The BIG Tech Show - video episodes:

• January 25, 2024Datacenters on Mars

  Ewen is back!!!
  

  This Week's Topics:
  

  
  

  * Meta lets EU users unlink accounts
  

  * UK Post Office scandal
  

  * Microsoft lays off 1900 XBox/Activision employees
  

  * Amazon says they stop sending video to police
  

  * OpenAI's Altman in talks to do AI chips
  

  
  

  Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
  

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• January 18, 2024Tiny chips and big speeds

  This Week's Topics:
  

  
  

  * Waymo begins highway testing
  

  * New transistors announced to further silicon technology
  

  * Researcher busts myth of Bitcoin anonymity
  

  
  

  Big announcement... listen until the end of the show!
  

  Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
  

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• January 12, 2024Annual BS Show

  This Week's Topics:
  

  We review our predictions for 2023 and make new predictions for 2024
  

  Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
  

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• December 14, 2023Year-End Quiz

  The annual quiz show, with questions from this year's Big tech news
  

  Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
  

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• December 08, 2023Damp and Wet

  This Week's Topics:
  

  
  

  * Google launches Gemini AI
  

  * Stellantis And Ample Launch EV Battery Swap
  

  * Squid Game: The Challenge gets a second season
  

  * Hugging Face/CMU quantify AI-generation power usage
  

  
  

  Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
  

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• December 01, 2023En-Jeff-ication of Chat Explanation

  This Week's Topics:
  

  
  

  * Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
  

  * Threads may finally launch in Europe in December
  

  * Amazon unveils Graviton4 and Trainium2 cloud servers
  

  
  

  Guests: Jeff Gamet, Ben Roethig, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
  

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• November 24, 2023AI Soap Opera

  This Week's Topics:
  

  
  

  * Broadcom completes acquisition of VMware
  

  * Sam Altman/OpenAI Saga
  

  * Amazon to sell cars online, beginning with Hyundai
  

  
  

  Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant
  

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• November 16, 2023Two Ians are better than one

  This Week's Topics:
  

  
  

  * Google sends a third of Safari ad revenue to Apple
  

  * The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now
  

  * Microsoft Reveals Custom 128-Core Arm Datacenter CPU, Massive Maia 100 GPU Designed for AI
  

  * Microsoft debuts new unified security solution with Security Copilot
  

  
  

  Guests: Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry
  

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• November 10, 2023It’s Called A Focus Group Kelly

  This week’s topics:
  

  
  

  * MyQ garage controller drops HomeKit and Home Assistant support
  

  * WeWork files for bankruptcy
  

  * Limits revealed for Google’s Magic Photo Editor
  

  * Actors strike resolved
  

  
  

  Guests: Jeff Gamet, Kelly Guimont, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
  

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• November 02, 2023Ben Explains Chat

  This week’s topics:
  

  
  

  * Sergey Brin's airship company gets approval for flight tests
  

  * Sierra Space space plane set for flight tests in 2024
  

  * Amazon's price-raising algorithm made $1.4B
  

  
  

  Guests: Ben Roethig, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry
  

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