Techtasm

Techtasm 52 – Reach Around The Old News

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:35:08 +0000

A review of stories from episodes 1 -51 of Techtasm.

Techtasm 51 (May ‘17) – Nokia 3310
1. HMD Global
2. Did it actually sell?
3. How are they doing
Techtasm 47 (Feb ‘17) Bitcoin
1. Rise
2. Massive Fall
3. Thanksgiving
4. Get a chart
Techtasm 43 – (Jan ‘17) Facebook Fake News
1. Trump
2. Adverts around London (apologies)
3. Alex Jones
Techtasm 35 – (Nov ‘16) – Apple Airpods
Techtasm 34 – (Oct ‘16) – Nintendo Switch
Techtasm 19 – (Jul ‘16) – Red Dead Redemption 2

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Techtasm 51 – 3310 Reasons to Keep Your iPhone

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 24 May 2017 20:52:21 +0000

The new Nokia 3310 lands in Britain, Ikea make cheap smart-bulbs, and WannaCry is still lingering with us.

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Techtasm 50 – The Half Century

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 21:39:19 +0000

The Galaxy S8 vs the iPhone 7, Microsoft recommend you do not install their latest update, and you can now make Donald Trump say anything you like

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Techtasm 49 – Not So Palmer Luckey After All

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:36:01 +0000

Palmer Luckey quitting Facebook, Samsung’s S8 biometric face scanner doesn’t work, and LastPass has a serious flaw,

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Techtasm 48 – Pay With Your Face

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:36:16 +0000

Visa allows you to pay with your sunglasses, Youtube launches a pay tv channel, and Google Home is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

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Techtasm 47 – Die Bitcoin, Die

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:51:34 +0000

Bitcoin refuses to die, 199 mph Scalextric, and HTC gets tracking.

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Techtasm 46 – Chinese Chips

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:07:54 +0000

Xiaomi want to get in the business of making their own silicon, a Youtube star gets in hot water, and now you can give the finger to your Chromebook.

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Techtasm 45 – One Year In and Nothing to Show For It

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:00:20 +0000

Time to ditch that anti virus software, Microsoft finally has an answer to Chrome OS, and Google has a Brain.

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Techtasm 44 – Cyber Doctors Prescribe Fake News Vaccine

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:00:23 +0000

A Cambridge study suggests immunisation against fake news, South Korea’s mad 700 mph train, and Microsoft are positively finally done with their phone (probably).

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Techtasm 43 – Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:00:17 +0000

The EU wants to grant legal status to plastic people, Apple raises its prices, and Facebook test fake news filtering.

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Techtasm 42 – Snap the Windows Dragon

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:00:48 +0000

The Snapdragon 835, wireless chargers built into the road, and is VR here to stay.

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Techtasm 41 – Cyanogen is Pulled Off…the Shelf

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:00:45 +0000

Cyanogen no more, solar roads in France, and Lenovo’s new Microsoft compatible VR helmet.

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Techtasm 40 – Christmas Techtasm

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:00:12 +0000

A summary of all the techtasms in 2016, Elon Musk digs himself into a hole, and South Carolina blocks pr0n.

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Techtasm 39 – One car, one truck, one robot, and an abandoned bus

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:00:41 +0000

Amazon’s grocery stores, Toyota’s new one person electric vehicle, and a falafel delivering robot.

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Techtasm 38 – Bai Bai Baidu

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:00:41 +0000

BMW and Baidu part ways, BT and Openreach part ways, and Apple and Airport part ways.

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Techtasm 37 – Crazy Smog Sucker

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 21:00:05 +0000

Robin and James talk about China’s smog cleaning tower, your phone disables your social when you take the wheel, and Boom!, it’s Concorde 2

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Techtasm 36 – Donald Trumps In the Face of Science and Technology

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 21:00:24 +0000

Robin and James talk about the new US President’s threatens Net neutrality and science-based policy, Sony dumps a new Playstation on us, and Google solve Android’s fragmentation problem.

Techtasm 35 – Apple AirHeads

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 21:00:33 +0000

Robin and James talk about Apple’s delayed AirPods, the new MacBook laptops, and Twitter kills one of it’s most popular products.

Techtasm 34 – Ninten-inch

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:00:01 +0000

Robin and James talk about Nintendo’s Switch gaming tablet, the Internet goes dark, and get some Joymode in your life.

Techtasm 33 – Samsung Galaxy Not

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:00:08 +0000

Robin and James consider Samsung kill the Note 7, Huawei sell 100m phones, and the iPhone home button fails.

Techtasm 32 – Facebook McWorkFace

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:00:06 +0000

Robin and James consider Facebook’s new social app for the workplace, the Playstation VR reviews are coming in, and Samsung is in deep trouble, or are they...

Techtasm 30 – Fording Out of Love with Steering Wheels<

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:00:37 +0000

Robin and James consider Ford’s steering wheel-ess car, Android apps finally come to Chromebooks, and Windows 10 woes.

Techtasm 31 – Google Doesn’t Launch Andromeda

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 21:00:18 +0000

Robin and James consider Google Andromeda, more woes for Samsung, and Google’s Pixel, Home, and Wifi.

