JETLAG RADIO 421 | BENKYO RADIO 421

  • Reddit has filed for an IPO [Protocol]

  • A deep dive into an NSO (Israeli Malware/Spyware) zero-click iMessage exploit, captured in the wild by Citizen Lab and one of the most sophisticated Google's Project Zero has seen [TechMeme]

  • The US’s top doctor said existing covid boosters all work against omicron. Anthony Fauci encouraged anyone who’s able to get a booster to get one, whichever one is most available to them, without delay. [Quartz]

  • The downside to Biden’s electric vehicle charging plan [Recode]

  • I can’t get excited about Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series cards — here’s why — It's hard to get hyped over new graphics cards when current-gen GPUs are nigh impossible to find [Tom’s Guide]

  • AMD's CES show will highlight upcoming Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics [PC Gamer]

  • Intel says the metaverse requires a 1000x boost in computing power [TheNextWeb]

  • How Starbucks and Colectivo Coffee Workers Rode a New Wave of Labor Organizing [Eater]

  • Fad or Future: Finding Success in The Metaverse [Inc.]

  • Plant-based meat isn’t perfect, but it is a form of harm reduction [Fast Company]

  • Coinbase Transparency Report -Q1-Q3, 2021 [Medium]

  • Become an Adobe Designer with This 36-Hour Course [Entrepreneur]

  • Google Warns That NSO Israeli Malware/Spyware Hacking Is On Par With Elite Nation-State Spies [WIRED]

  • This Week in Google 642 [TWIT]

  • A closer look at Android 12 (Go edition) [Google Blog]

  • Training Machine Learning Models More Efficiently with Dataset Distillation [Google AI Blog]

  • Cosmos: Origin and Fate of the Universe [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 421 & BENKYO RADIO 421.

Not getting the COVID-19 vaccine is a gamble. When you are not vaccinated, you are gambling with your life. I have seen pictures of X-Rays of people who are vaccinated, and those who are not vaccinated. It’s scary. Please get vaccinated. Your life depends on it. Thank you.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 420 | BENKYO RADIO 420

  • The 50 Best Tracks of 2021 [beatportal]

  • The best new Eurorack modular gear of 2021, as decided by you [Computer Music]

  • Brad Pitt is reopening a classic French recording studio used by Pink Floyd and AC/DC, and he’s co-designing the mixing desk [Future Music]

  • Estimated 40% of Ticket Holders Not Attending Music Events Due to COVID-19 Concerns [DJ Mag]

  • Malta Set to Legalize Personal Cannabis Use in a European First [Mixmag]

  • David Guetta aligns with Faithless for rework of iconic track ‘God is A DJ’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • New Artist Spotlight: Tanuki Project Is ‘Adamant’ About their New Releases [Your EDM]

  • First-Ever DJ Workshop for the Deaf in the U.K Scheduled for 2022 [EDM]

  • K?D Returns With Remix Of Neon Genesis Evangelion Theme [EDM Sauce]

  • Listen to the latest news on Cryptocurrencies on the Modern Finance podcast [Modern.Finance]

  • Introducing What's The Secret Sauce Hidden Inside The Patek Philippe Advanced Research Projects Minute Repeater? [HODINKEE]

  • Jerry Colonna — How to Take a Two-Month Sabbatical Every Year (#554) [Tim Ferriss]

  • I have a couple of extra copies of Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book! Would you like a copy? Follow me on Twitter and you might get selected. I need to reach 10,000 followers for Super Follow. [GaryVee]

  • Casualties arrive en masse at MSF hospital following an airstrike in Idlib [MSF]

  • Special reports: Japan offers the world examples to follow as well as ones not to. It is as relevant as ever, argues Noah Sneider [The Economist]

  • African countries are getting more coronavirus vaccines than they used to, but utilisation rates remain low - this is because many rich countries artificially beef up their donation figures by sending doses that are about to expire to poorer nations [The EIU]

  • Why the Workplace is Actually a Good Place to Heal [Harvard Business Review]

  • Miami is banking on cryptocurrency and New York wants in [BBC News]

  • FAA Officials Say Boeing Pilot Charged in 737 Max Crash Is a ‘Scapegoat' [Bloomberg]

  • Pfizer says COVID-19 pill near 90% protective against hospitalization, death [Reuters]

  • In Afghanistan, education must take precedence over politics [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write? — The digital age enabled productivity but invited procrastination. Now writers are rebelling against their word processors. [The New Yorker]

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home Swings Big on Two Decades of Fan Payoff [The Verge]

  • January 6 texts from Fox hosts reveal the lie at the heart of the conservative movement — The texts expose how the rich exploit culture wars to benefit themselves. [Vox]

  • Still No GTA 6, But Rockstar Releases GTA 5 Online DLC- IGN Daily Fix [IGN]

  • Analogue Pocket Review: The Best Way To Play Game Boy Games [GameSpot]

  • The best science fiction and fantasy books of 2021 [Polygon]

  • COVID is Inspiring Smell Scientists to Explore Exciting New Frontiers [MIC]

  • Drake’s OVO brand has the perfect jackets to keep you warm this winter [INPUT]

