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An opinionated daily technology talk show. Chris Fisher is joined by a rotating cast of characters. Far removed from the valley bubble we tell the honest truth about some of tech’s biggest demigods.
With insights on current events, and perspective from the past ones Tech Talk Today promises to be interesting, or fail live trying.
In what might be the final Tech Talk Today, we discuss the continuing saga of exploding phones, the lows & highs of the iPhone 7, Google’s new apps, Logitech's new buy & Valve's ban hammer.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & an important production announcement!
Mario while you eat a hamburger, Note 7’s catching fire, Blue Hydra, a Stingray exposé & Netflix goes to war against data caps.
Another round of hack attacks, Apple could be hit with a major tax bill, Nexus’ devices get a big assist & SETI has observed a “strong” signal that may originate from a Sun-like star.
Plus a striking Kickstarter of the week!
Was the NSA really hacked? Then some reflecting on Blackhat & Apple’s fight with the FBI in light of the recent leaks.
Plus our first hands on with Android 7.0 Nougat & a Kickstarter of the week that’ll give you a real boost.
Google’s slowing its Fiber rollout, SpaceX has another success, Tesla has more miles & Adblock plus block Facebook’s Ad block.
Plus a quick review of No Man’s Sky, the last VCR ships, listening to your hard drive & our Kickstarter of the week!
A data center fire grounds Delta Airlines, Apple launches a bug bounty, Facebook is killing Clickbait & the Android N bomb.
Plus our kickstarter of the week & more!
A lot is happening in the world of Google this week & some of the new changes are big improvements for it’s users. Plus the new MacBook killer by Xiaomi that might really be killer & Washington State is suing Comcast.
Plus a really neat Kickstarter of the week, local streaming to a Chromecast & more!
Yahoo might be turning into the next AOL, Cyanogen Inc switches to Apps, 3D printing finger prints to login, GPU power on demand & the farming Robot that can heal your garden shame.
Plus Chris gets serious about sleep tech & our Kickstarter of the week!
Atom-sized storage could change the face of data and memory, Opera gets sold, Tesla is in some hot water, Netflix beams up Star Trek & hackers claim to have gone after Pokémon Go servers.
The blast from the past everyone on mobile is freaking out about, the great halving in Bitcoin is complete & Ashley Madison comes clean.
Plus Huawei gets tough, YouTubers gets exposed & Angela nearly dies!
Google has big plans for Fiber, Microsoft goes to court over Windows 10 auto-updates, Dropbox adds fancy new features & coding with physical blog.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & much more!
It’s a good day for net Neutrality, Microsoft is getting competitive with Chrome & the DMCA is ugly & busted.
Plus a 3d Printed bus, Marvin gets named & our Kickstarter of the week!
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn & we bet we know why! Apple has a big day & we cover some of the highlights. The best TV set top box in our estimation, some Plex love & a Kickstarter of the week for the connected family.
LinkedIn password dump strikes Mark Zuckerberg & Google Two Factor authenticator users & others. We round it all up. Plus some of the new security features coming to Android N, the era of backpack PC’s is here & what the heck is going on with Nest?
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!
Robots serving burgers might a lot closer than we thought, Alexa in the browser fails & the Surface Book nightmare no one is talking about.
Then why Dropbox wants in your kernel real bad, Samsung goes full crazy & the Apollo you’ll want to put in your ear.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 push leaves grandma on her iPad, Project Ara from Google scales back while the Fairphone pushes on, the Razr is making a comeback & tracking down Grindr users physical location is way easier than you might have thought.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week, some great news for fan projects & more!
Google is planning to phase out Flash support in Chrome & how they’re doing it is interesting. Wendy’s is going automated & the future for VR at Google looks bright.
Plus Apple confirms it was deleting music, the day Smart doorbell owners saw video from other houses thanks to a weird bug & more!
Drones dropping blood, HTC’s dropping profits & Microsoft’s dropping ASUS rigs.
Plus the end to the latest Bitcoin saga, the FBI labeling TOR users & a Kickstarter you won’t believe!
Craig Wright claims he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin & while the Internet doubts his claims, a few key Bitcoin personalities believe him. We’ll get you up to speed on this fascinating story.
Plus the long term negative impact of self driving cars, the Rock’s got a clock & Windows 95 like you’ve never seen it before!
Then our Kickstarter of the week & more!
Has Spotify been hacked? And our different approaches for preparing to reload an important personal computer. Plus piracy skyrockets, hacks go for a premium & one of our coolest Kickstarters of the week yet!
