Geekdays

It’s the day before the day before the end of all good things. So we have a story about how to kill mosquitos!

Show notes and links:

* There’s A Previously Undiscovered Organ in Your Body, And It Could Explain How Cancer Spreads (futurism.com)

* What If Your Blood Was Deadly to Mosquitoes? (discovermagazine.com)

* US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC (apnews.com)

* ‘Stranger Things’ is coming to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights (mashable.com)

* ESPN+ will launch on April 12th for $4.99 per month (theverge.com)

We’ve got some good news and some bad news on this show … But we also have the end of a long-running series on “where will it crash”, as well as a toilet-cleaning-home-automation-bot, so there’s always that…

Show notes and links:

* Apple could drop Intel chips from Macs by 2020 – Axios (axios.com)

* There’s a hidden spacecraft dump in the middle of the ocean (sciencealert.com)

* Tiangong-1: Defunct China space lab comes down over South Pacific (bbc.com)

* #Flu – Scientific American (scientificamerican.com)

* ‘Where’s Waldo?’ is hiding in Google Maps for April Fool’s Day (mashable.com)

* Potty Training: Meet The World’s First Toilet-Cleaning Robot (nocamels.com)

A quickie before we go on our Easter leave! Enjoy, and stay tuned for next week, as we have an exciting announcement!

Show notes and links:

* FeelReal wants to add haptics and smells to your VR experience (androidcentral.com)

* NASA chief explains why agency won’t buy a bunch of Falcon Heavy rockets (arstechnica.com)

* Apple’s $329 iPad with Pencil support to take on Chromebooks in schools (cnet.com)

* Watch Oscar Isaac get slapped by Carrie Fischer a few dozen times (mashable.com)

Sorry, I’ll be with you in a moment … continues looking down at phone and ignores you completely …

Show notes and links:

* ‘Phubbing’ can threaten our basic human needs, research shows — ScienceDaily (sciencedaily.com)

* Our faces show what we want, not what we feel (futurity.org)

* Here’s why the snow in Russia turned orange (theverge.com)

* This Gross Puking Robot Is a Much Safer Way to Mix Rocket Fuel (gizmodo.com)

* Donald Glover Sets The Record Straight About Deadpool Animated Series (stereogum.com)

And so it came to be, that the man with the thing was late to the stuff and instead went and placed said stuff together with the things that he would do on the next day, thereby freeing himself for more gramming of prose on one day and far less of this activity on the other day. It was a desperate attempt to complete work before a deadline, and so he worked through the night and was not rewarded for his effort. Sucks to be him.

So sayeth Our Lorde and Professor Xavier.

Show notes and links:

* Nissan is using recycled Leaf batteries to power street lights (engadget.com)

* Forget Self Driving. The Future is in Self Parking (wired.com)

* Spotify told Wall Street it is going to have a very good year in 2018 (recode.net)

* Spotify reveals 2 million free users are using hacks to get Premium for free – BGR (bgr.com)

* Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices (theverge.com)

* ‘Brain stethoscope’ turns brain waves into sound (futurity.org)

* Superman’s Underwear May Be Back (On the Outside) in Action Comics #1000, But It Might Not Be Staying (gizmodo.com)

* Steven Spielberg Thinks Netflix Films Don’t Deserve Oscars (vulture.com)

* Netflix Films Have Been Banned From Competing at Cannes (vulture.com)

* NBA is experimenting with 99-cent fourth quarter live streams (engadget.com)

I am in your DMs, reading your secrets! Unfortunately, they’re not as interesting as I would have hoped.

Show notes and links:

* Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com)

* People were asked to name women tech leaders. They said “Alexa” and “S (fastcompany.com)

* Netflix Created a Clean, Custom Font That Could Save the Company Millions – Adweek (adweek.com)

* YouTube wants to ruin music videos with more ads (thenextweb.com)

* Slack’s new policy lets bosses read employees’ DMs without consent (thenextweb.com)

Another twofer? But Breki, you’re too generous! Compensating us for one missing show by making the next one twice as long? Will your generosity never end?!

Show notes and links:

* Video Looks Most Natural Horizontally, but We Hold Our Phones Vertically (scientificamerican.com)

* Kohler Is Selling A Toilet With A Built-In Voice Assistant (psfk.com)

* Rachio announces a new smart sprinkler controller, raises $10M – TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

* Telegram is being ordered by Russia to hand over user encryption keys (androidcentral.com)

* Atari reveals its console’s new name; preorder date announced in April (techspot.com)

* Not Even AI Can Make Total Sense of a Privacy Policy (vice.com)

* This link has no title (popsci.com)

* Instead of Nuking an Asteroid Headed Toward Earth, We Could Just Splash It With Paint (gizmodo.com)

* Daphne the giant inflatable duck is safe after a week lost at sea (mashable.com)

* Mystery ‘Loch Ness Monster’ washes up on a beach in Georgia (sciencealert.com)

Hearts and the lack thereof.

Show notes and links:

* Uber Halts Autonomous Car Tests After Fatal Crash in Arizona (bloomberg.com)

* This 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart (sciencealert.com)

* A woman has died after getting ‘acupuncture’ from live bee stings (sciencealert.com)

* Pokémon Go player, upset at losing a gym, assaults other players, say cops (polygon.com)

* Internet Archive adds a treasure trove of handheld games from the ’80s (mashable.com)

It’s Thursday Afternoon. Do you know where your data is?

Show notes and links:

* Science Finds Once Again That Violent Video Games Don’t Turn People Into Rage Monsters (gizmodo.com)

* Apple removed the calendar app that mined cryptocurrency for not being power efficient (theverge.com)

* Roughly one in four Americans is online ‘constantly’ (recode.net)

* Police Obtain Warrants To Find Out Which Google Users Were Present At Crime Scenes (inquisitr.com)

* Toyota’s basketball robot uses AI to shoot perfect free throws (cnbc.com)

It’s a two-fer! It’s an episode where Breki talks – and sings! – in Japanese, where we get a kiss from a rose, where we learn about world records in Lego construction, and more disabled-friendly app:age from Google.

Show notes and links:

* NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Has Only a Few Months to Live (gizmodo.com)

* No, a Massive Geomagnetic Storm Will Not Hit Earth on March 18 (newsweek.com)

* Japan Is Getting A Hello Kitty Bullet Train  (kotaku.com)

* Anime Lyrics dot Com – Zankoku na Tenshi no TE-ZE – Cruel Angel’s Thesis – Neon Genesis Evangelion; Evangelion; Shin Seiki Evangelion (animelyrics.com)

* Google Debuts Wheelchair Accessible Routes in Google Maps (fortune.com)

* Exclusive: Amazon’s internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed (reuters.com)

* Casio revives its musical, game-playing calculator from the ’80s (engadget.com)

* Human surrogate masks are happening, and they’re creepy (mashable.com)

* This Company Is Turning Canal Garbage Into High-end Office Furniture (geek.com)

* CHS grad’s world record: Most Lego castles in minute (valleybreeze.com)