Gadgets & Tech – Spoken Edition

Seriously, I strongly warn you to not lean into your screen to get a better look at this monstrosity. This video shows the remains of a dead cricket that some random hiker stepped on while enjoying the great outdoors. Suddenly, the tranquility of nature was interrupted by the reality of life and the parasites that erupted out of the cricket’s corpse. Frankly, crickets have a parasite problem that no species should have to endure.

We are all overstimulated automatons making our way through the day, just moving from one screen to the next in a sleep-deprived stooper. And even though scientists say it’s the worst idea, many of us can’t sleep without a TV on. That’s where Napflix comes in. Sure, Netflix itself has invested in the random burning log here or subway commute video there, but Napflix is a fully dedicated snooze machine.

Included in this SpokenEdition:

1) Sorry, No One Likes Vaping

2) If Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate on PBS, Does It Make a Sound?

3) Nintendo Pulls the Plug on Wii U

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Included in this SpokenEdition:

1) The Venom From This Snake Will Make Your Life a Living Hell

2) The War With Extraterrestrials Will Begin in France

3) Fart Blamed for Causing a Fire During Surgery at a Tokyo Hospital

4) End of an Era:Goodbye Mac Startup Sound

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The origin of the AIDS pandemic has been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, showing the disease jumped from the Caribbean to New York City around 1970. The new study subsequently clears the name of Gaétan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant long-thought to be “Patient Zero.

Ryan Collins, the Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to a felony hacking charge earlier this year in connection with the 2014 celebrity nude photo leak known as “The Fappening,” has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, authorities announced on Thursday.

In the lead-up to the holiday season, Microsoft is throwing down the gauntlet. Got an Apple-branded laptop? The tech giant will give you up to $650 to part ways with it, just as long as you spend that cash on a shiny new Surface Pro 4 or a Surface Book. Microsoft’s “trade in and trade up” laptop program is yet another campaign in the company’s buyback war against Apple.

After a reign lasting more than 2000 years, the King of the Judeans has been dethroned. According to Google Trends, which tracks how often a particular term is searched for, “memes” officially overtook “jesus” earlier this year. The breakaway appears to have occurred in late August, but it wasn’t widely recognized until Tuesday, when Norwegian developer Dominik Salonen publicized his findings on Twitter. “WE DID IT PEOPLE,” wrote Salonen.

The MacBook Air is likely dead. Despite being Apple’s most popular current computer, used by programmers, bloggers, and coffee shop patrons everywhere, the MacBook Air appears to have been put to pasture. It’s never going to get a super high resolution Retina display or a super thin bezel. Instead according to Tim Cook, MacBook Air fans should go with the tiny MacBook Apple announced last year.

Google announced Tuesday that it is “pausing” its Fiber operations in ten cities. Google Fiber will remain in cities that Google has already laid the infrastructure for, but Alphabet is putting a halt on future development. Google will also be laying off 9% of its Fiber team, according to Ars Technica. The CEO of Google Access, Craig Barratt, is also stepping down.