Geeks Interrupted

By 94.1FM 3WBC

Geeks Interrupted is a weekly 2-hour tech show broadcasting live from the studios of 94.1FM 3WBC in Box Hill near Melbourne, Australia. Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Mark Macdowell discuss the latest n... more

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Geeks Interrupted episodes:

May 08, 2017 NBN Tax, Microsoft Surface Laptop & Foxtel Seeks To Block More Piracy Sites | Episode 196
Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Nathan Littel.
Show Notes:
Govt to introduce legislation for broadband tax [iTnews]
Telstra and Optus off the hook as ACCC recommends no change to mobile roaming [ABC News]
Victorian government pledges AU$25m for mobile, broadband, Wi-Fi coverage [ZDNet]
'Revenge porn': one in five report they have been victims in Australian survey [The Guardian]
Facebook hiring 3000 to stop murders and violence being streamed live [The Age]
Microsoft unveils $999 Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S [The Verge]
Window 10 S devices can be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro for $49 [The Verge]
Amazon Prime Video may finally be coming to Apple TV [iLounge]
Major apps abandoning Apple Watch, including Google Maps, Amazon & eBay [AppleInsider]
Gymaholic - Your workout and progress tracker [iTunes]
'Flying Doctors' star Val Jellay dies from pneumonia, aged 89 [Th...
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1h 41min
May 01, 2017 AFP Metadata Breach, Facebook & Google Tackle Fake News & Netflix Hacker Threat | Episode 195
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
The Australian Federal Police Accessed Journalist's Metadata Without A Warrant [Gizmodo Australia]
Telcos slammed for selling $200-a-month phone plans to people on welfare [SMH]
Reddit is putting limits on subreddit customization, and users are worried [The Verge]
Facebook and Google Are Testing Tools to Fight Fake News [Adweek]
Apple Music's Original TV Plans Now Include Potential Shows and Videos From J.J. Abrams and R. Kelly [MacRumors]
Musical.ly syncs up with Apple Music [Recode]
Netflix Is Spending Some Serious Money On Scorsese's Latest Gangster Epic [Esquire UK]
'Orange Is The New Black': Hacker Says He Stole New Season, Demands Ransom From Netflix [Deadline]
Netflix Hacker Also Claims Theft From ABC, Fox, IFC, National Geographic [Variety]
'Roseanne' Revival in the Works With Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert [Variety]
Richard Wilkins celebrates 30 Years at Nine [TV Tonight]
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1h 38min
April 24, 2017 EBay In GST Standoff, Plastc Smart Card Folds & Monkey Magic Reboot | Episode 194
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
This $400 appliance that squeezes juice out of a bag appears unnecessary [Ars Technica]
TPG savaged in $1b sell-off after mobile network plans revealed [The Canberra Times]
Volkswagen just got slapped with the largest fine for automakers [NBC News]
eBay threatens to block Australian shoppers over GST [The Age]
IT'S OFFICIAL: Amazon is taking on retailing in Australia with a 'vast selection' and 'fast delivery' [Business Insider Australia]
Plastc swiped $9 million from backers and just completely vanished [The Verge]
Facebook releases timeline of Cleveland shooting videos [TechCrunch]
Apple apologizes to users for mistakenly saying their paid iCloud subscription was cancelled [AppleInsider]
Apple Hires Top Google Satellite Executives for New Hardware Team [Bloomberg]
iTunes Podcasts Now Called Apple Podcasts [The Mac Observer]
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1h 36min
April 17, 2017 TPG Builds Its Own Mobile Network, Burger King Ad Hijacks Google & Rage Turns 30 | Episode 193
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: David Johnson.
Show Notes:
TPG takes on Telstra, Optus, Vodafone as Australia's fourth mobile network operator with $1.26b spectrum acquisition [CRN]
Happy 'National Get a VPN Day' - data retention is official [CNET Australia]
Samsung Pay comes to Westpac customers [iTnews]
Burger King ad to activate Google Home backfires [Sky News]
Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat as it copies its AR stickers [TechCrunch]
Could Apple Buy Disney? Wall Street Revives Rumor of Mega-Deal [Variety]
Apple Receives Permit From California DMV to Test Self-Driving Cars [MacRumors]
Qantas store mistakenly sells Apple computer at $4000 discount [9News]
Did Qantas have the right to cancel orders on Apple computers after its pricing blunder? [9News]
Guitarist J. Geils Dead at 71 [Rolling Stone]
'Chappelle's Show' Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies at 57 [Entertainment Weekly]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi: a breakdown of the...
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1h 34min
April 10, 2017 ACCC Takes Apple To Court, IoT Garage Door Bricked & Vale John Clarke | Episode 192
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Fake blogger Belle Gibson faces jail if she fails to pay $30k [ABC News]
ACCC takes action against Apple over alleged misleading consumer guarantee representations [ACCC]
ACCC to monitor Australia's broadband performance [ACCC]
NBN cable rollout delayed as HFC 'false activations' leave homes offline for months [The Age]
Cracking The Code [Four Corners]
Facebook takes new steps to stop 'revenge porn' images from spreading [The Age]
IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer's product after bad review [Ars Technica]
New Pebble update allows watches to keep working once online servers go dark [The Verge]
Hackers Can Easily Hijack This Dildo Camera and Livestream the Inside of Your Vagina (Or Butt) [Motherboard]
Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro [TechCrunch]
Apple ditching Imagination Technologies GPU...
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1h 41min
April 03, 2017 YouTube Ad Boycott, Banks Lose Apple Pay Fight & DVDs Still Selling Strong | Episode 191
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
April Fools 2017: All The Online Gags And Pranks [Gizmodo Australia]
AFP raid on Conroy's office was 'improper interference' [ABC News]
Virgin Australia to begin inflight wi-fi trial in April [iTnews]
World's biggest solar + battery storage plant ready to build in SA [Renew Economy]
NBN Co brings 100/40Mbps speed tier to fixed wireless [iTnews]
YouTube ad boycott could cost Google parent Alphabet $US750m [ABC News]
This is the Samsung Galaxy S8 [The Next Web]
The Galaxy S8's facial scanner can, unsurprisingly, be tricked with a photo [The Verge]
It's over: Banks lose Apple Pay fight [iTnews]
Apple's iOS 10.3 update can reclaim as much as 7.8GB of available storage [AppleInsider]
Wi-Fi Calling and VoLTE Expand to O2 and Other Carriers on iOS 10.3 [MacRumors]
Apple seemingly ends support for 32-bit devices with iOS 10.3.2 [AppleInsider]
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1h 35min
March 27, 2017 Qantas Delays In-Flight Wi-Fi, Twitter Considers Premium Model & The Future Of Star Wars | Episode 190
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Google called in to scrub politicians' mobile numbers from the internet [The Age]
Qantas cancels launch of free inflight wi-fi [iTnews]
Equity crowdfunding bill passed, but proprietary companies still excluded [AFR]
UK minister says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable [Reuters]
Twitter considers paid membership option [BBC News]
Apple Unveils Special Edition (PRODUCT)RED iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus [MacRumors]
Apple Debuts New 9.7-Inch iPad With A9 Chip to Replace iPad Air 2, Starting at $329 [MacRumors]
Apple's iPhone 8 Said to Feature 'Water Drop Design' in Homage to Original iPhone [MacRumors]
Man dies after charging his iPhone while using it in the bath [9to5Mac]
Sesame Street introduces new muppet with autism [ABC News]
Reality TV Contestants Isolated For A Year Found Their Show Was Axed [Uproxx]
Disney Chief On The Future Of "Star Wars" [Dark Horizons]
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1h 37min
March 20, 2017 500 Startups Melbourne, Spying Vibrator Data Lawsuit & Nine Launches 9Podcasts | Episode 189
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Aussie telcos need to rein in their call centre liars [SMH]
Blogger Belle Gibson may have been delusional when faking brain cancer: court [ABC News]
ATM use hits 15-year low as tap-and-go payments surge [iTnews]
Silicon Valley accelerator 500 Startups launches in Melbourne [ZDNet]
Qantas launches start-up accelerator programme [iTWire]
Russian hackers targeted just one Yahoo employee in order to breach 500M accounts [BGR]
Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use [NPR]
Mobile bill shock declining, but consumers still pay hundreds for excess charges [The Age]
Six Months After Launch, Developer Excitement Over iMessage Apps is 'Fading' [MacRumors]
Apple gives indie gamers a permanent home on the App Store [TechCrunch]
Rock 'n' Roll Legend Chuck Berry Has Died at 90 [Slate]
Nine looks to...
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1h 33min
March 13, 2017 Elon Musk's South Australian Battery Deal, The WikiLeaks CIA Release & Footrot Flats Creator Dies | Episode 188
Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Nathan Littel.
Show Notes:
2STP Authenticator [Apple App Store]
Census chiefs unprepared for website crash, FOI documents show [ABC News]
Amazon shares data with Arkansas prosecutor in murder case [The Big Story]
Elon Musk: 'I'll fix South Australia's power in 100 days or its free' [Yahoo News]
Optus threatens disconnection to sign up NBN customers and fast-track HFC cable shutdown [The Age]
Theatregoers fleeced by invalid Book of Mormon tickets on resale website [ABC News]
WikiLeaks releases thousands of 'Vault 7' documents, reveals CIA's 'entire hacking capacity' [ABC News]
Facebook 'fails' to remove sexual images of children and reports BBC to police for raising issue [The Telegraph]
Tinder is testing a secret version of the app for the rich, famous and hot [Mashable]
Study reveals whopping 48M Twitter accounts are actually bots [CBS News]
A python breeder made an Emoji snake [Business...
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1h 43min
March 06, 2017 Carly's Law To Target Online Child Predators, Snapchat's IPO & TiVo Australia Dead | Episode 187
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Cloudbleed data leak flaw wasn't exploited: Cloudflare [iTnews]
The Australian Government Introduces 'Carly's Law' To Protect Children Online [Gizmodo Australia]
Coding typo caused massive AWS outage [iTnews]
Snap surges in its stock market debut - and its 20-something founders are multibillionaires [Business Insider Australia]
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach [NPR]
iPhone 8 probably won't ditch Lightning for USB-C after all [Cult of Mac]
TiVo issues death warrant for Aussie personal video recorders [SMH]
YouTube unveils YouTube TV, its live TV streaming service [TechCrunch]
Cheeky 'Deadpool 2' teaser offers nothing butt fun [CNET Australia]
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Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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FAQs about Geeks Interrupted:

How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.