Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon are back with tips on decrypting Audible books with Libation, concerns about Voyager 1's failing communications, and latest tech news covering from wooden satellites and mass-produced 1TB microSD cards to affordable smartphones and innovative wearables.





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Ian Barton on Libation (https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation...)





Downloading and Decrypting Your Audible Books. I have a lot of books on Audible. I would like to download them in a format that is decrypted in case Audible goes "Mammaries skywards" in the future, or is taken over by another company that demands you pay for all your books again. I came across a free program called Libation. You can view it on GitHub and it can be installed on most operating systems. It has all sorts of filtering options and will download a postage stamp size icon. Note you can only download books that you have purchased from Audible.





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AJ Santos on What’s Going On With Voyager 1? Future Looks Uncertain (https://www.iflscience.com/whats-goin...)





Voyager 1 is the furthest any human object has ever gone from Earth. It is now over 15 billion miles from our planet, flying through interstellar space. Since its launch in August 1977, the spacecraft has remained in contact with Earth, but over the last several months, that communication has become nonsensical. Are we about to lose the second-longest operating spacecraft in human history?





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Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant





Streaming woes… farewell Netflix and Prime?








News, Mews and Views





Super-DVDs (https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-super-dv...)





The FTC bans AI impersonations of individuals — and unveils greater powers to win stolen money back (https://www.techradar.com/pro/securit...)





Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2...)





Forget about eSIM, this multi-operator SIM could make swapping mobile networks as easy as ABC — but it is not available for smartphones right now (https://www.techradar.com/pro/forget-...)





Samsung is now mass-producing 1TB microSD cards, sales will begin in Q3 '24 (https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_is_n...)








Hardline on the hardware





ZTE Shows off its 3D-Capable Nubia Tablet at MWC (https://phandroid.com/2024/02/26/zte-...)





TCL NXTPAPER 14 is a massive 2.4K tablet perfect for comfortable reading (https://www.androidauthority.com/tcl-...)





This £9, 1.7-inch wide computer is almost 10x more powerful than a Raspberry Pi Pico (https://www.xda-developers.com/1-7-in...)





The 12-inch Honor Pad 9 now available in the UK and Ireland (https://www.gsmarena.com/honor_pad_9_...) (One single, measly update to A14, eventually)





Samsung Galaxy Book 4 now launched globally (https://9to5google.com/2024/02/22/sam...)








The Wearables Watch





Oppo introduces Air Glass 3 XR prototype at MWC 2024 (https://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_introdu....