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Jan. 11, 2024

The Future of Tech in 2024 as Predicted by Ned and Chris …

Ned and Chris embark on their annual attempt to predict the biggest tech stories in 2024.

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Jan. 4, 2024

The 2023 Tech Year in Review …

Ned and Chris review their predictions for 2023 and evaluate their abilities to accurately (or not so accurately) predict the future... of tech.

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Dec. 21, 2023

The Not-So-Hostile Takeover of iMessage Technology …

Ned and Chris explore how RCS technology is poised to take down Apple���s stronghold on iMessage.

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Dec. 19, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 12/19/2023 …

Google Fiber offers 20Gbps for $250 a month, Okta security breach is worse than everyone thought, and VMWare is discontinuing perpetual licensing in perpetuity.

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Dec. 14, 2023

The Trouble with Smart TVs …

Chris explains how IT security threats in smart TVs loom over us all.

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Dec. 12, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 12/12/2023 …

Quantum modular news from IBM, Amazon Q is pretty bad at everything, and 23andMe lost your grandfather (he's at TCBY).

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Dec. 7, 2023

An OpenAI Question […

Ned dives into the latest OpenAI drama and boy is there a lot of generative tea to spill.

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Dec. 5, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 12/5/2023 …

AI failure is everywhere with Sports Illustrated dropping the non-existent ball to imaginary women speakers at major tech conferences to robotaxis dragging pedestrians in their wake. Oh, and Advertising Company Google may have disappeared your Google Driv

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Nov. 23, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 11/23/2023 …

Microsoft turns on the Nitro Boost for Azure, Nvidia makes an even more expensiver GPU, and Nothing supports iMessage, sorta.

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Nov. 21, 2023

Security Field Day with Forward Networks …

Chris attended Security Field Day 10 remotely and was pretty impressed with Forward Networks and their digital twin tech.

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Nov. 16, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 11/16/2023 …

GitHub Copilot is the future of programming, Humane is less human than human, and RISC-V is poised to compete in the datacenter.

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Nov. 14, 2023

KubeCon Conversations …

Ned went to KubeCon 2023 and aside from falling into the Chicago River, he also had some interesting conversations.

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Nov. 9, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 11/09/2023 …

SBF is officially guilty, WeWork is almost officially bankrupt, and Nuclear Fusion is coming tomorrow! (Give or take 15 years.)

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Nov. 7, 2023

Hold My Asahi: Linux on the Mac …

Chris thinks Apple's hardware is peachy-keen, and would be even better if it ran Linux natively. Enter the Asahi project.

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Nov. 2, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 11/02/2023 …

Stopping AI from stealing your IP, Intel is dismissive of ARM desktops, and Cisco scores a 10 CVE (which is a bad thing).

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Oct. 31, 2023

Journey To The Center Of AI …

Ned got curious about what sits behind the ChatGPT prompt and it turns out it's like a lot. A lot of GPUs that is.

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Oct. 26, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 10/26/2023 …

Nvidia and AMD are teaming up, Elon wants your $1, and Voyager 2 gets patched.

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Oct. 24, 2023

Oxymoronic Business Intelligence …

In the spirit of Red October, Chris takes us on a tour of Business Intelligence vis a vis Sabermetrics.

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Oct. 19, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 10/19/2023 …

AI can be useful? NTLM is finally being shown the door. And SSDs are gonna get expensive $$$!

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Oct. 17, 2023

HashiConf 2023: A Private Preview …

HashiConf happened last week and Ned gives us the tl;dr.

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Oct. 12, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 10/12/2023 …

Open AI dips into the chipmaker market, RISC-V goes to space, and 3nm is really freakin' small!

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Oct. 10, 2023

Living On The Edge […

Ned takes us on a virtual tour of Edge Field Day 2.

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Oct. 5, 2023

Tech News of the Week for 10/05/2023 …

Net Neutrality's back, iPhone 15 is too hot to handle (literally), and Blackberry still exists!

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Oct. 3, 2023

Under The Sea Cable Dance …

Chris dives deep into the world of layer 1 networking and undersea cables.

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