TEH Podcast (TEH)

Drive speeds and new computers, exercising that order button, surprised at USB 3 speeds, 10 Terabytes in an envelope, and a good week for space geeks and cartoons.

New Mac, updating Apps, mail in voting, browsing with your head

The XY Problem. Asking the wrong question doesn't give the right answer. A Big Glitch. Streaming service interfaces. Virtual fundraising and making presentations.

Fires, Networks, Selling on eBay, Real-law video game battles, and (of course) some cool shows.

Off grid adventures, Apple announcements, keeping dry in rain and river, and creating tablets for seniors.

Phone sizes change again. Is 5G growing? Monopolies, Airpods, cool Power Tools are back, Emojis (with amazing detail) and basic protection.

Apple surprises, small is good again. Comparison shopping on Prime Days. Amazon Basic is... basic. Getting and recharging batteries. A real book! (How leadership matters) and Watch things get crushed.

Social Dilemma (of course they are targeting), it's probably more boring than we think, and is there a way to create the right pressure on social media sites?

Dueling disasters. Surprise! Microsoft update just works! How will work from home change us? Fixing our homes for zooming. Even introverts are starting to miss people... reminiscent of Issac Asimov.

New Apple chips, high power and high efficiency, adventures in recording, software matters, re-reading science fiction (yep, it was sexist), changing passwords and Tiktok.

Zippy new Mac, SpaceX launches with Baby Yoda, Pharmacy takeovers, after Covid and young politics.

Social media features compete, how to find your thing, Space Odyssey in the desert, evolution of communication from telegraph to Zoom, pretty Newsletter and wait for that Mac.

Tech launches and crashes, expensive headphones that work on planes (if we could go), back to a Macbook Air, appreciating battery life and techie childhood memories.

Apple delivers quickly, happy battery life, Google's memory glitch, privacy panic, security vs. privacy, free pdf and recording tips.

How well tech worked in 2020 (despite), Tech infrastructure got here just in time. Vaccine technology meets the times. Data measures truth. Science is trending. Giving and gargoles. Computing chip revolution. Predictions for 2021.

Forgot space! Big hack. Taking the supply chain for granted. RIP to Flash. How many websites are enough? Karate and Roku.

Cool future gadgets out now at CES, good reading and board games.

The Practical Guide To VPNs: What is it? Should you? Shouldn't you? What else you can do.

Leo's Origin Story: from Geeky to Microsoft to Ask Leo!

Gary's Origin Story

How (and why) a bookstore took down a controversial website. 

Bitcoins - Enthusuastic Tech Take on Crypto Currency

Dealing with change and making it an adventure.

When spammers are out phishing, they are phishing for you!

What's new with Apple... chips, screens, trackers.

What about those software subscriptions? How they do good, how they drive us crazy.

Ransomware, Pipelines and Tech

What do we really own? Has tech changed it?

Updates and bugs are more complicated than you think

Free? Why and why not?

Not going away...

Summer musings, Space and Algorithms

Summer travels, tech in the Olympics, Apple controvercy and Windows 365

From beds to routers (with ransom attacks in between)

Backups, archives and possibly Pluto

How do we produce so much content? (the secrets)

Apple's new geekiness, Windows TPM, advances in security

Upgrade to Win 11? Yes? No?

From new Apple announcements to things that just don't work.

New Apple OS, Broken computers, Smaller Wallets, Two factor authentication... believe the smart people.

Tech updates continue, weird conferences and Metaverse games

Updates on updates, Imagining virtual reality, Science and journalism

Painting Windows, Get a job hackers! AWS outage, Security camera tech

Unmagic numbers, televisions, Universal controls, Unused innovations, Elon love/hate

Is NFT an opportunity or a scam? From Magic public keys to digital Beanie Babies.

Fires, TV dilemma, Y2K again, Launching Games, Covid app fails

Addictive lights, Alexa and Siri battles, falling planes, Blizzard and Metaverse

Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda's.

Ranting on spam, Return to Streaming Music, and NFTs

Music and MP3s. Lost iPhones. Recording software adventures.

