Byte Into IT

In this podcast we interview Jongkil Jay Jeong, Senior Research Fellow in Cyber Security at Deakin University on the national digital ID scheme.

We also discuss the Optus outage, cryto currency, Elon Musk and AI chatbots.

Dr Sam John, a senior lecturer in neural engineering at the University Melbourne, joins our hosts to talk about his work with a group of biomedical engineering students to develop gaming consoles for people with cerebral palsy, and looking generally into adapting existing gaming controllers to make them more accessible for people who are differently abled. They speak about prototypes they've developed for this purpose, as well as the commercial possibilities of these developments.

The hosts also talk about the updates in AI regulations globally, local changes to emergency mobile roaming, and the results of the first lawsuit against self-driving cars.

Hosted by Dan Salmon, Dan Morganti and Ash Keller.

Sam Floreani joins Dan & Ash to talk about the various rent-tech platforms that collect and use renters data, their (lack of) obligations under the privacy act, the expense of these tech apps, the biases and dangers that can come from this kind of information-sharing and industry reliance on rent-tech. 

Jordie Van Der Berg aka “PurplePingers” talks about his website and TikTok profile 'Shit Rentals', which he created to share information & reviews about rentals and real estate agents/agencies, and how to best protect your rights as a renter.

Hosted by Dan Salmon & Ash 

Vanessa and Jo are joined by author Tony Walsh. Together they dive into his newly realeased book Faking it: Artificial Intelligence In A Human World - plus Adjunct Professor Steve Worthington (Swinburne Uni) discusses potential legislation around digital wallets and their hidden fees.

Dan and Ro chat with Associate Professor Dan Golding (Swinburne Uni) on how well video game sound tracks do on streaming platforms outside of the games themselves - plus his huge new co-authored research project on Australian Music in games.

Plus, Drew Rooke, a journalist at the Cosmos Magazine shares details about computer-powered deep sea mapping tehcnology that maps out ship wrecks along Australias coastline

Thao Phan is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She joins Lilly and Dan to chat about the upcoming event she's co-curated, Study-In On AI + Race + Art, bringing together writers, researchers, artists, activitists, scientists, and critical thinkers of all kind for a day of study and speculative thinking. The trio discuss why artistic and experimental interventions (such as collective study) are important for unpacking assumptions around race, gender, subjectivities, data-driven technologies, productivity, and society.

They also got to catch up with Nico King about their work at Chaos Theory Games on 'Crab God' which touches on reef conservation. Nico phoned in from the Australian Game Developer Awards which acknowledges the hard work of developers, and highlights up and coming games and that pushing the boundaries of games design.

Hosts Vanessa Toholka and Jo Eaton speak with Rose Bishop about her Melbourne Fringe Festival show 'two stories about going on the internet', and chatted to Fenella Kernebone who is the Head of Programming at SXSW in Sydney on the headlining events of the conference.

Femtek founder Olivia Orchowski and developer Ray Yamamoto Hilton join the team to talk about the world's first menstrual-focussed smart ring and app. Plus, Dr. Troy Innocent drops by to talk about RMIT's Future Play Lab street arcade.

Join us this week with the entire Byte Into It team & alumni to talk Radiothon, the presenters' favourite things about Triple R, and what they've learnt through their broadcasting careers.

Hosts: Jo Eaton, Ash Keller, Daniel Morganti, Lilly Ryan, Daniel Salmon, Vanessa Toholka & Phil Wales

Vanessa Toholka & Daniel Morganti speak to game designer Sam Barlow who is behind projects like Her Story, Telling Lies, and most recently Immortality.

They also talk about the IGEA’s 2023 ‘Australia Plays’ report.