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October 08, 2025Episode 785: It’s a Feature, Not a Blog
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A quick note about the passing of Jane Goodall
Talk about the Discord Server
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QOTW: If you had to permanently give up one category of modern technology, which one would you ditch and why?
On This Day In History for October 8, 2025
This is the 281st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 84 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1645, that Jeanne Mance opened the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
On October 8, 1829, the train Stephenson’s Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
It was also this date in 1871 that Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front caused the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out.
October 8, 1921, KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducted the first live broadcast of a football game.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
English physician, John Clarke, born on this date in 1609.
Born October 8, 1715, French scientist and missionary Michel Benoist.
German pianist, composer, and physicist, Salomon Kalischer was born 180 years ago today.
Born October 8, 1872, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer Mary Engle Pennington.
Danish chemist and astronomer, Ejnar Hertzsprung was born 152 years ago today.
American pilot and engineer, Robert R. Gilruth, born on this date in 1913.
Also born on that same date in 1939, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter, Paul Hogan.
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter, Chevy Chase, born on this date in 1943.
Listener Birthdays
9 – Itsuko Rumpke (sounds like IT SUE-Koe)
9 – Mario (New Jersey)
10 – Victor Cajiao
10 – Garrett Riffal
11 – Bruce Barr
13 – Jason Schwanz
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 8, 2025
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News
James Webb telescope captures its first direct image of a glowing exoplanet the size of Saturn | Daily Mail Online
Space Startup Wants to Deliver Cargo Anywhere on Earth in One Hour
Move Over Messi: China’s New Robot Soccer League Is Wild!
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The Internet We Didn’t Get | Hackaday
Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way : ScienceAlert
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Chuck
The Spy (Netflix)
Outlander season 7 (Netflix)
28 Years Later (Netflix)
House of Guinness (Netflix)
The Naked Gun (Paramount+)
Kreg
Kpop Demon Hunters – Netflix
Peacemaker – HBO
NetworkChuck – YouTube
Geek Library
Popular Operating systems from 1980 to today (video)
Popular programming languages from 1955 to today (video)
Question of the week
You get a one minute trip to the past or future…what do you do with it?
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1 hr 4 min
October 01, 2025Episode 784: The Great Algorithm Bake-Off
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QOTW: What’s the most useless/obsolete piece of technology you own, and why haven’t you thrown it away yet?
On This Day In History for October 1, 2025
This is the 274th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1890, that Yosemite National Park was established by the U.S. Congress.
That same date in 1891, Stanford University opened its doors in California, United States.
On October 1, 1903, Baseball: The Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
That same date in 1908, Ford Model T automobiles were offered for sale at a price of US$825.
The George Washington Bridge in the United States was opened, linking New Jersey and New York on this date in 1931.
It was also this date in 1940 that the Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opened to traffic.
It was on this date in 1947, that The North American F-86 Sabre flew for the first time.
67 years ago today, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was replaced by NASA.
October 1, 1961, The CTV Television Network, Canada’s first private television network, was launched.
It was 56 years ago today that Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time.
Also on October 1, 1971, Walt Disney World opened near Orlando, Florida.
Also today in 1971, The first practical CT scanner was used to diagnose a patient.
It was also this date in 1982 that Sony and Phillips launched the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
It was 43 years ago today, that EPCOT Center (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opened at Walt Disney World in Florida.
24 years ago today, 3G wireless technology first became available when it was adopted by Japanese telecommunications company NTT Docomo.
On October 1, 2003, the popular and controversial English-language imageboard 4chan was launched.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
American engineer and businessman who founded the Boeing Company, William Boeing, born on this date in 1881.
Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1894.
Austrian-English physicist and academic, Otto Robert Frisch, born on this date in 1904.
José Enrique Moyal, Australian physicist and engineer was born on that same date in 1910.
English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester, Kathleen Ollerenshaw was born 113 years ago today.
Also born on that same date in 1922, Chinese-American physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate, Chen-Ning Yang.
American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons, Dave Arneson was born 78 years ago today.
Born October 1, 1950, Russian physician and astronaut Boris Morukov.
Hungarian mathematician and educator, Éva Tardos is 68 today.
Also born on that same date in 1960, American scientist, Doppler on Wheels inventor, and storm chaser, Joshua Wurman.
Listener Birthdays
1 – 10/1 = 101 & Stephen Wesche (From Saint Louis Missouri) (Pronounced Like the first part of the word “Wet” and the word “She”)
2 – Adam Rumpke
6 – John Deurholt (Jo Dho)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 1, 2025
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News
NASA announces Voyager 1’s remarkable new discovery at the edge of our solar system – African In Space
Unusual New 3I/ATLAS Discovery Suggests the Interstellar Comet is “Anomalously Massive” – The Debrief
This dwarf planet has gas: Makemake’s methane surprises scientists | Space
Hacks & Strange Stories
Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds | Tom’s Hardware
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Million-year-old skull could rewrite timeline of human origin, researchers say – ABC News
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Chuck
Infinitum: Subject Unknown (YouTube)
Cunk on Life (Netflix)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Netflix)
Adolescence (Netflix)
Kreg
Star Trek: Kahn
Only Murders in the Building – Hulu
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59 min
September 26, 2025 Interview with Adam Savage
We were thrilled to welcome back the incomparable Adam Savage1! It’s been two decades since his first interview with us, and the capital ‘M’ Maker is busier than ever. He shares how his work evolved after MythBusters and MythBusters Junior, moving to the creation of roughly 400 videos a year on his incredibly successful YouTube channel, Tested. Adam discusses the incredible access his reputation has granted him in film and aerospace industries, his thoughts on the current state of maker technology—from having 3D printers in his shop to his reluctance to jump on AI for creative output—and his philosophy of being a “permission machine” that inspires others to pursue their deepest passions. Tune in to hear the full interview, including Adam’s favorite movie, sound effect, and, of course, a deep dive into his complex relationship with duct tape!
If you would like to revisit the first time we interviewed him 20 years ago click here and listen.
54 min
September 24, 2025Episode 782: Geeks in the Machine
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QOTW: What’s the most useless robot you can imagine and what does or doesn’t it do?
On This Day In History for Sept 24, 2025
This is the 267th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1852, that the first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, traveled 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
September 24, 1906, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
Jimmy Doolittle performed the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible on this date in 1929.
That same date in 1935, Earl and Weldon Bascom produced the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
77 years ago today, the Honda Motor Company was founded.
It was 65 years ago today that USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
Also on September 24, 2014, The Mars Orbiter Mission made India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
It was on this date in 2023, that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully landed back on Earth.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Dutch mathematician and politician, Johan de Witt, born on this date in 1625.
Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting was born on that same date in 1870.
American super-centenarian, oldest verified American person ever, Sarah Knauss, born on this date in 1880.
Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated was born on that same date in 1883.
Born September 24, 1896, American novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model, Michael J. S. Dewar was born 107 years ago today.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for Sept 24, 2025
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News
“It Replaces Your Entire Data Center”: Scientists Create DNA Cassette Tapes That Hold More Data Than Thousand Hard Drives
Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day – Ars Technica
Hubble reveals baby stars in a galaxy torn by gravity | ScienceDaily
What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. – Ars Technica
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Back to the Future…predx2ictions for 2025 – Mike’s Road Trip
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Kreg
Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 – Netflix
Venom – Netflix
The Six Million Dollar Man – Peacock
Mission Impossible I, II, III – Netflix
Chuck
The Amateur – Hulu
Becoming Led Zeppelin – Netflix
28 Days Later – Netflix
Infinitum: Subject Unknown – YouTube
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan – Netflix
Alien Earth – Hulu
Question of the week
What’s the most useless/obsolete piece of technology you own, and why haven’t you thrown it away yet?
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1 hr 11 min
September 16, 2025Episode 781: Roomba, You’ve Done It Again!
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What’s a piece of forgotten ’90s tech that you think deserves a modern comeback, and how would you upgrade it?
On This Day In History for September 17, 2025
This is the 260th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1543, that The first Finnish-language book, the Abckiria by Mikael Agricola, was published in Stockholm.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society describing “animalcules”, later known as protozoa on this date in 1683.
Also on September 17, 1908, The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashed, killing Selfridge, who became the first airplane fatality.
It was 64 years ago today that the world’s first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise was unveiled by NASA on this date in 1976.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Italian astronomer, Celio Calcagnini, born on this date in 1479.
German geologist and paleontologist, Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold was born 208 years ago today.
Bernhard Riemann, the German-Italian mathematician and academic was born 199 years ago today.
Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company, David Dunbar Buick, born on this date in 1854.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer was born on that same date in 1857.
