Tech Overlords

We’re back! This episode we delve deep into some more dark and sinister parts of the internet, and take a few breaths discussing some cool new tech and news.

Brayden is considering buying the new Nintendo Switch. It starts down the rabbit hole of old school gaming memories.

Brayden set up his Logitech Harmony and Alexa automation system better than it was. How to make Alexa work better by teaching it some new skills. He also considers his next automation purchase (emphasis on the auto).

Are you having the most amazing conversations on one of your favorite dating app? Is your next date going to be a real meeting with a regular Cyrano de Bergerac in silicon?   

Sansar the new VR Second Life to come. Now you might be able to really escape reality with virtual reality and maybe even go to work too, without even leaving your home!

Are you kids playing a game called Roblox? You might want to take a close look at the chats in that game. There is a new type of enemy in the game and it’s not the kind of enemy you want your kids to mess with.

Are you good at Sudoku puzzles? Do you have a really smart friend who suddenly fell silent?  You might want to be aware of Cicada 3301.  

Weird suicides. Lets address the elephant in the room. Blue Whale is a new sadistic game taking advantage of teenagers.

Can you Google? This episode David and Brayden explain some of their more nefarious skills at Google searching.

Are you on a metered connection? Do you fight with the other 6 members of your household over a measly 3mbps internet speed to catch the next episode of Breaking Bad? Microsoft has the answer for you! Now that they have reduced the size of their Windows Updates by up to 65%!

That’s right! they can now justify circumventing your option to delay updates due to a metered connection and kill your bandwidth without your consent! Thanks Microsoft!

You want the internet on the smallest of thumb drives? Can’t find a place to put your amazing complete collection of every Bollywood movie ever made? Scientists at Columbie University have increased DNA storage capacity to meet your needs! They already encoded an entire french movie on a DNA strand to prove it!

Are you having trouble remembering what the pythagorean theorem is supposed to do? Elon Musk’s explains how the Richard Feynman semantic tree method helps teach you how to remember by understanding.

Do you dream of taking your significant other on a fantastic out of this world vacation? Do you want to have a fantasy LED lit dinner under the brightest moonlit evenings every night with the captain of the ship? Elon Musk has the best vacation cruise for you!

PassivDom’s 3D printed houses. Don’t want to have a big carbon footprint? Want your house made of carbon instead? These are the houses for you!

Do you live in London? Do you know how to read English? You might not be able to work for Uber, or anyone else for that matter.

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We’re back for another exciting discussion on tech related news articles from around the internet world.

We discuss some thoughts on self driving cars and what happens when they go awry.

What’s causing your electronic device to crash? Muons, Pions and Neutrons, oh my!

Dust off your tinfoil hat, David tells us about flying drones stealing your information.

Wireless power transfer, Disney does it all!

Robo Taxes, Bill Gates weighs in.

PayPal raises rates, as though they don’t make enough money!

Kim Dotcom is probably going to be extradited, but they aren’t sure for what crime.

3D printers printing 2D printers? Has technology come full circle?

Nvidia vs AMD, which would you choose? How far would you go to support your favorite GPU?

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Disaster in Montana. We’re all tired of snow right now.

We watched Arrival.

Duo Lingo, do you eat spiders?

Twitter, it changes your words.

Dave shares how to speed up your learning. What’s better, quantity or quality?

Samsung recycling center catches fire. How do you choose your next phone. We choose the ones that don’t explode.

Facebook trying to get into your living room and homogenizing their trending news.

Darkweb pages hacked and taken down. Is internet vigilantism the right thing to do?

Are you being bugged by Windows Support scammers, there is a phone bot that screws with phone scammers for you!

What day was it when Washington wasn’t actually watching you?

Your TV knows what you’re doing. Vizio is paying for it though.

What the heck is quantum network security for anyway?

Intel’s new Kaby Lake cpus, can they go faster? All you have to do is hit them with a hammer!

