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Google is planning to phase out Flash support in Chrome & how they’re doing it is interesting. Wendy’s is going automated & the future for VR at Google looks bright.

Plus Apple confirms it was deleting music, the day Smart doorbell owners saw video from other houses thanks to a weird bug & more!

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KIckstarter of the Week

In The Shadows for Steam, PS4, XBox One by Colorspace Studio — Kickstarter

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Noah Drones On | TTT 240

chris — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:42:56 +0000

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Noah takes the mic to catch up on the tech news of the week. A passionate discussion about consumer drones, a Kickstarter close to the heart & more!

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Nexus Patch Tuesday | TTT 203

chris — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:58:20 +0000

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Google & friends make a major commitment to monthly Android updates, we explore the details. Nabbing fingerprints from your mobile’s scanner, Apple Music gets 11 million users & more!

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Agonizing over Adoption | Tech Talk Today 188

chris — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:22:17 +0000

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Samsung is actively disabling Windows Update on at least some computers, Car Hacking is ‘Distressingly Easy’, new iOS feature auto-deletes apps & Chromium follow up!

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Exploited iOS Email | Tech Talk Today 181

chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:06:41 +0000

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Spotify announces some major fund raising in the shadow of Apple Music’s announcement, SpaceX wants to beam Internet from space, thoughts on Apple open sourcing Swift, and…

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Hostile Music Takeover | Tech Talk Today 166

chris — Tue, 05 May 2015 10:52:28 +0000

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Apple is reportedly attempting to kill free streaming music but the story stinks of a hit piece. GOG launches their steam competitor to the public & CoreOS ups the container game.

Plus Chris reviews Hello’s Sense sleep tracking device. Can it unlock the secrets of a good sleep?

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Single Verizon IP Address Used For Hundreds of Windows 7 Activations

A presumed pirate with an unusually large appetite for activating Windows 7 has incurred the wrath of Microsoft. In a lawsuit filed in a Washington court, Microsoft said that it logged hundreds of suspicious product activations from a single Verizon IP address and is now seeking damages. Who he, she or they are behind address 74.111.202.30 is unknown at this point, but according to Microsoft they’re responsible for some serious Windows pirating. “As part of its cyberforensic methods, Microsoft analyzes product key activation data voluntarily provided by users when they activate Microsoft software, including the IP address from which a given product key is activated,” the lawsuit reads. The company says that its forensic tools allow the company to analyze billions of activations of software and identify patterns “that make it more likely than not” that an IP address associated with activations is one through which pirated software is being activated.

GOG’s Take On Steam Goes Live Today

GOG Galaxy, which you can download here, is now in open beta. Like Steam, Origin, and other PC gaming clients, it’s a stand-alone program with its own achievements, friend lists, and massively restrictive DRM. Just kidding. Anyone who follows the people behind GOG—a subsidiary of _Witcher 3 _developer CD Projekt Red—knows they’re as anti-DRM as it gets.

CoreOS Gives Up Control of Non-Docker Linux Container Standard | Data Center Knowledge

Taking a major step forward in its quest to drive a Linux container standard that’s not created and controlled by Docker or any other company, CoreOS spun off management of its App Container project into a stand-alone foundation. Google, VMware, Red Hat, and Apcera have announced support for the standard.

Becoming a more formalized open source project, the App Container (appc) community now has a governance policy and has added a trio of top software engineers that work on infrastructure at Google, Twitter, and Red Hat as “community maintainers.

Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch

The Verge has learned that Apple has been pushing major music labels to force streaming services like Spotify to abandon their free tiers, which will dramatically reduce the competition for Apple’s upcoming offering. DOJ officials have already interviewed high-ranking music industry executives about Apple’s business habits, but it appears the FTC has taken the lead in recent weeks.

Hello Sense Reveiw

Sense is a simple system that tracks your sleep, monitors the environment in your bedroom and reinvents the alarm, so you can sleep better.

Sense tracks the environmental data in your bedroom and disturbances such as noise and sound. Sense combines this data with your sleep cycle information to give you a complete picture of your night.

With all this information clearly presented to you, over time you will know how to set yourself up for the best night’s sleep, every night.

Sleep as Android – Android Apps on Google Play

Smart alarm clock with sleep cycle tracking.

