders mix up mobile video, CBS encourages piracy, and more.
Guest: Ken Denmead
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Running time:: 0:50:03
Tech History Today – August 8, 2013
In 1876 – Thomas Edison received a US patent for a mimeograph, which combined with an invention by A. B. Dick led to the first widely successful mimeograph machine.
In 1908 – For the first time in public, Wilbur Wright showed off the Wright Brothers’ flying machine at the racecourse in Le Mans, France. French doubts about the Wright Brothers’ claims to flight were put to rest for the time being.
In 2007 – Barbara Morgan became the first educator to safely reach space on the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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Tech News Today 812: I Wanna Get Chipped
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell
Google leaves Chrome passwords visible, AOL plans to take all the ad money, unauthorised streaming to become a felony, and more.
Guests: Eric Franklin and Jon Brodkin
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Running time:: 0:45:10