  • How did Life Arise? New Study Offers Fundamental Evidence for a Disputed Theory [INVERSE]

  • 7 investors discuss web3’s present and peer into its future [TechCrunch]

  • The Atlantic’s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers. [MIT Technology Review]

  • Your ultimate guide to the best gifts — for every budget, holiday, and type of person [Insider]

  • Happy Holidays from all of us at NATO [LinkedIn]

  • Capitol attack a ‘coordinated act of terrorism’, says DC lawsuit against far-right groups [The Guardian]

  • Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm [The New York Times] #ClimateChange

  • QAnon Believer Who Threatened To Shoot Nancy Pelosi For Trump Sentenced To Prison [Huffington Post]

  • T Cells Might Be Our Bodies’ Best Shot Against Omicron [The Atlantic]

  • The Cavs Are Finally Winning Without LeBron [FiveThirtyEight]

  • The Pastor Who Defied the Odds — How a West Virginia reverend created something distinctive: a diverse congregation in an overwhelmingly White area [The Washington Post Magazine]

  • « Ce ne sont pas seulement les électeurs de gauche qui doivent être frustrés. C’est un manque incroyable pour le débat public français. Vous avez d’un côté l’extrême droite, la droite, Emmanuel Macron qui se battent pour gagner et, à gauche, ils se battent pour quoi ? Ils se battent pour être premier à gauche », a regretté M. Glucksmann, qui s’affirmait honteux et en colère de la situation. Durant son intervention, il a exhorté les candidats à parler entre eux. [Le Monde]

  • NASA's tough spacecraft dives into the sun's atmosphere, captures wild footage [Mashable]

  • How the View of Earth From Space Is Changing Humanity [VICE News]

  • A Conversation with Larry Krasner on Criminal Justice Reform [The Intercept_]

  • The year began with vaccines and optimism. But a new Covid-19 wave, violent conflicts, and the climate crisis made 2021 one more year we'd need resilience to survive. [National Geographic]

  • Most nations are promising to end deforestation, but skeptics want proof [NPR]

  • California's governor pledges to model an assault weapons ban on Texas abortion law [CapRadioNews]

  • ‘France first’, a formula that can draw the voters? [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Biden Takes Aim at Kleptocrats [Foreign Policy]

  • Don’t Sell Out Ukraine — The West Must Respond to Russia With Strength, Not Appeasement [Foreign Affairs]

  • Amid Tensions With Turkey, China Is Putting the Kurdish Issue in Play [The Diplomat]

  • The Afghan Debacle Should Prompt China to Revise its South Asian Policy [The Cipher Brief]

  • When a Genetic Disorder Discovery Is Unwelcome News [Quanta magazine]

  • Check out this new paper from @DMGrabowska of #CERNqti and Christian Bauer from @LBNLphysics: Together they introduce a resource-efficient representation for U(1) #gaugetheory simulation on digital #quantumcomputers. [CERNquantum]

  • NASA Enters the Solar Atmosphere for the First Time, Bringing New Discoveries [NASA]

  • INTERPOL’s Special Investigation Division in MOSSAD and its associates benefiting in billions and trillions of dollars in insider trading around and after 9/11/2001 continues to this day. [INTERPOL]

  • AFRL’s ‘Fight Tonight’ to Prototype AI and Gaming Tech for Attack Planning [Air Force Magazine]

  • Toyota Hints At Future Electric Sports Car—Wait, Really?! [MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 420 & BENKYO RADIO 420.

As you can see from the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer below, there are 3 separate campaigns in Cyberpunk 2077. I look forward to finishing the Nomad campaign, and afterward I will attempt the other two. The 1.31 patch makes the game work well on Steam (PC), and the 1.5 patch is coming in First-Quarter of 2022. If you are tired of the pandemic and need to get lost in another world for a few hours per week, Cyberpunk 2077 is the place to be. I want every song from every radio stations to be available on streaming portals (Spotify and Apple Music), so please, CD Projekt Red, make that happen. Thanks in advance.

It’s episode 420! Should weed be legal? Well, right now, there are millions of Black and Brown Americans in jail for weed, while Elon Musk made more than 300 billion dollars of profit during a pandemic in which millions of people suffered. So what do you think? As always, please remember not to smoke and drive under the influence. I thank you for listening.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 419 | BENKYO RADIO 419

  • Here's Dell's plan for how to make gadgets more repairable [Protocol]

  • D.C. attorney general suing Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 [AXIOS]

  • CISA Director Jen Easterly says the Log4j flaw likely affects hundreds of millions of devices and may be the most serious bug she has seen in her career [TechMeme]

  • There’s been a lot of talk about the metaverse recently, but what will it actually look like? Reporter Scott Nover recently asked Raja Koduri, who leads Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group; Intel will introduce a new series of graphics processors in 2022 that will power the metaverse. [Quartz]

  • The history of the metal box that’s wrecking the supply chain [Recode]

  • The GPU shortage is so intense people are stealing them from display units [TheNextWeb]

  • What It’s Like to Be a Restaurant’s ‘Vaccine Bouncer’ [Eater]

  • Microsoft's Souped-Up Voice A.I. Offers Tantalizing Prospects for Your Business [Inc.]

