Podcasts about Asus

As US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania start their UK tour at Windsor Castle, we discuss what the government hopes to gain from the royal and military pageantry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hype oder die Zukunft? Tech-Experte Linh checkt die heißesten Gaming-Handhelds! Im Fokus: Das 1.000 Euro teure Lenovo Legion Go 2 und das neue ROG Xbox Ally X von Asus. Welches ist sein Geld wirklich wert? Weil Linh die Geräte auch ausführlich zeigt, würden wir euch ausnahmsweise die Videoversion dieses Talks ans Herz legen: https://youtu.be/__2QBuM0zbM

WERBUNG | Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Laptop? Sicherlich sind dir die ASUS Notebooks in unseren Sendungen aufgefallen. Hier haben wir was für dich, denn beste Performance und echte Hingucker findest du bei ROG und zwar hier: [Link weiter unten] /WERBUNG Bei HOLLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG darf man wirklich mal “GOTY!” schreien – oder doch nicht? Fabian hat es gespielt. Gregor gruselt sich bei CRONOS: THE NEW DAWN und macht Rollenspiel-Reisen in DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D REMAKE und OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0. Budi und Fabian feiern derweil Flow-Spiele wie SWORD OF THE SEA, alle staunen ein wenig über JAMES BOND 007 FIRST LIGHT. Das originelle Musikspiel FRESH TRACKS rundet diesen GAME TALK ab. Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus und Peugeot.

As US non-farm payrolls came in weaker than expected in August, should investors be concerned about a slowdown in the US economy? In this week's podcast, Lukas Gehrig, Head of Quant Macro and Thematic Strategy, joins Julien Lafargue to discuss the US labour market, the outlook for inflation, and what the Federal Reserve may do next.

It's time for episode 443 of the Mobile Tech Podcast with guests Whitson Gordon (ASUS) and David Imel (Waveform Podcast) -- brought to you by ASUS. This episode comes in two parts. First, we dive into ASUS' ROG G700 and TUF T500 PCs and explore how prebuilt gaming desktops are changing the game. Second (16:48), we discuss the state of mobile photography in an AI world and the cameras in Google's Pixel 10 series. Finally, we cover news, leaks, and rumors from Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, Realme, and Tecno.Episode Links- Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tnkgrl- Donate / buy me a coffee (PayPal): https://tnkgrl.com/tnkgrl/- ASUS: https://rog.asus.com/us/ (sponsor)- ASUS ROG G700: https://rog.asus.com/us/desktops/full-tower/rog-g700-2025-g700/- ASUS TUF T500: https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/gaming-tower-pcs/tuf-gaming/asus-tuf-gaming-t500-2025/- Whitson Gordon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitsongordon/- David Imel: https://www.threads.com/@davidimel- David's Google Pixel 10 series and Hasselblad X2D thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFt223XU6Fs- My Google Pixel 10 series review: https://hothardware.com/reviews/pixel-10-series-review- Ultra cameraphone comparison: https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_oppo_samsung_vivo_xiaomi_ultra_camera_compa-review-2867.php- Apple iPhone 17 Air might be eSIM only in Europe: https://www.gsmarena.com/physical_sim_slot_to_be_removed_from_just_one_iphone_17_device_in_europe_new_report_says-news-69318.php- Samsung tri-fold might be coming this month: https://www.gsmarena.com/report_samsung_trifold_could_be_unveiled_this_month-news-69313.php- OnePlus 15 might ditch Hasselblad for custom Image Engine: https://www.gsmarena.com/oneplus_15_now_rumored_to_debut_selfdeveloped_oneplus_image_engine-news-69294.php- Realme 15T: https://www.gsmarena.com/realme_15t_arrives_with_dimensity_6400_and_7000mah_battery-news-69309.php- Tecno Spark Slim and Pova Slim: https://www.gsmarena.com/tecno_spark_slim_and_pova_slim_introduced_with_slim_and_light_designs-news-69305.phpAffiliate Links (If you use these links to buy something, we might earn a commission)- ASUS ROG G700: https://amzn.to/4gfXEZC- ASUS TUF T500: https://amzn.to/4mMatxf- Google Pixel 10 Pro XL: https://amzn.to/3HP8V6x- Google Pixel 10 Pro: https://amzn.to/3I5A9px- Google Pixel 10: https://amzn.to/4nj0VK0

「デュアルWANとVAN機能を搭載！ASUSから手のひらサイズのWi-Fi 7対応ポータブルルーター「RT-BE3600 Go」が登場」　 ASUS JAPANは、次世代Wi-Fi 7規格に対応したポータブルルーター「ASUS RT-BE3600 Go」の先行支援受付をクラウドファンディングサイト「GREEN FUNDING」にて開始した。プロジェクト期間は2025年10月31日までで、製品は12月20日までに配送予定。一般販売予定価格は19,980円だが、「GREEN FUNDING」では9月1日現在、17,700円～支援受付中だ。 標準のワイヤレスモードに加え、USBテザリングモードとプライベートホットスポットモードも搭載 「ASUS RT-BE3600 Go」は、Wi-Fi 7に対応する手のひらサイズのポータブルルーター。サイズ99×111×96mm、重量232gというコンパクト設計ながら、Wi-Fi 7対応により、5GHz帯で最大2,882Mbps、2.4GHz帯で最大688Mbpsの通信速度を実現する。 また、標準のワイヤレスモードに加え、スマートフォンの5G/4G回線と連携するUSBテザリングモード、公共Wi-Fi（WISP）を利用したセキュアなプライベートホットスポットモードを搭載。さらに、ホテルのWi-Fiとスマホのモバイル回線を使い分けられる「デュアルWAN」にも対応する。 このほか、最大30社のサービスと連携可能なVPN機能を備え、スライドスイッチひとつで拠点間VPNへ簡単に接続できる機能も搭載。ASUS独自の「AiMesh」や「AiProtection」など、セキュリティと拡張性にも優れた最新機能も搭載する。 ■主な仕様 関連情報https://greenfunding.jp/lab/projects/8935 構成／立原尚子

Πάει να αναθαρρήσει η Atari, περιμένουμε και την Acclaim και όσο για τους γνωστούς, ο καθένας ό,τι του κατεβεί. Get in touch: Email | Twitter Ι Facebook Group Hosted by: Elias Pappas - Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Manos Vezos - The Vez | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Ι Apple Music Gamescom LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight was the biggest announcement of Gamescom 2025 Greek Game Dev First-person psychological horror game Haunted Bloodlines launches in Q4 2025 for PS5, PC - Gematsu Transmedia Far Cry "anthology drama" reportedly in the works at FX Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime adaptation Sekiro: No Defeat announced - Gematsu "GLOBAL GAMING HIT “SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE” TO BE REBORN AS NEW ANIME ON CRUNCHYROLL IN 2026" "PARAMOUNT STRIKES MAJOR FILM DEAL WITH ACTIVISION TO BRING CALL OF DUTY TO THE BIG SCREEN" ‘Call of Duty' Movie in the Works Under Major Paramount Skydance, Microsoft's Activision Pact EVO Sony Interactive Entertainment sells stake in EVO to NODWIN Gaming - Gematsu "EVO ANNOUNCES NEXT PHASE OF INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION" Saudi firm acquires co-ownership of Evo fighting game tournaments | VGC GeForce NOW ‘Play Instantly on Discord': Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord's first instant game demo Nvidia's GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games Atari Atari agrees to acquire Thunderful Group in $5.2 million deal Atari to acquire Thunderful Group - Gematsu Atari acquires rights to Ubisoft's Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up - Gematsu ‘Let's be the best in the world at something': Atari CEO Wade Rosen on how to restore pride to an iconic brand | VGC Atari CEO shares his three dream remasters, including a Hideo Kojima classic | VGC Acclaim Play Acclaim showcase set for September 10, featuring “surprises, exclusive content, and announcements” - Gematsu PlayStation MENA Revealing 4 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Hero Project games coming to PlayStation PlayStation MENA Hero Project titles announced - Red Bandits, Enci's Solution, The Perfect Run, and A Cat's Manor - Gematsu Αμερικανικές ανατιμήσεις PlayStation 5 price changes in the U.S. Switch models cost up to 15% more, following Nintendo US price hike Nintendo announces changes to Switch pricing in the US Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles PS6 Portable Sony Reportedly Planning Switch-Killer Playstation 6 Portable Αποτελέσματα και άλλα Sony PlayStation sees 137% boost to operating income in Q1 2025 PS5 shipments top 80.3 million - Gematsu Marathon expected to launch "within this fiscal year" following indefinite delay, says Sony Sony CFO says Marathon is expected to release before March, and Bungie's independence is ‘getting lighter' | VGC Sony CFO says its live service shift is ‘not entirely going smoothly' but pledges to carry on and learn from mistakes | VGC Bungie Bungie CEO Pete Parsons steps down - Gematsu Xbox FY25 Q4 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft Xbox content and services revenue up 13% year-on-year Contraband Breaking: Microsoft stops development on Contraband Perfect Dark Crystal Dynamics announces another round of layoffs, says Tomb Raider is unaffected | VGC Take-Two talks ‘to save Xbox's Perfect Dark reboot' reportedly collapsed | VGC Platform Available for Xbox Insiders: Get to the Games Faster with My Apps Game Pass Xbox Insiders Can Stream and Play in New Ways with Xbox Game Pass Starting Today Xbox Ally ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Launch October 16: Get Ready to Play! Microsoft and Asus' new Xbox Ally handhelds launch on October 16th Nintendo Nintendo Switch 2 sold 5.82 million units in Q1 2025 Switch 2 worldwide sales top six million, Switch tops 153.10 million - Gematsu ‘They can't get the hardware': Nintendo is reportedly telling would-be Switch 2 devs to release on Switch instead | VGC

Emmanuel Macron and Sir Keir Starmer have once again convened the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing' in Paris to consolidate proposals for post-war security guarantees for Ukraine. But as Europe looks to a hypothetical future, a growing alliance led by China is focused on a new era of global leadership which Xi Jinping says has already arrived. The Chinese president welcomed a host of world leaders this week, with none more notable than Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who is continuing his re-emergence on the diplomatic stage. To answer your questions, Lucy and Vitaly are joined by the BBC's chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet. As US-led peace efforts continue to falter, they discuss the implications for Ukraine, with Russia's non-western allies showing no sign of relinquishing either economic or political support for the ongoing invasion.You can fill out our audience questionnaire here: bit.ly/ukrainecastfeedbackToday's episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Laurie Kalus and Julia Webster. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The social producer was Sophie Millward. The series producer is Chris Flynn. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast's Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord

Returning from summer break, the NPC crew discusses Microsoft and ASUS's Xbox handheld announcement at Gamescom. They also cover the upcoming release of Silk Song, Nintendo Direct rumors, and growing concerns about Switch 2's strategy, particularly the lack of third-party dev kits and exclusive titles. The episode closes with an exploration of wild new handhelds from Abxylute. Also available on YouTube here. Links and Show Notes The Latest Portable Gaming News IS This an Xbox? All Your Questions Answered - ROG XBOX ALLY - YouTube Analogue 3D Delayed for a Fourth Time Another Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Is Close And It Could Be The Big One AYANEO KONKR Pocket FIT Elite is an Android handheld game console with premium specs and a starting price under $400 3DS Styled Handheld Announced As Part Of MagicX's Roadmap MANGMI Air X Lands in September Starting at $79 Abxylute plans to sell a $1699 handheld gaming PC with an 11 inch glasses-free 3D display abxylute 3D One Handheld Abxylute is working on a magnetic snap-on game controller for smartphones 3DS Styled Handheld Announced As Part Of MagicX's Roadmap Subscribe to NPC XL NPC XL is a weekly members-only version of NPC with extra content, available exclusively through our new Patreon for $5/month. Each week on NPC XL, Federico, Brendon, and John record a special segment or deep dive about a particular topic that is released alongside the “regular” NPC episodes. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/c/NextPortableConsole Leave Feedback for John, Federico, and Brendon NPC Feedback Form Credits Show Art: Brendon Bigley Music: Will LaPorte Follow Us Online On the Web MacStories.net Wavelengths.online Follow us on Mastodon NPC Federico John Brendon Follow us on Bluesky NPC MacStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Brendon Bigley Affiliate Linking Policy

WERBUNG | Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Laptop? Sicherlich sind dir die ASUS Notebooks in unseren Sendungen aufgefallen. Hier haben wir was für dich, denn beste Performance und echte Hingucker findest du bei ROG und zwar hier [Link weiter unten] /WERBUNG Vor SILKSONG ist nach SILKSONG! Zwei Tage vor Release des lang-erwarteten HOLLOW KNIGHT-Sequels haben sich Sarah, Matthias und Gregor ausführlich mit neuem Gameplaymaterial darüber unterhalten, wie das Spiel funktioniert und auf was ihr euch freuen könnt. Wird es die Erwartungen erfüllen? Oder kann es nach der langen Zeit nur enttäuschen? Und nehmen die Entwickler keine Rücksicht auf den restilichen Indie-Markt? Dazu gibt es noch Exklusives zum REMASTER von FINAL FANTASY Tactics, Gedanken zu LOST SOUL ASIDE, BALL X Pit, die SWITCH-2-Version von KIRBY UND DAS VERGESSENE LAND uvm.! Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus.

In this episode of the Day One Patch Podcast, we kick things off with a Video Game Fun Fact all about the Pocket Pikachu, Nintendo's quirky pedometer-based handheld companion from the late '90s.We then break down Call of Duty's latest move to restore its grounded identity by cutting carry-forward skins in Black Ops 7. Treyarch says it's about keeping the game “immersive and visceral,” but fans are divided after losing their crossover cosmetics. We also look at Microsoft and Asus' surprising decision to announce the ROG Xbox Ally X release date—without revealing its price—blaming shifting “macro-economic” conditions.In Query Corner Lite, we cover Larian Studios' sharp criticism of the gaming industry, pointing to ballooning budgets, long dev cycles, and publishers playing it safe instead of taking risks.

Tony: -Big N being weird: https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-reportedly-almost-discouraging-switch-2-development-as-studios-told-to-launch-games-on-switch-1-and-rely-on-backwards-compatibility-instead -An old friend re-emerges: https://wccftech.com/acclaim-announces-playacclaim-showcase/ -Xbox Ally X 1st impressions:  https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pc/hands-on-with-the-xbox-ally-gamescom-2025 -Analogue 3D delayed again: Analogue 3D gets yet another delay to later in 2025 Jarron: -PC Shader Stutter sounds like it could be fixed!! Microsoft is working on a fix for PC shader stutter -Framework has upgradeable GPUs in a laptop! Framework is now selling the first gaming laptop that lets you easily upgrade its GPU — with Nvidia's blessing -PS5 prices are going up: Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow -Xbox Ally launches October 16th Microsoft and Asus' new Xbox Ally handhelds launch on October 16th Owen: -Immediately clicked the link because of the name of this game, but actually looks like fun and I'm gonna watch for it to be released. https://steamdb.info/app/3717830/ -Apparently a ton of indie game devs are delaying launch do to Silk Song https://aftermath.site/silksong-indie-delays A Little Witch in the Woods Baby Steps DemonSchool Aeterna Lucis CloverPit Stomp and the Sword of Miracles Lando: -Silksong is out September 4 Hollow Knight: Silksong will be out on September 4 -Indie devs are delaying games for Silksong https://aftermath.site/silksong-indie-delays  -Why silksong took so long https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-21/why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-make

This week on the podcast we go over our reviews of the Melgeek MADE68 Air Gaming Keyboard and Lexar Play 2280 SE Gen4 Solid State Drive.  We also discuss an interesting laptop with a swappable GPU, a new RTX 5080 Dhahab Edition from ASUS, a motherboard with 25 USB ports, DOOM running on an Anker charger and more!

Eine liebgewonnene Tradition findet auch auf der GAMESCOM 2025 bzw. BEANSCOM 2025 ihren Platz - ALMOST DÖHLI. Fabian Döhla kapert unsere Show ALMOST DAILY und spricht mit Daniel Budiman aka Budi, Etienne Garde alias Eddy und Nils Bomhoff über alles, was dem Quartett so in den Sinn kommt. Schuhe, Branchen-Gossip, gesellschaftliche Entwicklung, Nostalgie und das Gameplay von THE WITCHER 4, das alles findet seinen Platz. Und auch ihr, liebe Menschen, seid via Chat dabei. Viel Spaß! Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus, Dr. Oetker, fritz-kola, Lego, LVM, Peugeot, PurPur Energy, Samsung, der Sparkasse und Warhammer.

This week, Gareth and Ted unpack the latest tech buzz. Is Valve's "Fremont" console the future of gaming? The ROG Ally impresses as a solid portable Xbox experience. Plus, Ted showcases an innovative AI-powered tablet with a projector that teaches kids a new language. With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon Join us on Mewe RSS Link: https://techaddicts.libsyn.com/rss Direct Download | iTunes | YouTube Music | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify  Amazon | Pocket Casts | Castbox | PodHubUK Feedback, Fallout and Contributions Salmon's (hopeful) iOS Leap! News Amazon is switching its Fire tablets to Android Malcolm Bryant - 'Open source Android', aka AOSP, is really bare-bones. All OEMs to this point have supplemented AOSP with extra functionality in order to have a viable consumer-facing product. In particular of course there is Google Play Services, which gives access to the Play Store and many other core Android features. Google Play Services is not part of AOSP but it seems extremely unlikely that Amazon would omit it if the intent is to make this tablet a mainstream Android device. Projector in a tablet with 30,000mAh Battery? Blackview Active 12 Pro 5G review - Specs Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages - 97-second YouTube Video Valve's Fremont SteamOS console surfaces with six-core Zen 4 CPU and RX 7600 GPU ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X launch October 16 Honor Magic V Flip 2 unveiled with 200MP camera, 5,500mAh battery The Google Event was Cringeworthy! Pixel 10 from £799 Pixel 10 Pro from £999 Pixel 10 Pro XL from £1,199 Pixel 10 Pro Fold (later release?) from £1,749 Pixel Watch 4 from £349 Banters: Knocking out a Quick Bant Pixel Tablet with Speaker Dock, 256GB, Porcelain and Logitech Keys-To-Go 2 Google Headlines - Weather especially - Yellow Alert warnings… several days afterwards Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus  £559 from £749 (and i3 £399 from £649) Lenovo Legion R24e - 23.8" FHD (1920x1080) -25% £59.00 Was: £79.00 Lenovo IdeaPad Chromebook Duet 11 £242 from £369/£299 Tapo Smart Plug with Energy Monitoring - £26.88 Logitech G Yeti Orb USB Condenser RGB Microphone £33.24 from £59.99 WD 22TB Elements External Hard Drive - £308.99 Poco M7 128GB/6GB (£119), 256GB/8GB (£139) Main Show URL: http://www.techaddicts.uk | PodHubUK Contact:: gareth@techaddicts.uk | @techaddictsuk Gareth - @garethmyles | Mastodon | Blusky | garethmyles.com | Gareth's Ko-Fi Ted - tedsalmon.com | Ted's PayPal | Mastodon | Ted'

Tony: -Gamescom announcements: https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-at-opening-night-live-gamescom-2025 -Asus: https://www.theverge.com/news/761481/asus-720hz-gaming-monitor-rog-swift-oled-pg27aqwp-w Jarron: -Silksong sounds super lame: https://www.theverge.com/news/761451/hollow-knight-silksong-special-announcement-youtube -Nvidia App is getting better: https://www.theverge.com/news/760488/nvidia-app-dlss-override-control-panel-features -RTX Hair baby! https://www.theverge.com/news/760479/nvidia-rtx-hair-indiana-jones-game Owen: -The new Fallout Season 2 trailer dropped today. Looks amazing. Go check it out.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TsP09cZA7o -Oh Roblox. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/roblox-ceo-resign-cease-desist-schlep-b2807586.html -And now the story got picked up by MSNBC…not good Roblox. https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/roblox-grooming-allegations-pedophiles-rcna225877 -Helldivers 2 and Halo ODST: This looks great. https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/08/19/helldivers-2-halo-odst-crossover-warbond-xbox-launch/ Lando: Lang: -Leverless controller review https://www.8bitdo.com/arcade-controller/

Greetings from Cologne, Germany! To learn all about the ASUS and Xbox partnership, I'm joined by Sascha Krohn, Director of Technical Marketing at ASUS and ROG. Unveiled at Gamescon, this handheld gaming PCV is wild.Speaking of PCs, there are deals to be had over Inter Gamer Days, from August 25th through September 7th, on select Intel-powered gaming laptops and desktops -- as you'll hear from Intel's Samy Saif.But we first kickstart a brand-new Tech It Out, to get the 4-1-1 on Brane Audio and its portable Brane X speaker and its integrated subwoofer. We're joined by Joe Pinkerton, Co-Founder & CEO of Brane AudioThank you to Visa and Sandisk for your support!

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Listen here meow, Super Troopers 3 is coming, but not right meow. Gamescom is in full swing, and opening night live did not disappoint. PlayStation is joining its rivals, in raising prices on its 5 year old console, but at least the ODSTs are dropping into Helldivers 2? Plus Casting news for Scary Movie 6, The Hunt for Gollum and Avengers Doomsday. That and more, come take a listen,

All the headlines from the Made By Google event where we saw the new Pixel 10 lineup and the 4th gen Pixel Watch. We have a release date for those new Xbox handhelds. More seeming chaos at Meta's AI headquarters. And a report back from the first ever AI film festival. Links: The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first fully dust-resistant foldable (The Verge) Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL are all about upgrades you can't see, still starting at $999 [Hands-on] (9to5Google) Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency Satellite Communication (TechCrunch) Microsoft and Asus' new Xbox Ally handhelds launch on October 16th (The Verge) Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again (NYTimes) US tech stocks hit by concerns over future of AI boom (FT) I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gamescom is almost here and we're getting hands on with the XBOX ALLY X, here's everything we hope we'll see and find out from ASUS & XBOX over the coming days.

