The Zip Files

I'm off on my August holidays to eat vegetables, find out what the sun is, and recharge for the next half year of The Zip Files. I'll see you all again in September. Have a great few weeks until then!

Stay tuned for such learnings as Facebook crashing and burning in the stock market, Samsung releasing an unbreakable screen, facial recognition tech that has a serious problem with racial bias, and much much more.

Listen out for such scoops as Elon musk going totally bananas on Twitter and calling a bloke a pedo, Amazon.com crashing on one of the biggest shopping days of the year, WhatsApp trying to stop horribly violent mob lynchings in India and much much more.

Listen out for such intrigues as an Apple employee stealing trade secrets and trying to leg it to China, Elon Musk building a tiny submarine in an effort to be a good bloke, Twitter deleting millions of fake accounts and much much more.

In the middle of all that goodness we’ve got a long listen on blockchain. Specifically, what on earth it is and how it works.

We’re talking about an artificial intelligence that is wicked at playing Quake, Tesla hitting its production goals, a new Russian data law that will help the Kremlin spy on its citizens, and much more.

In between all of that we’ve got a long listen on the global housing crisis and how we might hope to put a bandage on it.

Listen out for Andreessen Horowitz’s new 300 million dollar crypto fund, Uber winning its license back in London, an AI healthcare startup named Babylon claiming its better than doctors, and much more!

Edward Fernyhough has written an hilarious long listen documenting his opinion of exclusive dating up Raya. Stick around for giggles.

Stay plugged in for such scoops as Japan losing their only unicorn, digital crypto-cats lacking love and attention, an artificial intelligence that can spot cardiac arrest and much much more.

In the center of the tech bonanza we’ve got a long listen on Universal Basic Income, what it is, where the concept came from, and whether it’s a good idea.

Keep your headphones in for such scoops as Tesla laying off 9% of its staff, Uber knowing when we are drunk, Apple locking down iPhones and much much more.

This week I’ll be spooning the top 10 most interesting world of tech news bits into your ears.

We’re talking about illegal drugs on social media sites, Tesla wasting ridiculous sums of cash, Amazon Alexa teaching kids manners and much, much more.

In between that we’ll have a long listen on big data and why it’s important we wrestle back control from the big guys.

Want to know how Instagram are tracking us in unsurprising ways, why China’s first ever cyber security law is a threat to multinationals and how Jeff Bezos plans on building a manufacturing plant on the moon? Then stay tuned and I’ll tell ya.

Our long listen this week is about CRISPR, which sounds like any old boring acronym, but is totally awesome. It will grant us eternal youth, cause wings to sprout from our backs, and cure all disease, and this isn’t science fiction - the technology is already here.