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On November 24th, 2020 with 57 comments
New submitter SirKveldulv shares a report from Nikkei Asia: Livestreaming platforms now must limit the amount of money a user can give hosts as a tip. Users...
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On April 21st, 2020 with 9 comments
Sonos launched its first audio service Tuesday, called Sonos Radio. It promises free and exclusive music programming across a few dozen stations. From a...
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On July 2nd, 2018 with 198 comments
Last year, when Donald Trump appointed Ajit Pai chairman of the F.C.C., Pai promised to "take aggressive action" to stamp out pirates. In early May, the...
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On June 28th, 2018 with 247 comments
CaptainDork shares a report from Bleeping Computer: Starting yesterday, there have been numerous reports of people's Windows computers being infected with...
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On August 11th, 2017 with 127 comments
Zaria Gorvett, writing for BBC: In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted...
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On December 21st, 2016 with 177 comments
Gandalf_the_Beardy quotes a report from The Register: The Register reports on the story of Jim Giercyk, an amateur radio enthusiast who had his copy of the...
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On November 23rd, 2016 with 33 comments
Georg Szalai, reporting for Hollywood Reporter: "The BBC makes the best radio in the world," says director general Tony Hall. British public broadcaster BBC...
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On March 5th, 2015 with 88 comments
Zothecula writes For the first time in history, a prototype radio has been created that is claimed to be completely digital, generating high-frequency radio...
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On December 5th, 2014 with 57 comments
product_bucket writes: The UK's radio regulator, Ofcom, today published changes in the licensing conditions that remove the mandatory 15-minute callsign ID...
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On April 18th, 2012 with 82 comments
An anonymous reader writes "There are over 700,000 ham radio licensees in the USA and about 2 ½ million worldwide. Today, this international community of...
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On September 13th, 2011 with 136 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of PC users are being called on to donate their spare CPU cycles to help create a massive grid computing engine to...
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On September 2nd, 2011 with 71 comments
judgecorp writes "The UK's telecom regulator, Ofcom, will approve whitespace radio, allowing systems that use vacant spaces in the TV broadcast spectrum on the...
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On November 16th, 2006 with 94 comments
7Prime writes "Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nations largest radio, billboard, and entertainment outlet, announced their intention this morning to...
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On June 29th, 2001 with 17 comments
It just so happened that both Nate and Hemos were back in town, and the result was yet another show. We talk about TiVo, Napster, and CmdrTaco and Hemos'...
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On January 9th, 2001 with 16 comments
Well, it's been a long time since we've had an update to the radio section, and that's partly due to us not recording the show very often. Also, it's in part...
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On October 27th, 2000 with 16 comments
After another extra long pause, we're back with another installment, this time with Chris DiBona, man of many titles, and also the benevolent soul who found me...
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On June 22nd, 2000 with 31 comments
In this week's episode, we're back from the office move to discuss Microsoft buying Bungie, the new release of GNUCash, stupid processor naming schemes, the BT...
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On June 6th, 2000 with 38 comments
In this week's episode we talk about the AMD Thunderbird, the "opening" of the Playstation 2, and not much else. (except for the ever-impending Krull invasion)...
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On May 30th, 2000 with 29 comments
Back from our trip to Boston, we return with a brand-spanking-new episode. Nate was gone working on Everything2, but that didn't stop us from discussing the...
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On May 17th, 2000 with 68 comments
We're back after the server move with a brand-new episode. This week we talk about the Cold War plot to nuke the moon, DVD recorders, the new Motif release and...
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On April 27th, 2000 with 22 comments
Well, we weren't really sure where we were this week, but Chris DiBona stopped by anyway, and we talked about AOL's filtering, Nvidia's new X servers, and not...
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On April 18th, 2000 with 30 comments
This week's episode is our longest yet, and we devote the extra time to talking about EverQuest GM's, Jennicam's 4 year anniversary, and more. Listen as we try...
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On April 5th, 2000 with 24 comments
Yet another show is up at the usual spot, with us talking about the new Red Hat release, reviewing the Oscars, and listening to Jeff's cellphone calls. It's as...
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On March 29th, 2000 with 21 comments
In our latest episode, we discuss Nate's whereabouts, the new release of Perl, Microsoft's X-Box, Netpliance's i-opener and more.
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On March 15th, 2000 with 15 comments
With Rob out of town, we still managed to carry off a brand spankin' new episode where we talk about domain squatting, our gaming addictions, software patents,...
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On February 24th, 2000 with 11 comments
Fellow Slashdot Author and geek Emmett Plant stopped by the Geek Compound and therefore warranted another episode. We talk about Red Hat teaming with Real...
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On January 31st, 2000 with 18 comments
Well, we've done one more show before we leave for LWCE from where we'll have multiple icecasts throughout the week.
In our latest episode, we talk about the...
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On January 19th, 2000 with 13 comments
We're back with yet another episode to celebrate the fact the world didn't end, and that this time of the year is extremely slow as far as news in concerned....
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On November 30th, 1999 with 7 comments
Yes, fresh from the carnage that is Thanksgiving, it's another mind-blowing episode (14 if you're counting) of GIS. Download, listen and enjoy.
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On November 12th, 1999 with 20 comments
In this week's episode, we talk about tanning, the Microsoft trial, and many things we probably shouldn't. Many thanks to TheSync for hosting this for us....
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