Tech Talk

In the 2nd part of our Disrupted World series, MSP dismisses Avengers Endgame and looks to The CW’s The 100 for a solution to our privacy problems. It was supposed to be a celebration of Star Wars for May 4th but we couldn’t think of anything that hasn’t already been done. That’s how Disruptive we are.

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Is Artificial Intelligence taking over our jobs or can AI assist us to be better at our jobs? Whichever way you look at it, you can’t deny how far we’ve come. These days we hear things like Reinforcement Learning and Machine Learning. So how would the future working life look with artificial intelligence. We speak to Dr Marko Kesti, CEO of Playgain and Research Director at the University of Lapland in Finland to talk about the quality of life in the present and the future with artificial intelligence.

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The future of automobiles is a scary one as more EV’s are blowing up in public. Should we be afraid? And have you ever wondered how NASA probes send data from Mars back to Earth? We have no clue either!

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It’s the entrepreneurial equivalent of a middle finger. Disruption is more than a tech bro buzzword. It’s a destructive force that we’ll be paying the price of for generations to come.  

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Sometimes, a hero that saves lives doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves especially today with the advent of technology. PIES for example, not the food, but PIES stands for Platform Intrusion Emergency Stop. It’s a system that immediately halts an approaching train upon detecting an object on the track. Now you may think just how many people would accidentally fall on a train track; you’d be surprised. Just last year, there was a pregnant woman who fell on the LRT track, but thankfully, PIES was there to rescue here. Here with me today to talk about this technology is Lian Wah Seng, the CEO of Azti.

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On this week’s Geeks we look at the big players in the tech space and ask if they have broken their social contract with us. eBay become trending topic because of dinosaurs and Matt claims a Black Summer is his King of Kultur. Rounding off this package of positivity, our Geek Tune this week is Everybody Hates You by Courtney Barnett.

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Is it time to start feeding our meat addiction with a new approach? It ends up in a pan. Why not grow it in one? Advances in biotechnology, food processing and changing consumer demand are putting us on the cusp of a cultured meat and plant-sourced burger revolution.

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Some estimates that by the of 2019, Malaysia will have close to 700 malls nationwide. MallDash is a startup that calls itself the Waze and Google for malls. So gone are the days walking around every mile in a mall to look a specific item or getting lost in the millions of retail square feet.

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On Geeks Squawk this week, we talk about arguably the worlds-first approved drone delivery business that takes off in Canberra. Followed by, Facebook using AI to inform users to stop sending messages to dead friends.

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While parents worry about self-harming memes like Momo, are their own actions creating a generation of kids destined to self-destruct?

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