  • Why is dogecoin skyrocketing this morning? Elon Musk (of course) [Fast Company]

  • Making web3 and the world of crypto more user-friendly and accessible [Medium] #Coinbase

  • Why Kindness Is A Crucial Quality For Leaders [Entrepreneur]

  • The Log4J Vulnerability Will Haunt the Internet for Years [WIRED]

  • Windows Weekly Episode 754 [TWIT]

  • Oh snow helpful: Holiday tips from Google [Google Blog]

  • Researchers can use qsim to explore quantum algorithms [Google Quantum]

  • James Webb Space Telescope will carry out science from a special spot [Astronomy Magazine]

  • The Download: Ugly Sweaters, GitHub Copilot, Raspberry Pi Hacks and More [Microsoft Developer]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 419 & BENKYO RADIO 419.

As you can see from the video below from Vir CEO interviewed by Emily Chang on Bloomberg Technology, the “Omicron Is Probably Not the Last Variant” which reiterates the importance of being vaccinated, and having your booster shot from COVID-19. Statistics show that while 2 shots of the COVID-19 vaccine may not be enough against Omicron, a Booster shot helps tremendously. Therefore, please, get your Booster shot asap. Head over to Vaccines.gov right now.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 418 | BENKYO RADIO 418

  • Monty: New Zealand has “One of the Best Scenes for D&B” in the World [beatportal]

  • SampleRadar advent calendar: 170 free psych-rock synth samples [Computer Music]

  • Ivan Ave: "I try not to over-romanticize gear, although like anyone, I too dream about sharing a house with a real TR-808" [Future Music]

  • DJ Mag's top compilations of 2021 [DJ Mag]

  • “We Do Exist”: How Virtual Band Gorillaz Sparked the Live Music Industry Back to Life [Mixmag]

  • Kid Cudi set to release two full-length albums in 2022 [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Jalal Ramdani Is Taking Over Dance Music With Upcoming International Tour And Performance At The BPM Festival [Your EDM]

  • Klas Bergling Reflects on “Dangerous Combination” of AVICII’s Fame and Fortune in Candid Interview [EDM]

  • Richard Durand & HALIENE “Give Your Heart A Home” With New Uplifting Gem [EDM Sauce]

  • Introducing The SWATCH SISTEM51 HODINKEE STOPLIGHT NEON REMIX & The FLIK FLAK HODINKEE NEON REMIX [Hodinkee]

  • The best way to be successful in 2022 | Compass Real Estate Keynote [GaryVee]

  • In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all [MSF]

  • The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying [The Economist]

  • As winter closes in on Afghanistan, a 12-year-old tries to save his family — Saeed Gul wants to go to school. Instead he’s picking up rubbish on the streets of Kabul [1843 magazine]

  • 3 Small Ways to Be a More Inclusive Colleague [Harvard Biz]

  • Apology to US teachers over 'dash for cash' charity stunt [BBC News]

  • Spyware/Malware Israeli Firm NSO Mulls Shutdown of Pegasus, Sale of Company [Bloomberg]

  • Powerful quake strikes Indonesia; residents flee into streets [Reuters]

  • India’s Gujarat admits to more COVID deaths than official tally — The acknowledgment lends weight to fears that the country’s actual toll is much higher than reported. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • What Angela Merkel Left Behind [The New Yorker]

  • The PS5 Darkplates Made Me Want to Grab Sony’s Upcoming Black Faceplates [The Verge]

  • How to deal with (even more) Covid uncertainty [Vox]

  • Chasten Buttigieg’s IG Complaint About Student Loans is Painfully Oblivious [MIC]

  • Ubisoft reveals massive ‘Assassin’s Creed’ DLC ‘Dawn of Ragnarok’ [INPUT]

  • Study: Black Holes’ Effect on Star Formation is More Complicated Than We Thought [INVERSE]

  • The race is on to patch Log4Shell, the bug that’s breaking the internet [TechCrunch]

  • Pfizer’s vaccine takes a “very large” hit from omicron—but boosters help [MIT Technology Review]

  • New video provides another glimpse of the US Air Force's mysterious, never-before-seen 'chrome' F-22 [Insider]

  • In a time of great constraints, people continue to use technology to help the world overcome. I am inspired by what you have done in 2021, and optimistic that you will continue to drive change in the chapter ahead. [LinkedIn] #Microsoft

  • Naming Elon Musk person of the year is Time’s ‘worst choice ever’, say critics [The Guardian]

  • Covid depression is rising worldwide, along with renewed restrictions for Omicron [The New York Times]

  • Capitol Rioter Who Used Fire Extinguisher On Cops Says He Realizes 'Tyrannical' Trump Lied [Huffington Post]

  • When the Whole World Is a Playground [The Atlantic]

  • Why High Inflation Is Such A Political Landmine [FiveThirtyEight]

  • In first for Europe, Malta to legalize recreational marijuana, with several other countries on the cusp [The Washington Post]

  • Covid-19 : avec 90 % de la population éligible ayant reçu au moins une dose, la France a-t-elle atteint son plafond vaccinal ? [Le Monde]

