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YAP 48: Freakin Lasers!

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Posted by :arron On : January 20, 2013

Category: Main YAP's


News:

  1. Wires smaller than Light Waves
  2. Botnet infects more than 1 Million Android Phones
  3. Under $600 960GB SSD:O
  4. Outsourcing the job?
  5. Boeing’s Dreamliner screwed.
  6. Freakin Lasers!
  7. 3D un-printer
  8. Dell Demos ARM based servers.
  9. Google is switching Chrome’s onmibox to use SSL
  10. Nokia 820 build your own case
  11. More ARM PCs
  12. Mega Legal*?
  13. Hardware key to replace passwords..?
  14. Robocontradiction

YAP: 47 But DARPA….

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Posted by :arron On : January 13, 2013

Category: Main YAP's

Topic: News?

News:

  1. White House rejects proposal to build Death Star
  2. Peta my flops – Omar
  3. Thanks Microsoft? - Omar
    1. WinRT Jailbreak.
  4. USB 3.0 Super Duper speed
  5. Chemical Engineering = Magic + Money – Omar
    1. Molecular Robot mimics Life’s Protein-Builder
  6. ThermoCrystals
  7. YAJZDE
  8. I’m sorry; paper thin Tablet from CA Uni
  9. DARPA want’s to assure our destruction with ocean planted robots.
  10. Anon is F*****g retarded.
    1. Rage sucks large penis, news at 11!
  11. Researchers identifying Anon members using linguistics.
  12. Nvidia shield project
  13. Bad Ausies bad, get a constitution, jk we ignore ours!
  14. Nokia Staph
  15. Nokia SERIOUSLY STAPH
    1. Same as Opera Mini.

YAP 46: 3 Meter Projectile Vomiting on Demand

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Posted by :arron On : January 7, 2013

Category: Main YAP's

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Topic: News

News:

  1. Projectile Vomit on Command
  2. Negative Degrees Kelvin
  3. OSS, reverse Engineered nVidia driver, supports 3D Accell on all GeForce GPUs
  4. Ivy Bridge Under 10W ?
  5. French ISP free.fr is blocking ads by default.
  6. AMD To Reduce Frame Rate Drop YAY
  7. Planet formation caught on video.
  8. Little F*****r Stares Into Your Soul
  9. Netbooks Should Die Off
  10. IRC Losing Popularity
  11. MSFT vs. APPL Office 365 in App Store
  12. MSFT vs. GOOG No Youtube App on WinPo
  13. Don’t be silly online
  14. Amazon sales up 40% year-over-year

YAP 45: Windows, Tablets and Mobile OH MY!

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Posted by :arron On : December 2, 2012

Category: Main YAP's

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Topic: Windows, Tablets and the mobile future, oh my!
Guest: Pete Brown!!!!!11!1!!

Windows Platform Developer Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on helping developers make awesome Windows Store apps.
Builds synths, robots, and other potentially lethal things for fun. Loves to work with C/C++ on ARM and Atmel microcontrollers, and C# / XAML on Windows and C# on the .NET Micro Framework/Netduino/Gadgeteer.

blog/site: http://10rem.net
twitter: @pete_brown

News:

  1. SMS turns 20 years old.
  2. Pong just turned 40
  3. First real image of DNA double helix.
    1. Direct
    2. (Turns out this isn’t actually the double helix, just the twist of helix strands)
  4. US Gov. Does something useful.
    1. Clearly news from the [Far far far far....... ad infinitum -Arron] distant future
  5. 10 Years ago, 4 Microsoft engineers predicted the utter failing of DRM
  6. Open Labs releases StageLight: “Garage Band Killer” for Windows *desktop*. Win7/Win8 touch optimized.’
  7. Netflix Open Sources more infrastructure code
    1. Netflix on GitHub
  8. Amazon owns online sales (we knew that) and shows its dominance on cyber monday.
  9. Random thing: My Mode Machines SID should arrive any day now
  10. Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and changes for Windows Store Apps
  11. Amzon adds a few “insane” instance types to EC2
    1. 240GB RAM, 120GB SSD x2
    2. 117GB RAM, 2TB HD x 24 = 48TB!?!?!?!? ← holy crap ← Seconded.
  12. You can pre-order a shirt with “procrastinate” written on it.

