Citizens Of Tech

Today we have the Impossible emDrive (or is it?), a massive Canadian Tidal Turbine, X-Rays for long-haul space communication, artificially sweetened fatness, and a small truckload of Content I Like and Today I Learned.

Come along as we count our blessings, such as truly broadband Satellite internet, brain implants, solar power at your local fueling station, leadfoot electrical generation, powering an entire island with the sun, astonishing advancements in weather satellite tech, and of course a dash of Deathwatch, Content I Like, and Today I Learned.

Today we’ll discuss creatine, polling, blockchain, HyperLoop, earthquakes, AI, along with our regular features of content we like and today we learned.

In this episode we discuss the new Macbook (dongles, dongles, dongles!) and the new Surface Studio PC from Microsoft, Planet 9 and how it may be causing our solar system to wobble, solar EV charging, how the human race settled the pacific islands, Content I Like, Today I Learned, and more!

Today on Citizens of Tech, we bring you a candle that smells like the tears of a Chinese sweat shop, floating vinyl, Jeff’s iTunes, a tin foil hat for your body, and Tesla’s home invasion, along with content we like and today we learned

Today on Citizens of Tech, we interview Tony Posawatz, President & CEO of Invictus iCAR LLC. Tony’s had a long history in the automotive industry and electric vehicles specifically working at GM, Fisker, and currently Invictus. BACKGROUND Please introduce yourself and what you do to the CoT audience. You’re at Invictus now, which appears to be a engineering consultancy with expertise in electrification of vehicles. Is that about right? When companies seek your expertise, what are the challenges they are typically facing? We noticed in your Twitter feed that Ben Franklin coined the term “battery.” Do you happen to know the story behind that? (Leyden jar.)GM & THE VOLT You spent a lot of years at GM, one of the largest automotive manufacturing concerns in the world. What drove GM to bring electrified drivetrains into their lineup? Tell us about the conception and eventual decision to “go” with the Volt. Was there doubt? Internal opposition? Competing projects that lost? You’re a Dartmouth MBA and a PE (professional engineer). As you led the teams you did on the Volt project, which skills did you bring to bear more? The Volt drivetrain is complicated. We’ve talked about in some detail on the show, as Eric is a Volt owner. What do you remember as the bigg

In this episode we discuss: Why are we so reluctant to pay for stuff on the internet, iOS 10 Bluetooth woes, hacker economics, 2.5Gbps Cat 5e cabling, Blackberry pivoting to fend off the reaper, Civilization VI may ruin Ethan's life, and much more! What are you willing to pay for? Content isn’t free. It costs time to make, the most valuable resource we have. It costs money to host. We hate ads, but the alternative is to pay. We like privacy, but we often give it away to use a service costing no cash out of pocket. The question is why we are cheap about online services? We’ll drop fat cash to eat out, no problem. But $5 on a service? Or $10? Or $20 each month? That throws us off. And it’s true that a bunch of little services do add up… But still. Are we cheap when we shouldn’t be when consuming online services?iOS 10 Bluetooth Issues https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/29/iphone-7-ios-10-bluetooth-connectivity-issues/ More than half of iOS 10 users are reporting issues.

HP printer ink & vendors of evil http://boingboing.net/2016/09/19/hp-detonates-its-timebomb-pri.html https://www.buzzfeed.com/higgypop/top-10-most-expensive-liquids-on-earth-6qcr http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-7018EEE.pdf http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/hp-should-apologize-and-stop-sabotaging-non-hp-ink-cartridges-eff-says/ http://visual.ly/ink-costs-more-human-blood As of Sept. 13, HP printers no longer accept 3rd party ink. HP OfficeJet, OfficeJet Pro and OfficeJet Pro X are impacted. Printer ink costs $2K - $3K approximately. HP has an official position marketing on non-HP ink cartridges.

On Citizens of Tech today, a thought experiment. Eric and I are going to discuss whether or not our lives immersed in technology has made us less human. I Used to Be a Human Being http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html Let’s move to the web. When were you first introduced to the web, in whatever platform? Doesn’t have to be a browser. What did you like about it? How is the web experience different from what it used to be? What would you change about the web if you could? Your first social media platform. What’s the first social media platform you remember? What do you remember about it? What did you like?

This week on the show we discussed critical thinking, an oven that bakes better than you do, the modern car defying the shade tree mechanic, rolling your own Slack, Iowa the green capital of the U.S.A., Content I Like, and Today I Learned!

It turns out that going 60k km/s is really, really dangerous. Also, robotic octobots, the ghost in the MP3, a sound cannon that could actually cripple you, and more!

Today on Citizens of Tech, we interview Dr. Patrick J. McCarthy, interim president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Observatory. The GMT project is in early days, but promises to be the largest telescope in the world once it’s operational.

Today on the show we have trivia about Douglas Adams, Streaming Music services compared, new Lithium battery tech, cords being cut all over the place, Orbital Angular Momentum, the END OF THE WORLD and AMD’s new CPU tech.

Nice to have you aboard for this week’s show where we’ll discuss pothole energy recovery, No Man’s Windows, beating air-gap security, garden automation, acoustic prisms, barber poles, and the Beaker people. Who...were not Muppets, as far as we know.

Expiring things, Compulsory Password Changes, Artificial neurons, XBox One version 2.0, Deathwatch, TIL and extra bits and bobs along the way.