Speaking in Tech

This week, Josh and Melissa use the undeniable power of the dark side to lure Greg and Ed out of the trunk. Together they discuss Net Neutrality, Tintri offering to sell out, the SpaceX relauch/reuse/recycle program and they predict top tech trends and events for 2018.

00:00 - The Return of Greg and Ed
03:00 - The Net Joins the Dark Side
08:32 - No Spoiler Review of The Last Jedi
11:40 - Tintri debates going Han Solo
15:07 - The SpaceX Falcon
20:00 - Predictions for '17: about as good as the Christmas Special
25:35 - Atwell's Only Hope for Backup
32:20 - Voting in the Next Senate Race using AR: super-impose JarJar on your favorite
37:40 - Amazon's Clone War move: Self-Destructing Drones
48:26 - Eddie goes Phantom Menace
53:39 - Peter's Force Presence Predicts the future
58:45 - Melissa has been lost to the dark side

Direct download: 290.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 10:51pm EDT

This week Josh and Melissa are joined by Carl Niger @carl_niger, Director of Advanced Technology at CGI Northpoint. Together they talk about Netflix trolls, HP, 3D body scanning technology, The Apple-Shazam acquisition, new tech from Nvidia and a bit of SDN.

00:00 - Carl Drives In
05:40 - Big Data: It's for Shaming
09:15 - HP is Keylogging Your Mom
13:42 - 3D Body Scans: What are they good for?
17:50 - Ready Player Chunky
22:30 - Shazappled
27:00 - Old Cars are the New Technology
30:57 - Nvidia Goes Mining
36:46 - Hacking at Python and SDN

Direct download: 289.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 2:41am EDT

This week Josh, Peter and Melissa discuss Bourbon, the first deployment of Azure Stack in the UK, Facebook Messenger for kids, Elon Musk's next launch, UX for kids on home devices and an Echo Look review.

00:00 - Speaking in Bourbon?
03:30 - Scouting is shouting
13:15 - Azure Stack takes on the UK
21:00 - Facebook Messenger is the new Joe Camel
27:30 - Safety starts with Communication? We are all Doomed!
35:30 - Roadster Space Oddity
40:30 - Alexa isn't taking any crap from your kids
42:45 - Echo Look - looking pretty basic
50:00 - Wrapping up the year

Direct download: 288.mp3
Category:Technology -- posted at: 3:13am EDT

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