Facebook delivering internet

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Internet has become a human right and something that we need – like air.

To help save lives in times of natural disasters, Facebook have designed a “Tether – Antenna” A small unmanned helicopter that hooks onto undamaged fiber and power lines (when cellular infrastructure was damaged but fiber lines in the area still work) and then hover “a few hundred feet from the ground,”  to provide internet and when complete will be able to offer internet, sometimes at up to months at a time!

The tech is still early in terms of development but, like the company’s plans for blanketing the developing world with a limited form of internet connectivity alongside Terragraph, (a gigabit wifi system that bolsters signals in dense urban environments) and Aquila, (Facebooks internet delivering drones) – it highlights that Facebook want to do a lot more than just put augmented masks on your face.

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Episode 220 Garage Band

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Garageband (iPhone)

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GarageBand turns your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio — so you can make music anywhere you go. And with Live Loops, it makes it easy for anyone to have fun creating music like a DJ, by triggering loops and audio effects in real time. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play keyboards, guitars, and drums. Enjoy Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro — even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug in a guitar or bass and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use a Touch Instrument, microphone, or a guitar and instantly record a performance with support for up of 32 tracks. Audio Unit Extensions in iOS 10 allow you to play, record and mix third-party instruments or effects right into GarageBand. And share your song using email, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, or AirDrop for iOS.

FUN FACT: Steve Lacy, a young musician who is currently a member of the band “The Internet” Produced the beat for the Kendrick’s track “Pride” from his latest record “DAMN” using GarageBand on his phone.

Lacy told Wired that he made beats all the time on his iPhone before he got access to a professional studio

“I got this piece called the iRig, I saw you could plug it into your iPhone, they got amps on here, see what cool guitar sounds I could get.”

The model Steve Lacy uses has a 3.5mm jack on it so he uses an old cracked, beat up iPhone for recording guitars and bass through the iRig and uses his iPhone 7 to listen and compose his tracks with.

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Uncorked Theatre: How To Solve a Problem Like Murder (NEW)

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New Show. Same Rules.

“The rumours are true. UnCorked Theatre is returning to Paradise with their intoxicatingly addictive production, ‘How To Solve A Problem Like Murder.’

London’s most compelling immersive theatre company throws you deep into the psyche of seven equally erratic personalities, as they immerse you into a voyeuristic tale of obsession, deceit, and vulnerability.

Sixteen months ago, a woman disappeared, ripping a hole through Paradise and leaving those left behind to pick up the pieces. A loving husband, a best friend, and a once thriving business, all unhinged.

Now, on the eve of Paradise Bar’s annual masquerade event, a new mystery is about to unfold, one that leaves you with not one, but two questions: who died, and who killed. Seven suspects. Seven sins. No one is innocent.”

We checked it out recently, hear our thoughts here!
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Ikea Arguments

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Spotify Hardware?

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Spotify, the world’s most popular music streaming device may be jumping into the world of hardware. According to job postings, reveal a handful of openings that make hint towards designing and selling hardware. Stating that the new employee would

“deliver hardware directly from Spotify to existing and new customers……a category defining product akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles.”

There are a host of other job listings that hint towards new hardware, most notably  ‘Voice’ and ‘Language’ team listings but within those listings they aren’t exclusive to working with external companies like Amazon/Google, assuming to make Spotify work better on Alexa/Google Home, but to working in house.

What can Spotify be working on?

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Episode 219 – Uncorked Theatre

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Episode 218.5 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

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Parrot Mambo

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The Parrot Mambo minidrone is full of surprises! Whether you equip it with the Cannon or the Grabber, it’ll turn the sky into an amazing playground. Speed or skill races, acrobatic challenges or tricks… take on any aerial combat. Highly robust and easy to handle, it’ll rise to all your challenges.

Solo or in a team, it’s now time to head off on a combat mission. Attach the Cannon to the Parrot Mambo and let the game begin. Target your opponents’ drones or try games of skill, such as firing at a pyramid of beakers or bringing down light-weight targets. You can load up to six balls. They’re harmless, so give it your all to win the match!

Fancy doing something out of the ordinary and surprising everyone? Attach the Grabber to the Parrot Mambo and use your imagination: anything is possible… The grabber can pick up objects (up to 4 g), carry them up into the air and put them down wherever you want.

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Download the Parrot app here Apple / Android

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BORING CONFERENCE!

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BORING CONFERENCE IN UNAVOIDABLE CLASH WITH LOCOMOTIVE CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN AGM ON MAY 6TH

– May 6th sees regrettable and unprecedented overlap of two landmark gatherings in the enthusiast’s calendar

The Boring Conference, an annual conference devoted to the ordinary, the mundane and the everyday – and now in its seventh year – goes head to head this year with the Annual General Meeting of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain.

 

Talks at this year’s Boring Conference at Conway Hall include:

Mid 20th century Danish public information films.
Model villages.
Bleach.
How to fold each broadsheet in a confined space in order to do the crossword.
Music and knitting patterns co-authored by microbes.
An on-stage ironing demonstration

Previous Boring conferences have covered topics as diverse as ‘the sounds of vending machines’, ‘a taxonomy of sneezes’, ‘hot air dryers’ and ‘East German pedestrian signals’.

James Ward added: “I’m very excited about this year’s line up and I just hope that the clash will not cause any difficulty.  Obviously I’m not expected any funny business, but anyone travelling by train to attend the Boring Conference might think about choosing an alternative mode of transport in case there are, shall we say, conversations with the higher ups in the Locomotive sector that lead to travel delays.”

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