Self-taught Novice

This week in a shock move criticised by many, the Central Bank of Nigeria banned all crypto transactions. The boys in this episode discuss at length, what this might mean for a country that was only beginning to fully take advantage of cryptocurrency and Africa's biggest crypto trader by volume. Additionally, news of Nigeria failing to meet standards for Pfizer emergency vaccine doses as well as chatter about the new app ; CLUBHOUSE taking exclusive audio content to a different level is looked at in this episode.

It's been quite the week on Wallstreet and in tech. Retail investors wreak havoc on hedge funds having short positions on stocks like AMC, Gamestop, Nokia and Blackberry, forcing them to bleed out billions in just days and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are sparring over who gets to place satellites into orbit. As always the boys try to cut out the noise on these stories in this episode.

Fresh off of a 3-month break, the boys are back with the stuff on the self-taught novice podcast. In this episode, we talk of what's in store for this fourth season of the podcast, the year 2020 in review, and other teasers.

In this episode of STN the boys discuss purchase decisions when getting a laptop. They look at operating systems, RAM sizes, memory and whether or not you need a dedicated GPU.

In this episode of STN, Eli joins the boys as they discuss some of the week's biggest stories like EgyptAir partnering Ghana Gov't to create a new national carrier, AOC going on twitch to encourage people to register and vote, the new all electric Supertruck from Hummer with a "crab mode" and the US government's lawsuit against Google.

In this episode of STN, the boys talk Apple event, Facebook's surprising plan to completely political ads, Slack introducing stories feature for users working from home, Microsoft Edge stepping up the browser wars against Chrome with some exciting new features and PS5 trademark debacle in India makes headlines.

It's the big 50! In this episode of STN, it's a full house as the boys are joined by some pioneering members of the team that made it all possible. They talk about everything. From the early days of the company, podcast , big projects  and experiences all in commemoration of half a century of published audio content.

In this episode, the boys give special attention  to these local stories in technology. Government collaborates big with Huawei to construct 2000 rural star sites for remote parts of the country, NSS acquires drones for personnel to bolster production on their farms and DVLA chalks up their improved operational capacity to investment in technology.

In this episode of STN, the boys discuss Amazon  doubling down on consumer hardware innovation by releasing new game-changing tech for the home together  with the surprise LUNA announcement , its latest foray into the cloud gaming space. Microsoft Outlook goes kaput for hours globally and also latest forecasts show that Samsung is set to take an unassailable lead over Huawei in the upcoming future.

With social media almost replacing basic communication, we find ourselves in a world where tech companies who are owners of these platforms are in a unique position to censor speech and decide who can and cannot be heard which is beginning to worry alot of people. In this episode, the boys discuss their thoughts on censorship and  free speech with special emphasis on Joe Rogan getting cancelled.