Geekdays

A pill that studies your pre-fart gas build-up. It’s … yeah, it’s one of the stories in this episode, just one of five, but it’s the one we’ll always remember.

Show notes and links:

* Scientists Make Coldest Liquid Water Ever, And It’s Weirder Than They Imagined (gizmodo.com)

* With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone – Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

* Fans are competing to see how quickly they can get Mario topless (theverge.com)

* Apple will address kids’ iPhone addiction with enhanced iOS parental controls (venturebeat.com)

* Kodak Surges After Announcing Plans to Launch Cryptocurrency Called ‘Kodakcoin’ (bloomberg.com)

We’re all over the map on today’s episode. Stolen road parts and coffee enemas. It’s … yeah.

Show notes and links:

* Are You Sapiosexual? (discovermagazine.com)

* In “triumph of ignorance,” Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop touts $135 coffee enema – Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

* Thieves swipe a portion of China’s solar road (engadget.com)

* Apple shareholders urge company to address iPhone addiction in children (venturebeat.com)

* The Sgnl wristband lets you hear phone calls through your fingers (theverge.com)

Eeeeee-loooooon, Eeeeeee-loooon. Sorry, I’ve got that song stuck in my head now. And if you’re wondering what ‘that song’ is … Just listen to the episode. Listen to it a couple of times, in fact, we could use the listener numbers. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your coworkers, tell random stranger on the street. Tell all the people!

Show notes and links:

* Twitter lets you describe your pics for the visually impaired (thenextweb.com)

* Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits (newscientist.com)

* HBO confirms Game of Thrones won’t be back until 2019 (theverge.com)

* Gaming disorder is now officially a mental condition, according to the WHO (digitaltrends.com)

* Tesla sinks after missing Model 3 deliveries by a mile (TSLA) (businessinsider.com)

Apparently, settling back into a pattern of recording a podcast every single day isn’t as easy as I had thought it would be. Vacations really tend to kill all my sense of planning and perspective. (… he said, publishing a podcast episode at 5 AM).

Show notes and links:

* Microsoft Discontinues the Xbox One Kinect Adapter (geek.com)

* A daily blast of sound and electrical pulses may tame tinnitus (newscientist.com)

* Roombas will soon build a Wi-Fi coverage map while they clean (arstechnica.com)

* Vandals have damaged a 115 million-year-old dinosaur footprint in Australia (sciencealert.com)

* Apple ‘re-programs’ its Chicago Apple Store roof to deal with snow (cultofmac.com)

It’s the beginning of a brand new year, and boy-oh-boy do we have stories for you! Five of them, in fact! And some info regarding today in Geek History. And a song! It’s … it’s business as usual.

Show notes and links:

* CaliBurger’s new kiosk uses facial recognition to take orders (engadget.com)

* Specially prepared photos shown bypassing Windows Hello facial recognition (arstechnica.com)

* This link has no title (sciencedaily.com)

* Library of Congress will no longer archive all public tweets, citing longer character limits (techcrunch.com)

* Nintendo is reportedly delaying 64GB game cartridges until 2019 (theverge.com)

It’s been a weird and wonderful couple of days, but here we finally are – at the end of the year. Thank you so much for being with us for these past few months, hope to see you on the other side of New Years Eve!

Show notes and links:

* This nasty Android malware caused a phone to overload and bulge (mashable.com)

* Amazon partners with Audi, Porsche to bring bring Prime Music to cars (mashable.com)

* We called Elon Musk’s cell after he accidentally posted it on Twitter (cnbc.com)

* God of War Secret Easter Egg Phone Call (youtube.com)

* KFC Japan creates low-aroma fried chicken so you don’t annoy commuters (mashable.com)

* Lin-Manuel Miranda got sent the greatest ‘Star Wars’-themed wrong number (mashable.com)

Okay, things are weird around here. Looks like the Wednesday episode never got properly published, and … it’s just weird. Let’s take a break now and get things worked out around here. See you after new-years!

Show notes and links:

* You Are Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong (scientificamerican.com)

* Paramount rolls for initiative, sets a Dungeons & Dragons movie for 2021 (avclub.com)

* This link has no title (discovermagazine.com)

* This genius scale doesn’t actually tell you how much you weigh (mashable.com)

* These are the worst passwords of 2017 (mashable.com)

If you pay extra special attention to today’s episode, you might notice that there are new samples in the intro, and the outro has been rebuilt. Oh, and then there are stories as well. Five of them, I think. I wasn’t really paying attention. Just reading the words.

Show notes and links:

* Bad Ideas: Tesla Bars Ride Sharing Drivers From Using Its Superchargers (techdirt.com)

* Alphabet wants to deliver Internet access via laser beams (arstechnica.com)

* Army partners with Marine Corps on 3-D printed drones | Article (army.mil)

* Japanese startup lands $90 million to put a billboard on the moon (digitaltrends.com)

* Oxford researchers say it’s okay to grant your kids more screen time (thenextweb.com)

Vegans, flat earthers and bad decisions by web brower developers. It’s all over the map on today’s episode of Geekdays.

Show notes and links:

* Firefox Mr. Robot add-on triggers Mozilla backlash (cnet.com)

* This link has no title (techxplore.com)

* The Simple Solution to Traffic (youtube.com)

* ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes – limo driver turned rocket man – Adventure (themaineedge.com)

* This link has no title (digitaltrends.com)

* Alibaba will start selling cars in China from gigantic vending machines (digitaltrends.com)

* McDonald’s makes the McVegan burger a permanent fixture on 2 countries’ menus (mashable.com)

Those who told us that things are “better late than never” obviously never considered that statement in relation to a daily geek culture podcast – now more than 48 hours late. We’re having high weirdness in the studio (again!) and things are just sounding … wrong. We cleaned this one up best we could, but it’s beginning to look more and more like it’s time to just unplug everything and start over when we take our next break.

Show notes and links:

* Elon Musk pulls a Willy Wonka, offer tunnel tours to contest winners (mashable.com)

* Willy Wonka (HD) “Pure Imagination” (youtube.com)

* This link has no title (sciencedaily.com)

* Someone Used Wet String to Get a Broadband Internet Connection (vice.com)

* Oops! Uber charged a rider more than $14,000 for a 20-minute journey (digitaltrends.com)