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TEH 066: Get Your Kicks on Episode 66

Posted April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 in Podcast1 Comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:03 — 26.2MB)

In This Episode: Reader question: answered. Facebook gives back (a little!) Domain names, Falcon Heavy, and …CAT scan malware?!

TEH 065: Take Me Out to the Thumb Drive

Posted April 8, 2019 in Podcast1 Comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:20 — 26.3MB)

In This Episode: GPS’s “Y2K” was about as eventful as Y2K (but with one interesting failure). 2001 (the movie), U2s (the plane), and tech in sports.

TEH 064: Distributed Preservation of Services Attack

Posted September 27, 2019April 2, 2019 in PodcastLeave a comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06:46 — 30.6MB)

In This Episode: Meet us in Denver tonight. BASIC. The Internet Archive sucks up Google+ (in a hurry!) Office Depot is busted in fraud scheme. Space junk. And will Apple News+ help, or hurt, the publishing industry? Either way: “subscription fatigue” is growing.

TEH 063: 500 Channels …$10 Each

Posted March 25, 2019 in PodcastLeave a comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01:43 — 28.3MB)

In This Episode: Listeners invited to Meetup in Denver. Apple’s big announcements. The hottest chat app for teens is…. AT&T’s “5G” still isn’t. Robocalls.

TEH 062: What Time Is It?

Posted March 11, 2019 in Podcast1 Comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:09 — 26.2MB)

In This Episode: Who needs the Internet to send Bitcoin when you can do it via ham radio? Might twice-yearly time changes be going out …soon? (We hope so!) Apple closing some of its stores — to fight patent trolls?!

TEH 061: Reboot Your Boots

Posted March 4, 2019 in PodcastLeave a comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08:14 — 31.3MB)

In This Episode: GPS’s “Y2K” is coming. More on digital camera ISO settings. Ever-improving SD cards. Password-less logins. And excuse me, but your smart shoes have crashed. And no, we didn’t pre-plan that ending. 🙂

TEH 60: Google’s Stupid and They Do Stupid Stuff

Posted February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 in Podcast3 Comments

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06:32 — 30.5MB)

In This Episode: Several examples of Google doing absolutely stupid things, like blaming content creators for what Google itself puts into their content. Plus: AMP pages, foldable phones, and is the “ISO Rating” setting on digital cameras “fake”?

TEH 059: One Remote to Rule Them All

Posted March 11, 2019February 18, 2019 in Podcast6 Comments

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03:45 — 29.2MB)

In This Episode: AI is now creating realistic people. Truly universal remotes. It’s now possible to get human help from Google (but yagotta pay — a little! — for it). It’s not amazing that an old computer works. Old and moldy: autonomous cars; New and exciting: autonomous …bicycles?!

TEH 058: Relatively Normal to Aggressive Usage

Posted February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 in Podcast1 Comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:27 — 27.3MB)

In This Episode: Using a password vault is not enough: you need something else too…. How Randy was convinced to upgrade his computer from Win 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. Hard drive (the spinning kind’s) reliability. That’s right: USB cables can be weaponized. AT&T sued for saying its phones are “5G” now.

TEH 057: We See the Light!

Posted March 11, 2019February 4, 2019 in PodcastLeave a comment

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:00:00 — 27.5MB)

In This Episode: The incredible advances in LED lighting. Come to a MeetUp with us! How to lose $137 million in cryptocurrency. Can electric airplanes help fix pilot shortages? Lookaline URLs, AI-generated spices, and Apple slaps Facebook.