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Category5 Technology TV
Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 and 2017 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
The Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and the Future of Finances
- Episode 551
- April 11, 2018
- 766
XENTAVO founder and CEO and all-round cryptofinance expert Robert Koenig joins the Cat5 team to explain (in terms we understand) what the blockchain is, how cryptocurrency generates money, and what the financial future holds.
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Pi vs. Pi, Giant Hand Hairs and Bad Soldering Joints
- Apr 4, 2018
- 4,450
Facebook, a Pi B+ and Backups
- Mar 28, 2018
- 8,154
STEM Education for Girls with a Clever Doll
- Mar 21, 2018
- 4,706
Pi Day
- Mar 14, 2018
- 2,324
A Beginner's Introduction to Cryptocurrency
- Mar 7, 2018
- 10,103
Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Episode 433
- January 5, 2016
- 752,611
We continue setting up our Pi web server with PHP and a strong Linux firewall (CSF/LFD). We also get things going on deploying MariaDB, but haven't quite got there yet. On GIMP Tips, we look at creating gradients and how to make the edges super-smooth.
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Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Nov 12, 2013
- 741,206
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 736,854
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 727,968
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 702,916
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
Top Stories for the Week of April 11, 2018
- 159
- If you thought the Raspberry Pi was a small computer, this will blow your mind: IBM just unveiled the “world’s smallest computer,” and it measures just 1mm by 1mm.
- The mind-reading AlterEgo headset communicates with Alexa . . . through telepathy?
- Retro programmers may need to reconsider using the Linux beep command as an activity or progress alert.
- Apple plans to replace Intel chips and will use its own custom Mac chips beginning in 2020.
Top Stories for the Week of April 4, 2018
- 1,240
- The FCC has approved SpaceX's plan to launch nearly 4,500 broadband satellites.
- Fed up with Facebook data-slurping? Firefox has a cunning plan.
- The patches Microsoft released for Meltdown in Windows 7 actually made the operating system LESS secure. You'll want to install the March update right away . . . if you can avoid broken networking.
- Last year's Pokemon Go Fest was a disaster for the game's developers, Niantic. The company has now settled a class action suit that was filed as a result, for almost $1.6 million.
Top Stories for the Week of March 28, 2018
- 1,310
- SpaceX and Tesla have deleted their Facebook pages.
- Intel has announced it is “discontinuing” the “Intel Graphics Update Tool for Linux.” But it may not be why you think!
- Watch what you say while using Microsoft products. The company's new service agreement says it can punish you for using "offensive language."
- Because VR is so demanding, hardware makers have issued “Recommended” or “VR Ready” guidelines to help customers understand what kind of hardware they need for a good VR experience.
Top Stories for the Week of March 21, 2018
- 1,401
- Within less than two decades it will be cheaper to operate robots in US-based factories than to hire workers in Africa, a new report warns.
- US cities are starting to crack down on commercial crypto-mining due to the heavy load it puts on their power grid.
- A new air taxi service financially backed by Google cofounder, Larry Page, is set to take off in New Zealand, thanks to an agreement announced last week.
- In Texas, tucked behind a house for the wealthy, there may lie some hope for the significantly less fortunate.
Top Stories for the Week of March 14, 2018
- 269
- Elon Musk, a man prone to ludicrous deadlines, has birthed yet another: test flights of his Mars spaceship next year.
- A drone owner has been charged with starting a fire that destroyed 300 acres of grassland in a national forest in Arizona.
- In a shocking revelation, criminals prove to be untrustworthy: A new study shows that less than half of ransomware targets who pay up, actually get their files back.
- Researchers have found that they were able to infect robots with ransomware. In the real world, such attacks could be highly damaging to businesses if robotic security isn't addressed.
