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Hosts & Guests

* Stuart Clark

* Derek Silva

Quick Hits

* In rare display, northern lights could be visible across Southern Canada Sunday

* http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/in-rare-display-northern-lights-could-be-visible-across-southern-canada-sunday-1.3504775 (http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/in-rare-display-northern-lights-could-be-visible-across-southern-canada-sunday-1.3504775)

* Merchants will soon be able to sell products on eBay through Shopify

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/13/merchants-will-soon-able-sell-products-ebay-shopify/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/13/merchants-will-soon-able-sell-products-ebay-shopify/) (US only for now)

* Atari’s new retro Ataribox aims to be like the NES Classic

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/17/atari-ataribox/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/17/atari-ataribox/)

* https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15980990/atari-ataribox-specs-pictures (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15980990/atari-ataribox-specs-pictures)

Topics

* Canadian tech companies say they value diversity — but what are they doing about it?

* http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-tech-companies-diversity-reports-2017-1.4194556 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canada-tech-companies-diversity-reports-2017-1.4194556)

* Apple devices and services now support PayPal as a payment option

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/12/apple-payment-option-canada/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/12/apple-payment-option-canada/)

* Why we keep falling for online phishing scams and downloading viruses?

* http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/phishing-online-scams-ramona-pringle-1.4205512 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/phishing-online-scams-ramona-pringle-1.4205512)

* Amazon is reportedly working on a messaging app called Anytime

* https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/16/15978920/amazon-anytime-messaging-app-rumor (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/16/15978920/amazon-anytime-messaging-app-rumor)

* OpenText launches AI assistant to help business analysts with decision making, task automation

* http://betakit.com/opentext-launches-ai-assistant-to-help-business-analysts-with-decision-making-task-automation/ (http://betakit.com/opentext-launches-ai-assistant-to-help-business-analysts-with-decision-making-task-automation/)

Stuff We Like

* Stuart – Forest City Surplus (http://www.fcsurplus.ca/)

* Derek – Zip, zero, zilch, nada!

What are you up to lately?

* Stuart – Not a good week, victim of cutbacks at my job so looking around for something else to pay the bills. Got my desk reorganized and cleaned up. A bunch of purging done. Checked out Vimy Flight at London Airport on the weekend.

* Derek – Four more weeks of soccer coaching left, had a Council meeting last week, spent the weekend in North Bay, got the pool fully erected this weekend.

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The post CTP Ep.

Outlook tips, Steam Mover, Kapersky system checker, Hard drive test, Windows 10 updates

Today Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee talk about the SoundCloud Exodus and review a $5k Podcast conference. Plus all the latest news.

Reach out to Rob @robgreenlee or Todd @geeknews we are always open to a guest so reach out to Rob to be scheduled to be on the show.

Today Todd Cochrane and Rob Greenlee talk about the SoundCloud Exodus and review a $5k Podcast conference. Plus all the latest news.

Reach out to Rob @robgreenlee or Todd @geeknews we are always open to a guest so reach out to Rob to be scheduled to be on the show.

In this podcast (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode151/RFHPC151skaCERN.mp3), the Radio Free HPC (http://radiofreehpc.com/) team looks at why the Alan Turing Institute is focusing on Graph Computing with their acquisition of a Cray Urika-GX supercomputer."Hosted at the University of Edinburgh in the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), the Cray Urika-GX system will provide researchers at the Alan Turing Institute with a dedicated analytics hardware platform, enabling the development of advanced applications across a number of scientific fields including engineering and technology, defense and security, smart cities, financial services and life sciences."After that, we do our Catch of the Week.Download the MP3 (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode151/RFHPC151skaCERN.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/-YCGmnBIqrA)

In this podcast (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode150/RFHPC150DandHenry.mp3), the Radio Free HPC (http://radiofreehpc.com/) team looks at why Drive Writes Per Day are such an important metric for acquiring the right kind of SSD for your particular workload.Drive writes per day (DWPD) is an endurance rating that manufacturers of NAND flash storage provide their customers. ... DWPD will vary, depending upon whether the storage is intended for consumer or enterprise use. Consumer use solid state drives (SSDs) have a fixed endurance rating and capacity.After that, we do our Catch of the Week: * Shahin likes a new BBC documentary (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170621-meet-the-worlds-most-powerful-computer) on the #1 Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer in China.Download the MP3 (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode150/RFHPC150DandHenry.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/Z01HdE77vJI)

As Apollo 11 passed over Western Australia, at T+2 hours 26 minutes Houston relayed to Collins, Armstrong, and Aldrin – through Carnarvon – formal permission to go to the moon. “Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are go for TLI.” … Continue reading → (http://spacerockethistory.com/?p=3762)

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Blackmagic Design sent me a web presenter and ATEM Television Studio HD to test out and assess. I’ve been excited for this unit ever since NAB when I interviewed Blackmagic. Within an hour, I was hooked on the web presenter and all it can do.

