This week we’ve been buying technology from Russia and playing OpenSpades. We announce that the Ubuntu Podcast is ending and round up our favourite stories from the tech news.

It’s Season 14 Episode 27 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Martin has been buying technology from mother Russia 🇷🇺 – Oktava MK 012

* Alan has been playing OpenSpades

* We discuss the community news:

* The Ubuntu Podcast is ending.

* The final episode will be Season 14 Episode 30 and will be released on Thursday, September 30th 2021.

* Online afterparty with listners on Friday, October 1st 2021 (details to follow).

* Patreon and PayPal donations will remain open until the payments for September 2021 are processed, then both will be terminated.

* We discuss the news:

* Computer Engineering for Babies Book

* Twitter figures out a business model

* Google announces new photo upscaling tech

* Image credit: Luis Tosta

* We are running a crowd funder to cover our audio production costs on Patreon.

* You can listen to the Ubuntu Podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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