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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September 05, 2016 Telstra Shutdown Their 2G Network, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recall & Willy Wonka Star Gene Wilder Dies | Episode 167
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Ban on excessive credit card surcharging begins for large merchants [The Age]
Target pulls 'sexist' girls' shirt from stores [The Age]
Telstra is preparing for the shutdown of their 2G network offering customers a new 3G phone [Ausdroid]
Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy [The Guardian]
SpaceX rocket explodes on launch site at Cape Canaveral [ABC News]
It's Official: Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Worldwide [Gizmodo Australia]
Apple announces 'iPhone 7' September 7 event, Apple Watch 2 and MacBook Pros may be unveiled [9to5Mac]
ANZ Expands Apple Pay Support to MasterCard in Australia [MacRumors]
Apple will implement App Store improvements on Sept. 7 [Macworld]
Apple's $14.5 Billion EU Tax Ruling: What You Need to Know [Bloomberg]
Gene Wilder, 'Willy Wonka' Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83 [Variety]
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1h 37min
August 29, 2016 Optus Free Data Streaming, Pinterest Buys Instapaper & Leslie Jones Website Hack | Episode 166
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Schoolgirl porn ring back online [News.com.au]
Uber gets green light to operate in Victoria [The Age]
Uber $2 fee: Why should we pay for the taxi industry's refusal to adapt? [The Age]
Optus Is Offering Free Data-Free Netflix And Spotify Streaming [Gizmodo Australia]
Telstra announces free Netflix, Stan, Presto on mobile plans [Delimiter]
Telstra extends free Netflix, Stan & Presto offer to Home Broadband plans [DeciderTV]
Try PlayStation VR for yourself at Westfield [CNET Australia]
Pinterest acquires Instapaper, which will live on as a separate app [TechCrunch]
These Charts Show That Pokemon Go Is Already in Decline [Bloomberg]
BuzzFeed divides its news and entertainment divisions in company-wide reorganization [The Hive]
Apple forced to issue a global update of iOS after the discovery of sophisticated malware [News.com.au]
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1h 36min
August 22, 2016 CloudFlare Claims Australian Bandwidth Most Expensive, Apple's Major Retail Changes & Gawker To Shut Down | Episode 165
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Blendle's Micropayments Model Will Test Whether You'll Really Pay A Few Cents for News [Wired]
Readability Is the Middleman Nobody Needs [ReadWrite]
Victorians face 'trip tax' to compensate taxi drivers as government prepares to give Uber the green light [The Age]
Police investigate pornographic website targeting Victorian schoolgirls [The Age]
'Bunch of geeks': Pokemon Go players told to stay away from Melbourne golf course [The Age]
Netflix may have to delay shows for Aussie users [iTnews]
'Sick feeling': Lord Mayor not hopeful of recouping defrauded money [Brisbane Times]
Telstra, Optus network fees among world's highest: Cloudflare [iTnews]
Windows falls to 0.6 percent share in the smartphone market [BetaNews]
ACCC Won't Grant Aussie Banks' Collective Bargaining For Apple Pay Straight Away [Gizmodo Australia]
Apple Introduces Major Retail Changes, Including New Pro-Level Positions and Credo [MacRumors]
Lou Pearlman, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync Svengali, Dead at 62 [Rolling Stone]
Gawker.com to shut down next week [KSNV NBC Las Vegas]
'Mr. Robot' renewed for Season 3 on USA Network [Mashable]
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Warped Into Rio's Closing Ceremony Dressed As Mario [Pedestrian.tv]
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1h 42min
August 15, 2016 Census Fail, Facebook Vs Adblock Plus & Seven Eyes Presto Exit | Episode 164
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Uber legal in Queensland from September 5, Premier announces on Facebook [Brisbane Times]
The fallout from Australia's spectacular census failure will be felt for years [Business Insider Australia]
Govt could chase IBM for damages over Census failure [iTnews]
Telstra's $3 billion backyard blitz to defend its home turf [SMH]
Adblock Plus has already defeated Facebook's new ad blocking restrictions [The Verge]
Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [YouTube]
Universal search on Apple TV goes beyond US services with Australia's Stan [AppleInsider]
Tim Cook Discusses His Job, Apple's Long-Term Future, AI, Virtual Reality, and More [MacRumors]
Kenny Baker, the Actor Who Brought R2-D2 to Life, Passes Away [Star Wars]
Darth Vader returns in new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer [The Verge]