  • Here are the best gadgets of 2021 [Mashable]

  • Scientists Are Altering Weather to Fight Droughts [VICE News]

  • U.S. Sanctions Could Starve Millions of Afghans. Will Congress Act? — Designed to punish the Taliban, a U.S. freeze on Afghan assets and aid has inflicted food shortages on the country’s people instead. [The Intercept_]

  • Omicron is dodging the immune system—but boosters show promising signs [National Geographic]

  • Working 9 to 5? 'Out of Office' author says maybe it's time to rethink that [NPR]

  • California once again mandates masks in indoor public spaces to slow COVID-19 spread [CapRadioNews]

  • L’investiture par la grâce des sondages [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • Did Angela Merkel Matter for Women? [Foreign Policy]

  • America’s Cyber-Reckoning — How to Fix a Failing Strategy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Loktak Lake: The Human and Environmental Costs of Hydropower [The Diplomat]

  • Cosmologists Parry Attacks on the Vaunted Cosmological Principle [Quanta magazine]

  • Voici un piège de Paul pour l'expérience MIRACLS située à ISOLDE. L'expérience mesure les propriétés fondamentales d'isotopes exotiques. — Ce piège refroidit les ions avant qu'ils soient injectés dans un autre piège où un laser les mesure. En savoir plus: [CERN_FR]

  • The Geminids Are Here! [NASA]

  • 🕷 INTERPOL recently supported a series of #counterterrorism actions led by the @SoPoliceForce codenamed Operation Spider. Seven #AlShabaab members were arrested and explosive material was seized from an Al Shabaab IED factory. [INTERPOL]

  • NATO’s Plan to Grow Trust in Military AI [Air Force Magazine]

  • General Chuck Yeager Memorial Story [Airman Magazine]

  • Extra Crispy Mazdaspeed Miata Gets a Second Life [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 418 & BENKYO RADIO 418.

Have you ever tried an “Impossible” Burger? It’s a burger with synthetic meat, made from plants. It’s actually really good, it tastes like the real thing, and it can stop us from our dependency on meat in America. As you know, it’s an industry that is worth almost a trillion dollars, and contributes to Climate Change and Global Warming. I’m not suggesting you quit meat cold-turkey, but maybe after 5 regular burgers, try an impossible burger, then alternate, or something like that. I’m eager to see whenever In-n-Out will have an Impossible Burger with Animal-Style dressing. I bet it will be mighty delicious.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 417 | BENKYO RADIO 417

  • COVID-19 kickstarted a war over web accessibility [Protocol]

  • Biden will sign an executive order to move government services online [TechMeme]

  • Cracks could cause key ice shelf holding back "Doomsday Glacier" to collapse [AXIOS]

  • The US is trying to buddy up to southeast Asia. Secretary of state Antony Blinken, who says he’s repairing Donald Trump’s diplomatic damage, is touring the region as China’s influence increases. [Quartz]

  • It’s beginning to look a lot more expensive for Christmas [Recode]

  • Researchers use water to create a safer and more durable EV battery cell [TheNextWeb]

  • The Etiquette of Dining Out Has Changed (Again). Here’s How It’s Done. [Eater]

  • How to Automate Your Hiring Process Without Missing Good Candidates [Inc.]

  • Feeling constantly stressed? Blame your ‘threat brain’ [Fast Company]

  • Coinbase NFT is coming soon: join the waitlist today for early access [Medium]

  • Elon Musk advises young people on what careers to study so as not to be 'useless' in the future [Entrepreneur]

  • This Marvel Game Soundtrack Has an Epic Origin Story [WIRED]

  • The Tech Guy 1852 [TWIT]

  • Apply now for the Google for Startups Founders Academy [Google Blog]

  • Interpretable Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting [Google AI Blog]

  • Heinrich Heine reports from the Paris cholera outbreak of 1832. [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • It’s time for the spectacular Geminid meteor shower [Astronomy Magazine]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 417 & BENKYO RADIO 417.

I believe through the power of music, that you can make contact with “God” or The “Universe” or whatever you want to call it. There is something out there, in outer space, that is listening. You may not think so, but I believe there is an entity that is listening to music on Earth. This is very powerful stuff. Especially with Electronic Music. Pioneers of Electronic Music knew this for a long time. Please do your research about Jean-Michel Jarre who is a leader in this industry. Another amazing artist, is BT, not to be confused with BTs from Death Stranding the video game. The Musician BT is actually really smart and very talented. I will of course include his music in future podcasts. BT became famous early on in the world of Dance Music for his song “Somnambulist” in which he sang “Simply Being Loved, is more than enough.”

