Tech Podcasts

Today we welcome old friend of the show Zach Weinberg. He'll help us discuss the upcoming Olympics, Instagram's "new" stories feature, Facebook's click bait problem and our favorite show of the summer, Stranger Things.

This week on Vergecast, our usual team of Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, and Dieter Bohn bring in senior editor, tech expert, and friend of the show Dan Seifert to discuss Samsung and its new Galaxy Note 7. Dieter gives us his review of the Xbox One S, and the Flag Ship goes deep into Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages and what this means for the web. 01:28 – Xbox One S 15:43 – Google AMP 37:15 – Paul's "The gadgets have eyes" 41:16 – Galaxy Note 7 48:40 – Samsung 57:29 – TV talk 08/08/16 update regarding TechnoBuffalo 27:19 @dcseifert BC you asked, Buffalo name is there mostly bc is was an available URL back in the day. Figured it was easy to spell/brand. — Jon Rettinger (@Jon4Lakers) August 8, 2016 If you like this podcast, well good news! We have more you can listen to. They include Ctrl-Walt-Delete with Walt Mossberg and Nilay Patel, which dives deep into tech; Verge ESP with Emily Yoshida and Liz Lopatto, which blurs the lines between science and entertainment; and What's Tech? with Christopher Thomas Plante, which explains technology in layman's terms. You might also want to check out Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, and Too Embarrassed to Ask hosted by our own Lauren Goode. You can find them all in iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and pretty much anywhere you get your podcasts nowadays.

On this episode of the SyrupCast we talk about the new Galaxy Note 7 from Samsung. In addition, we speak about how BlackBerry is offering its Hub technology to Android 6.0 users, which could be the company setting itself up for a life beyond hardware. We also venture into a discussion about the recent $1.3 billion suit against the Canadian Government by former Wind Mobile owner. Oh and we briefly talk eye styes. Hosts: Patrick O'Rourke, Rose Behar, Igor Bonifacic, Ian Hardy Duration: 46:03

Samsung's new phone throws in everything, plus the kitchen sink. In fact, you could even use it in the kitchen sink.

Samsung's new phone throws in everything, plus the kitchen sink. In fact, you could even use it in the kitchen sink.

On today's show, we'll talk about the second annual drone racing championships in New York; look at the the DEF CON hacking conference taking place in Las Vegas; and play this week's Silicon Tally with Ini Augustine, the president of the Iowa Black Business Coalition.

Some of the best songs are cover songs of popular music. If you're a musician who wants to create a cover song and actually sell it, you'll be diving deep into complex agreements and legal agreements with record labels. Sounds like no fun to me. But this is where Python comes to the rescue! The guys and girls over at Loudr are using Python to create a service for creating, selling, and distributing cover songs. This week you'll meet one of the co-founders, Josh Whelchel. He's here to tell us all the cool ways Python makes this possible, including a touch of machine learning! Links from the show: Loudr: loudr.fm Jobs a Loudr: angel.co/loudr/jobs Josh on Twitter: @soundofjw Josh on the web: joshwhelchel.com Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/joshwhelchel Multimedia Fusion: clickteam.com PALE on Github: github.com/Loudr/pale Google App Engine: cloud.google.com mutagen package: pypi.org/project/mutagen Ex Machina: youtube.com/watch?v=XYGzRB4Pnq8 Doom: SLIGE: doom.wikia.com/wiki/SLIGE Boys of Summer Cover song: vimeo.com/27669666'

Amazon unveiled the first-ever Prime Air cargo plane this week, and GeekWire's Alan Boyle has the scoop. We also speak with Jeff Shulman, an associate professor at the Unviersity of Washington's Foster School of Business, about his new Seattle Growth Podcast. Plus, check out our App of the Week, and learn the answer to last week's GeekWire Trivia Challenge, which won one listener a ticket to the 2016 GeekWire Summit.

With the 2016 Census looming, we take a look at what the recent changes mean for your digital privacy and what to do on Census night. Also on the agenda: The latest from Blizzard and a roundup of changes to Pokemon Go.

With the 2016 Census looming, we take a look at what the recent changes mean for your digital privacy and what to do on Census night. Also on the agenda: The latest from Blizzard and a roundup of changes to Pokemon Go.

2013 - Jeff Bezos puchased the Washington Post for $250 million dollars. The deal was officially finalized on October 1, 2013. Later, in an article in Forbes, Bezos admits he was talked into the purchase. The Washington Post is a separate entity from Amazon. 2002 - The Internet2 - Otherwise known as the Abilene Network - deploys Internet Protocol v.6. The switch from IPv4 was to give a network layer that could include packet-switched internetworks. This increases the IP addresses available. Focused on members’ technology needs since 1996, Internet2 provides a collaborative environment for U.S. research and education (R&E) organizations to solve common technology challenges, and develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, and community service missions. Activating the same partnerships that produced today’s Internet, our members are forging the future Internet through community, an unsurpassed innovation platform, and trans formative, above the-network services and applications. - from About the Internet2 PDF Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for August 5 eDonkey goes on-line Steve Jobs "Oops" announcement on Mobile ME First radio broadcast of a baseball game

With elderly populations booming and long-term care facilities understaffed, SAM aims to take some of the non-medical burden off providers' plates.

Hosts: Jason Howell, Megan Morrone Guest: Russell Holly Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss how Intel's Basis Peak wearable is recalled after reports of overheating and burning skin. Facebook looks to clean up its newsfeed by analyzing and down-ranking clickbait. Apple may not have the TV anymore, but it plans to create a guide for video content search and discovery. Russell Holly from VRHeads gives his quick take on the Microsoft HoloLens after receiving his this morning. Finally, robots do the darndest things, including giving you a tattoo, building you a hammock, and mopping your floors. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-today. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Host: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Fr. Robert Ballecer talks with various security experts on how to find and fix vulnerabilities at Black Hat 2016. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/twit-live-specials. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Hosts: Robert Heron, Patrick Norton Robert Heron joins Patrick Norton this week to talk about Siggraph, the HDR10 update for Vizio TVs, the merits of 4K, the 4TB Samsung 850 EVO, the Samsung PM1633a for $10,000, AMD's RX 470 + RX 460 card details, Ryan's NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) 12GB review, the average broadband speed in the United States, Intel's massive recall on fitness watches, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and the Xbox One S. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-computer-hardware. Send your computer hardware questions to twich@twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.