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Fedora 25

Fedora 25 released! – Fedora Magazine

Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including:

• Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications
• Node.js 6.9.1, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine
• Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language
• PHP 7, offering improved performance and reduced memory usage
• Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy, PyPy3, and Jython

Wayland in Fedora 25

• Fedora 25 Linux arrives with Wayland display support

The big news for desktop users in Workstation is the Wayland display server has finally replaced the legacy X11 Window server. Wayland has been in the works since 2008. The point of Wayland is to provide a smoother, richer experience for graphical environments. X also had a huge amount of functionality that was no longer being used.

On top of Wayland, Fedora 25 Workstation runs GNOME 3.22. This latest desktop claims to offer multiple file renaming, a redesigned keyboard settings tool, and additional user interface improvements. If, like me, you’re not a GNOME fan, Fedora 25 also supports spins with other default desktops. These include KDE, XFCE, LXDE, MATE, and Cinnamon.

• Changes/WaylandByDefault – FedoraProject

How To Test

1. Boot a fresh F25 workstation install.
2. Verify that the login screen is running under Wayland (you can do so by looking for a process called gdm-wayland-session in ps -ef output)
3. Verify that the session chooser offers ‘GNOME’, ‘GNOME on X11’ and ‘GNOME Classic’, and that ‘GNOME’ is selected by default.

4. Log into all three of these sessions and verify that ‘GNOME’ gives you Wayland (you can verify this by bringing up the GTK+ inspector in a gtk3 application and checking what backend is used), while the other two end up with X11.

5. Change the gdm configuration by adding WaylandEnable=false and reboot

6. Verify that the login screen comes up under X

7. Verify that only X-based sessions are offered in the session chooser

8. Log into the Wayland-based session again

9. Use the desktop normally, and verify that there are no obvious instabilities, or Wayland-specific bugs or performance problems

• FreeMedia

The Fedora Free Media Program is a volunteer initiative by local Fedora Ambassadors and contributors to distribute Fedora Media (DVDs) for free to individuals who can’t afford to buy or download Fedora. There is no funding from Fedora for this initiative. The media comes from volunteers from around the globe that coordinate their efforts using Fedora Infrastructure.

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My Mower Runs Linux

After about 6 months of doing research on hardware and embedded systems I finally have a decent working prototype and it runs LINUX! All design, programming, GIS tools, and supporting tools, like field HUD, are all linux (Arch and Ubuntu).

• Open Source at DigitalOcean: Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt

Desktop App Pick

Midnight Commander

After last week’s app pick many wrote in to suggest we take a look at…

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It’s a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.
Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

Spotlight

The $89 ARM Laptop

Sent in by Dennis K.

PINEBOOK is a 11″ or 14″ notebook powered by the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit Processor used in our popular PINE A64 Single Board Computer. It is lightweight and comes with a full size keyboard and large multi-touch touchpad for students and makers.

Using the mini HDMI port, the PINEBOOK can be connected to a larger external HDMI diplay or TV for presentations.

Build-in MicroSD Card slot allows users to expand their data storage up to 256 GB with a microSD Card (SD, SDHC, SDXC).

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Tor Phone Is The “Super-secure Version Of Android”, Developed By Tor Project

Aptly named Tor Phone, this new phone has been designed by Tor developer Mike Perry. It’s based on Copperhead OS, an Android distribution that comes with multiple security enhancement. In the past, Google’s Android security team has accepted many Copperhead patches in their Android code base.

• Mission Improbable: Hardening Android for Security And Privacy | The Tor Blog

Systemic Threats to Software Freedom

Unfortunately, not only is Copperhead the only Android rebuild that supports Verified Boot, but the Google Nexus/Pixel hardware is the only Android hardware that allows the user to install their own keys to retain both the ability to modify the device, as well as have the filesystem security provided by verified boot.

This, combined with Google’s _increasing hostility_towards Android as a fully Open Source platform, as well as the difficulty for _external entities_to keep up with Android’s surprise release and opaque development processes, means that the ability for end-users to _use, study, share, and improve_the Android system are all in great jeopardy.

UbuCon Europe 2016 – Welcome & UBports Announcement – YouTube

• FSOSS 2016 – YouTube

Debian putting everything on the /usr

One of the reasons for the change is that the current hierarchy _creates “busy work”_for developers, as Russ Allbery explained in January. He argued the change would mean “we don’t have to try to harass a thousand package maintainers into doing essentially untestable busy-work to try to move things around between __/usr_, _/bin_, and _/lib__to support a tiny handful of systems for which other approaches are available.”

• UsrMerge – Debian Wiki

• The Case for the /usr Merge

Jay (Microsoft project manager) knows the score when it comes to Linux performance

Tor Phone – The Secure Android

The Tor Project has released Tor Phone–a privacy-focused and secure version of Android mobile OS. It’s based on Copperhead OS, a hardened Android distribution. Tor Phone also uses OrWall to force all the connections over Tor network.

Upcoming XFS Work in Linux v4.8 v4.9 and v4.10+, by Darrick Wong )

For the past year I have been working on a bunch of new features for the
XFS filesystem on Linux. Modern-day XFS is a direct descendant of the
original XFS code from SGI Irix that was donated long ago. The goals
are the same — XFS is intended to behave consistently as it scales to
large storage and many files.

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I found that by replacing LightDM with GDM fixed the problems with the trackpad. After switching to GDM, additional setting show up for the trackpad including tap to click.

Also after switching to GDM, the two finger scrolling worked better in particular the horizontal scrolling.

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Yahoo might be turning into the next AOL, Cyanogen Inc switches to Apps, 3D printing finger prints to login, GPU power on demand & the farming Robot that can heal your garden shame.

Plus Chris gets serious about sleep tech & our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion – YouTube
• Yahoo’s remaining assets to rebrand after sale to Verizon in 2017 | TechCrunch
• Cyanogen Inc. reportedly fires OS development arm, switches to apps
• AMD MxGPU – The World’s First Hardware Virtualized GPU – YouTube
• Michigan police 3-D printing murder victim’s fingers to try to unlock his phone
• This farming robot can automatically grow food in your backyard garden – Tech Insider
• ‘Marijuana Tampon’ Might Be the End of Your Period Cramps – Natural Healing
• Sleep as Android – Android Apps on Google Play
• SleepCloud study – Sleep as Android
• SleepCloud Data
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Do any of you use Sleep as Android (with SleepCloud)? Do your REM sleep stats look this bad? I need more data!
• SleepyHead CPAP Review Software

Kickstarter of the Week:

• The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99 by Andromium Inc. — Kickstarter

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Researchers discover a deep flaw in the way cellular networks interconnect, you won’t believe the scope of information they can obtain. Many Git users are getting bit by a bad bug & controlling robot arms with your mind is now a reality.

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Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere

Researchers discovered security flaws in SS7 that allow listening to private phone calls and intercepting text messages on a potentially massive scale — even when cellular networks are using the most advanced encryption now available. The flaws, to be reported at a hacker conference in Hamburg this month, are actually functions built into SS7 for other purposes — such as keeping calls connected as users speed down highways, switching from cell tower to cell tower — that hackers can repurpose for surveillance because of the lax security on the network. It is thought that these flaws were used for bugging German Chancellor Angela’s Merkel’s phone.

Those skilled at the housekeeping functions built into SS7 can locate callers anywhere in the world, listen to calls as they happen or record hundreds of encrypted calls and texts at a time for later decryption (Google translation of German original). There is also potential to defraud users and cellular carriers by using SS7 functions, the researchers say. This is another result of security being considered only after the fact, as opposed to being part of the initial design.

• Hackers Can Read Your Texts Thanks to Huge Security Flaw

Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced

Github has announced a security vulnerability and has encouraged users to update their Git clients as soon as possible. The blog post reads in part: “A critical Git security vulnerability has been announced today, affecting all versions of the official Git client and all related software that interacts with Git repositories, including GitHub for Windows and GitHub for Mac. Because this is a client-side only vulnerability, github.com and GitHub Enterprise are not directly affected. The vulnerability concerns Git and Git-compatible clients that access Git repositories in a case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystem. An attacker can craft a malicious Git tree that will cause Git to overwrite its own .git/config file when cloning or checking out a repository, leading to arbitrary command execution in the client machine. Git clients running on OS X (HFS+) or any version of Microsoft Windows (NTFS, FAT) are exploitable through this vulnerability. Linux clients are not affected if they run in a case-sensitive filesystem….Updated versions of GitHub for Windows and GitHub for Mac are available for immediate download, and both contain the security fix on the Desktop application itself and on the bundled version of the Git command-line client.”

Double amputee controls two robotic arms with his mind

The project’s researchers have been developing these Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL) over the past decade, but they say Baugh is the “first bilateral shoulder-level amputee” to wear two MPLs at the same time. Unlike Jan Scheuermann who controlled a robotic arm with a pair of neural implants, though, Baugh had to undergo a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation, which reassigned the nerves that once controlled his arms and hands.

Once that was done, the team recorded the patterns his brain makes for each muscle he moves, and then they had him control virtual arms to prepare for the real things.

First Ubuntu Phone Will Launch In Europe This February

For its first Ubuntu Phone Bq is launching a repurposed version of the its popular Aquaris e4.5 handset preloaded with Ubuntu for Phones.

Unlike the version that developers can (and have) been downloading and flashing to their Nexus devices, the commercial version of Ubuntu on phones will ship with a number of differences in software, including new ‘Aggregator Scopes‘ and support for paid content.

• 4.5-inch screen (qHD resolution @ 540×960)
• 1.3 GHz Quad Core ARM Cortex A7 (MediaTek)
• Mali 400 GPU @ 500 MHz (MediaTek)
• 8GB eMMC Storage
• 1GB RAM
• 2150 mAh Battery
• Dual micro-SIM

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We take a look at what robots teach us about language, helping find exoplanets, emergency stretchers, Chinese space program, sugar powered implants, space telescopes, the pitcher plant, Voyager 1 and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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Teaching a robot to talk

_{Credit: Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv and Dr Joe Saunders}

• The low down
• In an attempt to replicate the early experiences of infants, researchers in England have created a robot that can learn simple words in minutes just by having a conversation with a human.
• The robot named DeeChee is three-feet-tall [1 m] knew no words at the start of the study but was built with the ability to pronounce and syllable in the English language
• The programming was built to put together those syllables and store them in memory
• It was also designed to recognize words of encouragement, like “good” and “well done”
• Significance
• Human volunteers were used to try and teach DeeChee simple shapes and colors,
• The words that were learned were ranked by how often they came up in conversation
• The feedback from the volunteers helped transform the robot’s babble into coherent words, sometimes in as little as two minutes.
• Words that form the connective tissue of our language – words like “at,” “with” and “of” – are spoken in hundreds of different ways, making them difficult for newbies to recognize
• While more concrete words like “house” or “blue” tend to be spoken in the same way nearly every time
• Of Note
• DeeChee was programmed to smile when it was ready to pay attention to its teacher and to stop smiling and blink when it needed a break
• Although it was designed to have a gender-neutral appearance, humans tended to treat it as a boy
• There is a theory on how comfortable humans are with the realism of robots
• Multimedia
• YouTube | robotcan learn simple words by conversing with humans | NhanTech12
• Further Reading / In the News
• British researchers create robot that can learn simple words by conversing with humans (w/ Video) | phys.org
• Uncanny Valley robots essay resurfaces 42 years later | phys.org
• Uncanny valley | wikipedia.org

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Eye spy an exoplanet

• The low down
• One of the ways exoplanets are detected is by repeating dips in the light of a star
• Trying to identify these scientists have acquired huge amounts of data to process
• A research team at Yale University is using over 150,000 volunteers to help sort through the publicly released data from Kepler
• Significance
• The project has led to the discovery of several new planets while also confirming many findings made by Kepler scientists
• Earlier this year they announced two new exoplanet candidates that NASA’s computer data crunching failed to detect
• While some updated programs are getting better at detecting the dips in light, scientists still view the citizen volunteers’ contributions invaluable
• Of Note
• Volunteers are very good at identifying large potential exoplanets
• Algorithms are still better at finding tiny dips in light from smaller planets when visual detection isn’t sensitive enough.
• Social Media
• The Zooniverse @the_zooniverse
• Further Reading / In the News
• Planet Hunters
• Participate in Science | Zooniverse
• Zooniverse
• Amateur scientists find niche in locating new planets | phys.org

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Student Design : Emergency Stretcher

• The low down
• A student working on a final year Product Design has created a Rapid Evacuation Stretcher (RES) device made of the same heat resistant materials the fire services use
• The prototype stretcher, rolls up so that it could be strapped up alongside the firefighter’s breathing apparatus
• Unrolled the RES could be strapped to an injured person, then carry handles could be used to move them
• Further Reading / In the News
• Student’s ‘emergency stretcher’ invention could prove a lifesaver | phys.org

Chinese Space Program

• The low down
• China sent its first person into space in 2003
• Significance
• June 16, 2012 china launched its fourth manned space mission from the Gobi desert (NW china)
• They docked two spaceships in orbit for the first time Monday, June 18
• On board are 3 taikonauts , 1 who has been to space twice and China’s first female astronaut, a fighter pilot
• The mission will last 13 days and perform a manual space docking the Chinese Spacelab Tiangong–1 which was launched late last year
• Of Note
• China hopes to have its own space station in orbit in 2020
• Multimedia
• YouTube : [[China] Launch of Manned Shenzhou 9 Spacecraft on Long March 2F Rocket | SpaceVidsNet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwKB2jblwk)
• YouTube : [[China] Crew Enter Tiangong–1 Space Lab | SpaceVidsNet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDJCr–5T1U)
• Further Reading / In the News
• China sends its first woman astronaut into space (Update) | phys.org
• Shenzhou 9 Launches With First Chinese Woman | UniverseToday.com
• China Successfully Docks Manned Space Capsule at Orbiting Module | space.com

Sugar to power medical implants!?

• The low down
• MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on glucose, the same sugar that powers human cells
• The silicon wafer consists of glucose fuel cells of varying sizes; the largest is 64 by 64 mm
• Significance
• This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which could help paralyzed patients move their arms and legs again
• So far, the fuel cell can generate up to hundreds of microwatts — enough to power an ultra-low-power and clinically useful neural implant.
• In the 1970s, scientists showed they could power a pacemaker with a glucose fuel cell, but the idea was abandoned in favor of lithium-ion batteries, which could provide significantly more power per unit area than glucose fuel cells
• Glucose fuel cells also utilized enzymes that proved to be impractical for long-term implantation in the body, since they eventually ceased to function efficiently
• The new twist is that it is fabricated from silicon, using the same technology used to make semiconductor electronic chips
• These new silicon chips have no biological components, that consists of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose
• Of Note
• The work is a good step toward developing implantable medical devices that don’t require external power sources.
• New ultra-low-power electronics, have pioneered such designs for cochlear implants and brain implants
• Further Reading / In the News
• New energy source for future medical implants: sugar | phys.org

Space Telescope Donations

• The low down
• A pair of space telescopes that were donated to NASA from the secretive National Reconnaissance Office could be repurposed for a wide variety of science missions
• The two spy satellite telescopes were originally built but they were never used and are currently being stored in Rochester, N.Y., in facilities belonging to the hardware’s manufacturer
• Significance
• Given budget projections for the next several years it will likely be years before the agency’s budget can accommodate them.
• The cost to keep them in storage is about $70,000 a year, which is not insignificant, but it’s not something that’s unmanageable
• NASA does not anticipate being able to dedicate any funding to the newly acquired telescopes until the James Webb Space Telescope successfully launches
• The two telescopes have main mirrors that measure nearly 8 feet wide (2.4 meters), making them comparable to the veteran Hubble Space Telescope
• Of Note
• In the meantime, NASA is investigating different uses for the telescopes, and hopes to have input from the scientific community to guide the decision-making process
• Further Reading / In the News
• Spy Satellite Telescopes Donated to NASA ‘Came Out of the Blue’ | Space.com

Pitcher plants capturing their food

• The low down
• Pitcher plants (Nepenthes) rely on insects as a source of nutrients, enabling them to colonise nutrient-poor habitats where other plants struggle to grow
• Prey is captured in specialised pitcher-shaped leaves with slippery surfaces on the upper rim and inner wall similar to the ‘aquaplaning’ effect of a car tire on a wet road.
• If an insect tries to walk on the wet surface, its adhesive pads (the ‘soles’ of its feet) are prevented from making contact with the surface and instead slip
• Significance
• Scientists simulated ‘rain’ with a hospital drip and recorded its effect on a captive colony of ants that was foraging on the nectar under the lid
• During heavy rain, the lid of the pitchers acts like a springboard, catapulting insects that seek shelter on its underside directly into the fluid-filled pitcher
• Further research revealed that the lower lid surface of the N. gracilis pitcher is covered with highly specialised wax crystals
• The surface seems to provide just the right level of slipperiness to enable insects to walk on the surface under ‘calm’ conditions but lose their footing when the lid is disturbed (in most cases, by rain drops).
• Further Reading / In the News
• Pitcher plant uses power of the rain to trap prey (w/ Video) | phys.org

SPACECRAFT UPDATE

Voyager 1 takes one step closer to interstellar space

_{Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech}

• Last time on SciByte
• Habitable Planets & Plant Power | SciByte 32 [Feb 7, 2012] | Voyager 1 – Update
• Curiosity Rover | SciByte 22 [Nov 22, 2011] | Voyager tune up
• The low down
• Voyager 1 now lies about 11.1-billion-mile (17.8-billion-kilometer) away from the Earth traveling at 6 miles per second
• Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft makes the journey in 16-hour–38 minutes
• There has been a slow decline in the measurements of energetic particles generated inside the heliosphere, the bubble of charged particles the sun blows around itself
• The data now indicates that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased
• Significance
• Cosmic energetic particles were generated when stars in our cosmic neighborhood went supernova.
• From January 2009 to January 2012, there has been a gradual increase of about 25 percent in the amount of galactic cosmic rays [average of 0.7% per month]
• Beginning on May 7, the cosmic ray hits have increased five percent in a week and nine percent in a month [about a 100-fold increase]
• During this past year, Voyager’s magnetometer also detected a doubling in the intensity of the magnetic field
• The definitive data that will indicate the cross over into interstellar space is then the magnetic field lines orient in a more north-south direction vs the east-west within the heliosphere.
• The magnetic field data analysis will take weeks.
• Of Note
• Although Voyager will become the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, but we still do not know exactly when that someday will be
• At the rate of decay, the Voyager spacecraft won’t have sufficient electric power to its instruments sometime by the mid–2020
• Social Media
• NASA Voyager @NASAVoyager
• NASAVoyager2 @NASAVoyager2
• Further Reading / In the News
• Voyager mission page | nasa.gov
• Data From NASA’s Voyager 1 Point to Interstellar Future | jpl.nasa.gov
• NASA’s Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge | nasa.gov
• Data from Voyager 1 point to interstellar future | phys.org
• Deep Space Network | jpl.nasa.gov
• Voyager 1 Entering Interstellar Space | redorbit.com

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

• June 21, 1893 : 119 years agg : Ferris wheel : The first Ferris wheel premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, America’s third world’s fair. It was invented by George Washington Ferris, a Pittsburgh bridge builder, for the purpose of creating an attraction like the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Each of the 36 cars carried 60 passengers, making a full passenger load of 150 tons. Ferris didn’t use rigid spokes: instead, he used a web of taut cables, like a bicycle wheel. Supported by two 140 foot steel towers, its 45 foot axle was the largest single piece of forged steel at the time in the world. The highest point of the wheel was 264 feet. The wheel and cars weighed 2100 tons, with another 2200 tons of associated levers and machinery.
• June 22, 1978 : 34 years ago : Charon discovered : Evidence of the first moon of Pluto was discovered by astronomer James W. Christy of the Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. when he obtained a photograph of Pluto that showed the orb to be distinctly elongated.. Furthermore, the elongations appeared to change position with respect to the stars over time. After eliminating the possibility that the elongations were produced by plate defects and background stars, the only plausible explanation was that they were caused by a previously unknown moon orbiting Pluto at a distance of about 19,600 kilometers (12,100 miles) with a period of 6.4 days. The moon was named Charon, after the boatman in Greek mythology who took the souls of the dead across the River Styx to Pluto’s underworld.

Looking up this week

• Keep an eye out for …
• Wed, June 20 : Summer Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere. Longest Day and Shortest Night; sun reaches its most Northern point in the sky. While the Southern Hemisphere winter begins [shortest day/longest night]
• Thurs. June 21 : Mercury is very low in the East-Northeast as twilight starts. It looks like a bright star to the upper right of the crescent Moon, but will be hard to spot because of its short distance to the horizon.
• Fri. June 22 : Venus is visible low in the Eastern sky at early dawn, with Jupiter to its upper right. The coming weeks will bring both higher in the sky.
• Fri. June 22 : At twilight will be a slender crescent Moon, with Mercury to the West
• Sat. June 23 : Mercury will still be barely visible in the W horizon, it will be left (S) of a a pair of bright stars Castor and Pollux.
• Sat. June 23 : By the moon will be the star Regulus 1 fist-width to the E/SE and Mars is 2 hand-spans to the SE, another 2 hand-spans will get you to Spica and Saturn

• More on what’s in the sky this week
• 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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Find out the latest on Russia’s failed attempt to reach Mars, NASA’s new mission, and we’ll update you on the biggest stories of the month, including a few updates that could have huge impacts for physics!

Too much out there is just plain distraction, why can’t we have our cake and eat it too? There are a lot of interesting things going on out there in science, but getting to the interesting bits without all the hype you get from major media outlets is a trick we at Jupiter Broadcasting are hoping to pull off.

SciByte will provide you with a treasure trove of small talk for your next cocktail party, the knowledge to show off to friends and family, and provide you the means, with the help of our trusty show notes, to further investigate the things that interest you the most.

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