Techtasm 29 – Le Tax Man Mange un Apple

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:00:52 +0000

Robin and James consider Apple’s tax, Samsung Tizen watch again, and Amazon’s dash button.

Techtasm 27 – Audi Count Dracula

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:00:05 +0000

Robin and James consider Audi’s new smart cities play, Google’s new OS, and Android gets hacked again.

Techtasm 26 – Mr Jones is Watching Columbo

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:00:19 +0000

Robin and James consider the BBC’s detector vans, companies scaling back on Facebook ads, and cycling without moving from Lands End to John OGroats.

Techtasm 25 – Apple Watch

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:00:30 +0000

Robin and James consider Samsung’s new Note 7, an electric car which doesn’t need batteries, and just how much money is Apple making per second?

Techtasm 21 – Three Ars’s in a Row

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 21:00:31 +0000

Robin and James consider The Google Phone, Microsoft pays up 10 grand, and more from Shenzhen Baili.

Techtasm 24 – Softbank Hard Cash

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:00:34 +0000

Robin and James consider Softbank’s acquisition of ARM, Facebook’s massive British wing drone, and more Musk madness.

Techtasm 20 – Jide Talking

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:00:09 +0000

Robin and James talk about Remix OS, Microsoft removing crapware, and Three say no to ads.

Techtasm 19 – E3 Redemption

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:00:10 +0000

Robin and James talk about WWDC, E3, Red Dead Redemption 2.

Techtasm 23 – Vladimir Pokemon

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:00:52 +0000

Robin and James consider if Putin pwns Hyperloop One, Pokemon Goes everywhere except the UK, and Dyson sells more Brexit stuff.

Techtasm 18 – The Odds Are That We Are Not In Base Reality

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 21:00:44 +0000

Robin and James ponder Musk’s ravings, Nintendo VR, and more Riversimple.

Techtasm 22 – World Exclusive Skype Runs in a Browser

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 21:00:29 +0000

Robin and James consider Spotify versus Apple, Rocket fast UK Internet downloads, and Tesla in the news again.

Techtasm 17 – Emily Maitlis Does Tech

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 31 May 2016 21:00:47 +0000

Robin and James look at Google Password, Colour E-ink, and another social robot.

Techtasm 16 – Google IO Redux

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Mon, 23 May 2016 21:00:03 +0000

Robin and James look at Google IO, Xiaomi, and Nokia is back from the grave.

Techtasm 15 – Parsey McParseFace

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Mon, 16 May 2016 21:00:43 +0000

Robin and James look at AdBlocking, Tesla’s autopilot fail, and more Boaty McBoatface news.

Techtasm 14 – The Arse Technica Review Show

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 10 May 2016 21:00:44 +0000

Robin and James look at what we can expect from Google I/O next week, Oracle in court again, and the next chapter in the Boaty McBoatFace saga.

Techtasm 13 – Chicken 1 Balls 2

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:39 +0000

Robin and James look at the Uk, Google again, Adblock, and Whatsup with Whatsapp?

Techtasm 12 – We Finally Got a Guest

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:00:31 +0000

Robin and James look at Shell, NASA, Comedy Adverts, and James talks to an Oscar Winner (kinda).

Techtasm 11 – McSamsung

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:00:20 +0000

Robin and James look at Samsung, Google, and the Amazon Kindle.

Techtasm 10 – Its Textylisingly Good

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:00:07 +0000

Robin and James look at Blackberry, Tesla, Robots and the Textylser.

Techtasm 09 – James Crashed His Car

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:00:54 +0000

Robin and James look at the Microsoft bash shell, free Xamarin, Sony’s next PS4 Update, and semi-autonomous platoons.

Techtasm 08 – Dyson Built My Car<

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:00:44 +0000

Robin and James look at the Dyson car, Chromebases, State sponsored attacks, and Oracle seeks $9.3bn.

Techtasm 07 – Boaty McBoatface

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:00:44 +0000

Robin and James go boating, investigate the Surface phone, fight the cloud wars, and yawn at Apples announcements.

Techtasm 06 – Optanism

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:00:29 +0000

Robin and James consider more Echo, Android N, LG’s DAB phone, and Intels upcoming Optane.

Techtasm 05 – Microsoft Loves Linux

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 21:00:54 +0000

Robin and James consider Looney balloons, external GPU’s from AMD, the Amazon Echo Dot, and Microsoft’s new found love for Linux.

Techtasm 04 – Google Crashed My Car

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:00:57 +0000

Robin and James consider Cat S60, the Xiaomi £100 smartphone, Microsoft acquisition of Xamarin, and Google’s self-crashing car.

Techtasm 03 – Cloudtasm

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:00:57 +0000

Robin and James consider Cyanogen and Microsoft, Spotify, Mastercard, and Apple cars. We also probe the cloud market and call it.

Techtasm 02 – Zombie Apocalypse

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:00:52 +0000

Robin and James sign up to the zombie apocalype, look at VR systems, and wonder what the heck Kanye is up to.

Techtasm 01 – The Thinksphere

robinyellow@gmail.com (Robin Yellow) — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:00:40 +0000

Robin and James pick 53 apples.