This episode starts with some fresh Monitor updates from ASUS and followed from the potential upcoming ban for DJI drones in the US as well as some troubling news from Kodak, alongside ARRI's rumored plans to sell their business. We also discuss our new poll, in which we ask whether you think this year has more or less job opportunities than before. Enjoy the conversation and join in! Chapters & Articles Mentioned in This Episode:  (00:00) – Introduction (01:35) - ASUS ProArt PA32UCDM Monitor Review and Lab Test – Remarkable, Color-Accurate OLED Monitor for a Decent Price https://www.cined.com/asus-proart-pa32ucdm-monitor-review-amp-lab-test-a-remarkable-colour-accurate-oled-monitor-for-a-decent-price/   (13:35) - ASUS ProArt Display PA16USV Introduced – A Compact 4K Monitor Tailored for On-Set Professionals https://www.cined.com/asus-proart-display-pa16usv-introduced-a-compact-4k-monitor-tailored-for-on-set-professionals/   (17:32) - US DJI Drone Ban Looms, What Filmmakers Need to Know – A Deep Dive https://www.cined.com/us-dji-drone-ban-looms-what-filmmakers-need-to-know-a-deep-dive/   (28:36) - Kodak Faces the Fade-Out – Is This the Final Call? And ARRI is rumored to think about a sale - what does that mean? https://www.cined.com/kodak-faces-the-fade-out-is-this-the-final-call/   (41:34) - Poll: Are Film & TV Industry Job Opportunities Shrinking in 2025? https://www.cined.com/poll-are-film-tv-industry-job-opportunities-shrinking-in-2025/   (46:34) - CineD Best-of-Show Award at IBC 2025 – Submissions Now Open for Manufacturers https://www.cined.com/cined-best-of-show-award-at-ibc-2025-submissions-now-open-for-manufacturers/   (48:34) - DaVinci Resolve 20.1 Studio Update Adds Apple Vision Pro Workflow Support to macOS Version https://www.cined.com/davinci-resolve-20-1-studio-update-adds-apple-vision-pro-workflow-support-to-macos-version/   (52:18) - Prism Lens FX Launches New Phantom and Spectre Handheld Filters for In-Camera Effects https://www.cined.com/prism-lens-fx-launches-new-phantom-and-spectre-handheld-filters-for-in-camera-effects/   (54:57) - Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Coming to Nikon Z and Canon RF Mounts https://www.cined.com/tamron-18-300mm-f-3-5-6-3-coming-to-nikon-z-and-canon-rf-mounts/   (58:32) - Pelican TRVL Suitcases Review – Perfect for Traveling Filmmakers https://www.cined.com/pelican-trvl-suitcases-review-perfect-for-traveling-filmmakers/   (01:04:28) - LumaFusion 5.3 Opens Doors to Third-Party Plugins with New Architecture and CoreMelt Partnership https://www.cined.com/lumafusion-5-3-opens-doors-to-third-party-plugins-with-new-architecture-and-coremelt-partnership/ We hope you enjoyed this episode! You have feedback, comments, or suggestions? Write us at podcast@cined.com   

WERBUNG | Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Laptop? Sicherlich sind dir die ASUS Notebooks in unseren Sendungen aufgefallen. Hier haben wir was für dich, denn beste Performance und echte Hingucker findest du bei ROG und zwar hier [Link weiter unten] /WERBUNG Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus, Paulaner & Samsung. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As US gas prices go down, WA gas prices are going up / Seattle orders  homeless encampment following double homicide / Another prisoner escaping custody at SEA airport // Seattle residents have to make $10,000 dollars more to afford average rent costs // Sha’carri Richardson "apologizes" for domestic abuse charge in SEA airport, remains the face of Nike

WERBUNG | Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Laptop? Sicherlich sind dir die ASUS Notebooks in unseren Sendungen aufgefallen. Hier haben wir was für dich, denn beste Performance und echte Hingucker findest du bei ROG und zwar hier [Link weiter unten] /WERBUNG Gaststar Kuro von GAME TWO, Gregor und Fabian stürzen sich in eine pralle Pre-GAMESCOM-Folge! Fabian berichtet aus THE OLD COUNTRY, dem neuesten MAFIA. Kuro hat BATTLEFIELD 6 und GROUNDED 2 gezockt, ebenso den stimmungsvollen Adventure-Tipp THE DRIFTER. Neu aufgelegte Retro-Action gibt's in Gregors Liebling GRADIUS ORIGINS sowie im magischen Ego-Duo HERETIC + HEXEN. Das lange erwartete MINA THE HOLLOWER und der schräge Puppenhorror MY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD runden diesen bunt gemischten GAME TALK ab. Viel Freude euch damit! Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus, Messe Köln, Peugeot und Samsung.

WERBUNG | 1. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Laptop? Sicherlich sind dir die ASUS Notebooks in unseren Sendungen aufgefallen. Hier haben wir was für dich, denn beste Performance und echte Hingucker findest du bei ROG und zwar hier [Link weiter unten] 2. Gehe jetzt auf [Link weiter unten] und erhalte zusätzlichen Rabatt auf CyberGhost VPN inklusive 4 Gratis-Monate! /WERBUNG Die neue BUNDESLIGA-Saison steht in den Startlöchern. Zwei Wochen vor dem Saisonstart blickt die BOHNDESLIGA-Crew schon einmal voraus auf die neue Spielzeit. Nils und Tobi legen den Fokus in dieser Sonderfolge BOHNDESLIGA auf die neuen Trainer. Gleich sechs Klubs starten mit einem brandneuen Coach in die BUNDESLIGA-SAISON 2025/26. Wer wird sich durchsetzen? Wer muss bereits nach wenigen Wochen wieder gehen? Einen besonderen Blick richten wir auf den FC AUGSBURG. Sandro Wagner feiert hier sein BUNDESLIGA-Debüt. Hat das Trainertalent den richtigen Standort gewählt? Diese Frage stellt sich auch bei Horst Steffen (WERDER BREMEN) und Lukas Kwasniok (1. FC KÖLN). WÖLFE-Trainer Paul Simonis hingegen ist in Deutschland noch eine große Unbekannte. Kann er seine Erfolge aus den Niederlanden wiederholen? Ole Werner hofft auf den nächsten Karriereschritt in LEIPZIG, während sich Erik ten Hag in LEVERKUSEN neu erfinden will. Wir beleuchten alle neuen Trainer kurz und knackig in unserer neuen Folge BOHNDESLIGA! Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus und Cyberghost.

As US president Donald Trump's new tariffs begin to take hold, Roger Hearing finds out whether India, Brazil and Canada can survive without a trade deal with the world's largest economy. We hear how scientists and engineers in Sweden are trying to revolutionise the global steel industry by using new technology to make the material greener. And how good is the latest AI app - GPT5? The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.

As US president Donald Trump's global tariffs regime comes into place, we discuss what effect it will have on the international trade architecture. India faces a threat of 50% mark ups on what it sells to the US, with Washington unhappy over Delhi's purchase of oil from Russia. But will India ever wean itself off Russian supplies? Meanwhile Trump's claiming a big win as Apple commits to an extra hundred billion dollars in investment in the States. Elsewhere we hear of the summer of stink as bin workers strike in many US cities, and Roger Hearing talks about 'the sage of Omaha' during his last months as the world's most famous investor. Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.

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WERBUNG | Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Laptop? Sicherlich sind dir die ASUS Notebooks in unseren Sendungen aufgefallen. Hier haben wir was für dich, denn beste Performance und echte Hingucker findest du bei ROG und zwar hier /WERBUNG Vitus berichtet von seinen umfassenden Spieleindrücken zu BATTLEFIELD 6. Gregor und Fabian vergnügen sich mit dem Ninja-Duo SHINOBI: ART OF VENGEANCE und NINJA GAIDEN: RAGEBOUND. Timo besucht derweil die INTEL EXTREME MASTERS in Köln, wo auf Weltniveau COUNTER-STRIKE 2 gespielt wird. Die schöne SQUARE-Überraschung THE ADVENTURES OF ELLIOT: THE MILLENIUM TALES, WUCHANG: FALLEN FEATHERS, das Yuzo-Koshiro-Comeback EARTHION sowie neue Eindrücke zu SHADOW LABYRINTH und DONKEY KONG BANANZA runden diesen GAME TALK ab. Viel Freude euch! Rocket Beans wird unterstützt von Asus, Peugeot und dem Team hinter Battlefield 6.

In Episode 132 of Good Morning BSS World, I take you on a journey into the evolving BPO and GBS landscape of Georgia with a special guest, Sergo Baramia – CEO and Managing Partner at Evolvexe Group. Sergo offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Evolvexe emerged as one of Georgia's pioneering full-scope BPO providers and what makes the Georgian outsourcing market uniquely competitive.From customer service and content moderation to social media management and identity verification support, Evolvexe delivers a broad portfolio of outsourcing services tailored to global needs. Sergo unpacks why Georgia's language capabilities, international student community, and cost-efficiency make it an attractive destination for outsourcing – especially for industries like iGaming and tech support.The episode also dives into real-world operational dynamics, such as recruitment timelines, salary benchmarks, and attrition rates, offering a transparent look at what it takes to build a reliable outsourcing business in an emerging market. Learn how Evolvexe provides services in up to eight languages, attracts talent through work-from-home flexibility, and successfully serves clients across the globe — including tech giant ASUS.Whether you're exploring nearshore BPO options, interested in the Caucasus business scene, or simply love discovering new growth stories in global services, this episode will open your eyes to Georgia's untapped potential.  Key points of the podcast:The BPO sector in Georgia is growing rapidly, driven by cost efficiency and a multilingual workforce.Evolvexe Group offers a range of BPO services including customer support, back office operations, and social media management, with a focus on international clients.Georgia's strategic advantage lies in its ability to provide high-quality services at competitive prices, attracting major international brands like ASUS..  Links:Sergo Baramia on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergobaramia/ Evolvexe:www - https://www.evolvexe.com/FB - https://www.facebook.com/evolvexellcLinkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/evolvexe-llcTalk to AI about this episode - https://gmbw.onpodcastai.com/episodes/y8cp8oXNHUY/chat  ****************************  My name is Wiktor Doktór and on daily basis I run Pro Progressio Club https://klub.proprogressio.pl - it's a community of many private companies and public sector organizations that care about the development of business relations in the B2B model. In the Good Morning BSS World podcast, apart from solo episodes, I share interviews with experts and specialists from global BPO/GBS industry.If you want to learn more about me, please visit my social media channels:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/wiktordoktorHere is also link to the English podcasts Playlist - https://bit.ly/GoodMorningBSSWorldPodcastYTLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiktordoktorYou can also write to me. My email address is - kontakt(@) wiktordoktor.pl  ****************************  This Podcast is supported by Patrons:Marzena Sawicka https://www.linkedin.com/in/marzena-sawicka-a9644a23/Przemysław Sławiński https://www.linkedin.com/in/przemys%C5%82aw-s%C5%82awi%C5%84ski-155a4426/Damian Ruciński https://www.linkedin.com/in/damian-ruci%C5%84ski/Szymon Kryczka https://www.linkedin.com/in/szymonkryczka/Grzegorz Ludwin https://www.linkedin.com/in/gludwin/Adam Furmańczuk https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-agilino/Anna Czyż - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-czyz-%F0%9F%94%B5%F0%9F%94%B4%F0%9F%9F%A2-68597813/Igor Tkach - https://www.linkedin.com/in/igortkach/  If you like my podcasts give a like, subscribe and join Patrons of Good Morning BSS World as well. Here are two links to do so:Patronite - https://patronite.pl/wiktordoktor  Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/wiktordoktor Or if you liked this episode and would like to buy me virtual coffee, you can use this link https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wiktordoktor - by doing so you support the growth and distribution of this podcast.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-morning-bss-world--4131868/support.