Noah takes the mic to catch up on the tech news of the week. A passionate discussion about consumer drones, a Kickstarter close to the heart & more!
Ransomware unlocked, NASA rescues Kepler, the FBI still wants Apple’s help & Telegram wants to be your Jarvis.
Plus our “Kickstarter” of the week might be the craziest IoT device yet!
The FBI’s case turns rotten as they admit a third party can hack the iPhone 5C in their positions, SoundCloud has a new premium feature they want you to buy & malware that uses your GPS to send you fake traffic tickets.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!
The FBI signals they may have found an alternative way to hack, but we suspect it's all an act. We briefly cover the numbers from the recent Apple event, discuss a hidden feature in Android N, the urgent news for Kindle owners & more!
Plus our Kickstarter of the week!
AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to win the Go series. We discuss why slowing down AlphaGo and making it think more like a human, might have won the match.
Windows 7 users start getting auto upgraded to 10, the incredible images that reveal bacteria motor parts & of course our Kickstarter of the week!
Bittorrent client Transmission gets hit with Ransomware, Facebook pays out $15k to a hacker & Microsoft is bringing SQL to Linux. It’s a HUGE edition of Tech Talk Today!
A crazy 128GB floppy disk that actually works, Apple wins a major court victory against the FBI, the VR gear is nigh & the power of the cloud in your private space.
Plus a Kickstarter follow up & more!
3D Printing just got a lot more approachable, cheap VR from Mattel, Google is killing off a fan favorite & bugs in your favorite mobile OS.
An Ex-Mozilla Team Unveils “Sense” in our Kickstarter of the week & more!
Amazon takes on Unity, Kickstarter has some big news, Super Bowl stream stats impress, the hot $19 Billion that might be wasted on “cyber security” & more!
Microsoft’s Edge browser is caught storing browsing history in private mode, Dutch police are training dinosaurs to capture flying drones, the Java plugin days are coming to an end & big phone rumors loom!
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!
Microsoft is releases an iOS keyboard, Amazon is looking for a bigger piece of the Android pie & we finally find out Google’s Android revenue.
Plus Uber tracks it’s drivers to see if they’re speeding, our time-saving kickstarter of the week & more!
The worst & best from CES in our estimation, the Valve backed HTC Vive VR gets ready for pre-order & T-Mobile’s CEO binges on the EFF.
Plus Netflix’s global expansion is astonishing, account sharing is cool & the secret of the codes.
We cover the breaking news out of CES, Ford’s new found love for the Amazon Echo, the first big LastPass release after LogmeIn & how Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!
Facebook pushes back that it's been hacked, the PS4 has been jailbroken & Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night.
Plus the FCC wants to talk to T-Mobile and AT&T about their sponsored data plans & our Kickstarter of the week!
The open web is being locked down by the very companies that try to slice it up and sell it to you byte by byte. We discuss the major moves big telcos are taking to intrench the incumbents online.
Microsoft drops some more open source code & Tokyo’s rolling out the “drone squad”. Plus a very risqué Kickstarter of the week!
We start from a town that has no internet and reflect on how quickly the last 8 years of progress feel very distant, then discuss the recent extreme examples of companies challenging Net Neutrality. Ballmer says Windows Phones should run Android apps & maybe he’s right?
Google's Chromebooks make up half of US classroom devices. As parents, are we comfortable with Google having a lifetime of history on our kids?
Plus some follow up on a previous Kickstarter of the week with a special guest, the likely conclusion to a five year old tech story & the inside scoop on the Jupiter Broadcasting SWAG for the Holidays giveaway!
Dell pulls a Superfish with easily cloneable root certificates, Amazon has some passwords leak & Jeff wants to show you his self landing rocket.
Plus the fun news for Sci Fi and Netflix fans & of course, our Kickstarter of the week!
We look at the hard numbers of the biggest sector in the tech industry, have a skeptical discussion around YouTube coming to the aide content creators & debate Google+’s new UI design.
Then we fail to make even the most obvious Kickstarter sound compelling & wrap it all up with a little technical disaster vamping.
Hewlett-Packard is splitting into two, Google wants its own chips for Android, Comcast has new caps & our mixed reaction to the announcement of a new Star Trek series.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!
CISA is working its way through the system, we highlight some reasons to be concerned & the role Facebook might be playing. Plus the European Parliament rejects amendments protecting net neutrality & some TalkTalk hack follow up.
TalkTalk Telecom has been hacked, but don’t blame them. They say it's simply the crime of our time. We discuss this embarrassing hack, their response, who is impacted & how legitimate their excuse is.
