Tech Talk Today

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.