New technologies are invading the world of test engineering. Johan Steyn is a lead architect in automation in South Africa and an authority on quality engineering. He joins our podcast from Johannesburg. The use of AI in test engineering and test automation is explained with the analogy of an old car with a new F1 motor: Go fast and break fast including an exponential increase in maintenance with a set of expert engineers. :)

Listen with us and learn about the history of CAPTCHA as well as servers that boil liquids for cooling purposes.

Ron Meyer is managing director of the Center for Strategy & Leadership, an international consulting and management development organization, dedicated to improving companies' competences in the areas of strategic thinking, leadership, entrepreneurship, business innovation and change management. We connected a tech outlook with making strategic business choices. In this podcast we find out that the answer to a good strategic tech outlook is probably that there is no answer. A reassuring thought for some maybe. Ron explains strategic choices if your company should "marry" or should be the "bachelor". How this holds for a clothing company compared to a car manufacturer is what you will find out in the 18th episode of the Technology Labs podcast.

The tech items present in this podcast are:

AI Could Soon Write Code Based on Ordinary Language

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-write-code-ordinary-language/

Visual chart of the levels of autonomous driving of SAE (former society of automotive engineers)

https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/blog/sae-j3016-visual-chart_5.3.21.pdf

In the 17th episode of the technology labs podcast series our guest is Erika Paasche who is Managing Director at iSQI. She joins us from Germany and tells us all about online exams and remote proctoring. A very fitting topic for education and courses in COVID times. We do so much online that taking a course and doing an exam is transferred to online space. Guaranteeing the same value for an online exam as a physical exam requires some thought. We discuss the process to get to that situation and we learn more about how these online exams are done.

The tech updates for this technology labs podcast are:

Menno van Doorn is the guest in this episode of Technology Labs. He talks about the new book "playing with reality", which he wrote with his colleagues Sander Duivestein and Thijs Pepping. Also, we have our tech updates:

Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report - https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/22/22345792/microsoft-discord-acquisition-report-10-billion | Deep reasoning - https://towardsdatascience.com/whats-next-for-ai-enter-deep-reasoning-fae8b131962a | NASA Space Shuttle Discovery - https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/nasa-space-shuttle-discovery-10283 | Solid-State Batteries - https://seekingalpha.com/article/4401725-solid-state-batteries-all-aboard-hype-train

In this episode, we talk about something we don't about much, but it's a very important subject: technical publications! D Yongmit Lepcha (Delivery Manager at Sogeti) is our guest in this episode and she explains how important it is to have technical publications. Next to that, we also have our tech items:

How many quantum computers do we need? - https://labs.sogeti.com/was-sir-thomas-watson-right-all-along/ | Boston Dynamics’ robot dog gets an arm attachment, self-charging capabilities - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-gets-an-arm-attachment-self-charging-capabilities/ | Twitter acquires Revue - https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/making-twitter-a-better-home-for-writers.html

During this episode, we have Daniel Maslyn as our guest! Daniel is Testing Consultant at Sogeti Belgium. We talk about technocracy, the effect of the current pandemic on our lives, and of course, we also have our tech updates!

Netflix confirms Shuffle Play feature will officially launch this year - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/20/22240550/netflix-shuffle-play-movies-shows-viewing-history | Smart thermostats - https://news.mit.edu/2020/making-smart-thermostats-more-efficient-1218 | Spotify is paying podcasters tens of thousands of dollars to buoy its own sponsorship tool - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22241066/spotify-anchor-sponsorships-ad-money-spend-podcasting

In this episode, we don't have guest! We have our tech updates and we talk about the upcoming year!

Float Plane Takeoff from Concrete Runway - https://youtu.be/7osw2jcsi6Q | It’s time to deplatform Trump - The Verge - https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217894/deplatform-trump-twitter-ban-facebook-youtube-congress-capitol-riots

In this episode Johan Clausen is our guest. Johan is Event manager & Pursuit Lead at Capgemini Danmark. During this episode we talk with him about eSports! But next to all those interesting subjects, we also have our tech items:

Microsoft’s big Xbox Game Pass bet is starting to pay off | HTC’s blockchain phone takes over a century to mine enough crypto to pay for itself | Scary drop slide in waterfunparks

In this episode, Dona Sarkar from Microsoft is our guest. Dona is Principal Advocate for the Power Platform at Microsoft. We talk with her about the Power Platform, her love for the African continent, and the community that she's active in. She used to lead the Windows Insider Program and that's something we touch on as well! Next to all these highly interesting subjects, we also have our tech updates:

Microsoft’s new Spotlight-like launcher for Windows 10 will arrive in May | OnScale launches Digital twins of Lungs to improve COVID-19 Patients outcomes | Go Team! @MicrosoftEdu Updates #MicrosoftTeams for #RemoteLearning

Other links: Kazeem Adegboyega | Windows Insider

In this episode, Lodewijk Bogaards - CTO at StackState - is our guest. Lodewijk tells us all about why he started the company, the 4T Data Model and a lot more.  StackState has been named by Gartner as a Key Vendor in their Market Guide for AIOps Platforms 2019. Make sure to listen to this episode to learn more about what makes StackState special!

And that's not all. We also have our tech updates: