Episode Number 178 – April 25th 2024 – Remote updates, too much solar, infrastructure is hard, and is your health care safe?

This week's guest: Danille from South Regional library

Links to this week’s stories:

Over the solar system software updates:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth

Too much solar?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/

Starting up infrastructure is hard:
https://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/

Is your health care safe?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/unitedhealth-says-hack-could-impact-data-substantial-proportion-americans-2024-04-22/

https://www.justice.gov/atr/HealthyCompetition

New YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode Number 177 – April 18th 2024 – AI after death, Sleep is good for you, politics of defending water, teens and screen time

This week's guest: Sergy Garber from Hallandale Beach library

Links to this week’s stories:

AI after death:

https://restofworld.org/2024/china-ai-chatbot-dead-relatives/

Sleep is good for you:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sleeping-more-flushes-junk-out-of-the-brain/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07108-6.epdf

Politics of protecting water:
https://www.wired.com/story/cyber-army-of-russia-reborn-sandworm-us-cyberattacks/

https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2024/04/17/ps5-pro-specs-worth-it-dtns-4750/

Teens and screen time:
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart/what-we-often-get-wrong-about-teens-and-screen-time/

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-love-my-smartphone-use-more-not-less-iphone-why-2024-4

New YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR

Episode Number 176 – April 11th 2024 – Still cool stuff in the sky, Hope I do not alter the deal further, Maybe someone will listen this time? And Metafluids

This week's guest: Renette Bessard from North Regional library

Links to this week’s stories:

Still cool stuff up in the sky:

https://www.howtogeek.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-watching-the-lyrid-meteor-shower/

Hope I do not alter the deal further:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/after-pushing-cloud-storage-tv-provider-to-auto-delete-61-day-old-dvr-recordings/?comments=1&comments-page=1

Maybe someone will listen before it is too late:
https://theconversation.com/in-a-future-with-more-mind-reading-thanks-to-neurotech-we-may-need-to-rethink-freedom-of-thought-225033

Metafluids:
https://scitechdaily.com/not-science-fiction-harvard-scientists-have-developed-an-intelligent-liquid/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07163-z

Noise in your Neighborhood Citizen Science kit:
https://digitalarchives.broward.org/digital/collection/p16146coll17/id/2/rec/1

New YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR