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It turns out Ravin has an alter ego as a DJ! We walk through how technology has changed the art of music and how we're able to do so much more because of the digitization of music.

Listener feedback episode! Scott gave us some more information on the Mirai botnet that we talked about in episode 7. We give a quick recap of a DDOS attack and provide this real world example.

Ever wonder why old technology just feels broken? Why do so many products out there feel like they are stuck in 2004? Kiernan and Ravin walk through the dark world of technical debt and why its hard to keep everything updated. This is, truly, why we can't have nice things.

From idea to production - how the heck does something actually get made? Ravin walks us through the process of mechanical design and the different steps that are taken to create all of the wonderful products that surround us.

How does software control a computer? How can computers behave differently because of software? Why can't my laptop run phone apps? A splattering of questions answered in this overview of software and computation.

DDOS Attacks - those annoying things that can take down a website for a few hours. From botnets to the future of warfare, Kiernan and Ravin discuss the ins and outs of how these attacks work, why people want to do them, and what the future may look like. We don't provide instructions to do it yourself - that exercise is left up to the listener.

57 years ago Yuri Gagarin became the first human to leave and renter Earth's atmosphere. To celebrate Ravin gives us a brief overview of the history of space travel and the challenges that we still have to overcome. Good news - its getting cheaper to get to space.

Bitcoin, its the new digital commodity that everyone is losing money on! But how does it work? How are we are able to have a digital commodity in a world where we can just copy-paste everything? The answer is the technology that bitcoin is built on - blockchain! Here we talk about the underpinning of bitcoin and how its technology can be useful outside of digital trading.

Have you heard about the new trend in cloud computing, called serverless? Did you also know that this name is terrible because we actually mean that your code runs on all the servers, everywhere, at once? Kiernan and Ravin jump into the topic and go over why its important now and how its going to impact the future, and yes, drones are somehow involved.

AI is in everything right now. What makes something Artificially Intelligent, how do you make it so, and how do you use it? Ravin and Kiernan recap the practical history of AI, pull back the nonsense of the buzz word, and discuss where AI is useful.