Buzztown Archive

On today’s show, the importance of studying sex in space (any volunteers?), whether News Corp will try to revive the corpse of MySpace (FrankenSpace?), and we win the orientation-switch choice wars! Hooray! All the iOS 4.3 news you can shake a stick at, plus Sandy Bridge benchmark goodness and Robots 1, Humans 0 (in Jeopardy, anyway). –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their...

We dissect Google’s decision to drop H.264 support from Chrome and go with WebM, we mop up a little bit of the Verizon iPhone news, and more importantly, we eventually get this show on the road after yet another tech disaster. Also, and this is very important, people, the next version of Android will not be called Ice Cream. It’s Ice Cream Sandwich, people. Keep up. –Molly Buzz O...

No time for a CES hangover (although we really needed it) because Verizon is hitting us hard with the iPhone 4 announcement first thing in the morning … but thank goodness they announced the iPhone, because if they’d punked us, heads would have rolled. But there it is: no LTE, yes to hotspots, white iPhone … maybe? Get all the details at CNET News.com. Also, we’re punch dru...

We get our hands on one of the hottest tablets of CES 2011. Molly shrieks, and I cry. Plus, Verizon announces a boatload of 4G LTE devices, Lady Gaga debuts her Grey Label product line and Jar Jar Binks comes to Blu-Ray. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data mig...

Nintendo of America’s President Reggie Fils-Aime joins us, we’ll recap Motorola’s best CES Press Conference ever and Microsoft lets us down with theirs. Plus, Angry Bird the Board Game! It’s coming. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data m...

BOL is coming to you live from the CES 2011 stage, and it’s raining tablets. So, you probably want to duck, because those things are heavy. Har har. Asus, Lenovo, Vizio, and MSI have already bowed theirs, although LG is saving its announcement for a separate press conference. (Motorola is yet to come.) Plus, OnLive makes even more smart moves, and you can get a text from your oven. –Mo...

Some people like watching the sausage get made, so here you go. These are some selected moments from the pre/post live show where the hosts sometimes have a little too much fun. From musical numbers to Molly’s plethora accents, this episode starts and stays firmly off the rails. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction...

It’s the annual Buzz Out Loud predictions show, where the team puts their collective analyst heads together and predict the future–well, the next 12 months of the future or so. On this year’s show, we’ve got everything from life on Mars to true holograms (at least in demo form), Apple releasing its own TV, a new social media phenomenon around food, and the impending awesome...

It’s that time of the year again! It’s the Best of Buzz Out Loud clip show! So grab a drink, start your workout, or get on your commute (poor you if this is the case), and listen to the the (hand-picked by the fans) best moments of the show. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarifica...

Our top-secret source, Rob Redmond, joins us in-studio for this year’s listener extravaganza. and from around the world, we bring in Elwin (Jakuza) from the Netherlands, Joshua Caleb from deepest Minnesota, and our favorite early iPhone 4 reviewer, Gil Cabrera (better known as GilSD). They made the show awesome all year with their emails, top-secret tips, and Photoshop skills, and this show...

We’re pretty sure that both Lukin (in Computer Love) and the CIA are displaying a sense of humor this week, but frankly, it’s kind of hard to tell. WTF? Also, did the FCC really try to tell us that they don’t need wireless Net neutrality regulations because, um, Android is open? Wow. And NPR hands it to Ping in a big way, calling it one of the worst ideas in music in 2010. Ouch....

On today’s show, our cogent analysis of the FCC’s Net neutrality regulation adoption (actually, I mean that), with surprisingly little argument. Also, the PlayStation phone and the Nintendo 3DS are planning to spoil our CES parade by announcing their cool gadgets after the big show. And Apple proves that it is Wiki-weak. Plus, our holiday thank you cards go out to those Scrooge-like ri...

On today’s show, we get a brief appearance of Brian After Dentist, but it’s not as fun as we hoped, because the poor guy was actually in pain. So, Donald and I soldier on, discussing how Google TV is probably just plain done for, Net neutrality is under attack from all sides, and how college may be useless for entrepreneurs but it’s a crucial nerd breeding ground. Plus, in the fu...