LG G Watch R – Was $299, now $249 – Google Store

The stunning full-circle P-OLED display fills the entire round 1.3″ watch face and delivers clear visibility in bright sunlight and at acute angles.¹

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From Space With Love | Tech Talk Today 90

chris — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:49:05 +0000

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The Rosetta Mission has landed, Groupon plays nice with Gnome, a catastrophic Windows bug gets patched, the medical tricorder of today, YouTube’s music service, a quick note on open source .Net, our Kickstarter of the week & more!

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Groupon decides to leave ‘Gnome’ trademark alone | PCWorld

Groupon has dropped trademark applications that sought to use the “Gnome” name for a point-of-sale tablet it released in May, clashing with the open-source software group of the same name.

The nonprofit Gnome Foundation, which is behind the Gnome desktop for GNU/Linux and BSD, has held a registered trademark for the name since 2006.

Potentially catastrophic bug bites all versions of Windows. Patch now | Ars Technica

Microsoft has disclosed a potentially catastrophic vulnerability in virtually all versions of Windows. People operating Windows systems, particularly those who run websites, should immediately install a patch Microsoft released Tuesday morning.

The vulnerability resides in the Microsoft secure channel (schannel) security component that implements the secure sockets layer and transport layer security (TLS) protocols, according to a Microsoft advisory. A failure to properly filter specially formed packets makes it possible for attackers to execute attack code of their choosing by sending malicious traffic to a Windows-based server.

While the advisory makes reference to vulnerabilities targeting Windows servers, the vulnerability is rated critical for client and server versions of Windows alike, an indication the remote-code bug may threaten Windows desktops and laptop users as well. Amol Sarwate, director of engineering at Qualys, told Ars the flaw leaves client machines open if users run software that monitors Internet ports and accepts encrypted connections.

“If they install software that listens on port, then that machine would be vulnerable,” he said. An example would be “if they run Windows 7 but install an FTP server on it that accepts connections from outside, or a Web server on a client.”

Tuesday’s disclosure means that every major TLS stack—including Apple SecureTransport, GNUTLS, OpenSSL, NSS, and now Microsoft SChannel—has had a severe vulnerability this year.

This Device Diagnoses Hundreds of Diseases Using a Single Drop of Blood | WIRED

Called the rHEALTH

One small drop of blood is dropped into a small receptacle, where nanostrips and reagents react to the blood’s contents. The whole cocktail then goes through a spiral micro-mixer and is streamed past lasers that use variations in light intensity and scattering to come up with a diagnosis, from flu to a more serious illness such as pneumonia—or even Ebola—within a few minutes. There’s also a vitals patch that users can wear to get continuous health readings—EKG, heart rate, body temperature—delivered to their smartphone or the rHEALTH device itself via a Bluetooth link. An app called CHAS (Comprehensive Health Assessment Unit) can walk the user through the process of self-diagnosis.

The real innovation of rHEALTH, according to Chan, is in getting all the diagnostics technologies packed together into one handheld device. By shrinking its components so much compared to traditional devices, Chan says, patients will need to give 1,500 times less blood than they would for regular tests. Since it was originally developed for NASA, the device has even been tested in simulated lunar and zero gravity. “It’s a symphony of innovations, but we’ve pushed all of them individually to create the device,” Chan says.

YouTube’s music service launches in ‘weeks’ following indie deal

After a long (and frequently contentious) negotiation process, YouTube’s long hinted-at music service appears to be close to launch. Sources for the Financial Times claim that YouTube has finally signed a deal with Merlin, the rights group that represents about 20,000 indie music labels. The move gives the ad-free streaming option a well-stocked catalog ahead of its launch, which is reportedly due within “weeks.” It’s not clear just what broke the deadlock, but a tipster says that the new terms are “substantially more favorable” than what YouTube offered in June

DRIVE: Safe Messaging and Driving by RISE Devices — Kickstarter

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The Cost of Free | Tech Talk Today 12

chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:44:03 +0000

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We go over Amazon’s new smart phone, and discuss if they’ve missed the mark.

Then the Feds screw up the Silkroad Bitcoin sale, and T-Mobile decided some bits are more privileged than others – and why they might just fool you into liking it.

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Amazon announces the Fire Phone, $199 with 2-year contract for 32GB

A quad-core 2.2GHz SoC
Adreno 330 GPU
2GB of RAM
802.11ac Wi-Fi
Fire OS 3.5.0
13MP camera with optical image stabilization.
A dedicated shutter button.

