Hosts: David McVay & Josh Philpott
This is the official tech podcast of geekactually.com. The tech show by geeks for geeks and non-geeks. Accessible tech for everyone is the motto we live by. This week on Tech Actually we discuss Steve Jobs’ latest announcement and to try and keep balance, Josh went to a Microsoft event and he has a report on that. We round of the show with learning computers and Zuckerberg’s privacy needs.
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Mail Bag
Listener DarkKnight wants to add to our ‘it’s the end of the world as we know it’ discussion. DARPA is making learning computers, eeek! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-KNFlOocQ&feature=player_embedded
Listener Tristan wants to correct us about mind control devices. Here is the link for the mind control stuff
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/33141-prototype-this-mind-controlled-car-video.htm
Steve Note:
Steve Jobs takes to the stage to deliver the September Announcement and as is traditional, it’s all about iPods. He introduces the new iPod Touch, Nano and Shuffle (which is a lot like the old Shuffle). He also told us about the new iTunes (10) and the updates to iOS 4. Oh, and there was one more thing, a new AppleTV.
To find out more about all of the products announced go to Apple.com
Then…
… to balance things out, Josh went to a Microsoft event and got to play with a few toys of his own. He danced with Microsoft Kinect and played with Surface.
In other news:
We will file this in our ‘isn’t that ironic’ section – Mark Zuckerberg wants to protect his privacy during his court case.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/facebook-ceo-wants-private-life-kept-out-of-ownership-challenge-20100901-14k0a.html
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to some bad language.
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