Seven tipped to pull out of Presto [AdNews]
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Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
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1h 39min
August 08, 2016 Victoria's First Uber Rank, Facebook To Suppress Clickbait & Suicide Squad A Box Office Smash | Episode 163
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Melbourne Grammar video scandal: alumnus shocked by year 12 'rate-your-date' video [The Age]
'Debacle': Xenophon calls for Census to be postponed [SBS News]
Victoria's first Uber 'rank' opens at Avalon Airport [The Age]
Facebook tweaks the News Feed to show you less clickbait [VentureBeat]
Olympic Committee bans press from releasing GIFs [Engadget]
Tinder's threesome rival 3nder protests lawsuit with bizarre socks campaign [CNET]
This guy has swiped right on 200,000 women, without much success [The Independent]
Safe driving: Tesla autopilot drives owner suffering pulmonary embolism to ER [RT News]
Windows 10's Anniversary Update is now available [The Verge]
Water pistol emoji replaces revolver as Apple enters gun violence debate [The Guardian]
Judge wipes out patent troll's $625M verdict against Apple [Ars Technica]
Apple launches high-reward bug bounty program [iTnews]
Seven scores an Olympics win - breaks digital record for streaming [AdNews]
Channel Seven slammed over 'woeful' Olympics streaming [The Age]
Suicide Squad tops the US box-office as fans ignore critics' mauling [The Age]
'Star Wars': ABC in talks for TV series [Entertainment Weekly]
A bar owner in the UK has built a Faraday cage to stop customers using their phones [ScienceAlert]
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1h 42min
August 01, 2016 Aussie Banks To Fight Apple Pay, Verizon Buys Yahoo & ABC SVOD Partnerships | Episode 162
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
Australia's banks want to force Apple to open up NFC [iTnews]
Nick Xenophon calls for curbs on teen gambling in eSports video games [The Age]
ABS forced to defend Census website security [iTnews]
Uber is selling its China business to dominant local rival Didi Chuxing [The Verge]
Uber is planning on investing $500 million to map the world's roads [The Verge]
NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over [TechCrunch]
Verizon to Buy Yahoo's Core Business for $4.8 Billion [Variety]
Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones [The Verge]
'Carpool Karaoke' Series Coming Exclusively to Apple Music [The Hollywood Reporter]
Apple backs Australian marriage equality [The Age]
Pocket Casts 6 brings dark mode, multitasking, and more to the iOS podcast player [9to5Mac]
MTV Launches 'Classic' Channel Dedicated to 1990s [Rolling Stone]
ABC should partner with Netflix to raise revenue, says Michelle Guthrie [The Guardian]
Seven officially launches Olympics app with $20 premium upgrade option [Mumbrella]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted
Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir
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1h 38min
July 25, 2016 Delimiter Editor Quits Again, Milo Yiannopoulos Permaban From Twitter & Comic-Con 2016 Trailers | Episode 161
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
This Crazy Ghostbusters Scene May Have Cost Over a Million Dollars [io9]
Brighton Grammar expels students who created vile Instagram account [The Age]
School children charged with sexting offences [The Age]
Delimiter editor Renai LeMay quits, calls for expressions of interest in brand [Mumbrella]
Australian Communications and Media Authority Publish Pokemon GO Safety Tips [Press Start Australia]
Milo Yiannopoulos, rightwing writer, permanently banned from Twitter [The Guardian]
Double Standards: Leslie Jones' Racist Twitter History [Breitbart]
Twitter opens up applications to become "Verified" to everyone [Ausdroid]
Unilever Buys Dollar Shave Club for $1 Billion [Fortune]
Amazon Drive Is Offering Unlimited Storage For $8 A Month [Gizmodo Australia]
Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month [mental_floss]
France: Windows 10 collects 'excessive personal data', issues Microsoft with formal warning [BetaNews]
Apple hit with class action lawsuit for replacing devices w/ refurbished units under AppleCare+ [9to5Mac]
Garry Marshall Dies: 'Happy Days' Creator & 'Pretty Woman' Helmer Was 81 [Deadline]
Brie Larson (Finally) Confirmed As Captain Marvel [Deadline]
Wonder Woman Official Comic-Con Trailer [YouTube]
Justice League Official Comic-Con Trailer [YouTube]
Doctor Strange Official Trailer 1 [YouTube]
Kong: Skull Island Official Comic-Con Trailer [YouTube]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Official Comic-Con...
