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The 19th episode (February 21, 2021) week in tech news is presented as a separate episode for ease of listening.

News Timeline

00:25 Ethiotelecom’s expansion of 4G LTE outside Addis Ababa

01:40 Landing of Perseverance mars rover

05:36 Uber shuts down an app that let’s users know if they have been cheated

08:19 WhatsApp’s new decision on their new policy

11:03 Google fires another AI ethics team member and previous colleague of Dr. Timnit Gebru

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On the 19th episode of Zemach FM, Nathan Damtew was our guest. Nathan is the founder and CEO at BeBlocky, an AR(Augmented Reality) mobile game that lets children learn the basics of programming like conditions in a fun and interactive way. Nathan is also a managerial director at Yenetta code which is a coding education center mostly focused on children. On this episode we took a look at how he started these two companies, how they are helping children to understand the basics of programming without making it a hustle.

Episode Timeline

01:00 Introducing Nathan to the show

02:30 How Nathan Damtew got into tech and entrepreneurship

06:17 How the idea for BeBlocky came up

09:55 How Yenetta Code and BeBlocky are working together

12:13 The Augmented Reality feature on BeBlocky

15:30 BeBlocky’s growth after the TechCrunch event

18:30 BeBlocky & Yenetta Code at the time of COVID-19 lockdown

20:10 Nathan’s experience on TechCrunch Disrupt

25:35 Co founding socially with Sitra and Leilina

29:30 Why BeBlocky and Yenetta code is concentrating on children to teach coding

38:15 Advice to new and aspiring entrepreneurs

42:00 How BeBlocky, Yenetta Code & socially got their first investments and grants

45:13 Is BeBlocky generating profit currently ?

47:50 Nathan’s advice to people starting programming lessons

53:10 Nathan’s activities outside of the tech world

Links From The Episode

Nathan’s TechCrunch Presentation

Posin’ meets Codin’ Article

Nathan’s Socials

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On the 18th episode of ZemachFm, we discussed about mobile phones. The topic is wide but we tried to take a look at how the mobile phone evolved over time, from the first mobile phone Motorolla Dynatac to the era of the smartphone. We saw how companies and individuals managed to bring game-changing functionalities into their mobile phones. We also mentioned how the first concept and implementation of a smartphone was done in 1992 by IBM. Listen to this episode to hear more about the topics mentioned above as well as some of the events that happened in tech this week.

Links In The Episode

Current Network Coverage Map

Episode Timeline

01:55 Title Introduction

03:40 Beginning of the mobile phone

05:25 The Motorolla Dynatac 800

07:22 What exactly is a smartphone

09:05 The first smartphone, Simon personal communicator

10:50 Honorable mention, Nokia 3310

12:25 The first phone to integrate camera on phone

13:40 Nokia holding 49% phone sells on the globe in 2007

15:00 Introduction of the original iPhone

16:00 Android and IOS users

16:35 Era of the app store

18:00 Top mobile phone players not able to keep up with new trends

21:55 Release of Samsung Galaxy

23:20 iPhone 5 the best looking phone

26:38 Companies focusing on new functionalities

27:30 Finger print readers and wireless charging

32:10 Spotify’s new rule allowing employees from anywhere

33:30 Cyberpunk 2077 hack

37:07 Generations of cellular network

39:30 The 4G network

39:45 5G and IOT

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On the 17th episode of ZemachFM, we are discussing about social media companies that are coming from the eastern part of our world rather than the west. TikTok and WeChat will be our main focus in this episode. Both are social medias that spawned out of china. They also have made a significant impact on the rest of the world, specially TikTok is becoming one of the mainstream social media out there with over 800 Million active users globally (Datareportal, 2020). This and more points will be discussed on today’s episode, have a nice week !!

Episode Timeline

02:20 Reminder on what we discussed last time

03:00 This episodes discussion highlights

05:20 Introduction to WeChat and the how it’s operating in the Chinese market

06:27 Which category does WeChat belong too ?

07:00 Features of WeChat

09:00 Concept of mini programs on WeChat

12:35 Why is WeChat successful in china

This week in tech

15:35 Starship SN9 test flight news

17:40 Neuralink human trial to start this year

22:10 Starlink’s plan to go global at the end of 2021

25:23 Jeff bezos planning to leave amazon at the end of this year.

27:07 Google’s new fast fiber optics cable connecting Virginia to France with a speed of 250 TBPS

29:10 Ethereum’s value going up

30:49 TikTok in Ethiopia and it’s user base

31:50 Why TikTok grew so fast within a short period of time

34:40 TikTok and it’s time consumption

36:15 TikTok houses

40:00 More reasons why TikTok is gaining more users

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Due to the recent WhatsApp Policy changes many users are flocking to other instant messaging platforms mainly Signal & WhatsApp. On this episode of ZemachFM we compared two of the up and coming chat platforms. We tried to divide their pros and cons in two basic sections, their features and how they enforce their security measures. Take a listen and choose your platform or use both, we hope our points will help with your decision.

Episode Timeline

01:35 Why are people ditching WhatsApp

02:45 Which alternatives are people choosing

04:11 Why is telegram more popular in Ethiopia

04:50 Comparing signal and telegram based on their security features

14:15 Which platform is more easier to move from WhatsApp

15:20 Comparing the two based on their features

27:50 Using unofficial Telegram clients

28:55 Our choices from the two

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Episode Content

On this episode of ZemachFm we took a look at cloud computing. What exactly is cloud computing, what are the different characteristics of cloud computing, what are the different service models of cloud computing, and what are the pros & cons of this technology were among the points we discussed. And as always we took a look at some events that took place in the tech world the previous week.

