Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Join Alex and Emma aboard their nerdy spaceship for the latest System76 hardware and software news. Meet RJ Nowling in an exclusive interview about bioinformatics and genomic data science processing with the ARM-powered Thelio Astra!


06:20 Tiny Hardware News about the Meerkat
08:55 Conference Appearances (SCALE, LFNW, GTC) and Garrett created a cool planetary COSMIC demo
12:00 COSMIC News, Alpha 6 delayed
14:35 RJ Nowling Interview about genomic data science
17:00 Experiments to produce sterile genetically modified mosquitoes to eradicate diseases
18:00 How RJ got started with bioinformatics
19:10 RJ's Linux journey
21:20 Choosing hardware for bioinformatics
22:40 How to get into genomic data science
24:00 Find a cool Phd professor to work with
24:40 Future of genomic data science with "Enhancers" and cross-species comparisons
27:00 Excitement about advancements in biology
27:25 How to get in touch with RJ
27:45 Experience with Thelio Astra
28:15 Emma and Alex play a balloon game


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