Episodes
This Week's Topics: * TikTok ban bill signed by Biden * US FTC bans non-competes * Engineers reestablish communications with Voyager 1 * Google delays cookie deprecation again Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
Published 04/25/24
Published 04/25/24
This Week's Topics: * Debris from ISS hits Florida home * Microsoft considering ads in Windows 11 search bar * EU rules against Meta's Pay or OK model * Security cameras with a twist Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 04/18/24
This Week's Topics: * Many-shot jailbreak fools AI safety * Google reveals launch date of Android’s Find My Device network * XZ backdoor discovered by Microsoft engineer * Gmail launched 20 years ago Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 04/05/24
This Week's Topics: * AI-driven beer brewing * Qualcomm, Intel, Google team up to take on NVIDIA's CUDA with OneAPI * Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 03/29/24
This Week's Topics: * Car companies collecting and selling driver data * Doctor Who Season 14 debuts soon Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
Published 03/22/24
This Week's Topics: * Microsoft/NY Times copyright fight * Nikon buys cinema camera maker RED * SambaNova delivers AI modeling platform Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 03/07/24
This Week's Topics: * Intel will make chips for Microsoft * The EU is formalizing rules for taking CO2 out of the atmosphere * VMware End Of Availability of Perpetual Licensing and SaaS Services Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant
Published 02/22/24
This Week's Topics: * Facebook £3bn legal action given go-ahead in London * The FCC bans robocalls with AI-generated voices * Tesla Cybertrucks are already rusting Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant
Published 02/17/24
This Week's Topics: * ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros, Discovery sports streaming deal * Youtube adding podcast RSS support * Google replaces Bard AI with Gemini Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig
Published 02/09/24
This Week's Topics: * US Congress grills social media tech execs * Apple-created spatial video available on Meta's Quest devices * Intel, Hynix, NTT partnership to deploy photonics for faster speed, lower power Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry
Published 02/01/24
Ewen is back!!! This Week's Topics: * Meta lets EU users unlink accounts * UK Post Office scandal * Microsoft lays off 1900 XBox/Activision employees * Amazon says they stop sending video to police * OpenAI's Altman in talks to do AI chips Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 01/25/24
This Week's Topics: * Waymo begins highway testing * New transistors announced to further silicon technology * Researcher busts myth of Bitcoin anonymity Big announcement... listen until the end of the show! Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
Published 01/18/24
This Week's Topics: We review our predictions for 2023 and make new predictions for 2024 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 01/12/24
The annual quiz show, with questions from this year's Big tech news Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 12/14/23
This Week's Topics: * Google launches Gemini AI * Stellantis And Ample Launch EV Battery Swap * Squid Game: The Challenge gets a second season * Hugging Face/CMU quantify AI-generation power usage Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 12/08/23
This Week's Topics: * Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers * Threads may finally launch in Europe in December * Amazon unveils Graviton4 and Trainium2 cloud servers Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 12/01/23
This Week's Topics: * Broadcom completes acquisition of VMware * Sam Altman/OpenAI Saga * Amazon to sell cars online, beginning with Hyundai Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
Published 11/24/23
This Week's Topics: * Google sends a third of Safari ad revenue to Apple * The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now * Microsoft Reveals Custom 128-Core Arm Datacenter CPU, Massive Maia 100 GPU Designed for AI * Microsoft debuts new unified security solution with Security Copilot Guests: Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 11/16/23
This week’s topics: * MyQ garage controller drops HomeKit and Home Assistant support * WeWork files for bankruptcy * Limits revealed for Google’s Magic Photo Editor * Actors strike resolved Guests: Jeff Gamet, Kelly Guimont, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
Published 11/10/23
This week’s topics: * Sergey Brin's airship company gets approval for flight tests * Sierra Space space plane set for flight tests in 2024 * Amazon's price-raising algorithm made $1.4B Guests: Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
Published 11/02/23
This week’s topics: * BP buys Tesla SuperCharge hardware * UK’s Online Safety Act is now law * Microsoft CEO admits giving up on Windows Phone was a mistake * NVIDIA and AMD to make Arm-based CPUs for Windows Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 10/27/23
Topics: * Qualcomm announces RISC-V chip for Android WearOS * Nokia eliminates 14,000 jobs * HTTP/2 feature exploited for massive DDOS attacks * ShakeAlert brings early earthquake warnings Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 10/19/23
This week’s topics: * T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans * Google makes passkeys default * 1st asteroid sample rich in carbon and water Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry
Published 10/12/23
This week’s topics: * X sued for trademark infringement * Q Dot scientists win Nobel * Google launches Pixel 8 * Patrick Stewart's memoir Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
Published 10/06/23