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Doping in silicon valley? At least Usain Bolt won’t have to give up another gold medal.

Dave’s been addicted to Duolingo and shares some thoughts on modern language translation.

So apparently you can get away with fishing for passwords and hacking private accounts because you’re depressed.

Do you have a super power? We know some folks who have a few interesting ones.

Today we learn that Nathanael is not into jump scares and scary movies, but Dave has something to say about scary games. Resident Evil looks pretty good.

Blade Runner fan film coming out. A fan film that competes with big budget films.

Lavabit encrypted e-mail service. Do you really want to delete e-mail? This is the place to go.

Have you been looking for a new video card for your gaming system? We share a few tips for getting a good deal. Newegg has gone insane.

Ransomware on your door locks?

Getting tired of reading? Dave shares a cool text to speech reader for you.

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We’re back after a couple week break.

Brayden is well again and Nathanael’s house is warm! Dave is finally able to connect with Connectify!

Nathanael ordered but didn’t buy the Google Pixel. Listen to the show to find out why.

Fallout 4 Computers used to depict Russian Hacking on CNN.

Mechs are real! Korea has finally started the futuristic expectations of Mech Warrior and MechAssault as a real thing.

You’d think a 2TB flash drive would somehow be heavy! It’s too big!

Police drones being weaponized with tasers? We guess falconry will be a new hobby in the coming years.

CES happened. Corporate espionage to follow.

Autonomous room mobiles? You can procrastinate your plans to visit your friends right up to their front door!

Microsoft has begun to get ahead of it’s competitors in the race to AI sentience.

Torrents used to be the most anonymous way of downloading, but they aren’t anymore?

Rudy needs to update his website.

Shadow Brokers stole windows hacker tools from Equation group. Who’s got 700 Bitcoins?

Graphine is Nathanael’s favorite thing. It’s stronger than steel!

Did you bust piston in your 1941 Vuaxhall ragtop and can’t find a replacement part at Autozone? 3D Metal printers might just be your answer!

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Happy New Year!

David is an android nerd and has a new game he wants to play, Quantic Dream’s “Detroit Become Human.” Also we talk about information on Crackdown 3 gameplay engine.

Tricorders and breathalyzers (or artificial dog noses) that can tell you what’s wrong with you, like we needed to know.

Samsung’s Note 7s still causing problems even only in spirit.

Samsung forcing ads onto it’s smart televisions through software updates.

Comcast Xfinity repair truck causing accidents update.

Alexa might know who killed you? Almost any kind of tech can be used to know what you’re doing.

Cyanogen is closed. Lineage OS rises from the ashes.

Foxconn replacing most of their workers with robots. We go pretty deep in the idea of what do you do with all these displaced workers now. We throw a little Star Trek to lighten the subject a bit.

Carrie Fisher we will miss you!

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Merry holidays! And a happy new Christmas this year everybody!

Dave has been hiding out in Siberia lately, by Siberia we mean Skyrim. In the wintery cold of his home in the woods.

Brayden has been experience the fact that Amazon’s Echo Dot just doesn’t tell him what he wants to know.

Nathanael has been investigating new games to play; Eve Online has been exciting lately.

Are you excited to not have to talk to anyone at all when you go out shopping?

This episode is chocked full of very large science fiction esque battle stations. Want to know what it will cost you to manage a Death Star? We got you covered.

David gives us some cool sugar hacks. We especially liked the Raspberry Pi.

Internet Explorer, the only browser where trojan viruses make you pay it forward. Look out for the Popcorn Time Ransomeware Pyramid scheme.

ESET reveals Stegano exploit banner ad image trojan virus.

Samsung is going to brick your Galaxy Note 7. We discuss if it is morally right to unilaterally decide if you should use a phone you bought even if it is dangerous.

Think Tony Stark is the only guy who can have a personal assistant mechanical arm? Well now you can have one too with the Dobot 3D printing personal assistant.

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Hey everyone! We’re back with Dave, Brayden, and Nathanael.

We’re all trying to recover from Thanksgiving and all the crazy deals this week. Brayden is getting excited about the new home automation stuff he just ordered.

He’s also having trouble deciding what 3D printer he wants to replace his old one with.

We put on our thinking caps and try to decide the best way to battle the fake news on social media sites lately.

Are you getting weird friend requests on your favorite social media site? Look out for malware that spreads through just receiving an image.

It’s been one of those weeks where we’re all drooling over super futuristic tech. Dave is going to turn his car into Kit from Knight Rider. You can turn your Macbook into Kit too.

Are you having trouble with losing your cat to these new fangled electric cars sneaking up on them? Well coming soon your car is going to be making new noises, and Brayden has got some great ideas of what they should sound like.

If you’re trying to decide what you’re going to get to upgrade your new computer, we have been hearing some new rumors on the AMD Zen stuff coming out next year.

Little did we know, Thermaltake has a whole 3d printing database.

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Hey everyone, we’re back after a little unscheduled hiatus, and we have Nathanael back! At least we think he’s back, he’s still not sure. Kurt was busy this week, hopefully we’ll hear from him soon.

Dave starts us out excited about his new edible shoes. He has plans to rid the world of hunger and blisters.

Sadly for David we learn today that energy drinks give you Hepatitis, gotta get those B vitamins.

Carbon nanotubes are making the strongest silk ever!

Where can we find a drone that picks up sausages for us? We were confused about this article too.

Not that we really care, No Man’s Sky is still making waves in news. Are we going to see a No Man’s Skyrim?

Dave gives us his opinion about why he doesn’t want to play the new Skyrim HD remaster.

Blizzard and Google artificial intelligence Starcraft II, it learns from its experiences against humans. Some AIs never learn.

We shine our tinfoil hats today as Dave tells about high frequency supercookies, not like the kind your grandma used to make.

Your WiFi hand signals leak your passwords. Tech this week is getting creepier and creepier.

If you’re thinking of hacking your friendly neighborhood IT guy’s grandma’s computer we’ve got some tips for you.

Even though Brayden doesn’t want to about rumors, we talk about the rumors about the new AMD Zen cpus, what they can do and when we can get them.

This week in FOX News, the Roundest Object ever recorded.

Snooper’s Charter, we bask in the thought that we don’t live in the UK right now and our data is definitely safer than theirs.

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Kurt is back! Nathanael is gone again! .... Lately it seems we can't get everyone together at the same time. Next week I think we will all be here though. It's looking like Kurt will be able to fit us into his busy schedule again so we should have him on the show regularly again as well.

Kurt tells us about the classes he's been taking for solar technology. Some of Tesla's solar tech isn't as good as you might have thought it was compared to what else is out there.

There is a controversial law that can allow a person to be charged with someone that isn't a crime if they can prove you were using it to engage in criminal activity.

The Jester is back at it again! This time taking down a Russian website in retaliation to the DNC hack as well as the recent DDoS attack on Dyn.

It's interesting how old tech doesn't really come up in value very much like an antique of other varieties would. Most old computers might come up in price a little bit but not to crazy amounts of money for what you're getting. Of course Apple is the except with their original iPhone going for as much as $8,000 now.

Soylent may not be people, but there is something in it that is making people sick. They are having to recall their second product in recent weeks due to more people having adverse reactions when ingesting their products.

Denon is going to be bringing Amazon Echo to their HEOS wireless speaker system. I'm excited for this because this is the exact solution I've been looking to find for when I start implementing automation into my house in the near future.

We didn't cover a lot of news this week cuz we spent a lot of time catching up with Kurt and talking about random stuff. Kurt's audio doesn't sound as good this week because I just used his Skype audio because he wasn't recording yet for the first part of the show when he was talking about some really interesting stuff.

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