YAP #44: Black Eyes with Samsung and Apple

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Posted by :arron On : November 25, 2012

Category: Main YAP's

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News:

  1. Black Friday
    1. Walmart (facepalm)
    2. Black Friday Online Sales up 24% (14.4% via mobile)
    3. PayPal; Mobile payments up 173% Thanksgiving day.
  2. Samsung vs. Apple No Can Be Friendz
    1. Apple reportedly changing suppliers for it’s batteries.
  3. Google
    1. Promises to bring December back to Android.
    2. releases all of the raw data from it’s Election polling.
  4. RIMM
    1. BB10 may not suck?
    2. RIMM stock up on news that they may not fail like the miserable turd they are.
  5. Internet Lawyers sue other Internet Lawyers
  6. Storage is for people with brains. Oh wait…
  7. Microsoft is special. But in a cool way.
  8. Can’t even trust food now. Thanks google.
  9. 7kV electric fence to prevent copper theft.
  10. WITCH to be rebooted.
    1. Wiki

YAP #43: Skype Loved the K9

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Posted by :arron On : November 15, 2012

Category: Main YAP's

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Topic: MSTF

  1. Win 8 RT
  2. Surface
  3. Steven Sinofsky
    1. http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/12/microsofts-windows-president-steven-sinofsky-leaves-company-following-launch-of-windows-8/

News:

  1. Patents:
    1. Apple vs. HTC – Settled.
    2. Apple vs. Samsung – Samsung: No Settlement.
  2. Free Online courses might count for college credit!
  3. Hulu adds “Hulu Kids” commercial free kids shows for Plus users.
  4. Twitter, the securitiez suq again.
  5. IE 10 Preview avail for Win 7

YAP 042: Cancer Detecting Bras, Hackers Killing Heart Patients.

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Posted by :arron On : October 17, 2012

Category: Main YAP's

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News:

  1. Apple
    1. Switching producers for ARM CPUs
  2. Google
    1. to start scanning android apps for malware.
    2. patches chrome exploit in under 10 hours
  3. MSFT
    1. Pricing Surface tablets to compete with Apple
  4. Facebook H4x0r3d
  5. Sony files Patent Application for temperature feedback in controllers.
  6. Linux Foundation offers work around for UEFI Secure Boot systems.
    1. UEFI Wiki
  7. Linux Distro offers updates directly from GIT repositories.
  8. Scary! Reverse Engineers hack Pacemakers to send bad shocks.
  9. Cancer-Detecting Bra
  10. Biodegradable computer chips made of spider silk.
  11. Letter from Einstein to be auctioned on EBay
  12. Steam lets your computer get h4x0r3d
  13. 0-day exploits need renaming to -312-day exploits.
  14. UK Police fined £120,000 for using unencrypted flash drives
  15. FBI issues warning about Android Virus! iOS RULEZ

YAP 028: Building Hardware

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Posted by :arron On : May 1, 2012

Category: Podcast

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Topic:
Building new hardware.

News:

  1. Urthcast
  2. Kindle Fire is 54.5% of the Android Tablet Marketplace
  3. Winklevi are going to be VCs, “We think the cloud is going to be huge”.. Duh!?
  4. Amazon’s Q1 Revenue up, net income down
  5. Apple
    1. 1 Year since the launch of the Mac App Store, 10k downloads
    2. Apple’s crackdown on app download bots drives a 30% reduction in downloads
    3. Facebook and JCP hire Apple design Execs
    4. iPhone accounted for 59% off smartphone sales last quarter
    5. Apple’s Plan: Step 1: Profit. Step 2: See Step 1
    6. How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Global Taxes
  6. Samsung takes thrown as largest cell phone manu, Nokia gets downgraded to “junk”
  7. Intuit acquires marketing SaaS company Demandforce
  8. Google Sells its first product, SketchUp, to Trimble
    1. Alt story
  9. London Olympics says no to pics
  10. Nintendo posts first ever loss
  11. Kleiner Perkins & Eric Schmidt lead a $6M round funding a stealth security startup
  12. Google Drive goes Live
    1. DropBox CEO comments
  13. :O Square processing $5B every year!!  Volume up 25% since March.
  14. SSL project find that just 10% of SSL sites are actually secure.!??!?!?!?
  15. 220 New TLDs !?
  16. House passes CISPA
  17. Engineering Shortage
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YAP 027: News, News and More News

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Posted by :arron On : April 24, 2012

Category: Main YAP's

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Topic: Nuthin but news baby!