Benjamin Kerensa joins us to discuss the ambitious new project Glucosio, it’s exciting goals & the open source model that enables it.
A Windows 10 upgrade is automatically installing on some Windows 7, 8 systems & ads in the Start Menu started showing up this week. We discuss.
Plus the most disruptive technology in the last 100 years is probably not what you're thinking, Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell & Lenovo form supergroup to save the PC & it’s terrible.
Then it’s our Kickstarter of the week, a new breed of computing!
A new big tech trend right under our noses? A new generation of nomadic high-tech workers living off the grid, while staying always connected.
These developers ask why is there is much pressure to buy the biggest house, buy the best TV, get a great car?
Before us now is an entire world of possibilities & cultures, some of us have been completely blind to. The ability to live comfortably, in a tiny home, or an RV & move about or bring your home with you when you travel is an amazing way to live. We look at a few remarkable examples.
LastPass gets bought, FireFox loves Flash long time, just not your plugins, good iPhone vs bad iPhone & why the rest of the world laughs at the state of the US’ mobile payments.
The state of the tech press is downright embarrassing, today we call out some examples of “click bait journalism” that plagues the tech news.
Amazon has a snailmail solution to your “big” data, LoopPay gets hacked, Lyft and Uber have a public spat & more!
Verizon’s super cookie just got nastier, Facebook has plans for free Internet from space & Google launches AMP, Accelerated Mobile Pages Project for a faster, open mobile web.
Microsoft announces new hardware, most impressively the Surface Book, Microsoft’s first ever laptop. We cut through the long list of announcements & spend some time discussing the Surface Book.
Plus Roku 4’s best new features, Android M hits the web & more!
A Google leak suggests a new Chromecast & two new Nexus devices are just around the corner. Facebook is turning up the tracking & the big statement Microsoft is making with their $75 million donation.
Plus an illuminating Kickstarter of the week!
New charging technology should fill your phone’s battery up 30% faster, Flickr wants you to explore photos with VR, Microsoft auto-downloads Windows 10 and we’re a bit outraged & why we think John McAfee is running for president.
Amazon tries to hide the bad news, Apple has a few big announcements & Chris and the crew have some crow to eat!
A new touchscreen display goes ons ale for the Raspberry Pi that nearly makes it a complete computer, researchers hack the sensors of self driving cars & we speculate rampantly about the iPad Pro, but definitely not the iPhone 6s!
The stories of Apple’s Netflix competitor leave us impressed, the real outrageous fraud of Ashley Madison has been revealed, Google brings Android Wear to iPhones & the malware problem that impacts jailbroken devices.
AT&T gets caught injecting ads into wifi, YouTube Gaming launches & the way the GCHQ obliterated the Guardian’s laptops may have revealed more than it intended.
Plus the real dirty secret behind Ashley Madison & more!
Linux turns 24 years old, KDE ships a new Plasma, BlackBerry’s running Android & the great Google Now exodus.
Plus some big news for Jupiter Broadcasting & more!
Updates on the Ashley Madison story after another massive data dump, JKF Airport starts tracking your cell phone to measure wait times & we debate the various uses for this technology. Firefox has big changes coming to addons & Google’s plan to reduce Android bloat!
Plus Pearbuds… Our Kickstarter of the week!
Freshly back from LinuxCon we update you on the stories of the day, the big players pushing Flash out the door, how forgetful scientists accidentally quadruple lithium-ion battery lifespan & more!
Meet Alphabet, the new conglomerate absorbing Google. Then we spend sometime celebrating Android’s adoption of Vulkan.
Plus Oracle's security chief demands you stop looking for flaws, veggies in space & more!
Google & friends make a major commitment to monthly Android updates, we explore the details. Nabbing fingerprints from your mobile’s scanner, Apple Music gets 11 million users & more!
A fresh version of LibreOffice hits the web, another Flash attack in the wild, this one uses “malvertising”. What the heck is malvertising? We discuss.
Plus what the state of Android looks like in 2015, another OS X bug & more!
Mac security is having a really bad week, two bugs without patches are getting a lot of attention. We’ll share the dirty details. Plus Chris reviews the high-tech Cinch Pop-Up Tent.
Windows 10’s first day numbers impress, Google has a new version of Glass, BitDefender gets hacked, Nvidia Tablets catch fire, tiny robots that walk on water… And our Kickstarter of the week!
Hammertoss malware using GitHub & Twitter for command & control gets exposed, the US sets out to build the world’s fastest Supercomputer, the second major Android flaw this week & the return of Top Gear ...sort of.