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1h 41min
July 18, 2016 Telstra's Technology Rebrand, Planet Of The Apps & Our Ghostbusters (2016) Review | Episode 160
Phil Edwards and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Mark Macdowell.
Show Notes:
Secure Messaging Scorecard [EFF]
Telstra wants to re-brand as a tech company [Business Insider Australia]
Vaya updates their data plans, now with a monster 30GB for $65 - now that should get you catching all the Pokèmon on the go [Ausdroid]
Australia Now Has a Cyber Minister [Gizmodo Australia]
Nintendo Classic Mini Revealed: Coming In November [Press Start Australia]
Microsoft wins landmark appeal over seizure of foreign emails [Reuters]
Pokemon Go sends kids to notorious gay beat [News.com.au]
Open casting call posted for Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' reality TV show [9to5Mac]
Rumor: Apple latest bidder for Formula 1 race series [AppleInsider]
"Ghostbusters" Sequel "Will Happen" Says Sony [Dark Horizons]
"Star Wars Story" Films Skip Opening Crawl [Dark Horizons]
iView Is Now Streaming Every Live ABC TV Channel [Gizmodo Australia]
A Rick and Morty VR game is coming to the HTC Vive [The Verge]
China Embraces Kenny G as 'Going Home' Music [Rolling Stone]
Ghostbusters (2016) [IMDb]
Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.
Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted
Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir
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If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.
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2h 24min
July 11, 2016 Electronic Voting In Australia, Pokémon Go Nuts & 50 Years Of Play School | Episode 159
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
'Mind-blowingly awesome' Telstra phishing scam detected [CIO Australia]
Customers slugged a 'Telstra tax' of up to 92 per cent despite ongoing network troubles [The Age]
Vodafone Is Showing Off Its Network By Broadcasting A Live Radio Show [Gizmodo Australia]
The ACCC Is Deciding The Future Of ADSL Regulation [Gizmodo Australia]
FBI Recommends No Charges For Hillary Clinton In Email Server Case [NPR]
Pokemon GO's unexpected side effect: injuries [The Age]
Pokemon Go player finds dead body in Wyoming river while searching for a Pokestop [BBC News]
Australia is ready for electronic voting, says internet industry body [CNET Australia]
Apple To Launch First iOS Developer Academy In October At University Of Naples [Tech Times]
Apple will double 'iPhone 7' minimum storage to 32GB [AppleInsider]
Street View car arson suspect says he felt Google had been 'watching' him [The Guardian]
Play School celebrates 50 years of children's entertainment [Sunshine Coast Daily]
I have to vent. I watched the new ghostbusters last night. [Imgur]
Chris Evans quits as main host of BBC's Top Gear [ABC News]
The 10 most complained about ads of 2016 (so far) [The Age]
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1h 42min
July 04, 2016 Guvera Confirms Local Redundancies, Tesla's Autopilot Accident & Derryn Hinch Claims Senate Seat | Episode 158
Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.
Show Notes:
5 Melbourne Podcasts You Need To Be Listening To [Triple M]
IBM announces national cybersecurity facility in Canberra [Delimiter]
Telstra announces network investment after months of issues for customers [EFTM]
Telstra outage brought down banks, hospitals, airline [ZDNet]
Guvera confirms local redundancies, downplays employee concerns about entitlements [Mumbrella]
Tesla under investigation after first Autopilot-related death [Engadget]
Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says [The Guardian]
Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags [The Verge]
Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Paper News Reading App [Fortune]
Spotify Accuses Apple of Using App Store Approval Process as a 'Weapon to Harm Competitors' [MacRumors]
Apple Slams Spotify, Says App Already Violates App Store Rules [BuzzFeed]
Apple Ignores the Real Issue in Response to Spotify Complaints About App Store Rejection [The Mary Sue]
Apple reportedly in talks to acquire Jay Z's Tidal music service [The Verge]
Apple granted patent for way to stop iPhones from taking photos at concerts or sensitive locations [9to5Mac]
'Lost in Space' reboot ordered by Netflix [Entertainment Weekly]
Jessica Williams Exits 'The Daily Show' To Headline Comedy Series [The Huffington Post]
Derryn Hinch claims Senate seat [TV Tonight]
YouTube Has Nuked The Dash Cam Owners Australia Channel [Gizmodo Australia]
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1h 39min

FAQs about Geeks Interrupted:

How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.