Techno Buffet Podcast

Episode 620 – Liberty and Prosperity


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* A Tribute to the State of New Jersey, and apology to our friend murph for impugning it.

* Skee-ball, the drive-in movie, and condensed soup were invented…as well as the submarine and first American steam locomotive
* President Grover Cleveland, the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms…was from New Jersey.
* James Garfield chose to die in New Jersey, 2 months after he was assassinated.
* Aaron Burr was born in New Jersey.
* New Jersey was the first state to ratify the bill of rights.
* In 1820, the tomato was proven to be non-poisonous by Colonel Robert Gibbon eating a tomato on steps of courthouse in Salem, New Jersey
* In 1870, Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey became the first African American to vote in the US under provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution


* YouTube’s new experiment suggests it could replace Google Podcasts
* Firefox for Android is finally getting more extensions
* Twitter to charge for SMS-based two-factor authentication – How to use Google Authenticator instead
* You can now edit Google Contacts directly from the Gmail sidebar
* Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Tasks soon
* IKEA launches its own Matter-compatible air quality sensor
* Mozilla Firefox picks up one of Android 13’s nicest features

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Techno Buffet PodcastBy Guru and Jere