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Tech Talk Weekly comes out every Thursday afternoon from Broward County Library's Creation Station. Each 20 minute episode features 3 to 4 interesting tech stories from the week.
Creation Station Monthly is an hour long show released the last Tuesday of each month. Featuring two creative people talking about how they became interested in their field, how they are creative, and some of what their creative journey has been.
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Tech Talk Weekly Number 183
Episode Number 183 – May 30th 2024 – Ancient platypus, Fish in Space, Greenwashing – modern indulgences, the Original Internet
This week's guest: Kimberly White from Community
Engagement
Links to this week’s stories:
Ancient platypus:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw88ewqjxd1o
Fish in Space:
https://www.space.com/china-tiangong-space-station-zebrafish-healthy
Greenwashing – modern indulgences
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/22/24162428/google-meta-microsoft-salesforce-symbiosis-coalition-nature-carbon-removal-forest-offsets
The original Internet:
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/openai-meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-victorian-telegraph-operators.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/24353/pg24353-images.html
https://www.broward.org/library/Pages/Summer.aspx
https://issuu.com/browardcountylibrary/docs/summer_magazine_2024?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR -
Creation Station Monthly - May 2024 - Politics
This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two women passionate about working in Politics.
Guests on this episode:
Kimberly Adams
https://www.marketplace.org/author/kimberly-adams/
https://www.calltomindnow.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuXj0B1WRHM
https://www.c-span.org/person/kimberly-adams/120876/
Angela Nichols
https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/politicalscience/faculty/nichols/
https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/pjhr/about/
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR -
Tech Talk Weekly Number 182
Episode number 182 – May 23rd 2024 – A milestone overdue, is copyright broken? When deleted is not deleted, Electric Salt SpoonThis week's guest: Michael Bryant from Community Engagement
Links to this week’s stories: A milestone overdue:https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/19/ed-dwight-blue-origin-first-black-astronaut-candidatehttps://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/blue-origin-resumes-human-flights-to-suborbital-space-but-it-wasnt-perfect/Is copyright broken?https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4674656-how-copyright-is-killing-creativity-except-taylor-swifts/When deleted is not deleted:https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-photo-bugElectric Salt Spoonhttps://www.kirinholdings.com/en/newsroom/release/2024/0520_01.htmlhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR -
Tech Talk Weekly Number 181
Episode Number 181 – May 16th 2024 – It takes time for
science, AI voice, Pieces of your brain, and can we get back from Mars?
This week's guest: Brianna Escobar from Community Engagement
Links to this week’s stories:
Science can take time, a lot of time
https://www.iflscience.com/the-longest-running-laboratory-experiment-in-the-world-is-streaming-live-right-now-74143
http://thetenthwatch.com/
AI voice again
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155652/chatgpt-voice-mode-gpt4o-upgrades
Pieces of your brain
https://www.techspot.com/news/102964-groundbreaking-3d-brain-scan-generated-14-petabytes-data.html
https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-and-google-neuroscience-breakthrough-intricately-detailed-1400-terabyte-3d-brain-map/
https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/landing.html
Can we get BACK from Mars?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24153047/mars-sample-return-nasa-budget-timeline-extraterrestrial-life
Bonus link on Auroras:
https://theconversation.com/solar-storms-that-caused-pretty-auroras-can-create-havoc-with-technology-heres-how-230020
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR -
Tech Talk Weekly Number 180
Episode Number 180 – May 9th 2024 – Who gets the money for chargers, another healthcare hack, AI from beyond the grave becomes more mainstream, and talking with whales
This week's guest: Lindsay from Community Engagement
Links to this week’s stories:
Who gets the money for those chargers?
https://insideevs.com/news/718664/tesla-supercharger-nevi-charger-funding/
Another healthcare provider is hacked:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/tech/cyberattack-disrupts-healthcare-network/index.html
AI from beyond the grave is coming to the mainstream:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/09/digital-recreations-of-dead-people-need-urgent-regulation-ai-ethicists-say
Talking with Whales:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/8/scientists-discover-sperm-whale-phonetic-alphabet
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Tech Talk Weekly Number 179
Episode Number 179 – May 2nd 2024 – Google AR, Driverless F1, results take time, 1 million homes, and bees
This week's guest: Eileen Fisclschweiger from Main
Library
Links to this week’s stories:
AR going away?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24144735/google-ar-search-3d-objects-missing
Autonomous driving, sort of…
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/inside-autonomous-racing-league-event-self-driving-car-against-formula-1-driver/
It takes time for results sometimes..
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24144425/razer-zephyr-face-mask-covid-n95-ftc-settlement
One million homes carbon free
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-vogtle-nuclear-reactor-plant-3ef69a9f64f74410ab2dcda62981b2eb
Bees
https://newatlas.com/robotics/festo-bionicbee/
the other bee story
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/sport/swarm-of-bees-delays-dodgers-diamondbacks-game-intl-spt/index.html
New YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTW0eli8enOUTJ2FFEY-8Z55bxI1YNmJ
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR