Lyle chats about doing the show for 15 years, and we cover the news: Freeboot followup, a new Epson printer that doesn’t need refills, Alphabet the new Google, Free Tuition for coding school, and much more.
Freebooting was discussed a few weeks ago during Arrr! Freebooters will Block your Tweets, Ladies
For Facebook, video is relatively
Epson is trying to do its part to make things a little better with its new line of EcoTank printers
1) We no longer charge for tuition. Instead, we have placement fee of 18% of your first year’s salary. A $6,000 deposit pays for room and board, but it is subtracted from your 18% after you complete to program.
2) Our program has been extended to 14 weeks. This ensures that you are job ready, and has been shown to increase your first year salary by $30,000.
What is Alphabet? Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead. What do we mean by far afield? Good examples are our health efforts: Life Sciences (that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity). Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren
This 2006 episode of GeekSpeak discusses cable companies providing internet as an alternative to DSL and satellite internet.
For most people, at least in the U.S., standard text messages are the default mode of communication. Your phone number is what you give out to love interests and potential employers; it
At the Flash Memory Summit in California, Samsung has unveiled what appears to be the world’s largest hard drive
Without fanfare, Apple recently updated iCloud.com to allow users to restore files, contacts, and/or calendars and reminders hosted on the service, opening up a recovery window for mistakes.
In 2012, researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands discovered a security flaw in a common automotive security chip used in theft prevention by Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat, Honda, and Volvo vehicles. But after they disclosed their results to the auto manufacturers
