Charged Tech Podcast

Charged Tech Podcast

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Charged Tech Podcast episodes

  • Big DS Energy

    This week, Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about Owen's Surface Duo (as he holds it!) and 

    • Intel rebrand,
    • Intel's 11th-gen chips,
    • CenturyLink Outage,
    • Russia and the App Store,
    • MSi Summit,
    • Aluminum shortage,
    • Myspace deleted all the data,
    • Anthony Levandowski,
    • Wireless Charging is bad,
    • The Verge comparison of folding phones, and
    • Join us in Discord to discuss any and all of the above!
      • 1 hr
    • 30%, Cut

      Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about

      • Facebook login required for Oculus, 
      • Facebook Messenger replaces Instagram DMs, 
      • The KopieID app, 
      • Zoom in Facebook Portal, 
      • Duo becoming Google Meet?, 
      • Duo gets video effects, 
      • Apple hits $2T, 
      • Epic vs. Apple, 
      • Let us know in Discord what app getting banned would make you switch phones, 
      • Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, 
      • Apple production in India, 
      • WeChat blocked, 
      • California vs. Uber/Lyft, 
      • GeForce Now for Chrome OS, 
      • DNC with no technical issues, 
      • Adobe MAX is free, 
      • Adobe 99U event, 
      • The Next Web conference, and
      • Tell us in Discord if you are attending a conference online this year.
        • 1 hr 19 min
      • The New BlackBerry

        Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about

        • The Microsoft Surface Duo,
        • U.S. TikTok ban,
        • WeChat caught in the cross-fire, 
        • Register to Vote with Snapchat, 
        • Facebook bans Blackface in the Netherlands,
        • Snake YouTube,
        • OnePlus Nord,
        • Pitch.com,
        • Hire Zach to design your slides zacht.studio, and
        • Join us in Discord!
          • 52 min
        • RT help

          Frederique, Owen, and Zach would like to know more, but also would like to know less about tech and how it's shaping the world around us. This week we discuss:

          • Twitter bans Qanon,
          • Twitter hacked by social engineers,
          • OnePlus Nord, OnePlus Buds, OnePlus Fortnite phone,
          • PocketCast guy goes to Apple Podcasts,
          • GPT-3,
          • Owen's tweet about Twitter hack,
          • Twitter post about the security breach,
          • Darknet Diaries,
          • Joe Rogan platforming a transphobe,
          • Marc Levoy goes to Adobe,
          • Let us know in Discord if you'd be interested in a premium Charged that comes with exclusive livestreams,
          • Google Meet new features,
          • mmhmm.app,
          • Specialist is now QuickCarl, and
          • Join us in Discord.
            • 54 min
          • Joanne the Scanner

            Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about tech and how it's shaping the world around us. This week we talk about:

            • Facebook API takes down half the iOS apps,
            • Tech leaders go to Congress,
            • Slack acquires Rimeto and the Stewart Butterfield interview about it,
            • Sony investing in Fortnite,
            • Doxie scanners,
            • Doxy sex toys,
            • If you have a scanner recommendation for Frederique let us know in Discord,
            • Artist Joseph Scheer,
            • TikTok banned in India and TikTok celebrity commits suicide,
            • U.S. might ban TikTok,
            • Your clipboard is being copied, iOS 14 tells us,
            • Tom Hanks on the move to Apple TV+,
            • Google Home Nest leaked, and
            • Join us in Discord to play Fortnite with us.
              • 1 hr 7 min
            • it is what it is

              Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk tech! This week we covered:

              • Taylor Lorenz,
              • eyemoutheye,
              • WWDC new format,
              • Facebook advertisers leaving in droves,
              • Let us know in Discord if you are going to buy a next-gen console and does the appearance influence your decision?, 
              • Surface All Access, 
              • Starlink sign-up, 
              • Microsoft stores closing, 
              • Developer Transition Kit Mac Mini, 
              • iOS widgets, 
              • Snap partner summit, 
              • Snapchat racist filter, 
              • Follow Zach on are.na/zach-grosser, and
              • Join us in Discord
                • 1 hr 9 min
              • #BlackLivesMatter

                Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about tech and how it's shaping the world around us. This episode we talk about:

                • Colin Kaepernick joins Medium's Board,
                • Alexis Ohanian steps down from Reddit's Board,
                • Zoom backtracking after pressure,
                • Former eBay execs sent spiders, pig fetus to couple in cyberstalking plot,
                • PS5 revealed,
                • Inaccessible audio Tweets,
                • MKBHD Android 11 beta,
                • Black Lives Matter education resources: withuiswerk.nl, pb-resources.com,
                • TikTok hiding Black Lives Matter hashtag,
                • Instagram Blackout,
                • Read it before you Tweet it,
                • The latest episode of Reply All,
                • HEY.com launches,
                • Apple rejects HEY app from the App Store,
                • Superhuman tracking,
                • EU antitrust investigation into Apple App Store,
                • Spotify's timetoplayfair.com,
                • Join us in Discord, we'll be doing something around WWDC.
                  • 55 min
                • Theranos of AR

                  Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk tech! The show notes for this episode follow without hyperlinks, I'll add links shortly!

                  • Clubhouse, 
                  • Facebook Catch Up, 
                  • Twitter/Trump/Zuck, 
                  • Nebula, 
                  • YourStack, 
                  • Tella, 
                  • Apple Glasses, 
                  • Focals by North, 
                  • Snap Spectacles, 
                  • Oculus, 
                  • Daniel Suarez, 
                  • Magic Leap loses CEO gets funding, 
                  • Leap Motion is the company we confused it with, 
                  • Hololens by Microsoft, 
                  • Microsoft Build: Fluid, 
                  • Owen's website page "What I use", 
                  • Houseparty, 
                  • FB Messenger Rooms, J
                  • oe Rogan Show moves to Spotify, 
                  • Video podcasts on Spotify, 
                  • Revision3, 
                  • Spotify Concerts, and
                  • Join us in Discord!
                    • 1 hr 3 min
                  • Under the Surface

                    Frederique, Owen, and Zach talk about the state of the (tech) world. This week, we chatted about

                    • Jack gives 1 billion,
                    • Twitter goes WFH,
                    • Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3,
                    • EarPod Commercial,
                    • Microsoft BUILD (May 19–20, 2020),
                    • Webflow University,
                    • Affinity creative apps,
                    • Adobe Spark, and
                    • Join us in Discord and leave us a voice message!
                      • 58 min
                    • 5G means 5 Giraffe

                      Frederique, Owen, and Zach chat about:

                      • Airbnb layoffs,
                      • Elon Musk's crazy tweets,
                      • Sri Lanka No Reservations,
                      • Talkspace,
                      • Coursera's quarantine growth,
                      • Chamath Palihapitiya to billionaires and airlines: "Who cares?", 
                      • WSJ article about Airbnb hosts, and
                      • Specialist by Punchlist.
                      • Join us in Discord and leave us a voice message!
                        • 1 hr

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                      Cut through the technology news noise and hear about only the stuff that matters, and what it means. Join your hosts Owen, Frederique and Zach every week to get the lowdown on the biggest stories –…