  1. Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Date
  2. Updated: Openwave, ‘Inventors Of The Mobile Internet’, Sells Software Biz To Focus On Patents
  3. Asteroid take out—a one-billionaire mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025
  4. AT&T Opening Watson Speech Recognition To Developers With New APIs In June
  5. An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram
  6. Why Startups Should Pay Attention To Skyrocketing Patent Prices
  7. Wikimedia Brings The Wikipedia Approach To How It Runs Its Servers
  8. Press-On Polarizers Let You Enjoy 3D Movies Without Wearing Ugly Glasses
  9. Microsoft Job Postings Reveal “Skype For Browsers” Project
  10. Study: Those Social Media Logos On TV Actually Work
  11. Hulu Changes Deal For Advertisers: Now They Only Pay When Viewers Watch The Whole Ad
  12. Evernote Raising $50 Million To $100 Million At A $1 Billion+ Valuation
  13. Moms We’d Like To Fund
  14. Got Pot? Leafy Can Help
  15. The Edible Spoon
  16. Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ
  17. Linus Shares the Millennium Technology Prize
  18. Why Microsoft doesn’t need your money: Business brings home the bacon
  19. Kim Dotcom may go without charges. <<<
  20. iOS devices are safer from viruses because of accountability, not code quality
  21. Meteor shower this weekend
  22. Computer game designed to treat depression as effective as traditional treatment
  23. Growth rate of scientific fraud is outpacing the growth rate of the field ;(
  24. “Hypersonic” plane peeled like a banana after only 3 minutes at mach 20
  25. Pay-by-sportsmanship model for games?
  26. IBM created a “breathing battery”, Lithium-Oxygen battery.
  27. 1.5TB Cassette developed by Sony.
  28. Mechanical Processor implemented as a clock
  29. Pentagon orders dual focus contact lens
  30. 0-Day Privilege Escalation  found in backtrack

YAP 026: Google is Evil (beta)

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Posted by :arron On : April 17, 2012

Category: Podcast

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Topic:  Google – Evil (Beta)
MS 8 Consumer Preview

Google Ads

News:

  1. Utah medicaid hacked, 25k SSNs compromised.
  2. Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion, Turns Budding Rival Into Its Standalone Photo App Selling out is the new keeping it real!
  3. Instagram’s User Count Now At 40 Million, Saw 10 Million New Users In Last 10 Days
  4. How The Pebble Smart Watch Hit $2 Million On Kickstarter [Q&A]
  5. Despite $889M In Revenue This Year, No IPO In Spotify’s Cards, But Ek Wouldn’t Say No To More Funding
  6. Google Biz Chief: Over 10M Websites Now Using Google Analytics
  7. Google Beats In Q1 2012: Revenue Up 24 Percent To $10.65B, $2.9B In Net Income
  8. The Day After: Google Stock Down Nearly 4% After Stock Split News
  9. Google Will Be The Official Social Platform & Livestream Provider For The 2012 Republican Convention
  10. Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging $40/Month And Up For Its Bing Search API
  11. Sony Confirms 10,000 Jobs To Go As Part Of Its Big ‘One Sony’ Reorganization
  12. Move Over 1024×768: The Most Popular Screen Resolution On The Web Is Now 1366×768
  13. OMG WTF KERNEL TEAM CLASSES OSS NVIDIA DRIVER ‘STABLE’!
  14. Activision/Blizzard sued for infringing on the worlds dumbest patent.
  15. Self Destroying tech.
  16. Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted
  17. New Study Suggests Mars Viking Robots Found Life
  18. iPhone users sue AT&T for permitting stolen phones to be reactivated
  19. Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit
  20. DoJ Files Suit Against Apple, Ebook Publishers
  21. 78 Bomb threats since 14th of Feb @ UofPittsburgh
  22. Poo-Powered Rickshaw Unveiled At the Denver Zoo
  23. NO MORE EFFING NEWS!!!
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