Speaking in Tech

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to cover the new Twitter scam, TikTok's lobbying effort, the CIA's new bag, ARM's overreach and more.

00:00 – Travel 05:00 – The latest hoax on Twitter 11:30 – TikTok gets into politics 21:00 – CIA gets more hax 29:00 – Apple fights with the Irish 33:30 - ARM's customers jacked 37:00 – Dude claims some things hard for women 45:00 – Amazon's work from home plans

This week, Peter and Melissa join forces to talk about Dell's potential VMware spinoff, Facebook's plans to ditch Oculus Go, Segway ending production, Amazon's new dev offering and more.

00:00 – Happy Treason Day 03:00 – Dell taking VMware for a spin 10:00 – Facebook yeets "affordable" VR 14:20 – Segway going away 18:15 – Using bots to fight the endless cancellation hold 23:00 – China's independent GPS 25:30 – Hate to code? Amazon has honey for you 28:00 – Digital Transformation finds your used car

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) talk about YouTube's $100m to support Black contributors and users; Google's countersuit against Sonos; Facebook's misstep on Workplace; Twitter's takedown of accounts supporting the Chinese government; Microsoft, IBM and Amazon on facial recognition technology; Kahoot's success; an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy; and more! 00:00 Seattle vs England 03:09 YouTube gets generous 08:17 Google vs Sonos: like The War of the Roses except no Danny DeVito 12:59 Facebook Workplace won't be unionising anytime soon 16:53 How many Twitter accounts does China need anyway 20:57 Facial freedom? 25:59 Kahoot's a unicorn 29:27 UK to Facebook: Giphy might be iffy 33:20 Conferences and customers

This week Peter and Melissa get together to discuss Amazon hiring, Google's pending search changes, a few lawsuits, Apple's latest acquisition and more.

00:00 – Restrictions and Resumptions 04:00 – Amazon FT hiring boom 06:30 – Google quietly judges your search for UX 12:00 – Google faces a suit from Arizona 15:00 – Apple messes with the wrong accountant 17:00 – Apple acquires more ML for Siri 22:30 – 6Eating your WiFi 26:00 – Autonomous drug delivery kicks off 30:00 – Birthday!

This week, Melissa (@soltiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) discuss retrocomputing; Google and Apple's COVID-19 contact tracing system; opposition to the UK's own equivalent; Amazon entering the hot food delivery market in India; Intel's acquisition of Killer Networking; Microsoft's acquisition of Softomotive; the resurgence of the drive-in movie; Samsung's new military phone; Facebook's war on fake profiles; Netflix giving lapsed users their money back; and more! 00:00 Lockdowning, Zooming and Teamsing 01:55 Peter goes retro 04:13 Melissa's many pursuits 05:38 Google and Apple have your number 09:55 GCHQ: what can you do? 14:48 Bezos's fashion fail 18:20 Couchbase ain't nuthin' but a G thang 22:30 Intel's got a Killer 26:44 Microsoft gets robotic 28:23 Forget your IMAX, drive-in movies are back 29:43 Samsung's strategy is Tactical 32:15 Facebook fixes fakes – fact? 33:55 Nix Netflix? Keep your cash @speakingintech

On this week's @SPEAKINGinTECH, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) discuss the new version of Zoom; Telegram's MAU milestone; a buoyant set of figures for Citrix; another nail in Adobe Flash's coffin; good news for Intel; an alleged hacking attempt by Vietnam on China; a new home for IBM Watson; a look back at a funny news story from 2012; and more! 00:00 What we did last week (surprise, surprise)... 03:26 Zoom versions up - is it a good thing? 06:57 Telegram just not being WhatsApp seems to work 10:58 Citrix: thin client, fat wallet 16:26 Adobe Flash gets dumped by LibreOffice 18:41 Intel just can't stop selling those chips 21:44 Vietnam has a pop at China, allegedly 26:20 Watson says goodbye to Baker Street 29:05 When 'non-commercial use' is as commercial as you can get 30:48 What we're doing next week (surprise, surprise)...

The week's tech news stories are dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, although Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@petersmallbone) do manage to find some other stories out there too. The pair talk about Everlywell's new coronavirus test that you can do at home; Elon Musk's offer to make ventilators; Microsoft's success with Teams; NASA's misstep on cloud egress charges; IBM mainframe and Chinese server sales on the up; ransomware crooks not targetting healthcare; the iPad Pro getting tooled up much like a Surface Pro; and more!

00:00 If it hadn't already got real, it just did 07:02 Everlywell lets you do it at home 10:02 Elon vents... in a good way 13:37 Microsoft's a Teams player 21:12 NASA realises that what goes up must come down 24:13 Life is great - if you're IBM or a Chinese server maker 27:18 Ransomware loves healthcare 30:23 Battle of the Pros 34:17 What we're doing next week (no surprises...)

This week, Peter and Melissa get together to talk about Waymo's latest funding round, Atrium's shut down, Let's Encrypt's bug fix, Honeywell's quantum computing play, SETI's pause on new data and more!

00:00 – Peter has nearly caught them all 05:00 – Conferences got it 08:00 – Waymo is too busy getting paid 13:30 – Atrium kicks it 19:25 – Let's Encrypt catches a bug 22:00 – Honeywell's new cure-all 27:30 – SETI calling in

This week, Melissa (@solutiongeek) and Peter (@PeterSmallbone) are joined by Jerry Vasquez of Liquid Web (@LiquidWeb). The trio talk Mac vs Windows on malware; Google removing the ToTok messaging app from its Play store; Russia banning Tutanota secure email; what's happening with enterprise SSD and HDD sales; the latest on Xerox's attempted acquisition of HP Inc; and more! 00:00 AWOL in Seattle 02:02 Jerry joins in 03:20 Mac beats Windows... on malware 07:14 ToTok gets the chop 09:45 Tutanota is no Russian doll 13:01 SSDs are sooo last quarter 16:56 Xerox gets grubby with HP Inc 22:12 Jerry talks Liquid Web 35:15 What next week brings