Geekshow Podcast

Geekshow Helpdesk: The Lost Boys

-You were a good boy, RedBox. Look at the flowers: https://www.engadget.com/say-goodbye-to-redbox-130044411.html?guccounter=1
-Interesting competition for Harmony remotes:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/24/24184673/switchbot-smart-home-universal-remote-matter-bluetooth
-New LLM for spreadsheets!!!!!!
https://slashdot.org/story/24/07/15/2330243/microsoft-unveils-a-large-language-model-that-excels-at-encoding-spreadsheets?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-New A/C tech uses much less energy:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/16/2112235/cutting-edge-technology-could-massively-reduce-the-amount-of-energy-used-for-air-conditioning?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Apple trained their AI on scraped YouTube videos:
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2037316
-Prime Day pickups?
-Samsung Galaxy Unpacked:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/10/24194881/samsung-galaxy-unpacked-ring-ai-z-fold-6-flip-watch-7-ultra-buds
-Oh. Dear… another breach.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/12/business/att-customers-massive-breach/index.html
-Class action time!
https://www.pcmag.com/news/atts-major-data-breach-sparks-another-class-action-lawsuit
-Am I screwed? Maybe not directly?
-Owen Showcases his gadget dominance. New 12bay NAS M.2 2280 nvme storage array.
-Life sucks, Everything sucks, We are all going to die!
 https://bgr.com/science/changes-in-ocean-currents-could-destroy-the-planet-new-study-suggests/
-Dark Comets will be the thing that gets us!
https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/dark-comets-may-be-a-much-bigger-threat-to-earth-than-we-thought-new-study-warns
 

Geekshow Live! You can use a Towel

Captain America: Brave New World, Watchmen, Time Bandits, Futurama, Agatha All Along, Inside Out 2 ,Xmen 97, Barbaric, Godzilla, Rebecca reviews Longlegs, lots more 

Geekshow Arcade: Gamepass is going up

-Steamdeck gets game recording: https://www.engadget.com/steam-deck-gets-a-built-in-game-recorder-120019196.html
-AMD wants to improve texture compression: https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/ai-shrink-game-download-size
-Overwatch 2 Transformers crossover: https://www.engadget.com/overwatch-2-shows-off-transformers-skins-in-animated-trailer-222358657.html
-Gamepass prices are increasing:
​​https://www.engadget.com/xbox-is-increasing-game-pass-prices-and-adding-a-standard-plan-234657957.html?src=rss
-Fortnite is coming back to iOS:
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/07/08/2332233/apple-approves-epic-games-store-app-for-ios?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Xbox cloud gaming on Fire TV sticks:
https://www.engadget.com/xbox-cloud-gaming-is-now-available-on-some-amazon-fire-tv-sticks-181530197.html?src=rss
-Palworld is going big:
https://www.gematsu.com/2024/07/sony-music-entertainment-japan-aniplex-and-pocketpair-jointly-establish-palworld-entertainment
-KIEN!
https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/07/04/144200/kien-the-most-delayed-video-game-in-history-released-after-22-years?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Lando is playing a new game, and wants to talk about it…

Geekshow Helpdesk: Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

-Yer gonna need a license for that poop: https://www.ksl.com/article/51051266/fda-warns-company-selling-products-with-human-fecal-matter-without-approval
-Boeing, rightfully so, owes more money: https://www.engadget.com/boeing-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-defraud-the-us-government-124009566.html
-Japan has reinvented the train:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/06/27/2232202/japan-plans-310-mile-conveyor-belt-that-can-carry-freight-of-25000-trucks-a-day?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Don’t buy a new car in the EU:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/09/1640243/speed-limiters-now-mandatory-in-all-new-eu-cars?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Google is testing popup ads in Maps.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/08/1911241/google-maps-tests-new-pop-up-ads-that-give-users-an-unnecessary-detour?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Nothing CMF 1 is a cool looking budget phone:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/8/24191666/nothing-cmf-phone-1-cases-accessories-lanyard-wallet
https://www.engadget.com/nothings-budget-friendly-brand-cmf-announced-three-new-products-including-a-200-smartphone-100417261.html?src=rss
-Be careful sneezing:
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2035167
-Mor Rokets!
https://www.space.com/europe-ariane-6-rocket-debut-launch
-Software built on software is always a recipe for disaster
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/384000-sites-link-to-code-library-caught-performing-supply-chain-attack/
Some background: https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code
-/r/cyberstuck Talk

Geekshow Live! RIP Shannon

Hellboy, Sandman S2, Venus Prime, Arkham Asylum, Deadpool & Wolverine, Six Flags-Knott's Mega Merger, The Acolyte continues with hidden Beastie Boys references, lots more
go fund me for Shannon's Services: https://gofund.me/4bf69b11

Arcade: Geek Mecca is in Oregon

-Forza Horizon 4 is being delisted: https://www.ign.com/articles/forza-horizon-4-will-be-delisted-from-digital-stores-in-december
-Intel may actually stick it out in the GPU market: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/99069/intel-arc-battlemage-x2-and-x3-gpus-spotted-up-to-448-eus-on-256-bit-memory-bus/index.html
-The long journey of Retroarch
-New RE is in the works:
https://www.polygon.com/24190672/resident-evil-9-capcom
-Steam summer sale. What are your pickups?
-Dead Rising remaster:
https://www.polygon.com/24186644/dead-rising-remaster-capcom-release-date
-Xbox went down today. My kids were not amused.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/xbox-live-suffers-a-major-outage-thats-keeping-people-from-logging-in-microsoft-says-fixing-it-is-taking-longer-than-expected/
-Im not sure this is a good thing. BBC hosting an Edu-Training area in Roblox.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/the-bbc-dons-its-game-dev-cap-to-combine-2-things-i-fear-and-dont-understand-the-uk-general-election-and-roblox/
-Lang loves fighting games- Marvel vs Capcom collection announced!!! (so what if it’s over 20 years old.) 
-Field trip to Next level pinball, Oregon’s pinball museum

Geekshow Helpdesk: Plastics in your dingdong

-I was right about the Nvidia bubble: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-loses-dollar500-billion-in-the-biggest-short-term-loss-in-company-value-in-all-of-recorded-history-a-year-ago-that-would-have-killed-it-yet-today-it-will-barely-notice/
-Huzzah! Plastic eating fungus! https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-discover-plastic-eating-marine-180000502.html?guccounter=1
-Life trying to imitate art: https://www.engadget.com/the-ai-prison-of-the-future-is-just-an-outer-limits-episode-200937257.html
-Story of the year:
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2034226
-Volkswagen gives Rivian a $5B lifeline:
https://www.engadget.com/volkswagen-and-rivian-agree-to-5-billion-partnership-230421407.html?src=rss
-Careful, there’s plastic in your penis:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/06/20/0314238/microplastics-discovered-in-human-penises-for-the-first-time?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-Nuclear energy is somehow bipartisan:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/19/183238/senate-passes-bill-to-support-advanced-nuclear-energy-deployment?utm_source=rss0.9mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
-SpaceX gets bid to de-orbit NASA space station.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasa-will-pay-spacex-nearly-1-billion-to-deorbit-the-international-space-station/
-CDK. Huge ransom event. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdk-global-hack-shows-risk-of-one-software-vendor-dominating-an-industry-5156420d
-Ads in Windows has gone too far…
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-has-gone-too-far-including-a-game-pass-ad-in-the-settings-app-ushers-in-a-whole-new-age-of-ridiculous-over-advertising
-AI just keeps getting more scary..
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-robot-lab-grown-brain
-Delivery drones on Mt EverestRead about it: https://enterprise-insights.dji.com/blog/delivery-drones-on-mount-everest
Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9R0keZdik
-Angioplasty 60 year old discovery, and a fun show and tell titanium stent, expands with body heat.
 

Geekshow Live! Baldimore

Superman and Mr Terrific, Sabretooth, Batman: Caped Crusader, Hit-Monkey, Nosferatu, Green Lantern, Interview with the Vampire, Nobody 2, Street Fighter, Vampire Hunter Van Helsing, Dune2 v Deadpool Wolverine popcorn buckets, the One Million Check Boxes game, lots more

Geekshow Live! Edibles are Great.

The Penguin, Star Trek: Prodigy, Spaceballs, Hit Monkey, Twisted Metal, The Boys, GZilla x Kong, Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League, Ploppy Playtime, Rebecca loves Thelma, Tony reviews Furiosa, lots more 

Geekshow Arcade: How much does it cost?

-Elden Ring is cleaning up again: https://www.metacritic.com/game/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree/
-Potentially interesting news on the Radeon 890m: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-laptops/amds-new-890m-mobile-gpu-could-be-over-30-faster-than-the-780m-currently-used-in-most-handheld-gaming-pcs/
-GOG will let you pass your games on to your descendants:https://tinyurl.com/gogdeath
-Like a Dragon: Yakuza coming to Amazon Prime:
https://www.polygon.com/24171051/like-a-dragon-yakuza-show-amazon-prime-video-release-date
-Nintendo Direct:
https://www.polygon.com/24180900/nintendo-direct-june-2024-everything-announced-games
-PS5 finally integrating Discord into the UI:
https://www.polygon.com/24177882/ps5-playstation5-discord-integration-how-to
-Halo Battle Royale Mode
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/new-halo-infinite-battle-royale-mode-launches-with-3-maps-fresh-mechanics-and-more-on-xbox-and-pc
-Ready? Player? One?
https://www.kat-vr.com/products/kat-walk-c-2-plus
-Halo Match Composer is neat I think?
https://gamerant.com/halo-infinite-multiplayer-match-composer-playlists-customization/
-Steam after Death
https://www.techspot.com/news/103150-valve-confirms-steam-account-cannot-transferred-anyone-after.html