Windows 10 is released to the public, but the devil is in the details. Microsoft's new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used, we share the details.
Plus how the mainstream is reacting to the new release, the sliding market share of the iPad & the teleportation breakthrough scientists are reporting.
The new OnePlus 2 specs, price, availability & everything else you should know are out. Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play & updates Moto G. Microsoft’s Arrow Launcher for Android, Razer acquires OUYA & Scientists confirm 'impossible' EM Drive propulsion.
More details about the massive government breach show 21.5 million people impacted, Pluto’s big weekend is coming up & we share the historic goodies already beamed home.
Plus our Kickstarter of the week & more!
Google Glass might be coming back in a big way, Microsoft is scaling back on Windows Phone dramatically, Logitech to rebrand as “Logi" & we finally have a new version of VirtualBox!
A slick talking, high rolling hacking group “Hacking Team” gets hacked. Some of the details in the data dump expose issues in SELinux, Android & iOS. We share the details.
Big changes are coming to Firefox, 2TB SSDs coming to a desktop near you, Prime Day is near & more!
Major controversy is brewing over at Reddit & we’ll share our perspectives. Microsoft signals a deathblow to Silverlight, new iPhone rumors, a spacecraft update & our Kickstarter of the week!
The Plex forums have been hacked, the fascinating corruption around the Silk Road case & David Cameron doubles down on backdoors in encryption.
Plus the big tech rumor of the week & more!
Pregnant Woman Mode is coming to a wifi router near you & we discuss the launch of Apple’s first 24/7 radio station.
Plus we explain why NSA phone records surveillance are turned back on early, the 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines & more!
Cisco announces plans to buy OpenDNS, the European Government agrees on Net Neutrality rules, Microsoft selling Bing imaging to Uber & display ads to AOL, PayPal kills it's terrible robocalling policy & more!
Batman gets pulled for the PC, a homemade gadget that can read the radio waves emitted by your laptop & the ultimate solution to the ultimate house troll.
Then it’s our kickstarter of the week & much more!
Samsung is actively disabling Windows Update on at least some computers, Car Hacking is 'Distressingly Easy', new iOS feature auto-deletes apps & Chromium follow up!
Google wants to improve your search experience for you automatically, with your microphone. We debate if this is the straw that breaks the camel's back or just a nice feature.
Plus the Core Infrastructure initiative throws a little money around, the US Navy is sticking with XP & more!
Poor developer practices expose user data tokens, YouTube plans a news services, Heinz makes a hardcore mistake & Samsung readies an emergency device update.
Plus Amazon announces a major deal to bring Marvel comics to the Kindle store, we discuss this big news and how it might impact the traditional comic book store.
DuckDuckGo sees 600% user growth since the Edward Snowden leaks, we’ll play highlights of an interview with their CEO. Uber has a mess in California, Apple Watch sales numbers are in & solving a major sleep issue for many.
Vulnerabilities in iOS & Android devices announced today, both are in the wild with no fix yet. We’ll share the details. Comcast wants to buy T-Mobile, Microsoft shakes it up, Kodi gets banned & more!
LastPass discloses it’s been compromised, we discuss the scope of the hack & what our best and worst options are moving forward.
Plus a recap of the most interesting things from E3 so far & more!
Was “the biggest” recent government hack in history the result of out of date software & crappy detection systems? We share the details.
Plus a look back at the best Star Trek games of all time, a browser extension that reads that Terms of Service for you & Kaspersky labs gets hacked!
Spotify announces some major fund raising in the shadow of Apple Music’s announcement, SpaceX wants to beam Internet from space, thoughts on Apple open sourcing Swift, and…
A special bonus lost episode of Tech Talk Today is embedded at the end of today’s show!
Preparing for a camping trip in the woods has never been more stressful, we debate how much tech to take. Plus the US suspects China breached about 4 million government records, Steam Machines get a ship date & more!
Microsoft announces support for SSH built into powershell, crashing Skype with a simple text chat, Tim Cook defends user’s rights to privacy and encryption & running OS X in VirtualBox.
Thunderbolt 3 promise to unify the connector and usher in peace and tranquility. But when will we see it ship? Microsoft has prices & ship dates for Windows 10, Apple has a major Mac Flaw & Google wants to kinda give you better privacy controls.
There is some major smoke around the Google I/O fire, we dig into an in depth discussion about the big Google Picture. Plus Vox buys up Re/Code in a move that consolidates tech news & OnePlus teases us with a new device!