As US president, Donald Trump's policies have served the interests of wealthy elites, while hurting average working people and splitting his own MAGA base. Geopolitical economist Radhika Desai discusses with economist Michael Hudson. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cUksS_aN_8 This is part of the program Geopolitical Economy Hour. You can watch other episodes of the show here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP Radhika's website: https://RadhikaDesai.com Michael's website: https://Michael-Hudson.com

Send us a text Welcome back to Spectator Mode Podcast, your go-to show for real talk on gaming, geek culture, and everything in between. In episode 194, the crew talks about the new Superman movie, ASUS's ROG Xbox Ally leak, multiplayer gaming struggles in games such as Marvel Rivals and Elden Ring Nightreign, fighting game DLC, and the controversy surrounding Pirate Software. Topics:What we've been playing and watchingAsus ROG Xbox Ally price point leaked, and it's expensiveThe new Superman movie is really goodJust how bad is Pirate Software as a personWhy is the state of multiplayer online games in such bad shapeFighting games DLC practices, and is it getting worseDon't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more weekly episodes! Got thoughts on these topics? Drop them in the comments—we want to hear from you. Support the showYou can find the Spectator Mode podcast on the following podcast platforms. Please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcast, as it will go a long watch in more people discovering us. Thank you! Apple Podcasts YouTube Spotify Amazon Music

Lola Akinmade Åkerström is an award-winning visual storyteller, international bestselling author, and travel entrepreneur. She has dispatched from over 80+ countries and her work has been featured in National Geographic, New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Travel Channel, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, Forbes, and many more. She has collaborated with commercial brands such as Dove, Getty Images, Mercedes Benz, Intrepid Travel, Electrolux, ASUS, and National Geographic Channel, to name a few. As a storyteller, Lola was featured on Condé Nast Traveler's Women Who Travel Power List. She was named one of the Most Influential Women in Travel by Travel Pulse, a 2022 Hasselblad Heroine and Bill Muster Travel Photographer of the Year. She was also honoured with a MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Award within media and culture and a Newsweek Future of Travel Storytelling Award.  Her book, Due North, received the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Best Travel Book, and she is also the author of international bestselling "LAGOM: The Swedish Secret of Living Well" available in over 15 foreign language editions.  Her internationally-acclaimed novel, "In Every Mirror She's Black", was a Good Morning America (GMA) Buzz Pick, Apple Editors' Pick, Amazon Editors' Pick,  Independent UK "Best Thought-provoking Story", and was shortlisted for the Bad Form Review Book of the Year. Her novel, EVERYTHING IS NOT ENOUGH, is an NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literature, Jennette McCurdy Book Club Pick, a Washington Post, Sunday Times, and Amazon Editors' Pick, amongst others. Her latest novel, BITTER HONEY, was published in May 2025. As an entrepreneur, she runs Stockholm-based creative storytelling agency Geotraveler Media and online academy, Geotraveler Media Academy, which runs photography experiences around the world and is dedicated to visual storytelling and helping the next generation of travel storytellers put the heart back into the craft. To learn more about Lola Akinmade Akerström: Links - Media Kit  |  Portfolio Director, Geotraveler Media Social - LinkedIn | Instagram

