Grumpy Old Geeks

2/3 Sparta; the rise of the useless; Fiverr bums us out; Snap stock; atom drives; quizzing trolls; Uber hires HAL; Wikileaks Vault 7; encrypted messaging apps; Amazon brick & mortar; AirPods; burgerbots; Try a Pod; Martian potatoes; streaming Bugs Bunny. Show notes at http://gog.show/200 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

Snap's IPO; SpaceX to the Moon; Yahoo breach again; FCC kills privacy requirements; Uber has another bad week; Amazon S3 typo outage; scary malware, super freaks; rage circuits; YouTube TV; Dropbox rebrand; smart condoms; Johnson's Potato; but the emails. Show notes at http://gog.show/199 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

We lose a legend; 3310 returns w/ snake; new planets; Stockholm heating syndrome; limits of free speech; Uber issues; chatbots; memory leaks; Echo's useless skills; Snow Drones; Moby's ambiance; naked chicken chalupas; media detox; All Things Must Pass. Show notes at http://gog.show/198 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-no...

Alphabet's Loon is a go; PewDiePie bye-bye; Zuckerberg's opus; Not-Unlimited plans are back; robot tax; Uber Q&As; Pornhub providing sex-ed; self-flying taxes & fire-spewing drones; crossing borders with phones; Gaiman's Norse Mythology; emotional labor. Show notes at http://gog.show/197 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

What the bleep happened?; FB bots; Twitter slipping; recursive pixels; spying TVs; tech takes sides; file-less hacking; surviving our faster future; gaming Tinder; Spotify as a loss-leader; Burger King's instagram; Ikea's secret taxonomy; Back in Black. Show notes at: http://gog.show/196 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

Tech leaders on Trump; #DeleteUber; Medium goes subscription; brain hackers; Musk gets boring; IRS scams; cracking iOS; Arrival; Concrete Blonde; Blumoo; SelfieFeet aka a magnet; Lovesick & Chance; on self-abuse; the heroes of BGM; Where’s the revolution? Show notes at http://gog.show/195 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

Computer, what is plural for Jedi? PodcastOne; AltGOGPodcast; Doomsday Clock; Die with your Boots on; AI Partnership; Yahoo pushes back; Jay Z, Sprint & Tidal; dashing rogue scientists; voice apps hitting walls; escape from LA tunnels; Brave New World. Show notes at http://gog.show/194 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...

Podcasting for exposure; to the Moon, grumps; hoverbikes & airUbers; Netflix & Net Neutrality; Google picking over Twitter; USPS hunting down the dark web; Assange reneges; CIA releases secret history; toys for rich people; TPS reports; Good Omens. Show notes at http://gog.show/193 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel...

Buzzfeed, what hath you wrought? Yahoo becomes Altaba; Verified God banned from Facebook; Unlimited data definition limited; Amazon misleads; paper drones; Trust us, we’re the Geek Squad; Big Picture; Viva Amiga; Bright Lights; Goat Yoga; CES of 💩. Show notes at http://gog.show/192 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...

We’re back for 2017 & Alexa Ruxpin’s gone wild; Zweckentfremdungsverbot; Medium’s broken system; Snapchat faked growth; self-driving cars are here NO THEY AREN’T; the Boring company; TV ransomware; bad TV & Swedish apps; surviving nukes; hunting unicorns! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/191 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

Closing out 2016 with a self-driving, AI-written, crowd-sourced, drone-delivered, kick-started bang; billions upon billions of breaches; PopcornTime; Waymo; Magic Leap; masterclasses; pigs in space; chemical texts; digital pills; picturesque places to poop. This episode is sponsored by 1Password.com!  Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/190 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C...

A.I., isn’t; Facts, aren’t; News, isn’t; Amazon Go; Uber Ponzi schemes; behold, the LingLong DingDong; Reflectacles; surviving the faster future; the Gadget Apocalypse; genderless nipples; stocking stuffers for geeks; violent delights have violent ends. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/189 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

It’s the universal basic income, stupid; the future of work; Cyber Monday; it’s not AI; Snooper’s Charter; Net Neutrality dies; Yelfies; EmDrive; the Bobiverse; Millennials: the Musical; chunky fashion; follow the White Rabbit; this sucker’s electrical! This episode of Grumpy Old Geeks is brought to you by 1Password.com! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/188 See Privacy Policy at https://art...

This week we're joined by the "godfather of multimedia" Marc Canter. Marc tells us some great stories from the early days of multimedia and shares his thoughts on what's coming down the road. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/187 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Disney drones; Canada tries UBI; Rule 41; Firefox Focus; Facebook metrics & fake news problems; robot dinosaurs & CRISPR; DCMA; data caps; PoisonTap; texting China; modern happiness; Washington; rendered va-ja-jas; Spotify junk; courageous Apple book. This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks! To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/GRUMPY and, this is REALLY IMPORTANT, enter GRUMPY OLD GEEKS...

Anything happen this week? Archiving @POTUS; Universal Basic Income; DisneyDrones; Adobe VoCo; rainbow-vomiting clouds; Skype hacking; shrinking Toblerones; USB HIV tests; Samsung folding phones; no one’s paying for YouTube; the case against reality; angst. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/185 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com...

 Auto-correcting humanity; shocking, collusion; a peach is now just a peach; community commitments; indentured Ubertude; Slack smarmy; Google’s bony finger of shame; Pzizz on you; Trainspotting 2; AuthaGraph map FTW; bomb sniffing spinach; In-N-Out rules! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/184 Take the survey at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/survey See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...

Ello, Echo; Vine is dead, Twitter on life support; gig economy; Microsoft rising; autonomous beer delivery; the botnet that broke the internet; Death’s end; Fahrenheit 451 irony; taking down drones; expat 2.0; shoegazing; LostWorld; painting Blade Runner. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/183 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

Nomophobia; Bad hombres & nasty women; Uber drone ads; fact-checking fails; false unlimited data; 50TB of stolen classified data; Lessig’s high road; creepy VR games; Amazon Echo; new Queen; facial recognition; this check goes to $11; the unreadable web. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/182 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...

Silicon Valley visionless; Samsung on fire; Comcast caught; Facebook’s Workplace; Inept IoT; social media surveillance; Airmail, Pzizz & Trumpwalling; Rogue One, Says You!, Fraggle Rock & the Grand Tour, your vacuum attachments; facepalm facecradle. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/181 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...

Fridges are heating up; Coolest investigation; Ewww Apron; digital rights; Facebook gets local; Google unveils hardware; Yahoo surveillance; Prime reading; bloated apps; superheroes, robots & Mr Robot; bad passengers; the web’s past; R2, get my coffee. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/180 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...

Uber trucking, vertical take-off planes; Google Express hits New England; Amazon starts own delivery service; Elon delivers to Mars; Snap brings Spectacles; Blackberry is done; DOS attacks get bigger; Meerkat’s Houseparty; Netflix Tax; watch out for Schumer. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/179 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co...

Soylent but not deadly; YouTube Heroes; because science; Tesla for California; Amazon’s screw you algorithm; dark-web design; ransomware everywhere; Ello, Allo; Star Trek, Delayed; McAffee, Gringo; smart candles; 2 ferns and a candidate; Sullivan unplugs. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/178 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

Zane Lamprey drops in; iOS 10; cookies everywhere; the tech bubble; elephant charts; exploding batteries; Facebook annoys Norway; stank cyber hygiene; stream ripping; Penn, King & Tolhurst; laser tag backpack; ethical hacking; Sherlock & the Grand Tour.  Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/177 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...

Apple’s premature tweet; exploding Samsungs; Airbnb’s “constitutional rights”; costly cord-cutting; Americans not into self-driving cars, ride-sharing; Attack of Things!; slogging through the Gunslinger; baby apps; the build team & the triplets are back. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/176 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...