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Radio Garden is, essentially, Google Earth for radio. You click and drag a 3D globe around, and zoom in on local stations around the world. Every dot represents a feed you can tune in to, and, using the options in the top left of the webpage, you can switch between live streams, historical content, jingles, and recorded interviews. Live streams are the most engaging, and in a few minutes you can browse everything from Ugandan pop to Norwegian evangelical rock to Japanese J-pop to Indian astrological advice. It’s a genuine cornucopia, with nearly 10,000 stations available to tune in to.

http://radio.garden/

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Tesla's home energy efforts might be centered around its solar roofs, but it knows that not everyone can (or wants to) rip up their roof just to bring renewable energy to their home. To that end, the company is offering a first glimpse at Panasonic-made solar panels that would go on top of your existing roof. Unlike many aftermarket options, this would be relatively slick and unintrusive -- the panels have "integrated front skirts and no visible mounting hardware." While it'll be patently obvious that you have solar energy on your roof, it shouldn't be the eyesore you sometimes get with conventional designs.

The company is taking requests for custom price quotes right now, but it tells Electrek that production for the 325W modules should start sometime in the summer. You'll have to be patient if you're determined to escape the conventional power grid. However, this is definitely not a secondary project for Tesla. The firm says that it'll use these panels for all new residential projects (outside of tiles), so you're really looking at the future of Tesla's mainstream energy tech.

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Spring is a fantastic open source framework that addresses the complexity of application development. One of the chief advantages of the Spring framework is its layered architecture, which allows you to be selective about which of its components you use. Spring is a cohesive framework for J2EE application development.

While developing desktop, web, enterprise, cloud, or microservices applications, almost every application type needs a robust infrastructure which takes care of dependencies, auto-configuration, and actuators.

So getting started with Spring or any other frameworks is a critical and time consuming task.Spring provides a convenient way over such application infrastructure issues with a framework called Spring Boot.Spring Boot provides the best industry practices, helps when you start applications from scratch, and boosts your application development speed.

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This script listens to meetings I'm supposed to be paying attention to and pings me on hipchat when my name is mentioned.It sends me a transcript of what was said in the minute before my name was mentioned and some time after.It also plays an audio file out loud 15 seconds after my name was mentioned which is a recording of me saying, "Sorry, I didn't realize my mic was on mute there."

Uses IBM's Speech to Text Watson API for the audio-to-text.

Github project

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