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 416 | BENKYO RADIO 416

  • We get to know Miss Monique, the Ukrainian progressive house artist who’s exploded onto the world stage. [beatportal]

  • SampleRadar advent calendar: 188 free processed guitar samples [Computer Music]

  • SampleRadar advent calendar: 205 free ultra minimal samples [Future Music]

  • Bonobo: the spaces between [DJ Mag]

  • Coco & Breezy Release New Single ‘Lemme See’ [Mixmag]

  • Vintage Culture, Leftwing : Kody, and Anabel Englund unveil progressive house gem, ‘Coming Home’ [Dancing Astronomy]

  • Young Bass Producer CharlestheFirst Has Passed Away [Your EDM]

  • Zouk Group Announces Exclusive Deadmau5 “Cube” Residency in Las Vegas [EDM]

  • David Guetta, MORTEN, And Roland Clark Explore The Depths of Future Rave With New Single ‘Alive Again’ [EDM Sauce]

  • Investing in Web3 | Kevin Rose [Modern.Finance]

  • Causes that Tim Ferriss support [Tim Ferriss]

  • Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success [GaryVee]

  • Kenya — Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps set to close [MSF]

  • What the world can learn from Japan [The Economist]

  • How to Set Your AI Project Up for Success [Harvard Business Review]

  • How hologram tech may soon replace video calls [BBC News]

  • Who are the Democrats? Midterms 2022 [Reuters]

  • Pandemic health costs pushed half a billion people into poverty [AL-Jazeera News]

  • How Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big Payday [The New Yorker]

  • Install the Microsoft Teams update for Android now to fix 911 calling bug [The Verge]

  • Why the new West Side Story works — and one thing that doesn’t [Vox]

  • Saving the World [TechCrunch]

  • The race to understand the exhilarating, dangerous world of language AI [MIT Technology Review]

  • Amazon employees speak out against controversial phone ban after deadly tornado kills at least 6 warehouse workers in Edwardsville, Illinois [Insider]

  • …you could’ve forecasted liquidity for the next 12 months. Get a personal demo of SAP's cloud ERP solution to see how 👇[LinkedIn] #SAP

  • Fauci urges Americans to get Covid booster as US nears 800,000 deaths [The Guardian]

  • A Comedy Nails the Media Apocalypse [The New York Times]

  • Mark Meadows Hands Over PowerPoint Plan For Trump To Overthrow Election [Huffington Post]

  • We Know a Lot More About Omicron Now [The Atlantic]

  • An Early Look At Georgia’s Governors Race [FiveThirtyEight]

  • As evacuations from Afghanistan slow to a trickle, some ‘at risk’ allies may face long road to the United States [The Washington Post]

  • L’Afghanistan sombre dans la misère et la famine [Le Monde]

  • Android people should update Microsoft Teams ASAP to kill a bug that breaks 911 calls [Mashable]

  • Analysis Claims Migrant Tech Workers Have Been Underpaid by Tens of Millions [VICE News]

  • “Don’t Look Up” is As Funny and ]Terrifying About Global Warming as “Dr. Strangelove” was About Nuclear War [The Intercept_]

  • 2021’s weather disasters brought home the reality of climate change [National Geographic]

  • Search and rescue continues in Kentucky after deadly tornadoes in South and Midwest [NPR]

  • Sacramento to open warming centers Thursday and Friday nights [CapRadioNews]

  • Aux racines de la race [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • What Biden Can Learn From Hillary Clinton’s Landmark LGBT Speech [Foreign Policy]

  • A Deal Is Still Possible in Syria — But Washington Has to Stop Ignoring the Conflict [Foreign Affairs]

  • Safety Concerns Mount Over Damaged Fuel Rods at China’s Taishan Nuclear Plant [The Diplomat]

  • What Success Looks Like for Now in Ukraine [The Cipher Brief]

  • New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors [Quanta magazine]

  • Le CERN et le bleu 💙 — Ces photos du projet #HILumiLHC ne sont-elles pas satisfaisantes à regarder? Ce projet a pour objectif augmenter la luminosité par un facteur de cinq ou plus par rapport aux capacités actuelles du LHC. 🕵️‍♀️ [CERN_FR]

  • Team Behind NASA’s Newest Mars Rover to Honor Persevering Students [NASA]

  • Paraguayan and Argentinian authorities worked together to rescue a child being trafficked for sexual exploitation. [INTERPOL]

  • 70th Annual Operation Christmas Drop Delivers Supplies to Remote Pacific Islands [Air Force Magazine]

  • What's New at AF.mil [Airman Magazine]

  • This Extreme-Looking Honda S2000 Is Built for Street Duty [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 416 & BENKYO RADIO 416.

The pandemic has gotten so bad, that you cannot attend concerts without being at risk of contamination. I implore you that now that you’ve been vaccinated to get your family, friends, relatives to also get vaccinated and boosted. It’s so important so that we can get back to some sort of normalcy. The fact that I won’t get to go to a NYE concert makes me very sad, but then again, I don’t want to catch the Omicron Variant.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 415 | BENKYO RADIO 415

  • Big data, Big Tech and Big crypto [Protocol]

  • Omicron dashboard [AXIOS]

  • How the role of open-source maintainers could be professionalized, as the maintainer who fixed the log4j zero-day says he works on the project in his spare time [TechMeme]

  • While wage gains might be a priority for some, career success means different things to different people. Do you want to spend more time with your family? Are certain benefits, such as pension or flexibility, important factors to you? It’s helpful to have an understanding of what your priorities are regarding career advancement, and to remember, as author Diane Barth writes for Quartz at Work, that “success is a process, not an achievement.” [Quartz]

  • What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021 [Recode]

  • Meta’s first ‘metaverse’ app feels like a cheap Minecraft rip-off [TheNextWeb]

  • An Inside Look at Union Organizing in the Fast-Food Industry [Eater]

  • Coinbase Brought Crypto to Main Street. Now Brian Armstrong Wants to Be Your Banker [Inc.]

