Tech Talk

The geeks talk about Rogue chatbots being deleted in China after questioning the Communist Party, a US firm microchipping its employees, Germany’s Volocopter's development of its electric flying taxis, today's King Of The Crowd which features Nope, a sound blocker and webcam cover for protecting your conversational and visual privacy, Nvidia using AI to create 3D graphics better than human artists and dragon's blood being used to save lives.

1:00 - Rogue Chatbots Deleted In China After Questioning Communist Party

4:08 - A Us Firm Is Microchipping Staff – Here’s What They Should Fear

6:49 - Germany’s Volocopter Raises $30 Million From Daimler For Its Flying Autonomous Taxi

10:21 - King Of The Crowd: Nope - Sound Blocker And Webcam Cover

13:31 - Nvidia Uses Ai To Create 3d Graphics Better Than Human Artists Can

16:20 - On The Trail Of Dragons With Blood That Can Save People’s Lives

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Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage continues his never ending quest to ask questions

about absolutely everything. He refuses to admit he’s scraping the bottom of the barrel.

This week we’re heading off into space. But, should we?

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In this episode, we speak to Praveen Rajan, head of DiGi-X to talk about how the Value Innovation Platform or VIP has spurred their digital adoption journey. Alongside Mohd Razaleigh of MDEC, to talk about the Value Innovation Platform and how MDEC is connecting the dots around businesses in their digital journey.

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PyCon APAC 2017 is happening here in Kuala Lumpur soon! Jeff Sandhu talks on the phone with PyCon APAC 2017's keynote speaker, Jessica McKellar, an American software engineer as she walks us through her journey of teaching inmates at the San Quentin State Prison in California.

For more on Python, listen to Part 2 of the podcast featuring Luis Miguel Sanchez here: Changing The World With Python - Part 2

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Karamjit Singh, Anushia Kandasivam and Chong Jinn Xiung from Digital New Asia.com (DNA) talk about:

0:23 - Stripe Integrates Alipay and WeChat Pay

3:24 - Evolution of Tech Display

8:34 - Ticketing Platform Hapz

11:59 - Important of Material Design

15:44 - Startupbootcamp FinTech Hackathon

19:18 - HPE Recently Introduces IOT Application

27:18 - AI Saves Lives

30:02 - Hotshotz Asia 2017

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Should we or shouldn’t we? Last week Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage couldn’t make up his mind and this week he’s even more confused - To take a pill that controls your behaviours, or to implant AI into your brain? Technology is very nearly here and we need to understand the implications of implementing it before we start.

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The geeks talk about Toyota's new electric car, donating your voice for Siri, the Roomba robotic vacuum leveraging on collected data from homes, today's Down In The Dumps, unfortunately, is LoopBall, the world's first Bluetooth connected sports ball and a revolution in nanabots - Tiny swimming Michael Phelps?

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Last week, we heard how Rainmaking Innovations is partnering up with MDEC to drive digital adoption here in Malaysia. Today, we speak to Rafe Azsnal of MDEC together with Andrew Tan of The Co to talk about how they are working together to make Malaysia’s dream of being a hub for the startup development a reality.

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Nokia phones is making a comeback in the age of iOS and Androids. Albeit under the HMD Global company, a Finnish company that licensed the rights to produce Nokia phones, brings a trio of Nokia-branded Android devices that are designed to cater for the mid-range of the smartphone market. This battle for the mid-range smarpthones will surely be heated up now. Here with me today to talk about the birth of these new devices is Vijay Thangavelu, Country Manager for Malaysia and Myanmar, HMD Global.

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The dream of living in a smart city with water level monitoring, traffic control, intelligent street lighting, smart parking, smart waste disposal, environmental and infrastructure monitoring can all be realised with (LoRa) - low power, long range wide area network technology. With this technology, Malaysia will be connected more than ever and may possibly be the first to fully achieve the dream of a smart city amongst the South East Asian countries. Today we have the two collaborators, Mahadhir Aziz, Head of Technology Hub Development Division Cyberview and Gerard Lim, Chief Executive Officer, Atilze Sdn Bhd to talk about this LoRa and the dream of turning Cyberjaya into a fully connected smart city.

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