Fire Phone exclusively available July 25 on AT&T: $199 for 32GB, $299 for 64GB, $649 and $749 off-contract

Equipped with Firefly, its standout feature, the Fire Phone will be able to scan and identify more than 100 million items, enabling users to perform instantaneous price checks alongside a contextual database search of everything from music and street signs to the handwritten contents of notes and letters.

Firefly, when rolled into Amazon’s network of services anchored by Prime, is meant to be the linchpin of the Fire Phone. With a device that customers can take with them to every physical store and location and scan their surroundings, Amazon is adding a powerful new avenue to reroute users back to its platform and marketplace.

At closing, Amazon stock was up 2.69 percent, or 8.76 points, at $334.28 per share

List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals

A list of individuals interested in the auction of the 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS), the US government agency confirmed.

In a statement to CoinDesk, Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals spokeswoman, indicated that the emailer had intended to send all the recipients an attached informational document and to blind copy all those it intended to contact. The US Marshals service is the federal agency that has been charged with carrying out the auction of the bitcoins, originally seized by the FBI.

T-Mobile’s ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem | The Verge

T-Mobile has decided, arbitrarily, that some of the data traveling over its pipes should count against a cap, while other data should not. What’s to stop it from using data cap exemptions as a punitive measure against content providers that aren’t on good terms with T-Mobile (or its parent company Deutsche Telekom)?

Japan’s ruling party says won’t regulate bitcoin for now

Japan’s leading Liberal Democratic Party said it decided against regulating bitcoin for the time being, after the collapse of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox prompted them to consider more scrutiny of the virtual currency.

SnappyTV is joining the flock | Twitter Blogs

One of the best ways to follow events as they unfold is through real-time videos on Twitter. As we continue to invest in video, it’s important for us to provide tools that make it easy for TV broadcasters, businesses, and event producers to share high-quality videos. To that end, we’ve agreed to acquire SnappyTV.

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Indies Down The Tubes? | Tech Talk Today 11

chris — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:52:46 +0000

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Special guest Angela joins to discuss YouTube playing hard with independent music creators to force them into their upcoming Music streaming service. Then we introduce you to the Lab126, the secret bunker responsible for the new Amazon smartphone and other recent Amazon gadgets.

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YouTube to block indie labels who don’t sign up to new music service

Independent artists could disappear from YouTube “in a matter of days” after the Google video service confirmed it was dropping content from independent labels that have not signed up for its upcoming subscription music service.

YouTube is about to begin testing the new service — which will charge people to watch and listen to music without ads, and download songs to their mobile devices — within the next few days, initially within Google.

YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns | Billboard

YouTube executives argue that they cannot offer music on the free service without it also being available on the paid service as this would disappoint its subscribers. The solution? To take down songs that can’t be available on both services.

“We’re adding subscription-based features for music on YouTube to bring our music partners new revenue streams in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars YouTube already generates for them each year,” said a YouTube spokesman in a statement

Amazon Smartphone Details Emerge, AT&T Exclusive

AT&T will be the exclusive carrier, according to people familiar with the Seattle company’s plans. The arrangement extends Amazon’s relationship with AT&T, which also provides wireless service for Kindle tablets and e-readers.

Inside the Secretive R&D Lab Behind the Amazon Phone

More than 1,600 people claim Lab126 as their employer on the professional networking site LinkedIn

The smartphone project has been one of the longest in development at Lab126. Interviews with multiple Lab126 employees over the course of many months—all conducted with promises of anonymity because Amazon fiercely guards such information—suggest that the phone project was started as far back as 2009.

So Watch_Dogs Graphical Mods Restore PC to Full Res

After hours testing… Watch Dogs (E3 Bloom effect working) – Guru3D.com Forums

After release and this stupid stuttering problems I started searching for fixes etc.
Then I saw many threads talking about the engine when I realized it was based on dunia 2 so I tried to unpack the files which obviously not worked.. so after searching so much for the unpacker I found it, started playing with it and after a long time of testing I ended up getting the E3 Bloom from 2012 working.

After studying how bin hex worked and downloading many tools to convert files etc, I was able to integrate and enable many effects. I told myself to keep trying and trying and that is what I have done.

Average household electricity use around the world

About 80% of people in the world have access to electricity. This figure has increased in the last decade

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E3 2014 Wrap Up | Tech Talk Today 8

chris — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:56:19 +0000

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Indie titles get some attention at E3, Amazon launches their music streaming service and starts to play heavy with the movie industry.

