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June 06 Fare Thee Well BTN Listeners!
This is the farewell episode of the British Tech Network.
See the post about the end of BTN, a bit of history, and some humour at:
https://britishtechnetwork.com/blog/british-tech-network-the-big-farewell
And, from all of us, a BIG THANKS to Ewen Rankin, BTN’s founder, heart, and soul. Here’s to you mate!!
Guests: Ewen Rankin and a bunch of BTNers
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-06-05
1 hr 31 min
May 29Off The Rails In 10 Seconds
This Week’s Topics:
Google employee charged with Polymarket insider trading
Waymo launches Ojai vehicle
Anthropic releases Opus 4.8
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-28
Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
#podcast #technology
1 hr 6 min
May 22Ian Can Read
This Week’s Topics:
Google releases Fitbit Air
Product announcements from Google I/O
Plex triples Lifetime Plex Pass price to $750
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-21
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
#podcast #technology
1 hr 5 min
May 15Gloriously Absurd
This Week’s Topics:
UK fines water supplier $1.3M for customer data leak
Google introduces Googlebook
Gruber suggests EU should designate smart TVs as gatekeepers
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-14
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
#podcast #technology
1 hr 19 min
May 08Patrice Airways
This Week’s Topics:
Google Chrome’s 4GB AI download
Spirit Airlines is no more
Chinese GPU maker earns Microsoft certification
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-07
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
#podcast #technology
1 hr 17 min
May 01Poop Air Taxis
This Week’s Topics:
Copy Fail zero-day enables root access on Linux
Joby demonstrates electric air taxi in New York
Musk-Altman trial begins
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-30
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Dave Ginsburg, Tom Ferry
#podcast #technology
1 hr 16 min
April 17iBooks In Space
This Week’s Topics:
Allbirds pivots to AI
Google announces TurboQuant AI compression algorithm
Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-16
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
#podcast #technology
1 hr 13 min
April 10Da Big Show
This Week’s Topics:
Farewell Chuck La Tournous
Outlook trouble on Artemis
Amazon ends support of older Kindles
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-09
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
#podcast #technology
1 hr 24 min
March 27Ian The Art Critic
This Week’s Topics:
Arm ships first CPU chip
Instagram and YouTube landmark civil suit
Amazon plans to reenter mobile phone market
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-26
Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
#podcast #technology
1 hr 7 min
March 23Jeff Needs An Intervention
This Week’s Topics:
Websites bloated with ads
Meta shutting down Horizon World, or not?
Episode’s chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-19
Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour
#podcast #technology
1 hr 16 min