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TechStuff's Top Holiday Gift for 2024
TechStuff's Top Holiday Gift for 2024

A little more than a decade ago, mobile computing revolutionized how we access software and the internet. It's about to happen again.

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Rerun: The Sad Tale of Microsoft Zune
Rerun: The Sad Tale of Microsoft Zune

Microsoft jumped into the mp3 player space a little late. Apple had been producing iPods for five years when the first Zune hit shelves. But that was…

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Rerun: What was the first mp3?
Rerun: What was the first mp3?

When developing the mp3 compression algorithm, engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg used a specific song to tweak settings and get them just right. What wa…

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Sowing Seeds for the Future: Sabanto
Sowing Seeds for the Future: Sabanto

Season 1 Episode 11

When Craig Rupp left Iowa in the 80s, he never wanted to step foot on a farm again. A whirlwind career as an engineer took him to some of the biggest…

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The Story of Microsoft Bing
The Story of Microsoft Bing

In 2009, Microsoft announced a new search engine called Bing. What was Microsoft's strategy, how is Bing different from the dominant search engine Go…

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Tech News: Elections and Tech Clash
Tech News: Elections and Tech Clash

We knew that the 2024 election season in the US would include some tough stories involving tech and potential election interference. In this episode,…

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REM Pods and Ghost Hunting
REM Pods and Ghost Hunting

What does an REM Pod do? How does it work? And why is Jonathan such a darn party pooper when it comes to ghost hunting?

 

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Doubly Exposing Spirit Photography
Doubly Exposing Spirit Photography

In the 19th century, some enterprising and unscrupulous photographers convinced vulnerable people that they had developed (pun intended) a way to pho…

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Departing OpenAI Leaders Warn about AGI
Departing OpenAI Leaders Warn about AGI

Description: The former senior advisor for OpenAI's now dissolved AGI Readiness division warns that no one, not even OpenAI, is actually ready for ar…

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Notorious Hackers
Notorious Hackers

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky has a list of the most notorious hackers of all time. We look at three of the entries, from the loose confederation o…

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