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TWiT.tv (network)
TWiT.tv, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network that broadcasts many technology news podcasts, founded by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte in 2005, and run by his wife and company CEO Lisa Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of ''This Week in Tech''. ''Security Now'' was the second podcast on the network, debuting in August of that year. The network hosts 28 podcasts (as of July, 2020) though the number had fallen in half to only 14 regularly scheduled shows by January 2021. Podcasts include ''The Tech Guy'', ''This Week in Tech'', ''This Week in Enterprise Tech'', ''Security Now'', ''FLOSS Weekly'', and ''MacBreak Weekly''. In addition to shows on technology news, TWiT also has podcasts like ''Hands-On Photography". TWiT founder and owner Leo Laporte, in an October 2009 speech, stated that it grossed revenues of $1.5 million per year, while costs were around $350,000. In November 2014, during an interv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte (; born November 29, 1956) is the host of ''The Tech Guy'' weekly radio show and a host on TWiT.tv, an Internet podcast network focusing on technology. He is also a former TechTV technology host (1998–2008) and a technology author. On November 19, 2022, actor, writer, musician, and comedian Steve Martin called in to Laporte's radio show to announce Leo's retirement from ''The Tech Guy'' radio show. Laporte's last new radio show will be December 18, 2022 with reruns for the remainder of the year. Rich DeMuro later appeared on the show to announce that he will be taking over in January with a weekly show, recorded on Saturdays, called "Rich On Tech." Background Laporte was born in New York City, the son of geologist Leo F. Laporte. He studied Chinese history at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue a career in radio broadcasting, where his early on-air names were Dave Allen and Dan Hayes. He began his association with computers with his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logic Gate
A logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has for instance zero rise time and unlimited fan-out, or it may refer to a non-ideal physical device (see Ideal and real op-amps for comparison). Logic gates are primarily implemented using diodes or transistors acting as electronic switches, but can also be constructed using vacuum tubes, electromagnetic relays (relay logic), fluidic logic, pneumatic logic, optics, molecules, or even mechanical elements. Now, most logic gates are made from MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors). With amplification, logic gates can be cascaded in the same way that Boolean functions can be composed, allowing the construction of a physical model of all of Boolean logic, and therefore, all of the algorithms and mathem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Belmont
Veronica Ann Belmont (born July 21, 1982) is an American online media personality. She was formerly the co-host of the Revision3 show ''Tekzilla'' alongside Patrick Norton. Belmont was the co-host of the former TWiT.tv gaming show ''Game On!'' along with Brian Brushwood, and the former host of the monthly PlayStation 3-based video on demand program Qore. Additionally, she was the host for the Mahalo Daily podcast and a producer and associate editor for CNET Networks, Inc. where she produced, engineered, and co-hosted the podcast ''Buzz Out Loud''. Background Belmont's mother was a vice president at Coleco. Belmont went to school at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut before attending Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, to study audio production and new media studies. After graduation in 2004, she worked briefly in Boston and eventually secured an internship at CNET. She resides in San Francisco, California with her husband, former Engadget editor Ryan Block ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futures In Biotech
TWiT.tv, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network that broadcasts many technology news podcasts, founded by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte in 2005, and run by his wife and company CEO Lisa Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of ''This Week in Tech''. ''Security Now'' was the second podcast on the network, debuting in August of that year. The network hosts 28 podcasts (as of July, 2020) though the number had fallen in half to only 14 regularly scheduled shows by January 2021. Podcasts include ''The Tech Guy'', ''This Week in Tech'', ''This Week in Enterprise Tech'', ''Security Now'', ''FLOSS Weekly'', and ''MacBreak Weekly''. In addition to shows on technology news, TWiT also has podcasts like ''Hands-On Photography". TWiT founder and owner Leo Laporte, in an October 2009 speech, stated that it grossed revenues of $1.5 million per year, while costs were around $350,000. In November 2014, during an interv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Johnson (cartoonist)
Scott Blaine Johnson (born July 17, 1969) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, game designer, and podcaster. He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife and three children. In 2008, Johnson launched Frog Pants Studios, LLC, an illustration and audio production company. Early life Scott Johnson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He grew up and went to high school in the suburb Sandy City, UT, Sandy City. He has also lived in Mississippi and Louisiana while on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Johnson met his wife Kim during his mission. Comics and illustration Johnson began publishing the webcomic ''ExtraLife'' in June 2001. The subject matter concentrates on many of Johnson's interests such as computers, technology, video games, and movies. In 2009, Johnson launched ''Experience Points'', a second webcomic that draws inspiration from World of Warcraft and other MMORPG computer games. The strip was one of several web comics publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Merritt
Thomas Andrew Merritt (born June 28, 1970) is an American technology journalist, writer, and broadcaster best known as the host of several podcasts. He is a former co-host of ''Tech News Today'' on the TWiT.tv Network, and was previously an executive editor for CNET and developer and co-host of the daily podcast ''Buzz Out Loud''. He currently hosts ''Daily Tech News Show'', ''Cordkillers'' and ''Sword and Laser'', among other shows. Early life Merritt was born in Greenville, Illinois, to a food scientist father who worked on the Coffee-Mate project. Merritt received a BS in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and pursued graduate work in communications at the University of Texas at Austin. Career Merritt's career in radio began in 1986 as a DJ for WGEL, a country music station located in Greenville, Illinois. In 1993, he worked as an intern for National Public Radio's ''Morning Edition''. From 1999 to 2004, he worked for TechTV in San Francisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Brushwood
Brian Allen Brushwood (born January 17, 1975) is an American magician, podcaster, author, lecturer, YouTuber and comedian. Brushwood is known for the series ''Scam Nation'' (previously ''Scam School''), a show where he teaches the audience entertaining tricks at bars so they can "scam" a free drink. The show also claims to be the only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street. In addition to ''Scam Nation,'' Brushwood co-hosts the podcasts ''Weird Things'' with Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young, ''Cordkillers'' with Tom Merritt, and ''Night Attack'' with Young. Brushwood was also a regular guest on the ''This Week in Tech'' podcast. Brushwood performs his ''Bizarre Magic'' stage show across the United States and is the author of six books. Brushwood also co-hosts a YouTube show along with Jason Murphy called The Modern Rogue'. Brushwood has appeared on national television numerous times including on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', CNN and Food Netw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis (born July 15, 1954) is an American journalist, associate professor, public speaker and former television critic. He advocates the Open Web and argues that there are many social and personal benefits to living a more public life on the Internet. Career Jarvis began his career in journalism in 1972 writing for the ''Addison Herald-Register'', a local weekly newspaper at which he was the sole journalist. In 1974 Jarvis was an undergraduate in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University when he was hired by the ''Chicago Tribune''. He completed his degree and holds a BSJ from Northwestern. Jarvis went on to work as a television critic for ''TV Guide'' and ''People'' magazines. In 1984, while still at People, Jarvis proposed the idea for ''Entertainment Weekly'', a magazine which he hoped would feature "tough reviews and offbeat subjects" pertaining to the entertainment industry. The first issue was published in February 1990, with Jarvis as creator and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Gibson (computer Programmer)
Steven "Steve Tiberius" Gibson (born March 26, 1955) is an American software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent. In the early 1980s, he worked on light pen technology for use with Apple and Atari systems, and in 1985, founded Gibson Research Corporation, best known for its SpinRite software. Early life Gibson started working on computers as a teenager, and got his first computing job with Stanford University's artificial intelligence lab when he was 15 years old. He then studied electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Career Gibson was hired as a programmer for California Pacific Computer Company in 1980, where he worked on copy protection for the company's products. He then founded Gibson Laboratories in Laguna Hills, California, in 1981, which developed a light pen for the Apple II, Atari, and other platforms before going out of business in 1983. In 1985, Gibson founded Gibson Research Corporation (GRC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Ihnatko
Andy Ihnatko (born November 18, 1967) is a tech author and former technology journalist for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'',. He currently resides in Massachusetts. He is a co-host on the Material podcast, on Relay FM's network. He also appears on Leo Laporte's podcasts, specifically MacBreak Weekly and TWiT, and is a regular on the MacNotables podcast hosted by Chuck Joiner, where he often is paired with fellow technology journalist Adam Engst. In September 2011, he launched an ongoing podcast called ''The Ihnatko Almanac'' with Dan Benjamin on Benjamin's 5by5 Studios network. Ihnatko has also appeared on the ''CBS Saturday Early Show'' on July 13, 2007, where he discussed applications for cell phones intended to imitate if not exceed the capabilities of the Apple iPhone. He appeared again on August 25, 2007, to report his conclusions after testing several urban legends about recovering mobile phones that had been submerged in water. Ihnatko, for a brief time in July 2007, was bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Searls
David "Doc" Searls (born July 29, 1947), is an American journalist, columnist, and a widely read blogger. He is the host of FLOSS Weekly, a free and open-source software (FLOSS) themed netcast from the TWiT Network, a co-author of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', author of '' The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge'', Editor-in-Chief of '' Linux Journal'', a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an alumnus fellow (2006–2010) of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and co-host of the Reality 2.0 Podcast. Overview Searls' journalism career began in 1971, when he worked as an editor and photographer for ''Wayne Today'' in New Jersey. A longtime advocate for open-source software, he has been involved with the '' Linux Journal'' since it began publishing in 1994. He became a Contributing Editor in 1996, Senior Editor in 1999, and Editor-in-Chief in 2018. His column "Linux f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called ''channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing. Internet Relay Chat is implemented as an application layer protocol to facilitate communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client–server networking model. Users connect, using a clientwhich may be a web app, a standalone desktop program, or embedded into part of a larger programto an IRC server, which may be part of a larger IRC network. Examples of programs used to connect include Mibbit, IRCCloud, KiwiIRC, and mIRC. IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60 percent of its users. In April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time. History IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen in August 1988 to replace a program cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
