Tech Talk Today

Episode 261: The Launch

February 19th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  20 mins 41 secs

amazon go, apple 911 calls, broadcand satellites, elon musk, falcon heavy launch, google assitant, jupiter broadcasting, spacex, starlink, suvie kickstarter, talk talk today, tech news

Elon Musk bet the future of SpaceX on the Falcon Heavy launch. On Thursday SpaceX launched a pair of prototype satellites intended to form the basis for Starlink, a constellation of satellites that are designed to beam broadband internet down to Earth.

But it almost didn't happen.

Episode 262: Can We Get This Right?

February 26th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  18 mins 23 secs

1password, advanced unlocking and extraction services, apple, cellebrite, google cloud, linux, macos, mobile world congress 2018, moltenvk, pwned passwords, scale16x, southern california linux expo, tech news podcast, tech talk today, vulkan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And that's just what we've been doing for the last five years, and we still haven't gotten it right. The big adventure is just 10 days away, and this time we're going in with a plan.

Episode 263: Amazon's Plan for World Domination

March 1st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  16 mins 52 secs

adt, amazon, drones for space, google hangouts chat, ipo, ring, slack, spotify, tech news podcast, tech talk today, youtube revenue

Amazon's purchase of Ring reveals their deeper ambitious intentions for your home. And it goes way beyond package delivery.

Episode 264: Parking Lot Podcaster

March 5th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  9 mins 50 secs

california, chris fisher, chrome, eugene, google, news podcast, oregon, pasadena, road trip, rv, scale 16x, telegram outage

My first check-in from the road to SCALE, some quick headlines, and the start to the big adventure.

Episode 265: The California Shakes

March 7th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  12 mins 46 secs

android p, linux conference, nexus 6p, oculus rift outage, right to repair, road trip, scale16x, tech news podcast

California is ripping our rig apart, its the final big push to SCALE after four days on the road and we're determined to make it. We meet up with some friends, get our geek on, and conquer the road.

Episode 266: Their Ubuntu Breakup

March 8th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  10 mins

ghostery, mcafee, netflix, pop_0s, scale16x, system76, tech news, tunnelbear, ubuntu breakup, unity

It starts with a bang! System76 shares their side of the Unity desktop breakup, its brutal and honest. It's just the first day of SCALE16x, and it's shaping up to be the biggest yet.

Episode 267: Google - Conspiracy Fighter

March 11th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 42 secs

alexa brief mode, deadwood, geek squad fbi, google bans cryptocurrency ads, kickstarter, lyft subscription, meltdown, northern lights, spectre fix, steve, tech news, youtube wikipedia

Google's got a solution to all those crazy conspiracy YouTube videos. There's just one major problem...

Episode 268: Unethical Data Experiment

March 19th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  23 mins 36 secs

amazon, cambridge analytica, data breach, facebook, google shopping actions, graykey, self driving, tech news, uber kills

Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data was a 'grossly unethical experiment' coming to light thanks to a whistleblower. We'll play his story, and discuss what they did with the data.

Episode 269: The Slice Age

March 23rd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 30 secs

amazon drones, cambridge analytica, data breach, facebook, gdpr, mark, moviepass, tech news, telegram

Facebook gets punched in the face all week long, Amazon has drones that can smell fear, Telegram is ordered to hand over the keys, and some crazy folk want to make ketchup slices.

Episode 270: Season of Change

March 26th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 58 secs

apple, encryption backdoor, greykey, jupiter broadcasting, reddit, scale, streaming tv, tech news, vacnet, valve

The push for encryption backdoors is back on, why Valve has 1,700 CPU's working non-stop, and the big Netflix move Apple is about to pull.