Russian chemist, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, born on this date in 1867.
Eivind Astrup, Norwegian explorer was born on that same date in 1871.
Gerald Guralnik, the American physicist and academic was born 89 years ago today.
Listener Birthdays
18 – Jeff Schultz (Gorbash)
20 – Joel Harper (Rincewind) / Milwaukee WI
20 – Joel Rickenbach [deceased] (host of the You’ve Got Geek Podcast)
21 – Dean Jensen (Beaker1)
22 – Bilbo Baggins
22 – Frodo Baggins
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 17, 2025
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News
Did NASA’s Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to bring its samples home to find out, scientists say | Space
Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Ant queen gives birth to two different species | CNN
Hacks & Strange Stories
Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run ‘at like, 5,000 frames per second’ on Windows NT | PC Gamer
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Retrotechtacular: The Noisy Home Computer From 1967 | Hackaday
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Kreg
Aka Charlie Sheen – Netflix
The Breakfast Club – Peacock
THIS Is Where the Internet Lives – NetworkChuck on YouTube
This is Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap 𝛑: The End Continues – Theater
Chuck
The Mask (Tubi)
Shazam (YouTube movie)
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street (Netflix)
Leave The World Behind (Netflix)
Katrina: Come Hell Or High Water (Netflix)
Genghis Khan: A Secret History (D+)
Infinite (YouTube)
Question of the week
What’s the most useless robot you can imagine and what does or doesn’t it do?
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1 hr 3 min
September 12, 2025Episode 780: The Quark Side of the Moon
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QOTW: If a robot were to take over your job, what’s the one part of the job it would absolutely get wrong?
On This Day In History for September 10, 2025
This is the 253rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1846, that Elias Howe was granted a patent for the sewing machine.
Also today in 1858, George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora.
It was on this date in 1932, that The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally owned IND, was opened.
Also on September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
On September 10, 2001, During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reached the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.
September 10, 2008, The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble, Abel Hoadley, born on this date in 1844.
Born September 10, 1871, English engineer Charles Collett.
Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1892.
American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta, Glen P. Robinson, born on this date in 1923.
Born September 10, 1933, Russian colonel and cosmonaut Yevgeny Khrunov.
American science fiction author, Pat Cadigan is 72 today.
Also born on that same date in 1958, American director, producer, and screenwriter, Chris Columbus.
Chinese businessman, co-founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma is 61 today.
Listener Birthdays
10 – Anthony Warnack (EastBayAnt) [1979]
14 – Andrew Peters (Perl Hacker from the UK)
14 – Callen Wesche
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 10, 2025
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News
Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC – Microsoft Open Source Blog
The Force Can Be with You — for 1 to 3 Million Dollars
Hacks & Strange Stories
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
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1986: Satellite Navigation for Cars of the Future | Tomorrow’s World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
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Kreg
Strange New Worlds – Paramount+
Star Trek The Motion Picture – Paramount+
Master Chef – Fox
Chuck
Superman (YouTube)
Life On Our Planet (Netflix)
Ghost Team (YouTube)
Question of the week
What’s a piece of forgotten ’90s tech that you think deserves a modern comeback, and how would you upgrade it?
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1 hr 11 min
September 04, 2025Episode 779: A.I. Ate My Homework (And Now It’s a Bestselling Novel)
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QOTW: Snacks to Mars!
On This Day In History for August 27, 2025
This is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 126 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1859, that Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
Four enormous explosions almost completely destroyed the island of Krakatoa and caused years of climate change on this date in 1883.
That same date in 1939, saw the first flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
On August 27, 1955, The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published in Great Britain..
Also on August 27, 1962, The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission was launched to Venus by NASA.
It was 40 years ago today that Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on STS-51 -I to deploy three communication satellites and repair a fourth malfunctioning one..
It was also this date in 2003 that Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Italian mathematician and philosopher, Giuseppe Peano, born on this date in 1858.
German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate, Carl Bosch was born 151 years ago today.
English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited, Charles Rolls, born on this date in 1877.
Born August 27, 1915, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Norman Foster Ramsey Jr..
Gordon Bashford, the English engineer, co-designed the Range Rover was born 109 years ago today.
Also turning 76 today is American computer scientist, engineer, and academic Leah Jamieson.
Russian engineer and astronaut, Sergei Krikalev is 67 today.