Fedora 22 is released and we chat about some of our favorite new features, Charter to Acquire Time Warner Cable & Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Android and iOS.
Is Microsoft repeating their mistakes of the past with Cortana? We’ll make our case.
Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware & the extent of the effort is shocking. Linux 4.0 has a EXT4 corruption bug, YouTube brings the fight to Twitch & Netflix has some big updates.
Then we have a Kickstarter of the week to help you men lucid dream, the penis way.
Another major flaw in consumer routers needs patched ASAP, the tech of sending messages via tone comes to Chrome & Popcorn Hour lands in your web browser, but there's a major catch.
Today after conquering the technical challenges monster that spent the night in the studio, Chris and the Mumble room reflect on life's larger tech woes.
Microsoft announces seven version of Windows 10, Google updates Fit with more features & Wolfram claims they can identify any picture, so we put it to the test!
Plus Bill Nye the Science guy is also the Planetary Guy. We discuss his ambitious new Kickstarter.
Venom is claimed to be the new Heartbleed threatening datacenters around the world but is it legit?
The new 4k Blu-Ray spec is revealed & the YotaPhone 2 with an E-ink display back is coming to a country near you!
Verizon has bought AOL in a big media push by the telco giant. Google’s self driving cars drive 1.7M miles & get in 11 wrecks… But there is a twist!
Plus Ubuntu, GE & Microsoft team of for Network connect fridges & more!
A WordPress flaw in the wild is under attack & Microsoft releases more software for Linux. Plus a sneak peak at Google I/O & what new features might land in Android M.
Oculus VR gets a ship date and we discuss the devices about to hit market. Reddit gets into creating its own content & the NSA brags about transcribing your phone calls.
Plus replacing Plex with Kodi, the burdens of a hand model & much more!
Apple is reportedly attempting to kill free streaming music but the story stinks of a hit piece. GOG launches their steam competitor to the public & CoreOS ups the container game.
Plus Chris reviews Hello’s Sense sleep tracking device. Can it unlock the secrets of a good sleep?
Live commentary of Microsoft's Build 2015 conference, as they deploy applications on Docker & blow our minds with their new Linux desktop app!
Plus Google Now just got better & Ubuntu goes back to the desktop!
Apple sells 61 million iPhones in a quarter, Uber announces a food delivery service & it looks like the Nexus 7 is officially dead!
Plus the Steam Mod controversy gets swift action, your feedback & more!
Down to the wire & nothing left to lose, we rebuild our live stream rig for the weekends big event & share the story of technical woes we’ve had to conquer.
Plus the Comcast merger falls flat, no upgrades for Apple Watch & more!
Google's has launched 'Project Fi', a new MVNO. We debate whether the merits of the service. Plus Iran exaggerations, a new cybersecurity bill, apple rejecting pebble, dropbox notes & more!
The rumors around Google’s own wireless services are on fire, we speculate on Google’s possible path to world domination one mobile at a time.
Plus the trouble with rooting your Galaxy device & why we’re trying to sell a MacBook Pro like its hot!
Chris and Noah argue over the practicality of IPv6 & if it will ever take off. Plus the big player that just got into Cyber security, Stingray’s big Baltimore outing & the big Google algorithm change this week.
In Microsoft’s attempt to capitalize on container excitement they be rushing to ship a subpar product. We’ll discuss the possible weakness of Windows Server’s Docker implementation.
Plus new interesting details turned up by the Sony Hack, a tip of that hat to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews & more!
Microsoft suffers a few major set back today & one rather important win. We’ll break it all down and talk about the long-term impact. Plus Google and the EU get into a tussle & Ikea has the solution to your power hungry smart device.
Google Wireless rumors are getting hot, with interesting details leaking out. Apple Watch outsells Android Wear in a day & the long-term reason Android Wear might be the better bet.
Plus some good Bitcoin news & much more!
YouTube is preparing a monthly subscription service with no ads & other perks. But is the Internet ready to pay for YouTube content? Our panel is skeptical.
LinkedIn buys Lynda & their plans leave us a bit creeped out. Plus why Samsung is teetering on the edge of something huge.
Apple Watch reviews are hitting the web & we’ll give you a quick meta-roundup of the Internet’s opinion of Apple’s new wearable.
Plus the Android App that truly saves battery life, Popcorn Time expands & more!
Is the Bitcoin Foundation about to collapse or is the situation a bit overblown? We’ll discuss. OnLive finally gets a shutdown date & John Oliver helps refocus the surveillance debate.
Plus what we suspect is behind the elementary OS countdown clock!