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Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220302 - AirGuard
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . As we welcome new Weekly Geek-out sponsor Munchie Planet, we learn that a much better way to detect rogue Apple AirTags has emerged with a new Android app: AirGuard...
Mar 02, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220223 - Flippy the burger robot
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . 100 White Castle locations are hiring a burger-flipping, fry-cooking industrial arm robot. =) webmeister Bud Read more at Today White Castle to hire 100 robots to f...
Feb 23, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220216 - Indigenous Wordle
Read more at the Times Colonist: There's a Wordle for that: Word game adapted for Indigenous languages. Play the Gitksan or SENOEN versions of Not Wordle (or build your own, and find out more about li...
Feb 16, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220202 - Queer Eye for the LEGO lawsuit guy
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . a fashion designer has sued LEGO over a jacket on Queer Eye. What?. =) webmeister Bud Read more at CNN: Fashion designer sues Lego over leather jacket worn by toy A...
Feb 02, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220126 - 1Password's wild funding round
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . Toronto's 1Password has attracted celebrity investors like Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Evans, and more. =) webmeister Bud Read more: ...
Jan 26, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220119 - Canon's own DRM bypass
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . the global chip shortage has forced Canon to help customers bypass their printer cartridge DRM. =) webmeister Bud Read more on Boing Boing: Forced by shortages to s...
Jan 19, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220112 - CES 2022
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . .Bud's review of the oddities of CES 2022. =) webmeister Bud BMW iX Flow colour-changing car L'Oreal Colorsonic hair dyeing brush CyberPowerPC Kinetic case
Jan 12, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20220105 - cream cheese supply chain
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . last year's cream cheese shortage was caused by a cyber attack! =0 webmeister Bud Read more at CNN: The surprising reason you can't find cream cheese anywhere.
Jan 05, 2022
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20211222 - Tracker Detect
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . Apple has released an Android app to detect rogue AirTags which may be tracking you. =) webmeister Bud Get the Tracker Detect app. And, read more at XDA: Apple rele...
Dec 22, 2021
Bud's Weekly Geek-out! 20211215 - Meta vs Metaverse
Today on Bud's #WeeklyGeekOut . . . What happens when your account is "metaverse" but then Facebook becomes "Meta?" Bad things. =/ webmeister Bud <p style="text-align: center;">Read more at the ...
Dec 15, 2021
