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Terrence O'Brien

Terrence O'Brien

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    The BBC shuts down its longwave radio service.

    The oldest service in the BBC’s portfolio has sent its last broadcast. Keeping the longwave signals flowing has become increasingly expensive, and very few rely on the tech now that streaming is widely available, and VHF radio and satellites have largely replaced longwave.

    On June 27th the BBC will stop broadcasting Radio 4 Long Wave. It blames the cost of maintaining out-of-date technology. Droitwich uses two metre-high ceramic and metal valves, which are no longer made. Almost no one in Britain will notice. But it is the first nick in what the broadcaster hopes will eventually be a slashing of expensive radio and TV transmissions.

    The Guardian’s Kai Wright refuses to buy a new phone

    But he’s quite happy gardening and listening to John Coltrane.

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    The Dude abides AI slop, apparently.

    Jeff Bridges is best known as an actor. But he’s also a reasonably accomplished musician who’s put out records on Blue Note and worked with T Bone Burnett. Which makes it all the more depressing when he fired up Suno on This Past Weekend with Theo Von.

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    Please actually give us a Freddie Gibbs remix of the Daybreak ringtone.

    Flying Lotus composed two ringtones for iOS 13. He was recently asked by Almanac of Rap host Donwill who he would put on the track if Daybreak were a song and not a ringtone. He said Freddie Gibbs and now I can’t stop thinking about the possibilities.

    BYOK is my new go-to distraction-free writing tool

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    Verge Score

    This simple plastic rectangle works with my favorite keyboard, edits text, and stays out of my way.

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    IBM crams 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail.

    The company claims its new nanostack tech is the first sub-nanometer chip manufacturing process. IBM also says that nanostack can deliver up to 50 percent more performance, or 70 percent better energy efficiency than its 2nm nanosheet chips. (Though, apparently not both simultaneously.)

    IBM’s nanostack sub-1nm chip being held by a hand with white gloves on.
    Image: IBM