demystifying technology and revealing greater truths about computing culture with Akshay, Tara and Teshika
This week we sat down with Thomas Rokholt and Evan Frondorf to discuss the origins of the Harlem Shake and what happens when a piece of culture is appropriated, interpreted differently and spread throughout the world via the Internet. Is this necessarily a bad thing? If so, who is to blame? Also in this episode:…
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It’s not Valentine’s Day anymore! But you can listen to our “Valentine’s” episode right below (quotation marks indicate that this was a regular-themed episode with Akshay making occasional references to Valentine’s day). Our topic was the current state of bionic eye technology! CLICK THROUGH for news, protips and kickstarter of the week:
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demystifying technology and revealing greater truths about computing culture with Akshay, Tara and Teshika
THIS WEEK we talked about buying used ebooks and the new PlayStation Orbis vs the Xbox 720 vs a new Android device. We then discussed Argus, the Square Kilometer Array, and challenges faced by people who have decided that magnetic tapes are the best way to storage their exabytes of data. Links after the jump.
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demystifying technology and revealing greater truths about computing culture with Akshay, Tara and Teshika
This week we interviewed YCC Tech Committee member Josh Barrett to get the back story on YCC Tech Month, and we were joined by Yale Wiki founder and STC Boss Casey Watts! Click through to play the podcast:
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demystifying technology and revealing greater truths about computing culture with Akshay, Tara and Teshika
This is our 50th episode (so old), with original hosts Sean and Sherwin guesting via Skype. Talking about: – Kickstarters Fiction Fingerprinting and SPORTSFRIENDS featuring the game Johann Sebastian Joust! Why it’s called that, we don’t know. – Amazon in Ubuntu? – INTERNET ADVERTISING: Does it work? Why are web ads still so annoying? Why can’t we…
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