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Surface Pro
/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywrightMicrosoft is back with a brand new Surface Pro, and it’s better than ever. Check it out here http://www.howtokillanhour.com/shows/ep249
Posted by How To Kill an Hour on Thursday, 20 July 2017
We created an amazing soundscape, that was edited and published with the new Microsoft Surface Pro and we were very impressed! Please see below more information about the Microsoft Surface Pro:
- A best-in-class laptop, with the versatility of a studio and tablet.
- 2.5x more performance than Surface Pro 3
- Up to 13.5 hours of video playback – 50% longer battery life than Surface Pro 4
- Create, study, work, and play virtually anywhere – Surface Pro gives you total mobile productivity
- Create on screen with Surface Dial and the new Surface Pen, featuring real-time writing, new tilt for artistic shading, and increased sensitivity
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
To buy your own Microsoft Surface Pro please click here!
Ode To The Commute – Microsoft X Suli Breaks
/in Gadgets / Tech/by billywright
We recently collaborated with Microsoft on the Microsoft Surface Pro, which we created a soundscape using a Zoom H6 and edited together using just the Microsoft Surface Pro, in EP249 we chatted about a great piece of content that was also created solely with the Microsoft Surface Pro, please see Suli Breaks wonderful piece above.
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
To buy your own Microsoft Surface Pro please click here!
BallieBallerson UPDATE
/in Entertainment, Events & Activities/by billywrightLast year we spoke about BallieBallerson well we went and experienced it this past week and it was a LOT of fun!
We went along to the Brunch event at Dalston which states on their website:
Saturday & Sunday Daytime
BOTTOMLESS PROSECCO
BOTTOMLESS PUNCH
BOTTOMLESS SPAGHETTI MEAT BALLS
BALL PIT HIDE & SEEK
BallieBallerson is an adult play pen set over two floors; the underground club is kitted out with 250k clear balls set upon an LED dancefloor.
Upstairs the bar is decorated with plasma balls and glow in the dark murals that are charged with UV light blasts whilst DJs spin funk and ragged house.
Cocktails are themed around the planets; Neptune is based on charcoal and liquid nitrogen; the helium rich Saturn is garnished with a floating balloon; and Uranus, which is undrinkable until you’ve eaten the Miracle Berry pill provided.
Buy a ticket for entry where you can enter and exit the ball pit as many times as you like in your time slot.
79 Stoke Newington Road
N16 8AD
Open Tuesday to Sunday
Buy tickets here!
Click here to listen to the guys chatting about this on the show!
How smart will AI become?
/in Future, Gadgets / Tech/by billywrightAndrew Ng has likened Artificial Intelligence to be as important to us as electricity in the years to come, as crazy as that sounds, our ancestors probably thought the same as electricity.
Our work life will be different and AI will be far more competitive than any human, it will require us to sharpen up our mental skills!
Whilst experts believe that we will still be required to do jobs that are very important and carry a lot of weight to it, just because robots/AI don’t have the same emotional attachment/engagement than that of a human. Whilst the challenge for us would be because we as humans like to seek confirmation and things that confirm what we think of ourselves. Thus holding us back. To over come this would require us to take the things w take for granted like thinking and listening to a new level.
Thus in time, our definition of “smart” (good grades) will begin to change. Smart will become the people who make the least amount of mistakes in life.
AI is incredible in that sense as we cannot do things quicker/recall information/produce alternative occurrences of an event than a super computer or any time of AI, it’s just too good.
A new definition of smart will promote a new way of thinking, it won’t be what you know, but it will be how good your skills are. Quantity of knowledge replaced by quality. Thus, in turn, forcing us to get better at cognitive and emotional skills. Adjusting after mistakes, learn emotional intelligence, letting go of the ego. Making us perceive reality a lot easier and not what we want it to be. Embracing what it means to be human, in turn, living alongside smart technology.
Singhsburys becomes Morrisinghs
/in Lifestyle/by billywrightSinghsbury’s has had to change it’s name after being threatened legally to Morrisinghs.
Sainsbury’s had threatened Jel Singh Nagra with court action if he hadn’t changed it when asked.
However, many of the people the West Allotment area of North Tyneside have said that they’lll still refer to his shop as “Singhsburys”
Jel, is not worried about the same legal ramifications from Morrisons, but won’t be surprised if he gets another legal notice.
Yet a Morrisons spokesman said:
“Mr Nagra and his customers obviously have good taste so we wish him well,”
Do you prefer Morrisinghs or Singhsburys?
Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite
/in Entertainment, Games/by billywrightMarvel vs. Capcom: Infinite powered by Unreal Engine 4 has a demo available on PS4/Xbox One, it’s story driven and a lot of fun! With the full game available in September, some are worried the multiplayer aspect of the game will be stable with previous games from Capcom, Street Fighter V, struggling with the server load at launch.
With that said, the demo is incredibly fun and has all the aspects you’d expect from a Marvel vs Capcom game, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is released for PS4, Xbox One and PC on September 19.
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
To pre-order Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite please click here!
Spiderman PS4 Exclusive!
/in Entertainment, Games/by billywrightSony showed off their super cool Marvels Spider-Man exclusive PS4 game at E3 and we cannot wait to try it out, check out more information below:
Marvel’s: Spider-Man is an upcoming open world action-adventure video game based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man. It is being developed by Insomniac Games and is to be published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 console. It will be the first licensed game developed by Insomniac. The game will tell a new story about Spider-Man and is not tied to a film or comic book. The game will cover both the Peter Parker and Spider-Man aspects of the character and will feature a more experienced Spider-Man.
To listen to the guys chatting about this please click here!
To pre-order this please click here!
How much is your data worth on the dark web?
/in Gadgets / Tech, Technology/by billywrightHow much is your information worth on the dark web?
Well the folks from keeper security let us know!
Spotify account £2.20
Hulu account £2.20
Netflix £0.80 – £2.40
Paypal £1.20
Social Security Number £0.80
Drivers license £16.00
Credit card £6.40 – £17.60
Email address and password £0.60 – £1.80
Medical record from a large scale attack £1.20 – £8.00
Complete medical record – up to £800
Other killer insights include:
In 2016 someone’s identity was stolen every 2 seconds, with 70% of people paying to unlock their device. £860 is the average cost of unlocking an infected device, with hackers on average making £32.60/hr hacking into encrypted databases.