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Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits

Promising over 1 million songs ready for your streaming pleasure, on top of the downloading service that Amazon already offered.

Amazon Launches Prime Music Service Without Universal Music Group

Because many of the details of Prime Music have been previously reported (BuzzFeed already noted that the service won’t have songs from major labels until they’ve been out for six months; the New York Times and the New York Post have already noted that the service won’t include anything at all from Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music label) there isn’t a lot more to say.

Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order – Slashdot

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E3 2014: Microsoft Shows Indie Games Some Love

While they spotlighted all the major AAA titles with long, extended trailer packages and introductions, there were plenty of smaller, indie titles that got some love during the conference as well.

4 Things E3 2014 Is Trying to Tell You t

The big day of press conferences at E3 2014 is now officially behind us, and impressions have been posted about each of them individually, but looking back on an entire day of announcements, what is the overarching message?

E3 2014: The Best Trailers From This Year’s Show

If it’s one thing the games industry knows how to do, it’s how to cut an impressive trailer. Whether they’re full CG or all in-game, the best trailers convey their games’ strengths, tell us what to expect, and most importantly ramp up the hype. Here’s a selection of some of the best game trailers released so far at this year’s E3.

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‘Earth-Like’ Planets & Sharks | SciByte 109

chris — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:16:10 +0000

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We take a look at counting Earth-like planets, what musical training does for your brain, the Olympic torch, viewer feedback about sharks, a spacecraft update on India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, Curiosity news, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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How Common Are \’Earth-Like\’ Planets?

Astronomers have analyzed all four years of Kepler data in search of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of sun-like stars
Based on the analysis, they estimate that 22 percent of stars like the sun have potentially habitable Earth-size planets, though not all may be rocky or have liquid water
Kepler Space Telescope
Launched in 2009 its mission was to look for planets around other stars by looking for a \’dip\’ in the brightness of a star, about one hundredth of one percent, indicating that something was passing in front of it
After 3 consecutive dips in light from the star it is labeled a exoplanet candidate
About 150,000 stars were photographed every 30 minutes for four years leading to the current reported number of more than 3,000 planet candidates
Kepler had to be pointed with such precision in order to find these planets that it would be like steadily looking at a grain of salt from a 0.4 km [1/4 mi] away
The Keck Telescopes in Hawaii helps astronomers to determine each star\’s true brightness and calculate the diameter of each transiting planet, with an emphasis on Earth-diameter planets.
\”Habitability\”
The team\’s defined habitable as a planet that receives between four times and one-quarter the amount of light that Earth receives from the sun
Earth-size planets in Earth-size orbits are not necessarily hospitable to life, even if they orbit in the habitable zone of a star where the temperature is not too hot and not too cold
Some of those planets may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface that DNA-like molecules would not survive
A habitable planet would have a rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable for living organisms
Narrowing Down The Data
The team focused on the 42,000 stars that are \’sun-like\’ and found 603 candidate planets orbiting them
Of those only 10 were Earth-size, that is, one to two times the diameter of Earth and orbiting their star at a distance where they are heated to lukewarm temperatures suitable for life
Extrapolating
All of the potentially habitable planets found in their survey are around K stars, which are cooler and slightly smaller than the sun although analysis shows that the result for K stars can be extrapolated to G stars like the sun
In order to get a better idea of the number of stars with planets around them you have to account for missed planets, as well as the fact that only a small fraction of planets are oriented so that they cross in front of their host star as seen from Earth
Adding in those numbers led them to believe that roughly 22 percent of all sun-like stars in the galaxy have Earth-size planets in their habitable zones.
The astronomers in this study defined sun-like stars to be of two class types, Class G (like our sun) and Class K
Class G and K stars make up roughly 19.5% of all stars, 22% of those stars gives 4.3% of ALL stars have potentially habitable Earth-size planets. (1 out of 25)
Multimedia
YouTube | One in Five Sun-Like Stars Have \’Goldilocks\’ Planets | VideoFromSpace
Further Reading / In the News
Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Astronomers answer key question: How common are habitable planets? | Phys.org

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Musical Training and the Brain

Older adults who took music lessons as children but haven\’t actively played an instrument in decades have a faster brain response to a speech sound than individuals who never played an instrument
The Brains Response Time
As people grow older, they often experience changes in the brain that compromise hearing and show a slower response to fast-changing sounds, which is important for interpreting speech
Previous studies have show such age-related declines are not inevitable, in fact recent studies of musicians suggest lifelong musical training may offset these and other cognitive declines
The Study
This recent study, explored whether limited musical training early in life is associated with changes in the way the brain responds to sound decades later
For the study, 44 healthy adults, ages 55-76, listened to a synthesized speech syllable (\”da\”) while researchers measured electrical activity in the auditory brainstem
The brainstem is the region of the brain processes sound and is a hub for cognitive, sensory, and reward information
Results
The results showed that the more years study participants spent playing instruments as youth, the faster their brains responded to a speech sound.
In fact none of the study participants had played an instrument in nearly 40 years, so it wasn\’t simply a recent or \’maintenance\’ result
Participants who completed 4-14 years of music training early in life had the fastest response to the speech sound (on the order of a millisecond faster than those without music training).
A millisecond faster may not seem like much, but the brain is very sensitive to timing and a millisecond compounded over millions of neurons can make a real difference
Further Reading / In the News
Just a few years of early musical training benefits the brain later in life | MedicalXPress.com

— TWO-BYTE NEWS —

Olympic Torch in Space

The Olympic Torch was taken on a space walk for the first time on Nov 9, 2013
Russian officials made it clear that the torch would remain unlit at all times for safety reasons.
The Olympic torch was carried into space ahead of the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in Atlanta and Sydney but has never before been taken on a spacewalk
In an usual situation, when the new crew arrived there were nine crew members and three Soyuz vehicles at the ISS, there have not been nine crew members on the ISS since 2009.
The new crew brought the unlit torch along, then the space station’s current crew, took the torch out on a spacewalk, the three returning crew members brought the torch back to Earth
The real reason for the spacewalk is to do some routine Russian maintenance outside the station
The torch was given back to Olympic officials and it will be used in the opening ceremonies of the February games
Multimedia
YouTube | Raw: Spacewalkers Hand Off Olympic Torch | AssociatedPress
Further Reading / In the News
Russia launches Sochi Olympic torch into space | Phys.org
Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch | UniverseToday.com

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New Shark Species

Michael Thalleen ‏@ThalleenM
Two new shark species have been discovered
Carolina Hammerhead
Rare New Species of Carolina Hammerhead Shark Discovered | ScienceWorldReport.com
Scientists have now announced that they\’ve discovered a new species of rare shark, the Carolina hammerhead
The Carolina hammerhead has long eluded discovery due to the fact that it is outwardly indistinguishable from the common scalloped hammerhead
The new species, named Sphyrna gilberti, was actually discovered as scientists were looking for more common hammerheads.
South Carolina is a well-known pupping ground for several species of sharks, which means that researchers were collecting samples there for study
The scalloped hammerheads that they were collecting had two different genetic signatures in both the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes
The scientists found that the anomalous scalloped hammerhead had been described in 1967 and had 10 fewer vertebrae than the normal scalloped hammerhead. Intrigued
In the end, the scientists found that there was genetic evidence to show that this hammerhead was, in fact, a new species.
At this point scientists aren\’t sure exactly how many individuals still exist in the wild
\’Walking\’ Shark
New \’Walking\’ Shark Species Caught on Video | LiveScience
YouTube | New species of \”walking\” shark found in Indonesia – Conservation International (CI) – 2013 | ConservationDotOrg
A new species of \”walking\” shark has been discovered in a reef off a remote Indonesian island
Hemiscyllium halmahera, named after the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera where it was found
These sharks don\’t always rely on \”walking\” to move about — often, they only appear to touch the seafloor as they swim using their pectoral and pelvic fins in a walk like gait
The shark grows up to 70 cm [27 in] long and is harmless to humans
The animals lay eggs under coral ledges, after which the young sharks lead relatively sedentary lives until adulthood
These sharks do not cross areas of deep water and are found in isolated reefs

— SPACECRAFT UPDATE—

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission

Last time on SciByte
SciByte 107 | Dinosaurs & Satellites (October 29, 2013)
The Trip to Mars
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) safely injected into its initial elliptical Earth parking orbit on Nov. 5
India’s PSLV rocket is not powerful enough to send MOM on a direct flight to Mars
ISRO’s engineers devised a procedure to get the spacecraft to Mars on the least amount of fuel via six “Midnight Maneuver” engine burns over several weeks – and at an extremely low cost
The goal is to gradually maneuver MOM – India’s 1st mission to the Red Planet – into a hyperbolic trajectory so that the spacecraft will
The spacecraft was initial in an elliptical orbit around Earth, it then proceeds to fire its engines when it is at its closest point in orbit above Earth.
This maneuver increases the ship\’s velocity and gradually widens the ellipse eventually raising the apogee of the six resulting elliptical orbits around Earth that eventually injects MOM onto the Trans-Mars trajectory
They expected to achieve escape velocity on Dec. 1 and depart Earth’s sphere of influence tangentially to Earth’s orbit to begin the 300 day (10 month) voyage to Mars
Estimates are that it will arrive in the vicinity of Mars on September 24, 2014
Small Glitch
During a fourth repositioning, on Mon Nov 11, that was to take it 100,000 kilometres (62,000 miles) from Earth, the thruster engines briefly failed, leading the autopilot to take over.
The supplemental burn on Nov 12 successfully raised it to the proper orbit
The Other Mars Mission
NASA\’s MAVEN orbiter remains on target to launch on Nov. 18 – from Cape Canaveral, Florida
It\’s goal is to \”Study the Martian atmosphere , unlock the mysteries of its current atmosphere and determine how, why and when the atmosphere and liquid water was lost\”
Both Mission Goals
The main aim of MOM is to detect methane in the Martian atmosphere, which could provide evidence of some sort of life form
Both MAVEN and MOM’s goal are to study the Martian atmosphere
MOM science teams have said they will “work together” with NASA\’s MAVEN team to unlock the secrets of Mars atmosphere and climate history
Multimedia
YouTube | Mars Mission Isro successfully completes first midnight manoeuver | rajnews41
Further Reading / In the News
Indian Mars mission on track, makes first engine burns | Phys.org
India\’s Mars Orbiter Mission Rising to Red Planet – Glorious Launch Gallery | UniverseToday.com
Indian Mars mission suffers glitch but \’no setback\’ | Phys.org

— CURIOSITY UPDATE —

Warm Reset
NASA\’s Mars rover Curiosity experienced an unexpected software reboot (also known as a warm reset) on the 7th
During a communications pass as it was sending engineering and science data to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, for later downlinking to Earth
occurred about four-and-half hours after new flight software had been temporarily loaded into the rover\’s memory
At the time the event occurred, Curiosity was in the middle of a scheduled, week-long flight software update and checkout activity
A warm reset is executed by flight software when it identifies a problem with one of its operations
The reset restarts the flight software into its initial state. Since the reset, the rover has been performing operations and communications as expected
This is the first time that Curiosity has executed a fault-related warm reset during its 16-plus months of Mars surface operations
Multimedia
YouTube Curiosity Rover Report JPLnews
Image Galleries at JPL and Curiosity Mulimedia
Social Media
Curiosity Rover @MarsCuriosity
Further Reading / In the News
Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Performs Warm Reset | mars.jpl.nasa.gov

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

Nov 16, 1972 : 41 years ago : Skylab III : Skylab III, carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission that remained the longest American space flight for over two decades (until Norm Thagard broke it aboard Mir in 1995 and Shannon Lucid, Feb 2002-Sep 2003). The Skylab III crew, Gerald P. Carr, William R. Pogue and Edward C. Gibson, maintained their physical condition by walking treadmills and riding an on-board stationary bicycle. Among the thousands of experiments conducted during this flight, the astronauts took four space walks, including one on Christmas Day to observe the comet Kohoutek. After 1214 orbits, the crew returned to Earth, splashing down on 8 Feb 1974. Skylab 3 | Wikipedia

Looking up this week

Keep an eye out for …
Friday, Nov 15 | After dark | The Summer Triangle | You can see the bright star Vega high in the W-NW after dark this month, the brightest star above it is Deneb with the dimmer Altair to the lower left.
Planets
Venus | Dusk | In the SW setting at least and hour after dark
Mars | 1-2am local | High in the SE, still moving E against the background stars moving farther to the lower left of Regulus
Jupiter | 9pm local | Rises in the E-NE with the stars Castor and Pollux to its left.
Further Reading and Resources
Sky&Telescope
SpaceWeather.com
StarDate.org
For the Southern hemisphere: SpaceInfo.com.au
Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere : astronomyonline.org
Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand : rasnz.org.nz
AstronomyNow
HeavensAbove

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Android Report | FauxShow 144

chris — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:37:05 +0000

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Angela and Chris go over the one week challenge of switching from iPhone to Android! Which apps helped the transition, and what turned out to be a big challenge.

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Dropbox
Airdroid
Bloatware
Battery
Scrapbooking App
Hangouts
Gmail
Widgets
Sounds

Phone Qualities

Camera
Too big

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Stock Android
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Josef writes:

Just wanted to congratulate you on the new addition to the family and say thank you for the network. You should be expecting a package from Amazon for the FauxShower as a token of my appreciation.

I\’ve been a viewer for a couple years now though am always too lazy to make a handel in the IRC and usually just pound on the keyboard ending up as jb_viewer4311 or something. Chris does a great job with the network and it\’s great that Angela is so supportive of his unique job / hobby.

Keep up the great work with Jupiter broadcasting!

Matt writes:

Hi Chris! I am a recent owner of a Roku box. I would LOVE to watch JupiterBroadcasting shows via my Roku. Is this possible now? If not, have you considered it? I watch LAS, Techsnap and Faux Show pretty regularly.

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New Google+ Features | FauxShow 140

chris — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:28:36 +0000

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Angela and Chris go over some of the latest G+ changes from the Google I/O and show of a few of their favorite new features. Plus a few of the changes that took us by surprise, and a big mail sack!

The redesign doesn’t just feature a new layout for your Google+ stream — the company has also worked to turn the website into more of a proper app instead of a website.

Google gives Google+ a facelift, enhances photo features – latimes.com

The highlight of the new features may be Google+’s new photo editing and uploading tools. One of them will automatically sift through a bunch of photos taken during a vacation, for instance, and create a themed album to share with friends. Using the company’s technology, Google+ will choose the best pictures based on a variety of factors, including whether they feature people or important landmarks.

Google Unveils New Music Streaming, Hangout App, Photo Features – ABC News

Google announced today it jumped on the online music streaming bandwagon with a new service through its Google Play – its Android store for apps, music, movies and other multimedia.

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Mailsack:

Mike writes: How do you run freenas from cd rom. Not install but run freenas from or on cd rom

Jeff writes:

While watching your last episode of LAS you guys didn’t think too much about Ubuntu Phone spins! I completely disagree and think that there will/should be tons of spins! You forgot to think about custom Android roms. Every phone has more roms than we can keep track of. As a user, we don’t want to be locked into a venders “way”. We want to break out into different ways, new interfaces, faster systems, and more user customization. I for one am only excited about what spins may come because I am honestly not a fan of Canonical, and fear that they will take a mac approach with there Ubuntu phone OS.

Love the show, keep on rocken!

Andrew writes:

I would like to complain, about your Ting advertising. You keep telling us about how fantastic Ting is and how you can mix and match your voice and data components and only pay for what you use. I continually hear it throughout your shows and it makes me look at my phone, and cry! Because Ting is not in Australia. And without Ting in Australia, I cannot sign up to a Ting plan. And without a Ting plan I am stuck paying for hundreds of minutes of voice I will never use
The next time you are talking to your guy at Ting, please tell him Ting needs to start doing business in Australia.

Cal writes:

This is just a general comment…. I don’t support this “Unfiltered” or any show by JB, individually. But I do go out of my way to support JB as a whole because I take something beneficial from each show I watch. My concern is, in supporting one show I would be neglecting another which I gain benefit from. Please do not view your podcasts as simple podcasts, they are the best I have seen on the internet and truly are a culmination of a network. Specific to your case, the “unflitered” news channel, if it is to remain only your bias and not that of commercial interest, then please keep it part of an important piece of the network. Unaffected by anything else.
To be noted – I do not share yor views on a lot but do on some – still nice to here current event with out bs….right?

Pradeep:

I have been a big fan of your Linux Action Show & Coder Radio for the past one year. I am an indepent game developer and I have just released my game Zenania on Google Play for Androids. All the tools used to make it were open source/ free software like gimp…etc. After listening to your shows about the awesome tech in open source, I decided to try open tools for game developement and now I have release my very first indepent game. Thank you for inspiring me take the effort. If it was not for your show I would not have tried those tools (open source)…. Cheers.

Here is a link to my game.

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