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter  or Bluesky for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 23rd July 2025. The winner will be contacted via Bluesky. Show references:  Sam Mullins, Trustee at SS Great Britainhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sammullins/https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/ Transcriptions:  Paul Marden: What an amazing day out here. Welcome to Skip the Queue. The podcast for people working in and working with visitor attractions, I'm your host, Paul Marden, and today you join me for the last episode of the season here in a very sunny and very pleasant Bristol Dockyard. I'm here to visit the SS Great Britain and one of their trustees, Sam Mullins, who until recently, was the CEO of London Transport Museum. And I'm going to be talking to Sam about life after running a big, family friendly Museum in the centre of London, and what comes next, and I'm promising you it's not pipes and the slippers for Sam, he's been very busy with the SSGreat Britain and with other projects that we'll talk a little more about. But for now, I'm going to enjoy poodling across the harbour on boat number five awaiting arrival over at the SS Great Britain. Paul Marden: Is there much to catch in the water here?Sam Mullins: According to some research, there's about 36 different species of fish. They catch a lot of cream. They catch Roach, bullet, bass car. Big carpet there, maybe, yeah, huge carpet there. And then your European great eel is here as well, right? Yeah, massive things by the size of your leg, big heads. It's amazing. It goes to show how receipt your life is. The quality of the water is a lot better now. Paul Marden: Oh yeah, yeah, it's better than it used to be years ago. Thank you very much. All right. Cheers. Have a good day. See you later on. So without further ado, let's head inside. So where should we head? Too fast. Sam Mullins: So we start with the stern of the ship, which is the kind of classic entrance view, you know. Yeah, coming up, I do. I love the shape of this ship as you as you'll see.Paul Marden: So lovely being able to come across the water on the boat and then have this as you're welcome. It's quite a.Sam Mullins: It's a great spot. Isn't it?Paul Marden: Really impactful, isn't it? Sam Mullins:  Because the amazing thing is that it's going this way, is actually in the dry dock, which was built to build it. Paul Marden: That's amazing. Sam Mullins: So it came home. It was clearly meant to be, you know,Paul Marden:  Quite the circular story.Sam Mullins:  Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Paul Marden:  Thank you. Wow. Look at that view.Sam Mullins: So that's your classic view.Paul Marden:  So she's in a dry dock, but there's a little bit of water in there, just to give us an idea of what's going on. Sam Mullins: Well, what's actually going on in here is, preserving the world's first iron ship. So it became clear, after he'd come back from the Falklands, 1970 came back to Bristol, it became clear that the material of the ship was rusting away. And if something wasn't done, there'd be nothing left, nothing left to show. So the innovative solution is based on a little bit of science if you can reduce the relative humidity of the air around the cast iron hull of the ship to around about 20% relative humidity, corrosion stops. Rusting stops. It's in a dry dock. You glaze over the dock at kind of water line, which, as you just noticed, it gives it a really nice setting. It looks like it's floating, yeah, it also it means that you can then control the air underneath. You dry it out, you dehumidify it. Big plant that dries out the air. You keep it at 20% and you keep the ship intact. Paul Marden: It's interesting, isn't it, because you go to Mary Rose, and you go into the ship Hall, and you've got this hermetically sealed environment that you can maintain all of these beautiful Tudor wooden pieces we're outside on a baking hot day. You don't have the benefit of a hermetically sealed building, do you to keep this? Sam Mullins: I guess the outside of the ship is kind of sealed by the paint. That stops the air getting to the bit to the bare metal. We can go down into the trigger, down whilst rise up.Paul Marden:  We're wondering. Sam, yeah, why don't you introduce yourself, tell listeners a little bit about your background. How have we ended up having this conversation today.Sam Mullins: I'm Sam Mullins. I'm a historian. I decided early on that I wanted to be a historian that worked in museums and had an opportunity to kind of share my fascination with the past with museum visitors. So I worked in much Wenlock in Shropshire. I worked created a new museum in market Harbour, a community museum in Leicestershire. I was director of museums in St Albans, based on, you know, great Roman Museum at Verulamium, okay. And ended up at London Transport Museum in the 90s, and was directed there for a long time.Paul Marden: Indeed, indeed. Oh, we are inside now and heading underground.Sam Mullins: And you can hear the thrumming in the background. Is the dehumidification going on. Wow. So we're descending into thevery dry dock.Paul Marden: So we're now under water level. Yes, and the view of the ceiling with the glass roof, which above looked like a lovely little pond, it's just beautiful, isn't it?Sam Mullins: Yes, good. It sets it off both in both directions, really nicely.Paul Marden: So you've transitioned now, you've moved on from the Transport Museum. And I thought that today's episode, we could focus a little bit on what is, what's life like when you've moved on from being the director of a big, famous, influential, family friendly Museum. What comes next? Is it pipe and slippers, or are there lots of things to do? And I think it's the latter, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yes. Well, you know, I think people retire either, you know, do nothing and play golf, or they build, you know, an interesting portfolio. I wanted to build, you know, something a bit more interesting. And, you know, Paul, there's that kind of strange feeling when you get to retire. And I was retiring from full time executive work, you kind of feel at that point that you've just cracked the job. And at that point, you know, someone gives you, you know, gives you a card and says, "Thank you very much, you've done a lovely job." Kind of, "Off you go." So having the opportunity to deploy some of that long term experience of running a successful Museum in Covent Garden for other organisations was part of that process of transition. I've been writing a book about which I'm sure we'll talk as well that's been kind of full on this year, but I was a trustee here for a number of years before I retired. I think it's really good career development for people to serve on a board to see what it's like, you know, the other side of the board. Paul Marden: I think we'll come back to that in a minute and talk a little bit about how the sausage is made. Yeah, we have to do some icebreaker questions, because I probably get you already. You're ready to start talking, but I'm gonna, I'm just gonna loosen you up a little bit, a couple of easy ones. You're sat in front of the telly, comedy or drama?Sam Mullins: It depends. Probably.Paul Marden: It's not a valid answer. Sam Mullins: Probably, probably drama.Paul Marden: Okay, if you need to talk to somebody, is it a phone call or is it a text message that you'll send?Sam Mullins:  Face to face? Okay, much better. Okay, always better. Paul Marden: Well done. You didn't accept the premise of the question there, did you? Lastly, if you're going to enter a room, would you prefer to have a personal theme tune played every time you enter the room. Or would you like a personal mascot to arrive fully suited behind you in every location you go to?Sam Mullins: I don't know what the second one means, so I go for the first one.Paul Marden: You've not seen a football mascot on watching American football or baseball?Sam Mullins: No, I try and avoid that. I like real sport. I like watching cricket. Paul Marden: They don't do that in cricket. So we are at the business end of the hull of the ship, aren't we? We're next to the propeller. Sam Mullins: We're sitting under the stern. We can still see that lovely, gilded Stern, saying, Great Britain, Bristol, and the windows and the coat of arms across the stern of the ship. Now this, of course, was the biggest ship in the world when built. So not only was it the first, first iron ship of any scale, but it was also third bigger than anything in the Royal Navy at the time. Paul Marden: They talked about that, when we were on the warrior aim the other day, that it was Brunel that was leading the way on what the pinnacle of engineering was like. It was not the Royal Navy who was convinced that it was sail that needed to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah, Brunel had seen a much smaller, propeller driven vessel tried out, which was being toured around the country. And so they were midway through kind of design of this, when they decided it wasn't going to be a paddle steamer, which its predecessor, the world's first ocean liner, the Great Western. A was a paddle steamer that took you to New York. He decided that, and he announced to the board that he was going to make a ship that was driven by a propeller, which was the first, and this is, this is actually a replica of his patent propeller design. Paul Marden: So, this propeller was, is not the original to the show, okay?Sam Mullins: Later in its career, it had the engines taken out, and it was just a sailing ship. It had a long and interesting career. And for the time it was going to New York and back, and the time it was going to Australia and back, carrying migrants. It was a hybrid, usually. So you use the sails when it was favourable when it wasn't much wind or the wind was against. You use the use the engines. Use the steam engine.Paul Marden: Coming back into fashion again now, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, hybrid, yeah.Paul Marden: I can see holes in the hull. Was this evident when it was still in the Falklands?Sam Mullins: Yeah, it came to notice in the 60s that, you know, this world's first it was beached at Sparrow Cove in the Falkland Islands. It had lost its use as a wool warehouse, which is which it had been for 30 or 40 years. And a number of maritime historians, you and call it. It was the kind of key one realised that this, you know, extraordinary, important piece of maritime heritage would maybe not last too many war winters at Sparrow cope had a big crack down one side of the hull. It would have probably broken in half, and that would have made any kind of conservation restoration pretty well impossible as it was. It was a pretty amazing trick to put it onto a to put a barge underneath, to raise it up out of the water, and to tow it into Montevideo and then across the Atlantic, you know, 7000 miles, or whatever it is, to Avon mouth. So it's a kind of heroic story from the kind of heroic age of industrial and maritime heritage, actually.Paul Marden: It resonates for me in terms of the Mary Rose in that you've got a small group of very committed people that are looking to rescue this really valuable asset. And they find it and, you know, catch it just in time. Sam Mullins: Absolutely. That was one of the kind of eye openers for me at Mary rose last week, was just to look at the kind of sheer difficulty of doing conventional archaeology underwater for years and years. You know, is it 50,000 dives were made? Some immense number. And similarly, here, you know, lots of people kind of simply forget it, you know, it's never gonna, but a few, stuck to it, you know, formed a group, fund, raised. This is an era, of course, you know, before lottery and all that jazz. When you had to, you had to fundraise from the public to do this, and they managed to raise the money to bring it home, which, of course, is only step one. You then got to conserve this enormous lump of metal so it comes home to the dry dock in which it had been built, and that has a sort of fantastic symmetry, you know about it, which I just love. You know, the dock happened to be vacant, you know, in 1970 when the ship was taken off the pontoon at Avon mouth, just down the river and was towed up the curving Avon river to this dock. It came beneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which, of course, was Brunel design, but it was never built in his time. So these amazing pictures of this Hulk, in effect,  coming up the river, towed by tugs and brought into the dock here with 1000s of people you know, surrounding cheering on the sidelines, and a bit like Mary Rose in a big coverage on the BBC.Paul Marden: This is the thing. So I have a very vivid memory of the Mary Rose being lifted, and that yellow of the scaffolding is just permanently etched in my brain about sitting on the carpet in primary school when the TV was rolled out, and it was the only TV in the whole of school that, to me is it's modern history happening. I'm a Somerset boy. I've been coming to Bristol all my life. I wasn't alive when Great Britain came back here. So to me, this feels like ancient history. It's always been in Bristol, because I have no memory of it returning home. It was always just a fixture. So when we were talking the other day and you mentioned it was brought back in the 70s, didn't realise that. Didn't realise that at all. Should we move on? Because I am listening. Gently in the warmth.Sam Mullins: Let's move around this side of the as you can see, the dry dock is not entirely dry, no, but nearly.Paul Marden: So, you're trustee here at SS Great Britain. What does that mean? What do you do?Sam Mullins: Well, the board, Board of Trustees is responsible for the governance of the charity. We employ the executives, the paid team here. We work with them to develop the kind of strategy, financial plan, to deliver that strategy, and we kind of hold them as executives to account, to deliver on that.Paul Marden: It's been a period of change for you, hasn't it? Just recently, you've got a new CEO coming to the first anniversary, or just past his first anniversary. It's been in place a little while.Sam Mullins: So in the last two years, we've had a, we've recruited a new chairman, new chief executive, pretty much a whole new leadership team.One more starting next month, right? Actually, we're in July this month, so, yeah, it's been, you know, organisations are like that. They can be very, you know, static for some time, and then suddenly a kind of big turnover. And people, you know, people move.Paul Marden: So we're walking through what is a curved part of the dry dock now. So this is becoming interesting underfoot, isn't it?Sam Mullins: This is built in 1839 by the Great Western Steamship Company to build a sister ship to the Great Western which was their first vessel built for the Atlantic run to New York. As it happens, they were going to build a similar size vessel, but Brunel had other ideas, always pushing the edges one way or another as an engineer.Paul Marden: The keel is wood. Is it all wood? Or is this some sort of?Sam Mullins: No, this is just like, it's sort of sacrificial.So that you know when, if it does run up against ground or whatever, you don't actually damage the iron keel.Paul Marden: Right. Okay, so there's lots happening for the museum and the trust. You've just had a big injection of cash, haven't you, to do some interesting things. So there was a press release a couple of weeks ago, about a million pound of investment. Did you go and find that down the back of the sofa? How do you generate that kind of investment in the charity?Sam Mullins: Unusually, I think that trust that's put the bulk of that money and came came to us. I think they were looking to do something to mark their kind of, I think to mark their wind up. And so that was quite fortuitous, because, as you know at the moment, you know, fundraising is is difficult. It's tough. Paul Marden: That's the understatement of the year, isn't it?Sam Mullins: And with a new team here and the New World post COVID, less, less visitors, income harder to gain from. Pretty well, you know, all sources, it's important to keep the site kind of fresh and interesting. You know, the ship has been here since 1970 it's become, it's part of Bristol. Wherever you go in Bristol, Brunel is, you know, kind of the brand, and yet many Bristolians think they've seen all this, and don't need, you know, don't need to come back again. So keeping the site fresh, keeping the ideas moving on, are really important. So we've got the dockyard museum just on the top there, and that's the object for fundraising at the moment, and that will open in July next year as an account of the building of the ship and its importance. Paul Marden: Indeed, that's interesting. Related to that, we know that trusts, trusts and grants income really tough to get. Everybody's fighting for a diminishing pot income from Ace or from government sources is also tough to find. At the moment, we're living off of budgets that haven't changed for 10 years, if we're lucky. Yeah, for many people, finding a commercial route is the answer for their museum. And that was something that you did quite successfully, wasn't it, at the Transport Museum was to bring commercial ideas without sacrificing the integrity of the museum. Yeah. How do you do that?Sam Mullins: Well, the business of being an independent Museum, I mean, LTM is a to all sets of purposes, an independent Museum. Yes, 81% of its funding itself is self generated. Paul Marden: Is it really? Yeah, yeah. I know. I would have thought the grant that you would get from London Transport might have been bigger than that.  Sam Mullins: The grant used to be much bigger proportion, but it's got smaller and smaller. That's quite deliberate. Are, you know, the more you can stand on your own two feet, the more you can actually decide which direction you're going to take those feet in. Yeah. So there's this whole raft of museums, which, you know, across the UK, which are independently governed, who get all but nothing from central government. They might do a lottery grant. Yes, once in a while, they might get some NPO funding from Ace, but it's a tiny part, you know, of the whole. And this ship, SS Great Britain is a classic, you know, example of that. So what do you do in those circumstances? You look at your assets and you you try and monetise them. That's what we did at London Transport Museum. So the museum moved to Covent Garden in 1980 because it was a far sighted move. Michael Robbins, who was on the board at the time, recognised that they should take the museum from Scion Park, which is right on the west edge, into town where people were going to be, rather than trying to drag people out to the edge of London. So we've got that fantastic location, in effect, a high street shop. So retail works really well, you know, at Covent Garden.Paul Marden: Yeah, I know. I'm a sucker for a bit of moquette design.Sam Mullins: We all love it, which is just great. So the museum developed, you know, a lot of expertise in creating products and merchandising it. We've looked at the relationship with Transport for London, and we monetised that by looking at TFL supply chain and encouraging that supply chain to support the museum. So it is possible to get the TFL commissioner to stand up at a corporate members evening and say, you know, you all do terribly well out of our contract, we'd like you to support the museum as well, please. So the corporate membership scheme at Transport Museum is bigger than any other UK museum by value, really, 60, 65 members,. So that was, you know, that that was important, another way of looking at your assets, you know, what you've got. Sometimes you're talking about monetising relationships. Sometimes it's about, you know, stuff, assets, yeah. And then in we began to run a bit short of money in the kind of middle of the teens, and we did an experimental opening of the Aldwych disused tube station on the strand, and we're amazed at the demand for tickets.Paul Marden: Really, it was that much of a surprise for you. And we all can talk. Sam Mullins: We had been doing, we've been doing some guided tours there in a sort of, slightly in a one off kind of way, for some time. And we started to kind of think, well, look, maybe should we carry on it? Paul Marden: You've got the audience that's interested.Sam Mullins: And we've got the access through TFL which, you know, took a lot of work to to convince them we weren't going to, you know, take loads of people underground and lose them or that they jump out, you know, on the Piccadilly line in the middle of the service, or something. So hidden London is the kind of another really nice way where the museum's looked at its kind of assets and it's monetised. And I don't know what this I don't know what this year is, but I think there are now tours run at 10 different sites at different times. It's worth about half a million clear to them to the museum.Paul Marden: It's amazing, and they're such brilliant events. So they've now opened up for younger kids to go. So I took my daughter and one of her friends, and they were a little bit scared when the lights got turned off at one point, but we had a whale of a time going and learning about the history of the tube, the history of the tube during the war. It was such an interesting, accessible way to get to get them interested in stuff. It was brilliant.Sam Mullins: No, it's a great programme, and it was doing well before COVID, we went into lockdown, and within three weeks, Chris Nix and the team had started to do kind of zoom virtual tours. We all are stuck at home looking at our screens and those hidden London hangouts the audience kind of gradually built yesterday TV followed with secrets of London Underground, which did four series of. Hidden London book has sold 25,000 copies in hardback, another one to come out next year, maybe.Paul Marden: And all of this is in service of the museum. So it's almost as if you're opening the museum up to the whole of London, aren't you, and making all of that space you're you. Museum where you can do things.Sam Mullins: Yeah. And, of course, the great thing about hidden London programme is it's a bit like a theatre production. We would get access to a particular site for a month or six weeks. You'd sell the tickets, you know, like mad for that venue. And then the run came to an end, and you have to, you know, the caravan moves on, and we go to, you know, go to go to a different stations. So in a sense, often it's quite hard to get people to go to an attraction unless they've got visitors staying or whatever. But actually, if there's a time limit, you just kind of have to do it, you know.Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. Everybody loves a little bit of scarcity, don't they? Sam Mullins: Should we go up on the deck? Paul Marden: That sounds like fun to me.Sam Mullins: Work our way through.Paul Marden: So Hidden London was one of the angles in order to make the museum more commercially sound. What are you taking from your time at LTM and bringing to the party here at the SS Great Britain?Sam Mullins: Well, asking similar, you know, range of questions really, about what assets do we have? Which of those are, can be, can be monetised in support of the charity? Got here, Paul, so we're, we've got the same mix as lots of middle sized museums here. There's a it's a shop, paid admission, hospitality events in the evening, cafe. You know that mix, what museums then need to do is kind of go, you know, go beyond that, really, and look at their estate or their intellectual property, or the kind of experiences they can offer, and work out whether some of that is monetisable.Paul Marden: Right? And you mentioned before that Brunel is kind of, he's the mascot of Bristol. Almost, everything in Bristol focuses on Brunel. Is there an opportunity for you to collaborate with other Brunel themed sites, the bridge or?Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, I think probably the opportunity is to collaborate with other Bristol attractions. Because Bristol needs to. Bristol's having a hard time since COVID numbers here are nowhere near what they were pre COVID So, and I think it's the same in the city, across the city. So Andrew chief executive, is talking to other people in the city about how we can share programs, share marketing, that kind of approach.Paul Marden: Making the docks a destination, you know, you've got We the Curious. Where I was this morning, having coffee with a friend and having a mooch around. Yeah, talking about science and technology, there must be things that you can cross over. This was this war. This feels like history, but it wasn't when it was built, was it? It was absolutely the cutting edge of science and technology.Sam Mullins: Absolutely, and well, almost beyond, you know, he was Brunel was pushing, pushing what could be done. It is the biggest ship. And it's hard to think of it now, because, you know, you and I can walk from one end to the other in no time. But it was the biggest ship in the world by, you know, some way, when it was launched in 1845 so this was a bit like the Great Western Railway. It was cutting edge, cutting edge at the time, as we were talking about below. It had a propeller, radical stuff. It's got the bell, too,Paul Marden: When we were on, was it Warrior that we were on last week at the AIM conference for the first. And warrior had a propeller, but it was capable of being lifted, because the Admiralty wasn't convinced that this new fangled propeller nonsense, and they thought sail was going to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, this ship had, you could lift a you could lift a propeller, because otherwise the propeller is a drag in the water if it's not turning over. So in its earlier configurations, it was a, it was that sort of a hybrid, where you could lift the propeller out the way, right, set full sail.Paul Marden:  Right, and, yeah, it's just, it's very pleasant out here today, isn't it? Lovely breeze compared to what it's been like the last few days. Sam Mullins: Deck has just been replaced over the winter. Paul Marden:  Oh, has it really. So say, have you got the original underneathSam Mullins: The original was little long, long gone. So what we have replaced was the deck that was put on in the in the 70s when the ship came back.Paul Marden: Right? You were talking earlier on about the cafe being one of the assets. You've done quite a lot of work recently, haven't you with the team at Elior to refurbish the cafe? What's the plan around that?Sam Mullins: Yeah, we're doing a big reinvestment. You always need to keep the offer fresh anyway, but it was time to reinvest. So the idea is to use that fantastic space on the edge of the dock. It's not very far down to where the floating harbour is really well populated with kind of restaurants and bars and an offer, we're just that 200 meters further along the dock. So perhaps to create an offer here that draws people up here, whether they visit the ship, you know, or not. So it's money, it's monetising your assets. So one of the great assets is this fabulous location on the on the dockside. So with early or we're reinvesting in the restaurant, it's going to go in the auto into after some trial openings and things, Paul, you know, it's going to have an evening offer as well as a daytime offer. And then it's been designed so the lights can go down in the evening. It becomes, you know, an evening place, rather than the museum's all day cafe, yes, and the offer, and obviously in the evenings would similarly change. And I think our ambition is that you should, you should choose this as the place to go out in the evening. Really, it's a great spot. It's a lovely, warm evening. We're going to walk along the dockside. I've booked a table and in the boardwalk, which is what we're calling it. And as you pay the bill, you notice that actually, this is associated with Asus, Great Britain. So, you know, the profit from tonight goes to help the charity, rather than it's the museum cafe. So that's the,Paul Marden: That's the pitch.Sam Mullins: That's the pitch in which we're working with our catering partners, Eli, or to deliver.Paul Marden: Andrew, your CEO and Claire from Eli, or have both kindly said that I can come back in a couple of months time and have a conversation about the restaurant. And I think it would be rude to turn them down, wouldn't it?Sam Mullins: I think you should test the menu really fully.Paul Marden: I will do my best. It's a tough job that I have. Sam Mullins: Somebody has to do this work. Paul Marden: I know, talking of tough jobs, the other thing that I saw when I was looking at the website earlier on was a press release talking about six o'clock gin as being a a partnership that you're investigating, because every museum needs its own tipple, doesn't it?Sam Mullins: Absolutely And what, you know, I think it's, I think what people want when they go to an attraction is they, they also want something of the offer to be locally sourced, completely, six o'clock gym, you know, Bristol, Bristol beers. You can't always do it, but I think, I think it's where you've got the opportunity. And Bristol's a bit of a foodie centre. There's quite a lot going on here in that respect. So, yes, of course, the museum ought to be ought to be doing that too.Paul Marden: I was very kindly invited to Big Pit over in the Welsh Valleys about 8 or 12 weeks ago for the launch, relaunch of their gift shop offering. And absolutely, at the core of what they were trying to do was because it's run by Museums Wales, they found that all of their gift shops were just a bland average of what you could get at any of the museums. None of them spoke of the individual place. So if you went to big pit, the gift shop looked the same as if you were in the centre of Cardiff, whereas now when you go you see things that are naturally of Big Pit and the surrounding areas. And I think that's so important to create a gift shop which has things that is affordable to everybody, but at the same time authentic and genuinely interesting.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I'm sure that's right. And you know I'm saying for you is for me, when I when I go somewhere, you want to come away with something, don't you? Yes, you know, you're a National Trust member and you haven't had to pay anything to get in. But you think I should be supporting the cause, you know, I want to go into that shop and then I want to, I want to buy some of the plants for my garden I just seen, you know, on the estate outside. Or I want to come away with a six o'clock gin or, you know, whatever it might be, there's and I think, I think you're more likely to buy if it's something that you know has engaged you, it's part of that story that's engaged you, right, while you're here. That's why everyone buys a guidebook and reads it afterwards.Paul Marden: Yeah, it's a reminder, isn't it, the enjoyable time that you've had? Yeah, I'm enjoying myself up on the top deck. Sam Mullins:  But should we go downstairs? The bow is a great view. Oh, let's do that. I think we might. Let's just work our way down through.Paul Marden: Take a sniff. Could you travel with these smelly passengers? Oh, no, I don't think I want to smell what it's like to be a cow on board shit. Sam Mullins: Fresh milk. Just mind yourself on these companion, ways are very steep now. This is probably where I get completely lost.Paul Marden: You know what we need? We need a very good volunteer. Don't we tell a volunteer story? COVID in the kitchen. Wow. Sam Mullins: The Gabby.Paul Marden: Generous use of scent. Sam Mullins: Yeah, food laid out pretty much based on what we know was consumed on the ship. One of the great things about the ship is people kept diaries. A lot of people kept diaries, and many have survived, right? You know exactly what it was like to be in first class or in steerage down the back.Paul Marden: And so what was the ship used for? Sam Mullins: Well, it was used, it was going to be an ocean liner right from here to New York, and it was more like the Concord of its day. It was essentially first class and second class. And then it has a founders on a bay in Northern Ireland. It's rescued, fitted out again, and then the opportunity comes take people to Australia. The Gold Rush in the 1850s. Migration to Australia becomes the big kind of business opportunity for the ships. Ships new owners. So there's more people on board that used to it applies to and fro to Australia a number of times 30 odd, 40 times. And it takes, takes passengers. It takes goods. It does bring back, brings back gold from because people were there for the gold rush. They were bringing their earnings, you know, back with them. It also brings mail, and, you know, other. Kind of car goes wool was a big cargo from. Paul Marden: Say, people down and assets back up again.Sam Mullins: People both directions. Paul Marden: Okay, yeah. How long was it taking?Sam Mullins: Well, a good trip. I think it did it in 50 odd days. Bit slower was 60 odd. And the food was like this. So it was steerage. It was probably a bit more basic. Paul Marden: Yeah, yes, I can imagine. Sam Mullins: I think we might. Here's the engines. Let's do the engines well.Paul Marden: Yes. So now we're in the engine room and, oh, it's daylight lit, actually. So you're not down in the darkest of depths, but the propeller shaft and all of the mechanism is it runs full length, full height of the ship.Sam Mullins: Yeah, it runs off from here, back to the propeller that we're looking at. Okay, down there a guy's stoking the boilers, putting coal into into the boilers, 24 hour seven, when the engines are running. Paul Marden: Yes, that's going to be a tough job, isn't it? Yeah, coal is stored in particular locations. Because that was something I learned from warrior, was the importance of making sure that you had the coal taken in the correct places, so that you didn't unbalance the ship. I mean,Sam Mullins: You right. I mean loading the ship generally had to be done really carefully so, you know, sort of balanced out and so forth. Coal is tends to be pretty low down for yes, for obvious reasons.Paul Marden: So let's talk a little bit about being a trustee. We're both trustees of charities. I was talking to somebody last week who been in the sector for a number of years, mid career, interested in becoming a trustee as a career development opportunity. What's the point of being a trustee? What's the point of the trustees to the CEO, and what's the benefit to the trustees themselves? Sam Mullins: Well, let's do that in order for someone in the mid part of their career, presumably looking to assume some kind of leadership role. At some point they're going to be dealing with a board, aren't they? Yes, they might even be doing, you know, occasional reporting to a board at that at their current role, but they certainly will be if they want to be chief executive. So getting some experience on the other side of the table to feel what it's like to be a trustee dealing with chief executive. I think he's immensely useful. I always recommended it to to my gang at the Transport Museum, and they've all been on boards of one sort or another as part of their career development.Sam Mullins: For the chief executive. What's the benefit? Well, the board, I mean, very directly, hold the chief executive to account. Yes, are you doing what we asked you to do? But also the wise chief executive recruits a board that's going to be helpful in some way or another. It's not just there to catch them out. Yeah, it's it's there to bring their experience from business, from IT, from marketing, from other museums into the business of running the place. So here we've got a range of Trustees. We've been we've recruited five or six in the last couple of years qquite deliberately to we know that a diverse board is a good board, and that's diverse in the sense not just a background, but of education, retired, still, still at work, young, old, male, female, you know, you name in.Paul Marden: In all of the directionsSam Mullins:  Yeah. So a diverse board makes better decisions than one that just does group think all the time. It's, you know, it's a truism, isn't it? I think we all kind of, we all understand and understand that now and then, for the trustee, you know, for me, I particularly last couple of years, when the organization has been through huge changes, it's been really interesting to deploy my prior experience, particularly in governance, because governance is what it all comes down to in an organisation. You do learn over the course of your career to deploy that on behalf, you know, this is a great organisation, the story of Brunel and the ship and and, you know, his influence on the railways. And I travel down on the Great Western railways, yeah, the influence of Brunel is, you know, is enormous. It's a fantastic story. It's inspiring. So who wouldn't want to join? You know what in 2005 was the Museum of the year? Yes, I think we'll just go back there where we came. Otherwise, I never found my way.Paul Marden: Back through the kitchen. Sam Mullins: Back through the kitchen. It looks like stew is on the menu tonight. You've seen me at the mobile the rat.Paul Marden: And also the cat up on the shelf. He's not paying a lot of attention to the ratSam Mullins: Back on deck. Paul Marden: Wonderful. Yeah. So the other great endeavor that you've embarked on is writing, writing a book. Tell us a little bit about the book.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I've written a history of transport in London and its influence on London since 2000 since the mayoralty, elected mayoralty was, was started, you know, I was very lucky when I was running the museum where I had kind of one foot in TfL and one foot out. I knew lots of people. I was there for a long time, yes, so it was, it was easy to interview about 70 of them.Paul Marden: Right? I guess you've built trust levels, haven't you? Yeah, I don't mean that you don't look like a journalist walking in from the outside with an ax to grind. Sam Mullins: And I'm not going to kind of screw them to the Evening Standard, you know, tomorrow. So it's a book based on interviews, oral reminiscences. It's very much their story. So it's big chunks of their accounts of, you know, the big events in London. So what was it like to be in the network control room on the seventh of July, 2005 when the bombs went off? What was it like to be looking out for congestion charge the day it started? Yep. What was it like to kind of manage the Olympics?Paul Marden: You know? So you're mentioning these things. And so I was 10 years at British Airways. I was an IT project manager, but as well, I was a member of the emergency planning team. Yeah. So I got involved in the response to September the 11th. I got involved in some of the engagement around seven, seven, there's seminal moments, and I can, I can vividly remember myself being there at that time. But similarly, I can remember being there when we won the Olympics, and we were all sat in the staff canteen waiting to hear whether we'd won the Olympics, and the roar that erupted. There's so many of those things that have happened in the last 25 years where, you know, you've got, it's recent history, but it's real interesting events that have occurred that you can tell stories of.Sam Mullins: Yeah. So what I wanted to get in the book was a kind of sense of what it was like to be, really at the heart of those, those stories. And there are, you know, there are, there are people in TfL who made those big things happen? Yes, it's not a big, clumsy bureaucracy. It's a place where really innovative leadership was being exercised all the way through that 25 years. Yes, so it runs up to COVID, and what was it like when COVID struck? So the book's called Every Journey Matters, and it comes out in November.Paul Marden: Amazing, amazing. So we have, we've left the insides of the ship, and we are now under, what's this part of the ship? Sam Mullins: We're under the bow. There we go, and a bow spread that gets above our heads. So again, you've got this great, hulking, cast iron, black hull, beautifully shaped at the bow. Look the way it kind of tapers in and it tapers in and out.Paul Marden: It's a very three dimensional, isn't it? The curve is, is in every direction. Sam Mullins: Yeah,it's a great, great shape. So it's my sort of, I think it's my favourite spot. I like coming to look at this, because this is the kind of, this is the business, yeah, of the ship.Paul Marden: What have we got running along the front here? These these images in in gold.Sam Mullins: This is a figurehead with Victoria's Coat of Arms only sua Kim Ali points on top with it, with a lion and a unicorn.Paul Marden: It's a really, it's not a view that many people would have ever seen, but it is such an impressive view here looking up, yeah, very, very cool. And to stand here on the on the edge of the dry dock. Sam Mullins: Dry Docks in to our right, and the floating harbor is out to our left. Yeah.Paul Marden: And much going on on that it's busy today, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, it's good. Paul Marden: So we've done full loop, haven't we? I mean, it has been a whistle stop tour that you've taken me on, but I've loved every moment of this. We always ask our guests a difficult question. Well, for some it's a difficult question, a book recommendation, which, as we agreed over lunch, cannot be your own book. I don't think, I think it's a little unfair Sam Mullins: Or anything I've ever written before.Paul Marden: Yes, slightly self serving, but yeah.Sam Mullins: It would be, wouldn't it look the first thing that comes to mind is, I've actually been reading my way through Mick Herron's Slow Horses series, okay, which I'm a big fan of detective fiction. I love Ian Rankin's Rebus. Okay, I read through Rebus endlessly when I want something just to escape into the sloughhouse series Slow Horses is really good, and the books all have a sort of similar kind of momentum to them. Something weird happens in the first few chapters, which seems very inconsequential and. Suddenly it turns into this kind of roller coaster. Will they? Won't they? You know, ending, which is just great. So I recommend Mick Herron's series. That's that's been the best, not best, fiction I've read in a long time.Paul Marden: You know, I think there's something, there's something nice, something comforting, about reading a series of books where the way the book is structured is very similar. You can, you can sit down and you know what's going to happen, but, but there's something interesting, and it's, it's easy. Sam Mullins: It's like putting on a pair of old slippers. Oh, I'm comfortable with this. Just lead me along. You know, that's what, that's what I want. I enjoy that immensely.Paul Marden: And should we be? Should we be inviting our listeners to the first book in the series, or do they need to start once, once he's got his, got his, found his way? Sam Mullins: Well, some people would have seen the television adaptation already. Well, that will have spoilt the book for them. Gary Oldman is Jackson lamb, who's the lead character, okay, but if you haven't, or you just like a damn good read, then you start with the first one, which I think is called Sloughhouse. They're all self contained, but you can work your way through them. Paul Marden: Well, that sounds very good. So listeners, if you'd like a copy of Sam's book, not Sam's book, Sam's book recommendation, then head over to Bluesky and repost the show notice and say, I want a copy of Sam's book, and the first one of you lovely listeners that does that will get a copy sent to you by Wenalyn. Sam This has been delightful. I hope listeners have enjoyed this as much as I have. This is our first time having a @skipthequeue in real life, where we wandered around the attraction itself and hopefully narrated our way bringing this amazing attraction to life. I've really enjoyed it. I can now say that as a West Country lad, I have actually been to the SS Great Britain. Last thing to say for visitor, for listeners, we are currently midway through the Rubber Cheese Annual Survey of visitor attraction websites. Paul Marden: If you look after an attraction website and you'd like to share some information about what you do, we are gathering all of that data together to produce a report that helps people to understand what good looks like for an attraction website. This is our fourth year. Listeners that are interested, head over to RubberCheese.com/survey, and you can find out a little bit more about the survey and some of the some of the findings from the past and what we're looking for for this year. Sam, thank you so very much.Sam Mullins: Enjoyed it too. It's always good to rabbit on about what you do every day of the week, and being here and part of this really great organisation is huge privilege.Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. 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As US, Israeli and Iranian leaders trade bombs and threats, this episode will help remind you one reason why Iran's government learned to detest the US long ago: The US and Britain secretly ran the plot to topple its leader in the 1950s. Why? For Iran's oil. Filmmakers Taghi Amirani and Walter Murch discuss their riveting documentary, Coup 53 - which shows step by step how the CIA and MI6 carried it out. Nations are like people: once they've been traumatized, it's hard to forget.

