Tech Talk

Mr Happy. Little Miss Fun. Mr Daydream. Little Miss Sunshine. Mr Cheerful. Little Miss Brainy. Fun Friday can only offer you a Mr Grumpy who thinks he’s a Mr Clever. That’s still better than his drag alter ego, Little Miss Fabulous. Today, Kulturpop’s doom prophet Matt Armitage asks: should you, really?

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The geeks talk about a way to stop autoplaying videos in Facebook, Bluetooth gets a big upgrade to complement smart homes, robots will make the best fake news, Amazon moves into meal-kit market and the King of The Crowd features Spinbox, a DIY portable Turntable kit which makes vinyl easy and fun.

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In the new digital economy, traditional ways of running a business are swiftly becoming outdated. Disruption is happening across every sector. If large businesses do not make efforts to innovate their own business - someone else will. One way to start embracing digital adoption is through collaboration with digital companies, adopting the right culture in the organisation to drive productivity. We speak to Muhundhan of MDEC and Jordan of Rainmaking Innovation about making their way into digital adoption.

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The recent WannaCry malware has thrown a spotlight on the issue of cyber security and many are now asking just how cyber secure their nation is, and what are the main malware threats that businesses and consumers should be aware of. Recently Malwarebytes, a leading malware remediation solutions providers, released its Malaysian State of Malware report that examined more than 1 billion malware infections across almost 200 countries. We learn about the threats that looms businesses around the region and how to stay protected against malware.

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

0:18 - Gaming – Malaysia’s Silent Religion

10:26 - Julo Raises Seed Funding Led By Skystar

16:40 - ‘You May Become Irrelevant In The Blink Of An Eye’

21:38 - Mulah Pivots To Establish Foothold In Malaysia

29:33 - Analysts Divided On Telco M&As

36:02 - Signature Market Attracts Record 161 ECF Investors

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Your IOT devices, like your IP Security Cameras and such are an open invitation to cyber security risks. According to Akamai's State of the Internet/security Q1 2017 report, Mirai DNS Water Torture Attacks, a DNS query flood included in Mirai malware was the extremely prevalent in the first quarter attacking the financial services industry. Michael Smith, Akamai's Chief Technology Officer for Security in Asia Pacific & Japan goes through the report and what you should be know about the state of the Internet.

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It's a byte-sized Game Time episode as Jeff Sandhu games alone in the studio and talks about:

0:53 - Wild West Online Gameplay Demo

2:56 - Oculus Rift Bundle Promo

5:54 - Jump, A New Subscription Based Gaming Platform

7:31 - No Man's Sky Big Anniversary Update

9:30 - Is Gaming Actually Bad For You?

14:40 - Star Wars Battlefront II Multiplayer Demo, Out Soon.. With A Caveat!

16:38 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Full Release

18:41 - Facebook Ties Up With PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds For Live Streaming

20:01 - Half Life Still Gets An Update After 19 Years

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The tech industry has been responsible for many miracles over the last two decades but nothing has been quite as meteoric as the rise of Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. As listeners to BFM, you might think you’re getting Matt free, but you’re ignoring the mental and psychological his words are having on you. Today, it’s time to pay the price.

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The geeks talk about the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), also known as the 'car-eating' bus in China, AI that produces images in unconventional styles, Kodak's smartphone- Ektra, how AI can identify colours by studying bees, old brains can't hear similar sounds but a drug can change that, and down in the dumps goes to Sound Heroes: a bluetooth speaker of the future.

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First came steam and water power; then electricity and assembly lines; then computerization. And now we have the 4th industrial revolution, some call it Industry 4.0, but whatever you call it, it represents the combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Systems. It’s the idea of smart factories in which machines are augmented with web connectivity and connected to a system that can visualise the entire production chain and make decisions on its own. Today in the studio we talk to Yang Berbahagia Dato’ CM Vignaesvaran Jeyandran about how the 4th industrial revolution is taking place in Malaysia and we should be doing to embrace it.

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