TechStuff

There’s been an Event. What sort of tech can you rely upon after the zombie outbreak? Or solar flares? Or whatever? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy [Read more]

Tanzania has installed high-speed internet on Mt. Kilimanjaro, providing more resources to mountain climbers and influencers alike. Facebook and TikTok are cracking down on political [Read more]

In this episode, we look at some of the issues with VR that could act as a stumbling block on the journey to the metaverse. [Read more]

Apple reportedly has a new deadline requiring corporate employees to come back to the office. Some Signal users had their phone numbers exposed in a [Read more]

How does the fintech company Affirm work? And what’s the story behind its founder, Max Levchin? From Chernobyl to Peloton, our story takes some pretty [Read more]

What was the Manhattan Project all about? What went on during the Manhattan Project and who were the influential people involved? Ben Bowlin joins the [Read more]

Ransomware hackers got access to some Cisco systems but forgot to actually do the ransom part. Streaming services are grappling with the problem of managing [Read more]

How did a nuclear engineer end up inventing the Super Soaker water gun? This is the story of Lonnie Johnson, an inventor and engineer who, [Read more]

Google’s software update caused a brief but widespread outage of services. The US government stalls on passing an antitrust bill that would have a massive [Read more]

Listener Charlie wants to know about X, the Alphabet subsidiary where Google engineers conduct super secret research and development on everything from jetpacks to augmented [Read more]