Tech Talk

The geeks talk about the colour-changing tattoos that can monitor your health, the successful voyage of the Boaty McBoatface submarine, Kangaroo confuses Volvo's driverless car, Facebook in talks to produce TV-quality show, Gmail's offers a range of AI-generated responses, the Bluesmart Series 2: Smart luggage system and Feather, the furniture rental business.

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The modern world has many ridiculous riddles, such as when to squeeze and when to juice, or when is a bus not a bus. It seems that the tech industry has an amazing ability to reinvent things that were perfectly fine to begin with and therein lies the problem - Has the tech world run out of things to invent? Have we misinterpreted convenience with invention to the extent where what we claim to be “world’s first” transitions into becoming global effluents? Here is Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage's take on innovative solutions and the reinvention of the wheel.

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Earlier this year, our neighbours down south were affected by a data breach at the Ministry of Defence in Singapore, executed by breaching the web-connected computer terminals, and together with the recent WannaCry episode, it has left enterprises in the region wondering about their organisation’s security. Building a zero-day threat defence is crucial and to explain further, we speak to Francis Teo, the Southeast Asia Regional Director of Hillstone Networks.

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Jeff Sandhu & Umapagan looks back at the month of June and talks about Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, CES Asia 2017 happened in China, Apple’s WWDC 2017, why iOS 11 is putting Apple in the right direction and highlights from this year’s E3.

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Jeff Sandhu & Umapagan looks back at the month of June and picks our their highlights of the month in tech.

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The geeks talk about the launch delay of a KFC chicken sandwich to the edge of space, the time for e-SIM, Amazon Prime Wardrobe that lets you try clothes before you buy, a solution to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday and the King of the Crowd features UrbaNext, that could convert any bike to electric in a minute by just changing your front wheel.

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This morning there will be no robot overlords trying eradicate humanity, no dark computer intelligence trying to beat us at mahjong and no psychotic vending machines waiting to lecture us on sustainability. Today, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is taking us on a road trip.

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A few weeks ago, the world was rocked by the malicious WannaCry cyberattack that infected over 200,000 machines, including logistics giant FedEx, Spanish telco Telefonica and the British National Health Service. Just as governments and cybersecurity vendors were reassuring the world that the worst was over and the situation was under control, reports have emerged that another cybersecurity attack is underway, and that this could be even bigger and have worse repercussions than WannaCry. We speak to David Allott, Cyber Defense Director APAC at McAfee to talk about Adylkuzz and the threat it brings to organisations.

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BFM's resident gamers, Jeff Sandhu & Richard Bradbury, speak to Michelle Tan of Fundeavour.com and learn the trade to be a professional gamer as they discuss the highs and lows of this year's E3 2017.

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The geeks talk about GrabHeli in Jakarta, how chatbots learn to negotiate and drive a hard bargain, a type of bacteria powered by light that could one day help survive heart attack and the King of the Crowd features Mixxtape, a nostalgic and iconic glory makes a comeback - a fully functional Bluetooth music player.

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