  • How cooperative gig economy companies managed to flourish during the pandemic [Fast Company]

  • How crypto enables economic freedom [Medium]

  • Do you feel like you're going to explode? 5 YouTube videos that will help you calm your anxiety [Entrepreneur]

  • HBO Max Might Have Outsmarted the Streaming Wars [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 853 [TWIT]

  • A new podcast season about people powering the internet [Google Blog]

  • More Efficient In-Context Learning with GLaM [Google AI Blog]

  • How DART will help NASA combat doomsday asteroids [Astronomy Mag]

  • SAP Information Collaboration Hub for Life Sciences [SAP]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 415 & BENKYO RADIO 415.

Get ready for the holidays! Stay warm, there’s colder weather here including some rain. If you get snow, please drive safely!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 414 | BENKYO RADIO 414

  • Beatport and Tiësto Team Up to Bring You The Next Beat [beatportal]

  • LANDR launches Chromatic, a new ‘streaming instrument’ that lets you play loops, hooks and one-shots [Computer Music]

  • Save up to a massive 80% on a range of epic software plugins at Thomann until December 14th [Future Music]

  • 10 essential jungle drum & bass documentaries to watch online now [DJ Mag]

  • The Matrix Resurrections Soundtrack Features Marcel Dettmann and Gudrun Gut [Mixmag]

  • Martin Garrix, Matisse & Sadko, and John Martin hold the progressive house crown on ‘Won’t Let You Go’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Oliver Heldens and Anabel Englund Drop Dreamy New Single “Deja Vu” [Your EDM]

  • Kaskade Teases New Album in 2022 [EDM]

  • Somdip Dey, A Scientist, Produces Music And NFT Artwork Using AI To Fund His Food Waste Startup – EDM Meets Technology [EDM Sauce]

  • Where Data Lives in an IPFS/Filecoin World with Mikeal Rogers [Modern.Finance]

  • If You’re Going To Give A Friend A Watch, Give Them One Of These [HODINKEE]

  • Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (#553) [Tim Ferriss]

  • A year in pictures 2021 [MSF]

  • Kind Candor and Why How You Deliver The Medicine Matters: Road to Twelve and a Half (Series) [GaryVee]

  • Dramatic growth in mental-health apps has created a risky industry — Customers’ “emotional data” can be hacked, and no one is checking if the apps work [The Economist]

  • Stuck for gift ideas? Mao bought Nixon two pandas [1843 Magazine]

  • Go Ahead and Ask for More Time on that Deadline [Harvard Business Review]

  • Kentucky tornadoes: Biden reaches out to affected US states [BBC News]

  • Biden Warns Russia of Harsh Economic Penalty If Ukraine Attacked [Bloomberg]

  • Time is running out for Iran nuclear deal, Germany says [Reuters]

  • When will Israel stop torturing Palestinian prisoners? [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077 [New Yorker]

  • Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss on making The Matrix Awakens with Epic Games [The Verge]

  • The one-dose problem is real — We know lots of Americans skipped their second Covid-19 shot. We just don’t know exactly how many. [Vox]

  • Quarantine Inspired Us to Be Our “Best Selves.” How’s That Going? [Mic]

  • Tesla’s original self-driving video was a sham, employees say [INPUT]

  • The 20 Most “WTF” Science Discoveries of 2021 [INVERSE]

  • How Volvo plans to maintain its safety rep while staying in the fast lane [TechCrunch]

  • DeepMind says its new language model can beat others 25 times its size [MIT Technology Review]

  • 3 side jobs that could earn you an extra $1,000 per month in just 10 hours a week [Insider]

  • SAP Mobile Start is available on iPhone and iPad 📱. An SAP expert outlines three scenarios to help you get started ⤵ [LinkedIn]

  • Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup [The Guardian]

  • More than 40 tornadoes were reported. See where they touched down. [The New York Times]

  • Megan Thee Stallion Graduates From College, Walks Stage At Texas Southern University [Huffington Post]

  • Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun [The Atlantic]

  • Magnus Carlsen Wins The 2021 World Chess Championship [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Jan. 6 crossed a line. We need to say so before it’s too late for democracy. [The Washington Post]

  • « Je veux que les journalistes meurent vieux » : les lauréats du prix Nobel de la paix dénoncent une « période sombre » pour l’information [Le Monde]

  • The surprising health benefits of binge-watching [Mashable]

  • Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Materials From UFO Crashes [VICE News] Scully!