Also born on that same date in 1968, Israeli-American computer scientist and academic, Daphne Koller.
French astronomer and biologist Audrey C. Delsanti is 49 today.
Listener Birthdays
(we did these last week)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 27, 2025
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News
A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector
Eyes, and AI, on the road: UW grad’s platform scans for pavement defects to speed repair, lower costs – GeekWire
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The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries | Open Culture
1998: Can COMPUTERS and PHONES Combine? | The Money Programme | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa 350 AD) | Open Culture
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Media Corner
Why we all need subtitles now – YouTube
Pass me the remote
Kreg
Peacemaker Season 2 – HBO Max
Chuck
Love Death and Robots – Volume 4 – Netflix
DEVO – Netflix
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If a robot were to take over your job, what’s the one part of the job it would absolutely get wrong?
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August 20, 2025Episode 778: Ow! Stupid Lego!
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QOTW: You’ve just been hired to design the worst possible “smart” kitchen gadget. What is it?
Forgotten voice mail from Gary in Jacksonville
On This Day In History for August 20, 2025
This is the 232nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1858, that Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
143 years ago today, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow, Russia.
August 20, 1920, The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), began operations in Detroit.
Also today in 1926, Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) was established.
It was 50 years ago today that NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
48 years ago today, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
English mathematician and academic, Thomas Simpson, born on this date in 1710.
Czech astronomer and educator, Christian Mayer was born 306 years ago today.
Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland, Eliel Saarinen, born on this date in 1873.
H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist was born on that same date in 1890.
Eero Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch, was born 115 years ago today.
Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Hideki Shirakawa is 89 today.
Also born on that same date in 1938, French military officer and astronaut, Jean-Loup Chrétien.
Listener Birthdays
Aug
20 – Jedi_Kez (aka Brian From Winnipeg)
22 – Zoidberg [1967]
22 – Kyle Slingo
22 – AlchemyDragon
24 – Kira Fiore (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)
25 – David “Grizzly” Smith from Grizzly’s Growls podcasts
27 – Chuck’s forgotten iPod
30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden
31 – Tim Downing
Sep
1 – David Kloempken
2 – Scott Tyler
4 – Kyra Vega
5 – Ben Vaughan (benvon) [1977]
6 – Susan Murph (SusietheGeek) How to Grow Your Geek Podcast
6 – Brad Miller
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 20, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after its debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day | Tom’s Hardware
James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems
‘Astonishingly rare’ The Hobbit book sells for ‘record-breaking’ sum
Hacks & Strange Stories
Google’s Gemini AI tells a Redditor it’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to ‘all possible and impossible universes’ before repeating ‘I am a disgrace’ 86 times in succession | PC Gamer
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1976 film helps you learn computing terms – Boing Boing
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Pass me the remote
Kreg
The Fantastic Four – Theater
The Naked Gun – Theater
Happy Gilmore 2 – Netflix
Untamed – Netflix
Wednesday – Netflix
Chuck
Zero Day – Netflix
Marco Polo – Netflix
Conversation with A Killer: Son of Sam Tapes – Netflix
Rogue Agent – Netflix
Ripley – Netflix
Question of the week
As NASA’s Head of Snacks for the inaugural Mars colony, which single snack food would you prioritize for interplanetary survival, and how would you present your choice to the crew?
Patreon Topic this week
Meshtastic
Travel router
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July 23, 2025Episode 777: “Ohm” My Goodness, It’s Science!
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QOTW: If your smart home could suddenly talk back, what’s the first sassy comment it would make about your daily habits?
On This Day In History for July 23, 2025
This is the 204th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1829, that In the United States, William Austin Burt patented the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
Also today in 1903, The Ford Motor Company sold its first car.
Also on July 23, 1926, Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company went on the air in Bombay on this date in 1927.
63 years ago today, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Also today in 1962, Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
On July 23, 1972, The United States launched Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
It was on this date in 1995, that Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered; it became visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
It was 28 years ago today that Digital Equipment Corporation filed antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
26 years ago today, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory..
Also on July 23, 2015, NASA announced discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
French physicist and mathematician, Étienne-Louis Malus, born on this date in 1775.
Swiss-German physicist and engineer, Walter H. Schottky was born 139 years ago today.
Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Vladimir Prelog, born on this date in 1906.
Vera Rubin, American astronomer and academic was born on that same date in 1928.
American actor and activist, Woody Harrelson is 64 today.
