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International Podcast Day is this coming Wednesday September 30th. I will be involved with several big events. The interview of Adam Curry and talking about Podcast 2.0 and the history of podcasting. Lot's of things happening in the podcasting space. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Join the Chat @ GeekNews.Chat Email Todd or follow him on Facebook. Like and Follow Geek
I know from working in Microsoft Teams during the pandemic that there are three things that really help your presence in an online meeting - a good microphone, a good camera and good lighting. This is not a new discovery but the increase in video calls has made more obvious than usual. Many people rely on the equipment built-into their
Big day for Amazon Ring announcements with a slew of brand new product offerings. They are really using their market power to flood the marketplace with a large assortment of new connected home devices. Everything from a mailbox monitor to a drone security device for your home. Plus app developers are now starting a coalition to fight Apple. Subscribe to
Disney+ launched not long ago (November 12, 2019 to be precise) and it has a lot of content, that isn’t just for children, although there is plenty of that. After all, these parks also cater to adults and so to do the movies and TV shows on its network. The company built by Mickey has come a long way. With a
Facebook is at war with the EU and says the may cease operations in Europe over a data storage ruling that happened in Ireland. Facebook appears to me to be upset and acting like a child bully. It's highly doubtful that Facebook will cut off collecting data on the 410 million europeans that use Facebook. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Join
OnePlus have announced the launch event for the OnePlus 8T: 1500 BST / 1000 EST on 14 October. This isn't entirely unexpected as OnePlus have long operated a biannual release strategy but with Covid-19 and the separate release of the Nord model, anything was possible in 2020. Fortunately, there is some stability in the world. "OnePlus is always looking for
GitHub announced that on October 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use “main” as the default branch, instead of “master”. The change does not impact any of your existing repositories: existing repositories will continue to have the same default branch they have now. In June of 2020, GitHub decided to replace the term “master” on its service with