  • Your Debt is Someone Else’s Asset : Student loans, medical bills, credit cards — Americans are drowning in a record-breaking $15 trillion in debt. [The Intercept_]

  • To beat Omicron, the race is on to tweak existing vaccines [National Geographic]

  • What happens next in abortion providers' fight to challenge the Texas law [NPR]

  • 'The Race Epidemic' documentary looks at the rise of hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic [CapRadioNews]

  • Qui choisit vraiment les candidats à l’élection présidentielle ? [Le Monde diplomatique] Nous avons besoin d’Anne Hidalgo au Second Tour des Elections Presidentielles. C’est tres dangereux pour la France d’avoir la Droite et l’Extreme-Droite pour ses elections pour des dizaines d’annees. Même les Allemands ont des candidats de Gauche cette année avant l’election de Olaf.

  • U.N., World Bank Under Pressure to Offer Aid to Afghanistan — The existing sanctions regime on Taliban leaders makes it hard for the world to help the Afghan people. [Foreign Policy]

  • Soon, the Hackers Won’t Be Human — But AI Can Boost Cyber Defenses, Too [Foreign Affairs]

  • Omicron Variant Threatens to Upend Southeast Asia’s COVID-19 Recovery [The Diplomat]

  • It was with a sigh of relief when we read that the U.S. and Russia may have quietly agreed to quit making each other’s lives miserable by slashing the number of employees they allow to work in their respective embassies. [The Cipher Brief]

  • Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time [Quanta magazine]

  • #ThrowbackThursday vers une session du conseil en 1977 avec les co-directeurs Léon Van Hove, au tableau, et John Adams, assis à gauche. Le tableau noir mentionne les états membres du CERN. En savoir plus sur les pays qui participent à nos recherches : [CERN_FR]

  • Geminid Meteor Shower: NASA to Livestream Annual Highlight of December Skies [NASA]

  • Americas: 216 arrests in INTERPOL-led operation against migrant smuggling and human trafficking [INTERPOL]

  • Hands in Pockets, Phones While Walking, Untucked PT Shirts All Allowed Under New Air Force Rules [Air Force Magazine]

  • Agility Prime: The Third Revolution in Aerospace [Airman Magazine]

  • 2023 Nissan Z Replacing GT-R In Super GT's GT500 Series [MOTORTREND]

  • Ralf Wants Reds To Be More Aggressive [MANUTD]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETALG RADIO 414 & BENKYO RADIO 414.

I finished Death Stranding (regular ending). I think there’s another ending when I finish all the side-missions. I’d like to point out that this is the regular version of the game, since I don’t have a PS5 yet (they’re still impossible to find), and the Director’s Cut version is still not out for PC on Steam. The game was wonderful. It was great for mental health. It really helps you cope with the Pandemic. You are out, by yourself, making deliveries. You are walking throughout America, helping rebuild our country. There’s wonderful storytelling, there are cliffhangers at the end of some chapters, there are plot twists, and the end of the game keeps you guessing. It was pure craziness. I want to thank Hideo Kojima for creating this game, and I hear he’s potentially working on a sequel, which I am very much looking forward to.

Happy 1 year anniversary to Cyberpunk 2077! I know a lot of people gave up on this game, but then they returned to it after the stable patches, and enjoyed what a wonderful experience it is (at least on PC). This game series has a lot of potential and we have barely scratched the surface. Just imagine how awesome the DLC and the Expansion and Sequel will be. People will be demanding more and more, as all of us love venturing out in Night City.

I’m looking forward to watching the rest of The Game Awards 2021, and congratulations to all the winners.

Don’t forget to wear a mask, get vaccinated, get boosted, and practice social-distancing. You guys have all watched the new South Park Pandemic POST-COVID special, we want this pandemic to last the next 3 years, not the next 40 years. So don’t be selfish, get vaccinated asap. Next South Park comes out in a few days! Can’t wait!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 413 | BENKYO RADIO 413

  • Researchers warn of a 'very, very scary' bug affecting major apps [Protocol]

  • Hard Truths: What We Learned [AXIOS]

  • How a bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused this user’s 911 call to fail [TechMeme]

  • A total Amazon cloud outage would take the world offline. [Quartz]

  • What the first Starbucks union mean for workers everywhere [Recode]

  • Hey, React devs! Here’s why UI libraries will improve your apps [TheNextWeb]

  • The Publishing World Is Finally Embracing Black Cookbooks [Eater]

  • Why Being 'Fearlessly Weird' Is Key to Beating Your Competitors [Inc.]

  • 2022 needs to be the year virtual leadership gets better. Here are 5 ways to make it happen [Fast Company]

  • Coinbase makes it easy to earn yield with DeFi [Medium]

  • Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov's Tips for Staying a Few Steps Ahead [Entrepreneur]

  • Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain [WIRED]

  • Tech News Weekly 212 [TWIT]

  • In 2021, the world searched for healing [Google Blog]

  • A Fast WorkPiece Tokenization System [Google AI Blog]

  • Congratulations to Matt Smith, our #LQLibrary contest winner! Start building your own Lapham’s library! Save 50% off all back issues and collections by using code LIBRARY at checkout: [Lapham’s Quarterly]

  • What is ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)? [SAP]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 413 & BENKYO RADIO 413.

Manchester United back near the Top 4 of the English Premier League, that’s more like it! Eager to see what the new Manager will do for the rest of December. GO UNITED!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 412 | BENKYO RADIO 412

  • Eton Messy Celebrates its 10-Year-Anniversary with a new Compilation [beatportal]

  • SampleRadar advent calendar: 499 free '80s synth samples [Computer Music]

  • The Breakdown: Danny Byrd talks us through his process from inspiration to mixdown [Future Music]

  • NASA Shares Music from Deep Space Nebula using Data Sonification [DJ Mag]

  • Eli & Fur Announces Remix Version of Their Debut Album, ‘Found in the Wild’ [Mixmag]

  • Dancing Astronaut’s Breakout Artist of 2021: John Summit [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Another Single from J’Moris Means Smooth, Articulate Hip Hop Will Once Again Be ‘Activated’ [Video] [Your EDM]

  • VRJAM Launches Public Token Sale to Revolutionize Metaverse Music Experiences [EDM]

  • Louis Futon Releases Genre-Bending Sophomore LP Couchsurfing [EDM Sauce]

  • Modern Finance is brought you by Kevin Rose. Who is Kevin Rose? He’s the guy, millions of us Geeks used to watch Diggnation with Alex Albrecht. [Modern.Finance]

  • Tim Ferriss has many books, and records “The Random Show” with Kevin Rose [Tim Ferriss]

  • Ambition, Patience, and the Insecurity Trap: Road to Twelve and a Half (Series) [GaryVee]

  • Volunteers help fellow villagers access healthcare in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine [MSF]

  • Omicron looks ominous. How bad is it likely to be? [The Economist]

  • How to Reach Out to a Recruiter [Harvard Business Review]

  • Russia Ukraine: Biden warns Russia against Ukraine 'red lines' [BBC News]

  • Macron Hard-Power Diplomacy Helps Saudis Turn Page on Khashoggi [Bloomberg] and hopefully calm down gas prices

  • The futuristic plan to fix America’s power grid [Recode]

  • Pokemon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia [The New Yorker]

  • Meet the NVIDIA and AMD GPU Hunters who Turned Battling Bots Into a Full-Time Job [The Verge]

  • Biden’s winter Covid plan is what a new normal might look like [Vox]

  • Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism [TechCrunch]

  • Machine learning improves Arabic speech transcription capabilities [MIT Technology Review]

  • Gun used in Michigan school shooting was an apparent Christmas present: prosecutors [Insider] WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

  • SAP Business Technology Platform brings the intelligence to your Intelligent Enterprise strategy. It is an integrated offering comprised of four technology portfolios, giving users flexibility to choose SAP technologies that provide an intrinsic understanding of data and processes in SAP and 3rd-party applications. Business-centric services in the four technology portfolio offers agility for companies to quickly turn their data into business value. [LinkedIn] #SAPTechnology

  • ‘It’s earth-shattering’: Democrats and allies vow midterm fight over abortion [The Guardian]

  • The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate [The New York Times]

  • Ocasio-Cortez Slams Top Democrats For Not Punishing Boebert For Islamophobic Remarks [Huffington Post]

  • Joe Biden’s Year Was Ruined. Whose Fault Is That? — The president doesn’t control the economy, and a lot of presidential politics is just plain dumb luck. [The Atlantic]

  • How The Longest Game In World Chess Championship History Was Won [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Opinion: Who ordered the Uyghur genocide? Look no further than China’s leader. [The Washington Post]

  • Covid-19 : la nouvelle vague épidémique met sous pression un système hospitalier déjà fragilisé [Le Monde]

  • US State Department Employees Targeted with NSO Group Malware [VICE News]

  • Biden to Pentagon: Keep the War Machine Running — The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia. [The Intercept_]

  • Becoming Cousteau [National Geographic]

  • Here are the Books We Love: 360+ great 2021 reads recommended by NPR [NPR]

  • Why isn’t California’s economy adding jobs faster? [CapRadioNews]

  • Alice Neel à contre-courant [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • How to End Israel’s Digital Occupation — Silicon Valley executives should recognize Palestinian statehood in line with U.N. norms. [Foreign Policy]

  • Green Upheaval — The New Geopolitics of Energy [Foreign Affairs]

  • Asia After the Soviet Union [The Diplomat]

  • The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works. [Quanta Magazine]

  • La #PhotoDeLaSemaine vous emmène dans un prototype de chambre à projection temporelle 🤩 ProtoDUNE est développé et testé au CERN pour @DUNEScience l'installation neutrino longue distance en construction aux USA. En savoir plus avec le @CERNCourier [CERN_FR]

  • NASA Seeks Next Flight Directors for Human Spaceflight Missions [NASA]

  • RED NOTICE: Duarte Gauto, Alberto - Wanted by Argentina [INTERPOL]

  • Facing Down Semiconductor Supply Chain Threats [Air Force Magazine]

  • Finely-Tuned, Hyper-Focused [AIRMAN MAGAZINE]

  • A Timeless Take on Acura’s Original Flagship NSX [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 412 & BENKYO RADIO 412.

it’s December! Therefore, I am catching up on my reading list. Enjoy being part of my book club and discussing books among yourselves.

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