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Tech News: Investigating Amazon
Members of Congress imply that it might be time to begin a criminal investigation into Amazon. Facebook's AI isn't up to the task of clamping down on…
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The Video Game Crash of 1983
What caused the great video game crash of 1983 in North America? Was it too many lousy, cheap games? Was it the home computer? Was it E.T.? Or was it…
4 years, 11 months ago
Has the US lost the cyber war already?
Former Pentagon chief software officer Nicolas Chaillan resigned, citing frustrations regarding trying to bring the US Department of Defense up to sp…
4 years, 11 months ago
Tech News: Amazon and Facebook Under Scrutiny
This episode is all about issues at Amazon and Facebook as the two companies try to fend off allegations that the companies engage in anti competitiv…
4 years, 11 months ago
RERUN: Are we in cyber war?
In this classic episode, Jonathan and Chris Pollette talk about the realities of cyber warfare.
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4 years, 11 months ago
Tech News: Facebook's Very Bad Week
Last week, Facebook was dealing with a whistleblower. This week, the company might have another one. Plus stories about Amazon corporate employees wo…
4 years, 11 months ago
Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work
In the world of cryptocurrency, there's a need for algorithms to create a consensus for validating transactions. Bitcoin uses Proof of Work. Ethereum…
4 years, 11 months ago
TechStuff Classic: The Sewing Machine
Holly Frey from Stuff You Missed in History Class joins the show to talk about the sewing machine and how it shaped patent law.
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Tech News: Twitch Gets Hacked
A hacker steals pretty much everything Twitch has. Facebook tries to downplay a whistleblower's allegations. And someone has taken over a US Navy Fac…
4 years, 11 months ago
Navigation in Spaaaace
Listener Terje wants to know about space navigation. We look at how orbital velocities, special and general relativity and even stuff like solar radi…
4 years, 11 months ago