Top Stories for the Week of March 7, 2018
- 1,416
- The world's first commercial, floating, offshore wind farm, called Hywind, started sending electricity to the grid last October. Since then, the six-turbine, 30 megawatt installation has been working really well. In fact, Hywind has had a 65-percent capacity factor over the last three months according to Statoil (the Norwegian mega-corporation that built the wind farm off the coast of Scotland).
- A new technique is abusing poorly-secured servers and fueling record-breaking denial-of-service attacks—along with notes demanding the targets pay hefty ransoms if they want the debilitating flood of junk traffic to stop.
- Levi Strauss is introducing a digitizing technique that uses lasers to ethically create designs on its jeans in place of manual labor.
- The Law Commission in the UK is to conduct a study into British driving laws with the aim of making sure humans can still be blamed for road accidents caused by driverless cars—as well as criminalising hackers who target autonomous vehicles.
New Every Day
Join Jenn Wagar and Carrie Webb as they sit down for a heart-to-heart discussion each week, addressing many of the issues Christians face in their day to day lives, and building your faith and focus through relevant conversation.
Conversation with a Ghanaian Pastor
- Episode 143
- April 6, 2018
- 42
As Season 3 comes to a close, Carrie travels to the West African nation of Ghana where she sits down for a one-on-one discussion with local pastor, Paul Ayeni, to learn how the ministry there differs from what we're used to half a world away.
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Prison Break - Part 4
- Mar 30, 2018
- 1,175
Prison Break - Part 3
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1,186
Prison Break - Part 2
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1,203
Prison Break - Part 1
- Mar 2, 2018
- 1,264
The Authority of The Word of God
- Episode 21
- September 4, 2015
- 340,368
Being an effective witness for Christ starts with one truth: the Bible is the infallible Word of Almighty God. Join Carrie Webb, along with her father and guest, Rob Webb, as we explore the divine nature of the Word of God.
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Jesus' Claims to Deity
- Sep 11, 2015
- 338,965
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 2
- Aug 28, 2015
- 338,913
Mental Illness & Jesus: Part 1
- Aug 21, 2015
- 337,484
Camp
- Sep 18, 2015
- 336,428
The Pixel Shadow
Minetest (The Free Minecraft Alternative) runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, and we'll show you how to play.
Discovering Xanadu
- Episode 24
- April 23, 2017
- 5,092
A mysterious teleportation gate hidden deep beneath BaldNerd's dome whisks BaldNerd and MangleFox70 away to the strange, unknown land of the Xanadu, where the locals are able to eat bananas and corn, bounce around in a massive soccer field and take a minecart ride through the depths of the underworld.
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The Mysterious Room
- Apr 9, 2017
- 3,136
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 4)
- Apr 1, 2017
- 4,157
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 3)
- Mar 19, 2017
- 7,825
Surviving TPS-Domes with BaldNerd (Part 2)
- Mar 11, 2017
- 6,583
The Basic Survival House in Minetest
- Episode 1
- December 6, 2015
- 148,993
On the first episode of #thepixelshadow we'll get things started with the basics of Minetest with a simple goal: to build a house using nothing but resources which we've chopped down, dug up or crafted in survival mode! Here are the main topics of this episode: - Mining wood and stone. - Crafting wood sticks. - How to make wooden planks. - Crafting a furnace. - Smelting glass from sand. - Granting fast and fly privileges. - Making a pickaxe. - Crafting fancy doors using VanessaE's Home Decor mod. - Crafting a storage chest. - Crafting ladders. - Crafting a survival house. Hope you enjoy the show! Please give us a thumbs up, subscribe and share!
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Building a Mine in Minetest
- Jan 3, 2016
- 148,936
VanessaE's Public "Creative Building" Server in Minetest
- Jan 10, 2016
- 146,044
Protect Your Structures in Minetest
- Jan 17, 2016
- 142,504
Our First Build Battle
- Jan 24, 2016
- 138,372
Immersive Nature Sounds
Relax, study or work with peaceful natural sounds recorded in 360 VR.
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