Tech Talk Today

Twice weekly romp.

About the show

Hang out with Chris and friends as they discuss a new take on life, tech, and open source.

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Episodes

  • 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.

  • Tech Talk Today 271

    April 16th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  25 mins 51 secs
    audio isolation, elon musk, gmail redesign, google ai, google i/o, pandora podcasts, robots, tech news, tech talk today, telegram block, tesla

    Tesla blames robots for their recent setbacks, Russia starts to block Telegram, Pandora discovers Podcasts, and a new design is coming to Gmail.

  • Tech Talk Today 272

    April 19th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 26 secs
    autonomous boats, aws blocked, cloud act, connected ring, iphone se rumors, kickstarter, microsoft ireland case, neova, reddit growth, self-driving boats, tech news podcast, telegram ban, twitch outage

    Telegram's battle of the ban continues, and AWS and Google Cloud become targets.

  • Tech Talk Today 273

    April 19th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  23 mins 36 secs
    amazon robot, fire watch, google outage, microsoft easter eggs, tech news podcast, tech talk today, telegram ban, terms of servers, tosdr, valve, windows puzzle

    Google suffers from the Telegram ban, Valve is back in the business of making games, and Amazon has a top secret robot.

  • Tech Talk Today 274

    April 23rd, 2018  |  Season 2  |  26 mins 36 secs
    e-waste, eric lundgren, gedmatch, golden state killer, grayshift, tech news podcast, tech talk today, windows 10 april update

    The tragic story of Eric Lundgren, someone is trying to extort GrayShift, and scientist have buckets with living pig brains.

  • Tech Talk Today 275

    May 3rd, 2018  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 2 secs
    amazon seattle, amazon wag, big podcast, data collection, elia, kickstarter, macbook keyboard, npr, pocket casts acquired, public radio group, tic-80, wnyc studios

    Pocket Casts gets acquired, and we worry about "big podcasting" pushing for more data collection.

  • Tech Talk Today 276

    May 7th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  28 mins
    ai, android p, azure, brainwave, build 2018, build review, congressional review act, cra, dji, federated learning, google i/o, iot edge, metadata, net neutrality, nsa collection, squirrelbot, tech news podcast, telegram, tesla contractors, windows timeline

    The fight for Net Neutrality is back on, we round up the news from Build 2018, and get impressed by Tesla's barnacle purge.

  • Tech Talk Today 277

    May 10th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 32 secs
    android p, como, google duplex, google photos, ios 11.4 usb disable, speakeasy smart speaker, steam link, tech news podcast, ubuntu, ultrasound assistant hack

    The world is freaking out about Google Duplex, new features coming to Google Photos we like and Android P promises to improve your "well being".

  • Tech Talk Today 278

    May 14th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  22 mins 17 secs
    bittorrent inc, easymesh, eero, efail, google employees resign, mark zuckerberg, nes classic, pgp, project maven, rainberry, s/mime, tech news podcast, wifi mesh

    A critical PGP and S/MIME bug is in the wild, EasyMesh promises standards Wifi Mesh networks, Zuck's in the sites, and Bittorrent Inc gets a rename.

  • Tech Talk Today 279

    May 17th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 28 secs
    at&t, bitcoin mining bathtub, communications privacy act, fcc, locationsmart, nest outage, net neutrality, oneplus 6, securus, sprint, surveillance, t-mobile, tech news podcast, verizon

    Nearly all mobile carriers are caught selling your location, and the story gets twisted. The senate votes to overturn the net neutrality repeal but there's a long way to go. OnePlus 6's specs are out, and how some guy heated his bath water with Bitcoin mining.

  • Tech Talk Today 280

    May 24th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  28 mins 59 secs
    clandestine tracking, crack encryption, google monopoly, how quantum computers work, ibm quantum computer, marsvr, moviepass, netflix, steve mnuchin, tech news podcast, the selfish ledger, youtube red price

    It's Google's turn to receive the Facebook treatment. In a series of rapid fire leaks, lawsuits, and PR blunders we re-cap Google's awful bad week.

  • Tech Talk Today 281

    July 2nd, 2018  |  Season 3  |  54 mins 47 secs
    allan jude, apple, bsdnow, fourth amendment, freebsd birthday, greykey, intel ceo, intel gpu, ios 12, larrabee, location tracking, tech news podcast

    Allan Jude joins us for a FreeBSD birthday special edition of Tech Talk.