Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell
Summary: A weekly talk show about technology, science, and human creativity that excites, educates, and fosters curiosity. Discussions touch upon how technology affects society and how we react to that change. Hosts are passionate about explaining complex concepts in simple, easy to digest, chunks. We bridge the gaps between Geeks and the rest of humanity.
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- Artist: Lyle Troxell & The Geeks
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Podcasts:
Doom graphics study, drones delivering burritos, legal software like chat-bot tackling homelessness, Facebook removes socially important images because of nudity concerns, Crazy USB, Dropbox Hacking your computer. And a long post show with FAA thinking shampoo is worse then burning batteries, Lyle almost blinds himself recharging a battery, and more.
Alex Sleeis, our Southern California Correspondent, teaches us how amazing the $50 Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X is and what you can do with it to keep your home network safe and happy in the age of IoT (Internet of Things).
The WWW 25 years, pull requests to fix spelling, WhatsApp → Facebook your number, Self Driving Taxi in Singapore, Seymour Parpert made Logo, Nextdoor less racist, WhatsApp → Facebook your phone number, and more GeekNews of the week.
Gawker Media ending, global warming is warmer, space station airlocks and docks, telcos are leading IPv6 adoption, NASA opening research, and much more GeekNews of the week.
This week the geeks discuss another successful SpaceX landing, Hidden Figures: the story of a group of brilliant mathematicians who made NASA's Apollo mission possible, Seagate's new super large storage, different storage redundancy options, programming school, and HIV.
Bad lock security, phone battery sales double since PokémonGo, giant tall bus hits Chinese streets, FarmBot!, Trolling the internet for Politics, geeks and guns, slow mo actions, and much more GeekNews.
Dawn Motyka joins the Geeks to bring an extra level of awesomeness to this episode of GeekSpeak.
On July 31st 2016 the KUSP board sent out a press release stating "Local independent public radio station KUSP 88.9fm | kusp.org will sign off at midnight tonight, ending nearly 45 years of distinguished on-air public service in the greater Monterey Bay Area and more than 20 years online.". This prompted me to record the experience of hearing KUSP go off air. This is a non-standard short episode of GeekSpeak.
Good bye to the VCR, burrito currency, more car automation, For the Love of Spock doc, drone delivery slurpee, Echo dev, comic reader, and more geek news of the week.
France's terror alert app fails, autonomous cars or not, no more McPorn, Addicted to Pokemon Go, hidden voice commands, Airbnb laws, lack of diversity hiring. In the post show: Ranscam, Las Vegas, iOS Development and bugs in AVPlayer sound completions.
Apollo source code on GitHub, Facebook to handle graphic vids with nuance, faster SD cards, owning your finger prints, Pokemon Go, and more news of the week. Post show Miles and Lyle talk black lives matter vs blue, gun control, GMOs, and on and on.
Learning to code on iOS, FBI "don't indict", Lyle gets Echo, Facebook Changes their focus, Google Source Code management, Geek news of the week, and lots of post-show code geekery.
Quincy Larson (@ossia) runs Free Code Camp an open source community organization that helps people learn to code, and helps non-profits with software needs.
This week the Geeks discuss China's new supercomputer, new Apple photos app and file system, Uber self driving cars, and much more geek news of the week.
Ben ponders hot carbonated drinks, Bios update security fail, new Element names, trademark on "thankyou", Microsoft+LinkedIn, some Apple news and other GeekNews of the week.