Also turning 36 today is English actor Daniel Radcliffe.
Listener Birthdays
August
4 – Clark & Diana (Awesome people and the kids of Gary from Jacksonville)
6 – Fritz The German
6 – Julie Tomasi
8 – Philippa Ballantine
9 – Matt Coe (WoWaddict) [1991]
9 – Julia Posz – (Technorama Promo)
10 – Sam Martin
11 – Steve Wozniak
11 – David Brewer (Tyrion The Imp)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 23, 2025
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
The Sculpting Robots Quietly Used by Big-Name Artists
A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories | ScienceDaily
The Large Hadron Collider Discovers Antimatter Behaving Oddly in New Class of Particles | Scientific American
23andMe’s Data Sold to Nonprofit Run by Its Co-Founder – ‘And I Still Don’t Trust It’ – Slashdot
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We saw the heart of Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the rest – Ars Technica
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Superman – Theater (again)
The Bear – Hulu
Chuck
Marco Polo (Netflix)
Star Trek VI and Generations (Paramount+)
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy (Netflix)
The Deer Hunter (Netflix)
Vertigo (Netflix)
Question of the week
You’ve just been hired to design the worst possible “smart” kitchen gadget. What is it?
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July 20, 2025Episode 776: The Hyperdrive is out…Again!
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QOTW: If you could temporarily break one fundamental law of science or physics to make your weekend better, what scientific law would you break, and what would you do?
Mad Marv
I would really like to see the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics break.
Specifically entropy and I’d like to see the total entropy of the universe decrease. Entropy is states of disorder and randomness.
Entropy is supposed to always increase and therefore can be used to determine the direction of time. So if entropy somehow decreased across the universe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_as_an_arrow_of_time
Marv
Voice Mail
Krazy Joe
Gary
On This Day In History for July 16, 2025
This is the 197th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining in 2025.
It was on this date in 1536, that Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returned home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
That same date in 1661, The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
Also today in 1769, Father Junípero Serra founded California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolved into the city of San Diego, California.
Also on July 16, 1790, The District of Columbia was established as the capital of the United States after the signature of the Residence Act.
John Robertson Duigan made the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia on this date in 1910.
Also on July 16, 1935, The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
It was 80 years ago today that the Atomic Age began when the United States successfully detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project.
On July 16, 1956, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows were held in arenas.
That same date in 1965, The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opened.
On July 16, 1969, The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission was launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida, USA.
It was also this date in 1994 that the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
Millennium Park, considered Chicago’s first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, was opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley on this day in 2004.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Norwegian pilot and explorer, Roald Amundsen, born on this date in 1872.
Frits Zernike, the Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 137 years ago today.
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer was born on that same date in 1903.
American farmer and businessman, founded Orville Redenbacher’s, Orville Redenbacher, born on this date in 1907.
American actress Phoebe Cates is 62 today.
American actor, comedian, and producer, Will Ferrell, born on this date in 1967.
Listener Birthdays
18 – Lord Doomicus
18 – Nikolai from Dancing With Elephants
23 – John Miller Jr. – Lancaster SC
23 – Dave Perillo, MegaPodTastic and Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!
26 – Aaron Heath (Adelaide, Australia)
27 – Wife of Will The Computer Guy
29 – Shaun Farrell, host of the Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast
29 – John Kratzer
30 – Brian Hunt aka Zaphodbblx
31 – Wedding Anniversary of Will The Computer Guy (2007, 9 years)
31 – Denise Inglis
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 16, 2025
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News
Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald’s Job Applicants’ Info by Using the Password ‘123456’
Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News
‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots | Podcasts | The Guardian
Elephants gesture with an intention to communicate their desires, study finds
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A 7-Billion-Year-Old Ice Ball Just Entered Our Solar System
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Pass me the remote
Kreg
Superman – Theater
Heads of State – Prime
The Bear – Hulu
Iron Heart – Disney+
Chuck
Jaws at 50 – Disney+
Lost Treasures of Rome – Disney+
Star Trek II & III – Paramount+
Trainwreck: The Real Project X – Netflix
Sandman Season 2 – Netflix
Geek Library
Double Rainbow (viral video) – Wikipedia
Look forward to retirement
Question of the week
If your smart home could suddenly talk back, what’s the first sassy comment it would make about your daily habits?
Patreon Topic this week
Dragon Con is coming!
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