Tech Renegades Podcast

Ollie and Dave return to discuss the new MacBook Pro releases from Apple, and the Google Pixel Phone.

Ollie and Dave discuss Elon Musk and Tesla, as well as Solar City, the ARM acquisition, touch briefly on Brexit, and bemoan the current state of Apple's MacBook hardware offerings.

Ollie and Dave ponder the nature of product releases, with particular focus on the recent releases of VR headsets from both Oculus with the Rift, and HTC/Valve with the Vive. Links: Oculus Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game Vive product page: http://www.htcvive.com/us/ Rift product page: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/ Rift first delivery video: http://www.techinsider.io/video-of-oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-hand-delivering-the-first-rift-in-alaska-2016-3 Rift delay announcement Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4eh1tn/oculus_on_twitter_we_apologize_for_the_delay/? Vive hand tracking for running: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/04/for-vr-walking-forget-treadmills-just-stick-a-vive-wand-down-your-pants/ Google Machine Learning Hello World tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw Gear 360 product page: http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-360/

Ollie and Dave discuss interesting technological developments that have happened since the last episode, including the first successful landing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle; an AlphaGo update and Elon Musk. Links discussed: * SpaceX landing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYmQQn_ZSys * Elon Must wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk * Mark Shuttleworth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth * Ubuntu definition: http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu * Cowspiracy documentary: http://www.cowspiracy.com

Ollie and Dave discuss the Google DeepMind challenge. Which pits current Go world number one Lee Se-dol and Google's AlphaGo system against each other in a best of 5 match of the ancient game of Go. This leads on to a wider discussion on artificial intelligence in the context of deep learning.

Ollie and Dave discuss the Ethereum platform, which is a global distributed computing system that uses a bitcoin-like underlying mechanism to establish and verify trust. Both newcomers to crypto-economics, we discuss the concepts and potential uses for such a system. Show notes: Ethereum homepage: https://www.ethereum.org DEVCON1: Ethereum for Dummies - Dr. Gavin Wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo Stats: https://ethstats.net December 75 million eth - about $71 million USD Volume $200,000 to $2,000,000 per day Exchanges: http://Poloniex.com http://Gatecoin.com http://Kraken.com Stats can be obtained from: http://etherchain.org/statistics/basic Market Cap & Prices http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum http://coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ethereum/usd

Ollie and Dave discuss the recent activity around Apple's open source Swift project, including Android support. We also compare Swift with other programming language newcomers Rust and Kotlin. Show notes: Android support for Swift pull request: https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1442 Swift package manager: https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager Rust language homepage: https://www.rust-lang.org 23 and Me: https://www.23andme.com

Ollie and Dave discuss the lengths Google have gone to get colours right in Material Design, and sum up their thoughts on select news from the week. Links discussed; The Reproduction of Colour by Rober Hunt: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reproduction-Colour-6th-Hunt/dp/0470024259/ Dan Lew and styles: http://blog.danlew.net/2014/11/19/styles-on-android/ Android Best Practices: https://github.com/futurice/android-best-practices Material Colors: https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html gist with material colors for android: https://gist.github.com/snodnipper/6ab34430aac8b2011676 Paletton: http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF Color Brewer: http://colorbrewer2.org/ Adobe Color CC https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

Ollie and Dave discuss the recent announcements by Epic and Unity that demonstrate creating content for VR in Unreal Engine and Unity3d whilst in VR. This new VR editor mode allows for direct manipulation of 3d content whilst wearing a VR headset and using motion tracked controllers.

Ollie and Dave discuss recent augmented reality developments and technology, including the Microsoft Hololens and Magic Leap AR hardware.