What is the Blackmagic Web Presenter

This is a box that will let you use your DSLR, GoPro, or prosumer camera to send video to YouTube, Facebook, Periscope, and many other online sources. The box also has the ability to switch between two video sources – even if the resolutions are not the same!

That means if your GoPro is at 720p and your other camera is at 1080p, the web producer will switch without issue. I connected my iPad, then switched it to my iPhone, the device brought back up the signal and continued on.

Add the Face Plate for Switching

If you want to use the switching option, you will have to get the additional Teranex Mini smart panel. This will also allow you to adjust audio, create a cut, fade, or dip between sources, and more.

Great Device, Great Price

I have yet to test on other devices. Blackmagic states this will work with many different switching programs (Wirecast, OBS, xSplit), and send video to streaming services such as YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch, Skype, and more.

The Presenter is $495 and available now. The Mini smart panel is an additional $85 and well worth the add-on.

In the Video

I take a first look at the Web Presenter and all it can do. Check it out!

 

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Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs and Codeship

Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

* Stuart Clark

* Derek Silva

Quick Hits

* Google’s next DeepMind AI research lab opens in Canada

* https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/05/google-opens-deepmind-lab-in-canada/ (https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/05/google-opens-deepmind-lab-in-canada/)

* Apple is making Samsung rich

* http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-making-samsung-rich-2017-7 (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-making-samsung-rich-2017-7)

* Fitness-tracking company Jawbone, once worth $3 billion, is shutting down and liquidating its assets

* http://www.businessinsider.com/jawbone-shutting-down-liquidating-assets-2017-7 (http://www.businessinsider.com/jawbone-shutting-down-liquidating-assets-2017-7)

* Game developers: London companies score $800,000 boost from Ontario fund

* http://www.lfpress.com/2017/07/10/game-developers-london-companies-score-800000-boost-from-ontario-fund (http://www.lfpress.com/2017/07/10/game-developers-london-companies-score-800000-boost-from-ontario-fund)

* Historic art gets ‘remixed’ with Art Gallery Ontario’s new ReBlink AR exhibit

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/07/historic-art-gets-remixed-art-gallery-ontarios-reblink-ar-exhibit/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/07/historic-art-gets-remixed-art-gallery-ontarios-reblink-ar-exhibit/)

* Flinks Raises $500,000 to Fuel Mission of Powering Canada’s FinTechs

* http://betakit.com/flinks-raises-500000-to-fuel-mission-of-powering-canadas-fintechs/ (http://betakit.com/flinks-raises-500000-to-fuel-mission-of-powering-canadas-fintechs/)

Topics

* Rogers increases data overage rate by $20 per gigabyte

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/05/rogers-increases-data-overage-20-per-gig/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/05/rogers-increases-data-overage-20-per-gig/)

* Here are the mobile data overage fees for every Canadian carrier

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/07/canadian-carrier-overage-fees/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/07/canadian-carrier-overage-fees/)

* Google is funding the creation of software that writes local news stories

* https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-creation-of-software-that-writes-local-news-stories/ (https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/google-is-funding-the-creation-of-software-that-writes-local-news-stories/)

* Would you get healthy for financial rewards? Ontario’s betting $1.5M that you will

* http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/carrot-rewards-health-app-ontario-1.4197310 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/carrot-rewards-health-app-ontario-1.4197310)

* Twitter introduces new notification filters to allow users to mute trolls

* http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/10/twitter-introduces-new-notification-filters/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/10/twitter-introduces-new-notification-filters/)

Stuff We Like

* Stuart – Zip, Zero, Zilch, Nada!

* Derek – Lumen5 (https://lumen5.com/)

What are you up to lately?

* Stuart – On call and Quarter end done (finally), looking forward to vacation next week.

* Derek – Still coaching, put up a pool on the weekend, put together a content marketing video for CleverHost that will get uploaded soon, taking off for a few days up to North Bay, doing some freelance SysAdmin work for a private school.

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On Episode 361 of The Waves of Tech, we cover a variety of tech topics and share what influence they will have in your life. Fox Sports main website have removed all written content, transitioning to a video only based format. Best Buy’s stock dropped 7% after Amazon announced a competing in-home network of installation professionals for smarthome devices to their consumer base. Amazon Prime Day is here and you can make the most out of the experience by checking out our recommendations. After seeing Blue Apron listed and valued as a technology company, we ask the not so easy to answer question - what makes a company a tech company? In an attempt to compete more directly in the cloud services industry, Microsoft is reorganizing their sales division to focus on large enterprise and small and medium sized businesses. Finally, a net neutrality day of action and protest is scheduled, where 170 companies will deliberately slow down their service to protest the FCC’s proposal and education their users on the impacts of that proposal.