Geekdays

If you take any one thing away from this episode, let it be this – the Nintendo Switch is doing REALLY well.

Show notes and links:

* Turns out you can sell your lamp on Tinder. You just have to watch out for ghosting. (mashable.com)

* Google Assistant coming to Android tablets and older phones (androidcentral.com)

* Researchers Are Working on Plants That Could Glow Bright Enough to Replace Lamps (vice.com)

* Top searches, tech, movies, memes, and more revealed (androidauthority.com)

* Nine months in and Nintendo Switch sales are closing in on the Wii U (alphr.com)

Stuff! Things! AI! Stories! All the stuff.

Show notes and links:

* Searchable database of 1.4 billion stolen credentials found on dark web (itworldcanada.com)

* Discovery in Antarctica changes everything we know about aliens (nypost.com)

* Apple confirms it has acquired Shazam (theverge.com)

* We have the first direct evidence that ticks really did feast on dinosaur blood (sciencealert.com)

* This Harry Potter AI-generated fanfiction is remarkably good (theverge.com)

It’s a double feature! Twice the length! Twice the stories! Roughly twice the words! Twice the Jeff! … and roughly the same amount of fun.

Show notes and links:

* Who’s the least popular Star Wars character ever? Hint: It’s not Jar Jar (mashable.com)

* This link has no title (morningconsult.com)

* Trump to sign directive ordering NASA to return to the Moon (engadget.com)

* Scientists are slowly unlocking the secrets of the Earth’s mysterious hum (washingtonpost.com)

* Jury finds Salt Lake Comic Con, its founders violated trademark (deseretnews.com)

* DNA Tattoos Are the Final Frontier of Love (nytimes.com)

* Now Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton, and Serena Williams can be the angel on your Christmas tree (mashable.com)

* Sony may finally let you change your PlayStation Network name (engadget.com)

* Comcast continues to inject its own code into websites you visit (thenextweb.com)

* Someone watched ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ on Netflix 365 days in a row (mashable.com)

* A UK-based Netflix subscriber watched ‘Bee Movie’ 357 times this year (mashable.com)

* Netflix calls out the 53 people who can’t stop watching A Christmas Prince (avclub.com)

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In Japan, they have a drone that blasts music at their employees. Here at CSICON, the only way we can do that is to force people to listen to Breki’s latest songs in our all hands-meetings on Monday Mornings. So primitive.

Show notes and links:

* VSCO’s new Messages feature competes with Instagram DMs (theverge.com)

* Instagram is testing a standalone messaging app because why not (androidcentral.com)

* 77 year old retiree proves anything can be done in Microsoft Excel, including beautiful art (onmsft.com)

* Turns Out Yetis are Really Just Bears (geek.com)

* Patreon is shifting processing fees from creators to supporters (engadget.com)

* Drone curbs overtime in Japan by blasting workers with music (engadget.com)

It’s a sad world we live in, where :frowning_pile_of_poop: doesn’t automatically correct to an emoji, isn’t it?

Show notes and links:

* This link has no title (medicalxpress.com)

* Cinemark launches a monthly movie program to rival MoviePass (engadget.com)

* Lytro’s ‘living pictures’ are now dead on the web (theverge.com)

* How often you should wash your bed sheets, according to a microbiologist (sciencealert.com)

* Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row (bbc.com)

You heard it here first, folks. Artifical Intelligence Developmental Psychology. It’ll be HUGE.

Show notes and links:

* Fisker previews Orbit autonomous shuttle (autoblog.com)

* Henrik Fisker: Understanding Design – YouTube (youtube.com)

* Artificially Intelligent Robot Predicts Its Own Future by Learning Like a Baby (gizmodo.com)

* Developmental psychology – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)

* Blizzard’s Overwatch League will sell both real and virtual jerseys (theverge.com)

* Neil Young rips Apple Music over streaming audio quality (cultofmac.com)

* Nintendo and Nvidia bring HD Wii games to Shield TV in China (theverge.com)

Possibly – probably! – perpetually promiscuous. Poultry Poop perplexes people, playing polka plagues Polish painters, painting portraits portraying Prince pillaging Portugese portapotties.

Show notes and links:

* Researchers Tout Poultry Poop as Renewable Energy Source (geek.com)

* Amazon tosses animal owners a bone with new ‘Pet Profile’ feature (thenextweb.com)

* New spacesuit ‘go home’ function could save astronaut lives (techcrunch.com)

* Senators ask the FCC to delay its net neutrality vote (updated) (engadget.com)

* Ivan Chermayeff, designer of America’s recognisable logos, has died (mashable.com)

* InspirADCion – Ivan Chermayeff – YouTube (youtube.com)

Sorry for the delay on this one, it got stuck in the publication process.

Show notes and links:

* After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters (arstechnica.com)

* This heavy metal music made by a machine will rock your human face off (thenextweb.com)

* Coditany of Timeness | DADABOTS (bandcamp.com)

* AI-Connected Ara Electric Toothbrush Makes Oral Hygiene Fun (geek.com)

* The “Root” Login Bug Is Back In The Latest MacOS Update (buzzfeed.com)

* Apple releases iOS 11.2 early after phones started crashing on Dec. 2 (mashable.com)

* Apple may release a new 9.7-inch iPad for less than $300 – BGR (bgr.com)

* Opossum breaks into liquor store, drinks bourbon, officials say (newsday.com)

December – it’s the last month of the year. These things are passing quicker and quicker, aren’t they? I remember the 80s lasting forever, and now the 2010’s are basically over – and what have I accomplished in all that time? … you know, apart from getting a great apartment, founding a podcast network, earning lots of money and advancing in many skills and abilities?

Show notes and links:

* Study Says Most Redditors Won’t Read This Story Before Voting on It (gizmodo.com)

* Scientists call for ban on glitter, say it’s a global hazard (valleynewslive.com)

* ‘Bomb on board’ wi-fi network causes Turkish Airlines flight to be diverted (reuters.com)

* Robot fish detects leaks in LA underground pipes (zdnet.com)

* Lyft gained from Uber’s scandals, sees revenue triple (techcrunch.com)

It’s another day – so here’s another episode of Geekdays. That’s how that works. Them’s the terms, kiddo.

Show notes and links:

* Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? (theverge.com)

* SpaceX’s Planned Giant Rocket Could Chase Down Interstellar Asteroid (scientificamerican.com)

* A Computer Error Let Every American Airlines Pilot Take Christmas Off and Now Who’s Gonna Fly Us Home (gizmodo.com)

* Google’s AI can identify and shame shoulder surfers (techspot.com)

* Twitter hero who deactivated Trump’s account says it was a ‘mistake’ (mashable.com)