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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • Technolotics #18 – Brains’ Blind Date

    Technolotics #18 – Brains’ Blind Date

    Listen: Episode 18 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Lies Damn Lies and the Recording Industry An article has been published in the New York times about the file sharing revolution Sean Fanning has developed software called snocap, that subtitutes requested copyrighted content on P2P networks with low quality versions which include verbal adds for the full version. Ha Read more

  • Technolotics #17 – Perfectly Spherical Balls

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/17_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 17 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Perfect spheres into space to check Einstein’s theory The Gravity Probe B satellite [1] was launched by NASA to measure the curvature and rotation of space time around earth [2] Testing two unverified predictions of general relativity – frame dragging and the The Geodetic Effect – which have implications for Read more

  • Technolotics #16 – No sex on the douche bag

    Technolotics #16 – No sex on the douche bag

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/16_part1_technolotics.mp3] [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/16_part2_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Part 1, Part 2 Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8qGAe0WDSo Feed: http://technolotics.wordpress.com/feed/ Notes Googleblogger article Google mobile is a new suite of features for US cell phones Google mobile search – lets you search the web from your phones web browser Google SMS – texts answers to your questions, directly to your phone – still very glitchy [1] Google Read more

  • Technolotics #15 – How to deal with ugly kids

    Technolotics #15 – How to deal with ugly kids

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/15_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 15 Feed: RSS Notes New service offers podcasters 25c a download! Fruitcast will soon launch, the service works by inserting adds in podcasts, and offering podcasters [1] up to 25c per download [2] This could add up to a hefty premium if true – but critics are divided as to whether the greater specificity Read more

  • Technolotics #14 – Blame it on Francis

    Technolotics #14 – Blame it on Francis

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/14_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 14 Feed: RSS Notes Flock Released Folksonomy browser released Very early version Includes blogging features, del.icio.us integration instead of bookmarks, and a feedreader Why Google are really scanning the whole worlds library Whats the point – the books can’t be read online, and google don’t have an online store Searching within books seems a Read more

  • Technolotics #13 – Kiddy Fiddling Slander Monkeys

    Technolotics #13 – Kiddy Fiddling Slander Monkeys

    [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/13_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 13 Feed: RSS Notes Contributer Reminder Anyone is welcome to contribute stories – either through our email or wiki However we will never run with anonymously contributed stories Please include your real name and email Also we will only discuss stories that are a) newsworthy b) relate meaningfully to wider issues in Read more