Hosted by: David McVay & Josh Philpott
This week on Geek Actually David and Josh take a deep breath of relief that the world hasn’t ended and look at the week in geek stuff. Stories include an update on the impending robot apocalypse, more Playstation Network hacks, the NBN has gone live, Twitter in the classroom, terrible ASUS advertising, foldable AMOLED screens, naked coders, the most useless robot ever designed and Netflix is taking over the internet! All this plus picks of the week and the future of food packaging, so whack in the earbuds and prepare to hack into the geeky goodness.
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Geek News
The Impending Robot Apocalypse is Nigh!
Now they are learning to speak to each other in their own language…aaaah!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/streuth-aussie-robots-being-taught-their-own-spoken-language/
Everybody relax, meet Luna, the worlds most useless robot.
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/05/rosie-the-robot-you-are-not-a-personal-d.php
PSN
Playstation Network is back in Australia.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/the-psn-is-finally-back-up-in-australia/
And they want to buy your love :-)
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/sonys-welcome-back-playstation-package-detailed/
But let’s put it into perspective, no system is 100% secure
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20063764-260.html
Not so fast, Sony hacked again?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/sony-hacked-twice-in-one-day-this-time-1225-was-stolen-from-accounts-in-japan/24942
NBN
The NBN is all over the news this week.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/what-happened-with-the-nbn-this-week-17/
The NBN is live…in Armidale
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/the-nbn-is-officially-alive-in-armidale/
And Stephen Conroy speaks sense when the opposition attacks.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/conroy-dismisses-opposition-nbn-claims/story-e6frfku9-1226058179422
Other
Illegal streaming could land you in jail.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/new-bill-upgrades-unauthorized-internet-streaming-to-a-felony.ars
Oh good, let’s not work on social skills. Twitter used in classrooms.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/twitter-now-an-acceptable-replacement-for-raising-hand-in-class/
Nerd power. Man gets his stolen laptop back via Twitter.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/twitter-vigilante-reclaims-strangers-stolen-laptop-after-police-refuse-to-help/
The pixels are pretty, but 1080p display is just too big for a phone.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/1080p-mobile-screen-slaps-retina-display-in-the-mouth/
…but HD works well on tablets
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/samsungs-2560×1600-screen-is-the-first-retina-display-for-tablets/
Did Dropbox lie or were they talking about the other kind of security (sarcasm!)
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/dropbox-told-us-our-files-were-encrypted-and-private-turns-out-they-arent/
Here is an ad guaranteed to turn you off using Asus’ netbooks.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/why-does-asus-want-us-to-hate-its-new-eee-pad/
Netflix accounts for 22.2% of all US net traffic.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/netflix-traffic/
Forget the eInk paper, have a foldable AMOLED screen.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/samsungs-foldable-display-will-let-you-stuff-giant-tablets-in-your-pants/
I think it is amazing that the CDC has a plan in case of Zombie outbreak.
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/05/every-man-for-himself-cdc-has-a-not-very.php
This is just wrong in every way, NSA genius apologises to America.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/former-nsa-genius-apologises-for-his-super-spying-software/
The offline Social Network (from ABC’s Hungry Beast)
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/05/16/the-offline-social-network-video/
I’m sure this isn’t legal – Coders wanted, must be female, must be nude!
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2011/05/17/now-hiring-only-nude-female-coders-need-apply/
CBS take note, here is a new Twitter stream for you to serialize.
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/05/a-cbs-sitcom-wating-to-happen-somebodys.php
Weird Food!
eInk on Food Wrappers, is this the future.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/cartons-made-from-e-paper-could-tell-us-when-milk-goes-bad/
Geek Picks of the Week
Every week Josh, DeltaKnight and/or I will give you our geek picks of the week, these could be anything from iPhone apps to a great sandwich recipe (more likely to be an app though).
David recommends “Portal 2” (it is an obsession!), Josh picks the game “L.A.Noire” as his pick of the week plus the Android Apps “Paradise Island” (a “We Rule” style game) and the Android interface enhancer “ADW Launcher”, but be warned, this is not for the novice user.
I love these iDevice holders, so old school.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/05/id-consider-buying-an-iphone-just-to-house-them-in-these/
Now here is a patent lawsuit that could sink an entire ecosystem.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385395,00.asp
…and to finish off today, a little bit of clever history.
An amazing photoshop experiment by Sergey Larenkov.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/photoshop-time-portals-to-world-war-ii/
http://2leep.com/bar.php?url=http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/10193.html
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to possible bad language.
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