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On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: We roll our eyes over the “16 billion credentials” leak hitting mainstream news Some interesting cyber angles emerge from the conflict in Iran Opensource maintainer of libxml2 is fed up with this hacker crap Shockingly, there are yet more ways to trick people into pasting commands into Windows Veeam “patches” its backup software RCE like it's 2002 … by breaking the public PoC This week's episode is sponsored by Internet-wide honeypot reconnaissance platform, Greynoise. Founder Andrew Morris joins to talk about their journey spotting Chinese ORB-builders hacking thousands of ASUS routers, and why they're destined for the woodchipper. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group - Ars Technica Telecom giant Viasat breached by China's Salt Typhoon hackers WarTranslated on X: "Iran's jamming GPS in the Strait of Hormuz, messing with ~970 ships, per Windward. UKMTO confirms the interference. Faulty AIS coordinates are screwing up navigation in the Persian Gulf. The IRGC threatens to shut the strait down in hours. https://t.co/kdMJvshOGC" / X Dmitri Alperovitch on X: "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine says @US_CYBERCOM supported this strike mission" / X Top Pentagon spy pick rejected by White House - POLITICO DHS warns of heightened cyber threat as US enters Iran conflict | Cybersecurity Dive Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say U.S. braces for Iran's response after overnight strikes on nuclear sites Assessing the Damage to Iran's Nuclear Program Iran Hacks Tirana Municipality in Retaliation Over MEK - Tirana Times Iran's government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks | TechCrunch Aflac discloses cyber intrusion linked to wider crime spree targeting insurance industry | Cybersecurity Dive Tonga Ministry of Health hit with cyberattack affecting website, IT systems | The Record from Recorded Future News Alleged Ryuk ransomware gang member arrested in Ukraine and extradited to US | The Record from Recorded Future News Russia releases REvil members after convictions for payment card fraud | The Record from Recorded Future News OneLogin, Many Issues: How I Pivoted from a Trial Tenant to Compromising Customer Signing Keys - SpecterOps Triaging security issues reported by third parties (#913) · Issue · GNOME/libxml2 README: Set expectations straight (35d04a08) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab What's in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia | Google Cloud Blog FileFix - A ClickFix Alternative | mr.d0x Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers' malicious text anyway. - Ars Technica Researchers urge vigilance as Veeam releases patch to address critical flaw | Cybersecurity Dive ASUSpicious Flaw - Millions of Users' Information Exposed Since 2022 | MrBruh's Epic Blog Perth dad who created ‘evil twin' Wi-Fi did so to access pictures of women GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Affecting Thousands of ASUS Routers