Ukrain tech, live streaming, financial issues, coders and Social Media.

New Macs from Apple, Transcriptions and Computer Voices.

SSDs, Ukraine's internet, Podcasts come into their own, streaming movies, Kaspersky, and Transcriptions.

Ukraine tech, new iPad, new Mac, RAM, Disk sizes and useful aps.

Solving privacy, Space Station Angles

Twitter take over

TEH 163: New social media? Traveling tech disasters. Check your Two Factor.

Tech camping, Insecure Apps, Wiki News

Telegram. New Mac upgrades, All the new features.

AI. Is it alive?

Period apps, Complexity of Tech, Is Musk a Twit?

Travel Tech in the EU

Accessing accounts while traveling, encryption, and vulnerabilities.

LastPass headlines, Phishing, Credit Cards, Windows on a Mac

TikTok success, troll comments, Bootcamp and AI Artists

iPhones and satellites, cameras, Alexa poop, Speech to text and translations

Travel and Travel Tech

Twitter, more Twitter and Apple Updates

What's with the plugs? Video software.

Updates good and bad, social media gone bad, and those tips

A.I. gives answers, Google scrolling, online support

Software changes, A.I. with no humor. Subscriptions good or bad?

Recap of 2022, Wordle, Shorts, Starlink, Social Media, Space & Security

Predictions for 2023

Lastpass again. CES not so much. Future of Search.

Programming again. Mac touch screen and Virtual Reality. Security and You.

Is History Old? Being Platform Agnostic, How AI Gets smart

New search - Is AI a smart Bard or stealing content?

AI and jobs... Can everything get better?

Why Free software. Watch-And-Grab iPhone Theft.

Pretend voices for good or evil. VOIP can do anything.

Virtual Machines, Complaining about complaining, the Future & Buffy.

Internet Woes, Social Media what now? and Planetary Slingshots

Zippy internet. ChatGPT can’t do math? Authenticators, and broken school laptops.

Smart homes, Blocking Utah, AirTags, Anniversary and picking locks.

Where does the light switch signal go? More AI. Secure passwords... again.

Apple voice simulation. Passwords in the future. Fake explosions and ordering a hamburger.

Airships, Mac rumors, Generative Fill, Trouble with clocks that have little birds.

Apple goggles, Sonoma and more announced. Reddit protests

In This Episode: This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You'll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:40 LN: More Reddit. Harvesting content and losing advertising. 3:00 GR: Why Reddit has to charge for API 7:15 Google also scrapes sites 11:00 What's the strategy. Is it all advertising revenue? Or, is it just that third-party apps don’t show Reddit ads, so it is server use without any revenue generated by Reddit? 13:00 LN: One person’s conspiracy theory 17:30 LN: Cortana going away What makes a voice assistant successful, anyway? 25:00 Will it turn into Bing? 30:00 GR: Making stuff up... or is it true? GR: Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material. This seems like too-good-to-be-true stuff to me. Clean electricity from air? 39:00 Why aren't there flying cars? And drones. Ain't it Cool 46:00 GR: Renfield. Funny vampire. 49:00 LN: What's Our Problem? - A Self-help Book for Societies - Tim Urban BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 50:50 LN: The Problem With OneDrive Backup 52:20 GR: XClipTools: Using the Calculator Functions Leo and Gary in Denver

Game controllers, Retro games, Electric vehicles unite, Big disks

Threads launch. How they all integrate. Who is going to win?

Apple Pay, Threads, X, Writer's Strike, Cheap VOIP

Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.

Privacy and Paranoia

Burning man mud, so much social media, new iPhone?

Apple announcements. Is computer sharing back? AI's news for today.

Encryption back doors, iPhone annoyances, Car play and cameras

Leo and Gary talk about the concept of hyper personalization and its impact on technology, as well as the challenges of adding options and settings in software design. They briefly mention the idea of using an air tag for tracking a vehicle. They also discuss the use of AI companion for generating meeting transcripts and the ability to have voice conversations with Chat GPT.

AI is smart and dumb. Robots can be cute. And Pass keys.