Show Links

Ethiopia’s e-trade site

NASA Spaceflight YouTube Channel

Timelines

02:10 Points we will be raising through out the episode.

03:31 What exactly is cloud computing

05:50 Characteristics of cloud

11:20 Cloud computing service models

19:08 Cloud service deployment models

20:52 This week in tech – Etrade site in Ethiopia

22:55 Recent Gamestop and Robinhood controversy

26:55 New Telegram feature that let’s users export their chats from WhatsApp and other instant messaging apps.

29:10 Starship SN-9 test flight

31:00 Cloud computing pros and cons

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Content

In this episode of our topic we try to look at basic steps and decisions that needs to be made in software development. Since software development is a long process we didn’t got a time to go through every decision that needs to be done in software development, but instead we focused on some general decisions that involve the client and the software engineers.

Timeline

2:25 Intro

5:08 Why we need software in the first place

6:12 Balancing the resource for software development with the benefits

8:10 Different type of problems that software solve

15:33 Deciding the software scope

19:46 choosing the right methodology

30:22 Elon Musk said he will award 100 million dollars for the best carbon capture technology

32:11 Space x starts space ride sharing for objects

32:11 Space x starts space ride sharing for objects

39:16 Hosting services to choose from

41:30 More decisions need to be made on software development

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Framework & Libraries

On the 13th Episode of ZemachFM we are discussing briefly about frameworks and libraries. We tried to see what both frameworks and libraries are, their differences, their pros and cons, when and how we should use them, and many more. We have also tried to see some of the tech events that happened this week like CES and Samsung Un-Packed, in our this week in tech section.

Episode Content

01:30 What we will be discussing in this episode.

03:30 What are frameworks and libraries.

05:08 A small discussion on why we should use them.

06:25 Metaphors on frameworks and libraries.

10:10 Example of frameworks and libraries.

12:50 Opinionated and less-opinionated frameworks

14:20 How you communicate with frameworks and libraries.

15:40 Deciding on using a framework vs libraries.

21:10 Pros and Cons of frameworks and libraries.

29:03 Some best practices in using frameworks and libraries.

33:00 Samsung unpacked event for Samsung Galaxy S21.

41:50 Some products presented on CES 2021.

44:00 Recent activities regarding WhatsApp, Telegram & Signal.

56:40 Happy 20th Birthday to wikipedia.

58:45 Some widely used frameworks and libraries.

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Being a Developer and digitizing epub with Yohana Ermias.

In this episode of Zemach FM podcast, we have talked with CTO and co-founder at eQub , Yohana Ermias. In our discussion, we talked about being a developer and being a self-taught developer. we also talked about their brand new app on a test phase called eQub.

self taught programmer paths on github

https://github.com/ossu/computer-sciencehttps://github.com/Nerajno/Front-End-Web-Developer-Path

link to Yohana

instagram

More about eQub

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Episode content

02:25 Tech giants role in the chaos that happened in America04:17 So why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself? 11:53 You started programming with IOS(Swift), What do you think about the stereotype that IOS “development is hard” 16:13 In your previous interview with Afro FM. You have said you were not able to scale because you didn’t learn computer science theories, so how do you put the importance of computer science theories and how did you overcome them?20:30 What are you working on right now and if you are planning on doing a tutorial,21:57 I would be great to get your opinion on frameworks like flutter23:00 What is your work habit like and how did you develop good work ethics?27:10 How do you handle burnouts?29:10 What is your opinion about outsourcing software solutions? 32:18 What is the most common mistake self-taught programmers make36:30 Previous projects by Yohana Ermias42:30 Have you ever felt imposter syndrome? If so how did you handle it44:47 Moving on to your most recent activities we find the eQub App, so what exactly does your app do, what does it solve? How does it work?46:50 How does an eQub group work on your app? Is it like auto-generated via the app, do you search and join one, do users find contacts from their phone and try to make a group?49:27 It would be great if you tell us how this idea appeared to you guys, was there a special eureka moment?51:07 We are really curious about how you guys are planning to manage the payment issues in our country?53:03 How did the first beta test go for eQub?54:11 So what was the hardest part about developing a system like this in Ethiopia? it might be related to bureaucracy or lack of developers or any other thing55:20 Any last advice for developers specially for self-thought developers?56:57 Any last words you want to pass to our listeners

This week in Tech

Whatsapp and Facebook to share users data outside EU and UKElon Musk becomes the richest man on earthAdobe Flash Player comes to an End.Parler got blocked from play storeDonald trump account suspended forever on Twitter and got suspended on Facebook, Shopify, and other main social platforms

Zemach FM. AR and VR, how it is helping people and it’s downsides.

in this episode of our podcast on Zemach FM, we will talk about XR technology especially AR and VR technologies. In this episode, we focused more on the advantages of these extended realities that are fairly recent in their appearance.

በዚህ የፖድካስታችን ክፍል ውስጥ ስለ XR ቴክኖሎጂ እንነጋገራለን ፡፡ በተለይም የ AR እና ቪአር ቴክኖሎጂዎች ፡፡ ስለ ጥቅማቸው እና ጉዳታቸው እንነጋገራለን

Zemach FM. Content of AR and VR, how it’s helping people, and its downsides episode

4:04 intro about the topics4:45 How AR and VR got started?7:18 movie examples7:20 How the matrix movie can be connected with VR12:28 How big tech started from fiction13:50 the difference between VR, VR, and MR17:18 disadvantage of VR20:24 using VR for expensive Hardware22:34 Holo anatomy ( AR )22:55 Labster24:28 Ecommerece using AR26:12 how the bitcoin worth jumps27:21 Drones got a rule in EU and UK34:10 corona vaccine passport might get started35:54 Training using VR ( fire department and Police )40:20 facebook beta testing Horizon

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