As US debt soars and foreign central banks stockpile gold, members of Congress introduce a bill to require a comprehensive audit of America's gold reserves.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/members-congress-introduce-comprehensive-us-gold-audit-legislation

A House oversight committee requests DOGE documents from Microsoft. Predatory Sparrow claims a cyberattack on an Iranian bank. Microsoft says data that happens in Europe will stay in Europe. A complex malware campaign is using heavily obfuscated Visual Basic files to deploy RATs. A widely used CMS platform suffers potential RCE bugs.  North Korea's Kimsuky targets academic institutions using password-protected research documents. Asus patches a high-severity vulnerability in its Armoury Crate software. CISA's new leader remains in confirmation limbo. Our guest is Brian Downey, VP of Product Management from Barracuda, talking about how security sprawl increases risk. Operation Fluffy Narwhal thinks it's time to rethink adversary naming. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn.  CyberWire Guest We are joined by Brian Downey, VP of Product Marketing and Product Management from Barracuda, talking about how security sprawl increases risk. You can find more information about what Brian discussed here. Selected Reading Following Whistleblower Reports, Acting Ranking Member Lynch Demands Microsoft Hand Over Information on DOGE's Misconduct at NLRB | The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats (House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform) Pro-Israel hackers claim breach of Iranian bank amid military escalation (The Record) Microsoft lays out data protection plans for European cloud customers (Reuters) New Sophisticated Multi-Stage Malware Campaign Weaponizes VBS Files to Execute PowerShell Script (Cyber Security News) Chained Flaws in Enterprise CMS Provider Sitecore Could Allow RCE (Infosecurity Magazine) Beware of Weaponized Research Papers That Delivers Malware Via Password-Protected Documents (Cyber Security News) Organizations Warned of Vulnerability Exploited Against Discontinued TP-Link Routers (SecurityWeek) Asus Armoury Crate Vulnerability Leads to Full System Compromise (SecurityWeek) Trump's Pick to Lead CISA is Stuck in Confirmation Limbo (Gov Infosecurity) Call Them What They Are: Time to Fix Cyber Threat Actor Naming (Just Security) Audience Survey Complete our annual audience survey before August 31. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's a lot of news this week, so today's episode turned into a whole bunch of lightning rounds. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes talk through all the vibes and news at WWDC, and why F1 seemed to outshine everything else. We also talk about the Switch 2 launch, and the news this week that Microsoft and Asus are building Xbox handhelds in both clever and confusing ways. After that, we run through for a bunch of AI news, including the ongoing decline of Google traffic to the web, the new Dia browser, and Sam Altman's ideas about how much water ChatGPT uses. Finally, it's time for another edition of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, followed by the news of Warner Bros. Discovery breaking up, some very fast flash drives, and a new Meta messaging app. Further reading: Craig Federighi confirms Apple's first attempt at an AI Siri wasn't good enough Ars: Apple's Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad's Mac-like multitasking Nintendo's Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game console of all time  Nintendo says your bad Switch 2 battery life might be a bug Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs  Xbox's new handheld is a surprisingly comfortable way to play Gears of War  Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox console, and nobody noticed The Nothing Phone 3 is coming to the US, and not in beta. HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam  Online publishers are facing a chatbot calamity.  Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters  Taboola's clickbaity chumbox is evolving into an AI chatbot  Alexa Plus now has a million users and could be coming to you this summer  Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads Dia, the AI browser from the makers of Arc, is now available in beta  Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon' of water FCC's last Democratic commissioner doesn't know why Trump hasn't fired her yet Republicans are barreling toward remaking the internet  Trump-fired FTC commissioner resigns.  Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mindeye Fails, Xbox Handhelds, Gamesfest Best In this week's episode of **The Best Gaming Podcast**, Karak steers the hype train straight through three of the hottest (and occasionally smoldering) stories in gaming:**

Get to know Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates and new features in Windows 11, such as improvements to the Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot integration. They also cover new AI features coming to the Photos app for Copilot+ PCs and updates to the Microsoft Store. The discussion then shifts to developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple's WWDC, with a focus on their respective AI advancements and product strategies. Plus, the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to no longer host its Build conference in Seattle. Don't miss the discussion on the evolving role of the iPad as a potential threat to Surface devices due to recent software enhancements! Windows 11 June Patch Tuesday is here! Big changes for Windows 11 versions 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 New Start menu finally debuts in Dev and Beta - synchronized again for some reason Copilot+ PCs get Relight feature and natural language search in the Photos app The Microsoft Store gets a major update in the Beta channel And Canary is still a thing, no one knows why Developer conference season draws to a close Build: Protests, problems, and more problems Microsoft pulls out of Seattle permanently Google I/O: Stunning array of AI announcements. But Android 16 is on a weird slow boil after a truncated development cycle Apple WWDC: Apple Intelligence? Look, Liquid Glass! Also, some actual advances across its newly unified platforms Look out Surface: The iPad is a real computer now - And it only took 15 years Microsoft, Google, and Apple all played to their strengths Between Windows 11 2xH2, Android 16, and iOS whatever - do the platform makers even know how to ship software anymore? Xbox Microsoft unveils the first Xbox-branded third-party gaming handheld as part of its Xbox Games Showcase 2025 event - a few interesting things there as well - COD: BO7, Gears remake, Gears v.next delayed to 2026 This heavily modified/optimized version of Windows 11 is coming to more gaming handhelds Looking to the future: What if this is literally the model for future Xbox console hardware? What if the next Xbox was a NUC? More Game Pass titles across platforms for the second half of June You can add 4 TB of storage to your Xbox, but it will cost you dearly Apple loses again in Epic v. Apple, Fortnite can stay in the App Store and developers can stop getting robbed by Apple The Nintendo Switch 2 launched this past week and is apparently the best-selling console of all time at launch PS5 controllers to support multiple Bluetooth connections Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Share Feature, image crunching App pick of the week: Dia Browser RunAs Radio this week: The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenlossie 26 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com 1password.com/windowsweekly

Get to know Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday updates and new features in Windows 11, such as improvements to the Start menu, File Explorer, and Copilot integration. They also cover new AI features coming to the Photos app for Copilot+ PCs and updates to the Microsoft Store. The discussion then shifts to developer conferences like Google I/O and Apple's WWDC, with a focus on their respective AI advancements and product strategies. Plus, the controversy surrounding Microsoft's decision to no longer host its Build conference in Seattle. Don't miss the discussion on the evolving role of the iPad as a potential threat to Surface devices due to recent software enhancements! Windows 11 June Patch Tuesday is here! Big changes for Windows 11 versions 22H2, 23H2, and 24H2 New Start menu finally debuts in Dev and Beta - synchronized again for some reason Copilot+ PCs get Relight feature and natural language search in the Photos app The Microsoft Store gets a major update in the Beta channel And Canary is still a thing, no one knows why Developer conference season draws to a close Build: Protests, problems, and more problems Microsoft pulls out of Seattle permanently Google I/O: Stunning array of AI announcements. But Android 16 is on a weird slow boil after a truncated development cycle Apple WWDC: Apple Intelligence? Look, Liquid Glass! Also, some actual advances across its newly unified platforms Look out Surface: The iPad is a real computer now - And it only took 15 years Microsoft, Google, and Apple all played to their strengths Between Windows 11 2xH2, Android 16, and iOS whatever - do the platform makers even know how to ship software anymore? Xbox Microsoft unveils the first Xbox-branded third-party gaming handheld as part of its Xbox Games Showcase 2025 event - a few interesting things there as well - COD: BO7, Gears remake, Gears v.next delayed to 2026 This heavily modified/optimized version of Windows 11 is coming to more gaming handhelds Looking to the future: What if this is literally the model for future Xbox console hardware? What if the next Xbox was a NUC? More Game Pass titles across platforms for the second half of June You can add 4 TB of storage to your Xbox, but it will cost you dearly Apple loses again in Epic v. Apple, Fortnite can stay in the App Store and developers can stop getting robbed by Apple The Nintendo Switch 2 launched this past week and is apparently the best-selling console of all time at launch PS5 controllers to support multiple Bluetooth connections Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Share Feature, image crunching App pick of the week: Dia Browser RunAs Radio this week: The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenlossie 26 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to Windows Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: uscloud.com 1password.com/windowsweekly

Our security news roundup discusses the compromise of thousands of ASUS routers and the need to perform a full factory reset to remove the malware, why Microsoft allows users to log into Windows via RDP using revoked passwords, and the ongoing risk to US infrastructure from “unexplained communications equipment” being found in Chinese-made electrical equipment... Read more »

Xbox has been the gold standard for showcases these last two years. Whether it be their summer showcases or Developer Direct, they just seem to have a death grip on the rhythm needed to put on a good show along with well timed announcements. Well, no one stays hot forever, so it was inevitable that Xbox would come down to earth at some point. The question is, when they do, where would they end up? Fortunately, it wasn't terrible! We got a deep look at The Outer Worlds 2 while Double Fine finally came out of hiding with their atmospheric adventure game, Keeper. Clockwork Revolution stole the show with a 5+ minute trailer and, naturally, Call Of Duty is coming back again this year. Perhaps most noteworthy was the reveal of the ROG Xbox Ally X. As long reported, this partnership with ASUS will be the beginning of Xbox's handheld journey. Cog went hands-on, so we have to-the-minute thoughts on the user experience, UI updates, and performance testing! Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:03:24 - General Impressions0:12:28 – Outer Worlds 20:30:16 – High On Life 20:33:49 – Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy0:37:45 – Rog Xbox Ally X0:56:10 – Blood Of The Dawnwalker0:58:08 – Super Meat Boy 3D0:59:35 – Ninja Gaiden 41:04:54 – Indiana Jones: The Order Of Giants1:11:02 – Beast Of Reincarnation1:13:48 – Clockwork Revolution1:24:52 – Grounded 21:31:37 – Chronos: The New Dawn1:36:19 – Aphelion1:40:05 – There Are No Ghosts At The Grand1:43:03 – Mudang Two Hearts1:45:50 – Planet Of Lana 21:51:37 – Animo1:55:51 – Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 41:57:00 – At Fate's End1:59:06 – Gears Of War Reloaded2:01:58 – Persona 4 Revival2:11:06 – Invincible VS2:16:00 – Final Fantasy has come to Xbox2:27:17 – Keeper2:34:19 – Phil's 2026 Teases2:54:51 – Black Ops 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All the headlines from WWDC. Microsoft unveils the first iteration of that handheld gaming strategy. Meta is considering its largest external AI investment yet. And did Apple researchers reveal that Large Language Model have a structural ceiling, and are we basically there?Sponsors:Acorns.com/rideLinks:Hands-On With the Xbox Ally X, the New Gaming Handheld from Asus and Microsoft (IGN)Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10 Billion (Bloomberg)A knockout blow for LLMs? (Gary Marcus On AI)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Children's DNA in criminal databases. ASUS routers get an unwanted houseguest. New APT41 malware uses Google Calendar for command-and-control. Interlock ransomware gang deploys new Trojan. Estonia issues arrest warrant for suspect in massive pharmacy breach. The enemy within the endpoint. New England hospitals disrupted by cyberattack. Tim Starks from CyberScoop is discussing ‘Whatever we did was not enough': How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government's blind spots. And Victoria's Secrets are leaked. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we have Tim Starks from CyberScoop discussing ‘Whatever we did was not enough': How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government's blind spots. Selected Reading  The US Is Storing Migrant Children's DNA in a Criminal Database (WIRED) GreyNoise Discovers Stealthy Backdoor Campaign Affecting Thousands of ASUS Routers (GreyNoise) Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics (Google Threat Intelligence Group) Interlock ransomware gang deploys new NodeSnake RAT on universities (BleepingComputer) Estonia issues arrest warrant for Moroccan wanted for major pharmacy data breach (The Record) Israeli company Syngia thwarts North Korean cyberattack (The Jerusalem Post) St. Joseph Hospital owner says company targeted in cybersecurity incident (WMUR) Victoria's Secret Website Taken Offline After Cybersecurity Breach (GB Hackers) Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices