Naked Tech Podcast - An Australian technology podcast

The CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFA) get a grilling from a congressional sub-committee investigating potential antitrust practices, TikTok may be saved by a Microsoft bailout, and an innovative way to light your desk. As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast. Episode 153. Rec...

In the first of our “Why didn’t we think of that?” series, we take a look at social hiring app company Slync that focuses on video applications for young jobseekers, and Corridor Digital, an innovative creative studio using the assistance of their subscriber base to come up with next hit show. Kelvin also showcases mesh wifi networks with the Tenda Nova MW3 system, to help you wi...

MacBook rumours, Big Sur re-introducing drop shadows with Neumorphism (or ‘Soft UI’), Facebook’s lightweight hologram VR glasses and should we allow law enforcement to use facial recognition technology? As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast. Artwork provided by fintechcub...

For our 150th episode, we take time out to chat about ourselves a little bit – who we are, why we started a technology podcast, and what makes us tick. Thank you for your ongoing support and here’s to another 5 years! As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast. Episode 150. Recorded...

WWDC 2020 or Android Lollipop announcement? The sneering is coming in thick and fast, but we think this is quite a substantial set of updates for all of Apple’s platforms – iOS, macOS, watchOS etc etc. Moving away from Intel chips for Macs allows Apple to control the whole supply chain for all their devices and the move will define the company for the next 10 years. What are the new fe...

As the world rages on, Facebook employees hold a virtual walkout, Google Docs become the social tool of choice, while our favourite browser, Brave, takes its first misstep. We also take a look at the history of the beef between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, as they battle it out to save the human race. As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you nee...

Microsoft announces a new modular framework called Fluid that seeks to kill the concept of a ‘file’, SpaceX ubers Nasa crew members to the ISS, and could a new Twitter business model save the world? As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast. Episode 147. Recorded Monday 1 June 2020...

Joe Rogan secures an exclusive licensing deal with Spotify for $100m+, more detaiils emerge on Apple’s rumoured AR glasses, and Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops. As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast. Episode 146. Recorded Sunday 24 May 2020. Contact: iTunes  | spotify | twit...

Apple’s AR glasses rumours, a permanent state of working from home, Facebook takes over another popular creation tool, Ubisoft goes to war with Google and Apple. And why we think Dave Filoni should take over Star Wars. As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast. Episode 145. Recorded Mond...

Hello to our listeners in Sweden! You guys are trending around these parts and we’re not quite sure how.. please tell us! Another thing trending (still) is Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app and its ills. While Elon Musk continues to dominate the news cycle by having a baby, going on a podcast to talk about brain-to-computer interfaces and defying the state of California –...

This week, Elon Musk walks the fine line between trolling the world and controlling the world with calculated tweets. Will he eventually go full Elon? Despite the Australian government not releasing the source code, the tech community have already conducted a teardown and reverse engineered the COVIDSafe app. What did they find? While ‘pandemic drones’ may soon be deployed to track you...

The Australian Government have seized this opportunity to not just roll out a contact tracing app with questionable optics this week, but also going HAM on the tech titans, as they seek to have our mainstream media compensated with payments from Google and Facebook for reusing their precious content. All the while Zuckerberg tries to get into the e-commerce game in India and plays catchup to Zoom...

If you had an inkling that technology fully permeates through modern society, you sure as hell do now, as we settle into a pandemic driven world of self-isolation. As it is, our longing to connect with one another is mostly satisfied through the internet and the scores of apps and services most of us have never heard of. Zoom is one such service that everyone is fully aware of. It’s so easy...

“The internet is your enemy but also your friend.” Yes, this pretty much sums up the Naked Tech Podcast as we delve into how we’re all being tracked by cookies (or are we?) and how the coronavirus is affecting the tech industry in surprising ways. We also get all caucus-y and break down the Iowa caucus fiasco and see how our friends at Cnet break down the newest foldable flip pho...

Super Bowl day means we get to watch a bunch of trailers for upcoming films and shows, including WandaVision and Falcon & Winter Soldier. What else is coming to Disney+, you may ask? Well we’ll list out some of our favourites. In tech news, Uber and Apple find ways to tackle the #coronavirus outbreak and perhaps save humanity itself, and what’s with big banks thinking they’re...

Bit of a break in the tech event cycle and we get serious by chatting all things encryption and iCloud backups. Yay! We’ll tell you what the media isn’t and break down some of the mixed messages you may have been hearing from the press. We have also been trialling the new browser, Edge, by Microsoft and we tell you why you should try it out yourself. As always we cover all angles using...

Part 2 of our coverage of CES 2020 includes a holographic virtual yoga trainer, a chef bot that can make 35 different types of salad, a tennis ball that follows you around and bosses your other home appliances, and a bionic cat that adjusts its personality based on how you talk to it. You want more weird stuff? Well how about Segway’s new S-Pod? It’s a self-balancing chair on wheels, w...

The “nerd nirvana” that is CES is on again from Las Vegas and this is the first of a 2-part episode series to cover all the news and announcements from the world’s biggest tech expo. We will go through the latest in 8K TVs, new form factors of a range of digital products that bend and scroll and is basically all screen with no bezels. While chip-makers Intel and AMD continue to b...

Happy new year listener! And as per tradition, we will give our top 3 predictions for the calendar year. As always, our predictions are measurable and quantifiable with a view to properly mark ourselves at the end of the year. This time round, our soothsayer-ing abilities include topics like gaming, Apple Inc’s moves and a whole lot of space. Find out more on episode 135 of the Naked Tech Po...

The Skywalker saga finally ends (or rises?) and the fandom galaxy is as divided as ever. Mixed emotions all over the place as we dissect the film in great detail, with easter eggs, callbacks and choices, good and bad, JJ made along the way. What now for the Star Wars universe? Can Disney ever bring balance to the nerd force? As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you...

Continuing on from last week’s episode of our favourite tech for the year, we focus our attention to our hands and ear-holes. Tech truly surrounds us and penetrates us, if you know what I mean. As we approach Christmas, if you have a spare $500 for your mum, you may want to consider some of our suggestions (#mumtech). Finally we review the predictions we made on 1 January of 2019. Did we get...

As we wrap up another year in tech, we share some of our favourite things – which may or may not include a pantomime featuring the methods of authentication to your web accounts. Oh what fun. As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast.   Episode 132. Recorded Monday 9 December 2019.  Cont...

A lost episode that was originally recorded in late September but now being released to the world some 10 weeks later. Here, we cover Amazon’s crazy hardware announcements, Facebook’s Oculus Connect 6 event for updates on their VR/AR/MR division. As always, we cover all angles using clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Nake Tech Podcast...

Chances are, you are triggered by the sight of the price tags of the new iPhones, but were you able to hold out on pre-ordering? Apple are certainly pros at controlling the marketing message but did they go too far in 2019? It may not matter however as there are about 70m Chinese old iPhone owners who are looking for an upgrade. Even if that doesn’t work out, Apple have 2 new services in App...

Ep 129 artwork   The Lazy Couch is a geek culture podcast hosted by Kelvin Lee and Geoff Kim , based out of Sydney Australia. Topics range from the latest trends in technology to comic book movies and all things geeky. If you enjoyed listening to us, you can help the show by leaving us a review on iTunes or get in touch with us on @nakedtechpod . The outro music is ‘Sorry’ by Comf...