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This Week's Topics: OpenAI buys Jony Ive's startup Google 3D teleconferencing platform, Beam Google's AI-powered glasses Signal blocks Windows Recall Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-05-22 Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, […]
This Week's Topics: Skype shuts down after 23 years Scottish Co-Op victim of cyber attack 40th anniversary of Arm Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-05-08 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast […]
This Week's Topics: China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative Musk's latest crazy claims about Tesla self-driving Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-04-24 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: Wikipedia bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden NaNoWriMo shuts down due to AI and other problems Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: White House Using Starlink Elecom releases sodium-ion battery NVidia thinks AI can solve power problems caused by AI Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: Tech firms hurt by US tariffs on China Intel names new CEO UK finds Apple-Google browser duopoly anti-innovation Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-03-13 Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast […]
This Week's Topics: Updated Firefox terms of use Brother printer ink hysteria VW announces Rivian software-based EVs Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-03-06 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: Daisy the AI grandma unleashed Microsoft's Majorana chip for quantum computing HP support's forced 15 minute wait Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-02-27 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: Man wants to buy landfill to find BitCoin wallet HP acquires Humane Pin Xbox no longer trying to convert PS users Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-02-20 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, […]
This Week's Topics: More watching YouTube on TVs Elon vs. Sam on OpenAI Rumor of Intel/TSMC partnership Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-02-13 Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: Google to use digital fingerprinting Beware of misleading Windows stats GitHub AI for software mock-ups Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-02-06 Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology
This Week's Topics: DeepSeek has the world talking Microsoft 365 Copilot launch a disaster Waymo coming to more US cities Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-01-30 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry […]
This Week's Topics: Three UK is down Is Everest the world's tallest mountain? OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously AI designs computer chips we can't understand What does […]
This Week's Topics: Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data Microsoft bundles AI features into 365 and raises prices David Lynch Dies at 78 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-01-16 Guests: Jeff […]
This Week's Topics: Annual predictions show: We review our 2024 predictions and make our predictions for 2025! News: Research on 3D DRAM makes some progress Massive Volkswagen data leak exposed location data […]
This Week's Topics: Annual Christmas quiz episode! Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-12-12 Guests: Ewen Rankin, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, MullerBiker, Atley Hunter, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Jaguar's new concept car Novel WiFi hacking Telescope Is a National Security Risk Cate Blanchett 'deeply concerned' by AI impact Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-12-05 Guests: Ewen Rankin, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian […]
This Week's Topics: The gang covers the big tech stories of the week. Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-11-28 Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Atley Hunter
This Week's Topics: Spam on Spotify WiFi 8 is coming Google cancels Pixel Tablet 2 and 3 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-11-21 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Robot performs surgery tasks Most common passwords of 2024 Threads and BlueSky signups explode Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-11-14 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: 'You've Got Mail': Voice of AOL greeting dies Amazon's Prime Video Launches AI-Generated TV Show Recaps Connectivity Standards Alliance launches Matter 1.4 specification Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-11-08 Guests: Jeff Gamet, […]
This Week's Topics: Russia fines Google an astronomical amount of money TSMC's 2nm process has unexpected SRAM density improvement Microsoft will offer Win10 security updates to consumers after EOL Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-10-31 […]
This Week's Topics: RBW introduces MG-style electric roadster Excel is 40 years old Google's Notebook LLM audio overviews Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-10-24 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Prada helps make a spacesuit Google makes deal for nuclear power NVIDIA GPU 25th anniversary Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-10-17 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Sonos apologizes for missteps Zoom plans to offer AI-generated avatars Brits inundate chicken registration site Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-10-10 Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Jeff installs Linux/Mint on a MacBook Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-10-03 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant
This Week's Topics: CrowdStrike boss apologizes for outage Drama with WordPress Excel gets Python and Co-Pilot enhancements Kaspersky replaces security software without user consent Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-26 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, […]
This Week's Topics: SONY launches 30th anniversary limited-edition PlayStations Attacks targeting Hezbollah through pagers Entire 23AndMe board resigns Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-19 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: EU imposes large fines on Apple and Google Researchers demonstrate side-channel attack on air-gapped computer Infineon delivers first 300mm GaN wafers Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-12 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, […]
This Week's Topics: More trouble at Intel Ubikey security vulnerability Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-09-05 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Colmi Smart Ring Creative Labs MP3 player CueCat BlackBerry PlayBook SONY minidisk player Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-29 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Our favorite British TV comedy series Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-22 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant
This Week's Topics: We discuss MythBusters! Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-15 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour
Our Favorite Rewatchable Movies: Shaun of the Dead Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague Dazed and Confused Now You See Me Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Pulp Fiction Mostly Martha Alien Episode's chat: […]
This Week's Topics: Our favorite "guilty pleasure" TV shows Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-08-01 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: CrowdStrike's epic fail (Of course it's this week's topic!) Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-07-25 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig
This Week's Topic: Our favorite audiobooks and radio plays Lord of The Rings (BBC) War of The Worlds Expeditionary Force Somebody Knows The Truth Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2024-07-18 Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, Ian Grant, […]
This Week's Topics: Kioxia announces 2Tb NAND chip Sony reduces optical disk manufacturing Microsoft's Midnight Blizzard breach impacted federal agencies Guests: Patrice Brend'amour, David Ginsburg, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Boeing Starliner troubles NBC to use AI-generate Al Michaels for Olympic updates Who owns the moon? China moon probe returns with rare rocks Guests: Jeff Gamet, David Ginsburg, Ian […]
This Week's Topics: Signal president slams government surveillance moves California governor wants to limit smart phone use in schools Bank fires employees for using mouse jigglers Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian […]
This Week's Topics: Concern over social media addiction leading people back to analogue/physical world Lynn Conway, chip industry pioneer, passes away Ikea hiring Roblox players to mind the store Guests: Jeff Gamet, […]
This Week's Topics: Google faces 13.6B pound lawsuit Zoom CEO wants your avatar to attend meetings Adobe's updated terms of service causes outrage Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Major cyber criminal taken down Google search API documents leaked Former enemies unite: Atari acquires Intellivision ICQ shuts down after 28 years ... Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour, Ian […]
This Week's Topics: Scarlett Johansson not happy with OpenAI voice Windows Recall feature raises privacy concerns Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
This Week's Topics: Google I/O 2024 Elon fires entire SuperCharger team Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend'amour
This Week's Topics: UnitedHealth breach caused by lack of 2FA Tesla Axing Its Supercharger Team Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Tom Ferry
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
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 […]
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, […]
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
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