On today’s show, the Internet revolts over Yahoo’s plans to shutter Delicious, the U.S. is looking into a privacy Bill of Rights, and Facebook suffers an embarrassing code leak. Plus, using augmented reality to translate information in real time, plus all the world’s information organized to show us how language has evolved over the last 200 years? Dudes, the Singularity is serio...

Today’s show is more than a little off the rails, thanks to talk of the Sean Connery Jeopardy bot, a giant pancake maze visible from space, moochie friends, and air-groping. But there’s news here, too: Facebook adds facial recognition to photo tagging, the Mac App Store is coming, and the dangerous success of the Stuxnet virus. Also, don’t drink Donald’s beer. –Molly...

Our response to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg being named Time’s Person of the Year? Um, actually, that kind of makes sense. Also, Yahoo makes some deep cuts, but the tech community rallies with job offers and free beer. And Gawker’s password mess proves once again (as if you needed any proof) that you really, really, REALLY shouldn’t poke the bear. We told you so. –Moll...

On today’s show, McDonald’s has a data breach, although it’s not as bad as the one from the Mesa County, CO, sheriff’s office, which apparently keeps its lists of victims, suspects, and informants in a nice, big, unprotected plain-text database. So, that’s a few informants running for safe houses, then. Also, the Comcast Death Star turns its rays on Roku, Apple TV, an...

Twitter’s top trending topics of 2010 sadly didn’t include #mollyontopgear, but it’s kind of a plus that Justin Bieber was only around No. 8. Also today, the 4Chan kids go crazy on Gawker and you know what? Innocent people are being caught in this hacker-gang crossfire, and it’s frankly just not all that funny anymore. (If, um, it ever was.) Also, could Verizon make my univ...

The Stuxnet worm isn’t going away anytime soon, Julian Assange says No to WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks, and Michael Bay is re-writing the space landing…with Transformers. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data migration. Please report errors to buzztownrec...

It’s a shoestring-and-gum operation around here, and someone took our gum. But somehow, we’ve got another show for you today, and we’re talking more Wikileaks Web warring (WWW3, perhaps?), Google activating 300,000 phones a day, and Apple’s refusal to let you donate money via iPhone apps (and weirdly robotic response). –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in the...

The Wikileaks war is escalating and it’s threatening to go all War Games on us. 4Chan’s forces, the Anonymous group, are DDoS-ing the heck out of sites like PayPayl, MasterCard, and anyone who bows to government pressure. Meanwhile, secret forces of, uh, governments, are DDoS-ing Anonymous right back. And who’s caught in the middle? The poor, innocent routers. Also, SpaceX succes...

On today’s show, we follow the Google Chrome announcements live, but we’ll have the real wrap-up tomorrow, because wow, did that thing go on and on. In other news today, Julian Assange is arrested but Wikileaks soldiers on. unsurprisingly, the DecorMyEyes guy turns out to be a bona fide sociopath. and whatever you do, do not buy anyone an iPhone or iPad for Christmas–just give th...

We’re stealing lines from Love, Actually today, because Natali can quote it by heart when it’s super a propos to a guy very disturbingly embedding a camera in the back of his own head. Ew. But hey, it’s art! Also, Twitter says it’s not suppressing Wikileaks as a trending topic–although it’s a trending topic in our show. And AT&T is the worst carrier in Ameri...

On today’s show, we premiere our new Friday segment, Computer Love. We think you’re really going to love it. But also, the Wikileaks aftermath is raising many more serious concerns about free speech issues than we ever expected — it’s a morally ambiguous world we live in. Google’s trying to make nice with rights-holders because they’ve been bullied into submissi...

On today’s show, NASA’s announcement about training bacteria to exist on arsenic is super cool, and could lead to a great remake of Toxic Avengers, but it’s certainly not the little green men announcement we were hoping for. Plus, why the FTC’s Do Not Track system is doomed to fail, we launch an angry Angry Birds take-down petition, and Donald Downer Bell buzzkills the enti...