Geekdays

R.I.P., Steven Hawking. We barely knew you.

Show notes and links:

* Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76 (cnn.com)

* Can These High-Tech Eye Drops Improve Your Vision? (geek.com)

* Man builds functioning kitchen in his teeny electric car (mashable.com)

* After exposing secret military bases, Strava restricts data visibility (engadget.com)

* ‘Very drunk’ Lego thief returns stolen statue’s head (itv.com)

You know, the more I think about it, the more I want those Panasonic turn-off-the-world-around-you head-wrappers … which is obviously a much better name than whatever they’ll come up with for them.

Show notes and links:

* audio AR makes more sense than you think (engadget.com)

* Panasonic designed blinders for the digital age (engadget.com)

* Why I Will Never Run and Pick Up Trash (earther.com)

* Spotify needs your help tagging and sorting tunes (engadget.com)

* Lego ‘lost from 1997 freighter’ found at St Bees (bbc.com)

The future of secrets is a Chinese space station, laughing creepily as it falls into our sugarcane forests.

Show notes and links:

* ‘The Future of Secrets’ is a digital confession booth (engadget.com)

* FBI arrests CEO of company selling custom BlackBerrys to gangs (engadget.com)

* Why people still worry about the falling Chinese space station — despite the low odds (theverge.com)

* Amazon has a fix for Alexa’s creepy laughs (theverge.com)

* Lego goes green with sugarcane-based plastic (bbc.com)

If you listen to this episode without paying attention, you might get the mistaken idea that you’re meant to eat Barbara Streisand’s dogs, and that Steve Jobs filled out a really sloppy application for a gun license. None of these things are true.

Show notes and links:

* The case for eating California’s giant invasive rodents (theverge.com)

* Ruff replicas: Barbra Streisand cloned her dog—with mixed results (arstechnica.com)

* ‘Success’ on YouTube Still Means a Life of Poverty (bloomberg.com)

* This messy 1973 job application by Steve Jobs is proof anything is possible (sciencealert.com)

* Google Shopping bans gun searches, including water guns, Guns N Roses (businessinsider.com)

This episode of Geekdays is called the “Aliens Hack The Moon”-edition … Or potentially the “Think Before You Post” edition. Or maybe it’s the “Custom Spotify Playlists” edition. Something like that.

Show notes and links:

* The moon may get its own 4G network in 2019 (mashable.com)

* Researchers Warn of Extraterrestrial Hacks (vice.com)

* Google releases info on 2.4 million ‘right to be forgotten’ requests (engadget.com)

* Uber driver has a Spotify playlist for every kind of passenger he picks up (mashable.com)

A little late, a little long, a little bit better than the rest!

Show notes and links:

* ‘Ghostbusters World,’ smartphone game similar to ‘Pokemon Go,’ coming in 2018 (businessinsider.com)

* This App Will Rat Out Teens Who Won’t Stop Sexting (gizmodo.com)

* Waymo wants to prevent puking in self-driving cars (cnn.com)

* Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities (apnewsarchive.com)

* Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts ET contact — RT World News (rt.com)

* Nokia’s banana phone from The Matrix is back (theverge.com)

* Poop toys are the new trend in play (northjersey.com)

* How Much Cocaine Is in Your Wallet? (discovermagazine.com)

* Yes, the rumors are true. Girl Scout Cookie coffee is now a part of this world. (mashable.com)

* Self-heating jacket uses machine learning to keep its owner comfy (newatlas.com)

Mark Hamil, being sued by Disney for using tiny diamond avocados for … no, I’m sorry; I just cannot lie. That never happened. Promise.

Show notes and links:

* Scientists use tiny diamond anvils to put squeeze on materials (uchicago.edu)

* Mark Hamill’s getting a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame (avclub.com)

* This sandwich has your name on it (literally) (mashable.com)

* Avocado wedding proposals are the trend we didn’t ask for (mashable.com)

* Disney’s lawsuit against Redbox may have backfired (engadget.com)

* Self-heating jacket uses machine learning to keep its owner comfy (newatlas.com)

We want you to push play on this one so that we can launch the program which will supernova your … No, you know what? This was a bad idea.

Show notes and links:

* A new Netflix show wants to manipulate people into committing murder (theverge.com)

* Google launches Android phone recommendation program for businesses (theverge.com)

* Amateur Astronomer Spots Supernova Right as It Begins (gizmodo.com)

* Parkland shooting survivor hit with conspiracy theories (cnet.com)

* To see the passion of Americans, mess up an emoji | NewsCut (mprnews.org)

You can’t Swype, but you can use VR if you’re blind. What kind of backwards world is it we’re living in?!

Show notes and links:

* Swype Keyboard for Android with Dragon Dictation has been Discontinued (xda-developers.com)

* Microsoft’s new ‘canetroller’ brings VR to the visually impaired (thenextweb.com)

* Jeff Bezos Begins Installation of His Bonkers 10,000 Year Clock (gizmodo.com)

* 3D-printed smartphone microscope is good enough for scientists (engadget.com)

* Three Duluth students chase the currency of Red Bull | NewsCut (mprnews.org)

Sometimes, we talk about Elon Musk for what seems like forever. Other days, it’s pointless inventions and innovations in food technology. Today – it’s all about space.

Show notes and links:

* NASA’s Opportunity rover sees its 5,000th day on Mars (engadget.com)

* Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Could Crash Back Into Earth (iflscience.com)

* 10 Ways Space Changes the Body (discovermagazine.com)

* Two guys try ‘tall man in a trenchcoat trick’ to see ‘Black Panther’ (mashable.com)

* Now a Person’s Genes Could Reveal Their Time of Death (futurism.com)