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The BBC's Reith Lectures for 2016 are underway and this year they are presented by philosopher and cultural theorist Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah under the title of "Mistaken Identity". At a time where identity is endlessly discussed and defined - Republican or Democrat, pro-EU or Brexit, gay or straight, the four lectures will cover aspects of identity; Creed, Country, Colour and
Vine has announced that they will be discontinuing the mobile app in the coming months. They haven't given any specific reason for why they made the decision to discontinue the mobile app. The absence of a clear explanation is likely going to lead to some speculation about what seems like a sudden announcement. Vine started in 2013. Their blog post
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted rules that require broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to protect the privacy of their customers. The rules ensure that broadband customers have meaningful choice, greater transparency, and strong security protections for their personal information collected by ISPs. This landmark ruling, which was passed by a 3-2 party line vote by the FCC's five
I love it when video games include a special Halloween event! This year, Pokémon GO is doing something special for Halloween. It is the first time the game has done this. This makes me wonder if there will be more special events after the Halloween one is over. Niantic announced a treat for Trainers. From October 26th to November 1st,
You will notice the show is about 25 minutes short.. As I was doing the show tonight both of my monitors that I do the show from just went black. I have no idea what caused it, but I had to do a full reboot. Thus tonight no show as well. First time in 1155 episodes I have not been
The physical USB type A interface connector seems to have been around forever and to be fair, it's had an impressive lifespan starting with USB 1.0 back in 1996. Since then, the communication standard has been updated several times and the connector is still very relevant with USB 3.1 which now sports transfer speeds of up to 10 Gb/s. USB
CBS has ordered an adaptation of the popular Candy Crush Saga game. The Candy Crush game show will be a one-hour live action game show series based on the game. CBS, Lionsgate, and King will join together on the new format. Matt Kunitz will be the executive producer. The Candy Crush game show will be domestically distributed by CBS Television. Lionsgate
The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued an emergency order to ban all Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone devices from all air transportation in the United States. This order is being done for safety reasons. Individuals who own or possess a Samsung Galaxy Note7 device may not transport the device on their person, in carry-on baggage or in checked baggage
I cover a delicate topic tonight that I see is cropping up more in the tech space than anyplace else is surrounding retribution within the Tech community based upon one's political leanings. Some of the dialogue is downright scary on both sides of the isle.. Love to hear your feedback on my commentary, plenty of other tech news as well.
If you spend any time at all tinkering with computers, it's inevitable that one day you will have a computer with one set of ports and a peripheral with a completely different set of ports. Back in early 90s, before USB, serial ports changed from 25 pins to 9 pins and you needed a whole bag full of adaptors and
The Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam is the long awaited replacement for the Logitech C920. I have been a fan of the C920 as I have at two of them shared between the studio and travel kit. The C920 has been the go to Webcam for a lot of folks for a long time. So when the C922 was announced
The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition - Model W200A was sent to me by the folks at AT&T to review. This is the first Smart Watch I have reviewed, and as I was contemplating the criteria for this review I decided on the following points. Wear-ability, Usability, Battery Life & Style. With any watch it is my express opinion you
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