Allison interviews Neil McVicar from Bartesian about their appliance that allows you to quickly and easily make premium cocktails from your home. You stock the Bartesian with water and four of your preferred base spirts which are stored in separate canisters. To make a cocktail, you insert one of the many available cocktail capsule types […]
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Security Bits — 23 February 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Developments in the Avast Browser History Data Sales story: Avast kills off Jumpshot, the subsidiary that sold all your Web data — arstechnica.com/… 🇨🇿 Czech Authorities to Investigate Avast Over Sale of Users’ Browser […]
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The Sounds of Silence with Turbo Boost Switcher
This article is a story of how my fans are going bananas on my new 16″ MacBook Pro. But we can’t start with the amazing solution I found in the app Turbo Boost Switcher until we back up and learn a little bit about computer processors. Not too deep, because we get in over my […]
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CES 2020: Neato D-Shaped Robotic Vacuum
Allison interviews Kriselle Laran from Neato Robotics about their line of robotic vacuums. Neato makes the industry’s first D-shaped robotic vacuum allowing room for a larger brush/dustbin and for the unit to better get into corners for an improved clean. Neato has a range of Botvacs, from the D3 up to the D7 models, that […]
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CES 2020: AHS CoPilot Car Seat Alert System
Allison Sheridan interviews Gina Bigge from American Home Safety about their CoPilot Car Seat Alert System. The CoPilot automatically sends an alert to parents and caregivers if they happen to leave their baby in a car seat as soon as they walk away from the car. The CoPilot attaches to the straps of your existing […]
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CES 2020: Passive Bolt Touch Activated Smart Lock
Allison interviews Kabir Maiga from Passive Bolt about their new smart lock. The Passive Bolt module is installed with your existing deadbolt to convert it into a touch-activated smart lock. This method allows you to unlock your deadbolt using your existing physical keys from the exterior if desired. You can lock and unlock the Passive […]
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CES 2020: Belkin Smart Speaker, Chargers and Switches
Allison interviews Jen Warren from Belkin about their new smart speaker as well as several compact chargers and smart devices. The Belkin Soundform Elite is a high-fidelity smart speaker with a built-in wireless charger. Belkin has teamed with Devialet to produce a speaker offering high-quality sound in a sleek design. The Soundform Elite is enabled […]
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Dean Deals With a Lost Phone (Otter.ai Transcription)
The transcript below was created with otter.ai, the text-transcription service I talked about last week. I have made no effort to edit the transcript so it’s going to have mistakes in it. otter.ai recognizes when different people are talking. From there you can tell it which voice is which on a couple of examples, and […]
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Podcast Movement 2020: Hindenburg Multitrack Audio Editor
Allison interviews Chuck Wang from Hindenburg about their audio editing software. Hindenburg Journalist is a multitrack audio editor designed for podcasters, audio producers and radio journalists. Its focus is on storytelling and its functions include recording voice and interviews, adding sound and music, organizing the material, editing the audio, and publishing the story. Hindenburg Journalist […]
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Create Real Time Transcriptions of VOIP Calls with Rogue Amoeba and otter.ai
Problem to be Solved Podcasts are awesome because audio can be listened to while you’re doing something else, like washing the dishes, washing the car, cycling the hills of Ireland or commuting to work. But there are lots of situations where listening isn’t an option or isn’t the consumer’s preferred option. If you’re hearing-impaired, definitely […]
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