Tech Lounge

Do We Need the World's First Emotional Processing Unit? Chris interviews the founder of Emoshape, a company who thinks we do, and has created the first EPU, wether we need it or not. Show notes: gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show: gregariousmammal.com/support Facebook: facebook.com/gregariousmammal/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a publ...

Chris speaks with Garlin Gilchrist II and Aviv Ovadya at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan about their mission. Show notes: gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show: gregariousmammal.com/support Facebook: facebook.com/gregariousmammal/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to...

In our latest episode, Chris reports back from SXSW and we talk about interesting articles from the week including the creation of the internet, China’s efforts at social credit, the ‘right to be forgotten’ and more. Show notes: gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show: gregariousmammal.com/support Facebook: facebook.com/gregariousmammal/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinch...

Chris speaks with Zach LeBeau of SingularDTV at SXSW about their ambitious plans to bring music and video production, distribution, rights management and monetisation to the Blockchain. https://singulardtv.com Previous episodes - http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support the show - http://gregariousmammal.com/support Facebook - http://facebook.com/gregariousmammal/ --- Send in a voice message: h...

Chris & Cate are back at Mobile World Congress and bring your their highlights from this whopper of a show. Show notes: gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show: gregariousmammal.com/support Facebook: facebook.com/gregariousmammal/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

Chris speaks with Brian Gracely, director, OpenShift product strategy about the container space more generally and how the acquisition might fit into it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com For show notes and a...

We speak with Pierre Barreau, CEO of Aiva who's AI has helped compose music for presentations, games, concerts, and even has its own album. http://aiva.ai/about http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ http://gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...

In this episode Cate and Chris discuss the birthday of open source, big data, transportation and how to conduct yourself at networking events. Show notes - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with othe...

Chris speaks with Sam Tabar, strategist at AirSwap about trading cryptocurrencies on decentralised exchanges and how we can solve the problems of VC backed startups. airswap.io Show notes - www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - www.gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to disc...

Chris speaks with the three founders of replex.io who aim to help you identify inefficiencies at every level of a stack, from discrete hardware components all the way up to a holistic picture of your overall architecture. https://replex.io Show notes - www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - www.gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasque...

Fresh from their Best of Innovation at CES Innovation Awards, we finally publish an interview with Nuraphone when Chris visited their office in Melbourne in December to discuss their unique headphones, and running a startup in Australia. https://eu.nuraphone.com Previous shows and show notes - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/support ---...

Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson of Automic to discuss the current state of Containers and Serverless, plus predictions for 2018. Previous episodes & Show Notes - www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - www.gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subs...

In this episode Cate and Chris tackle CES, a crazy show of more than 4,500 exhibitors spread over 11 official venues. It's an exercise in stamina as you traverse the crowds trying to find the gems among the generic. There's a lot more 'nice to have' than 'need it now' devices. But every year a few things stand out, but not always for the right reasons. Previous episodes & Show Notes - https://...

Chris speaks with Daniel G. Siegel about his talk "the bullet hole misconception" covering topics such as how developers should challenge themselves and preconceptions. The Future of Programming, Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/dbx/ The Mother of All Demos, Doug Engelbart http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html Augmenting Human Intellect, Doug Engelbart http://www.doug...

Chris and Cate recount the year that was, look forward to 2018 and discuss the recent CCC in Leipzig. Previous Episodes - gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support the show - gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinch...

Chris hosts a panel at the recent Berlin Blockchain day with three blockchain luminaries: Dmitry Meshkov, Alexander Chepurnoy, Vlad Zamfir and Alexander Ivanov. https://binarydistrict.com/courses/berlin-blockchain-day/ Previous Episodes - http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - http://gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/mess...

Chris interviews Dubai startup Wrappup about their meeting AI bot and running a startup in Dubai. https://www.wrappup.co Previous episodes - gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support the show - gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

Chris speaks with CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber about creating a continuous integration platform that gets out of the way of developers and just lets them work, test, build and deploy. Show notes - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the podcast - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/support/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If y...

In this episode Cate and Chris tackle the rise of cryptocurrencies, love (past and present) in the time of artificial intelligence, the prevalence of software bugs, net neutrality from a non-American perspective, and more. Show notes - gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support the show - gregariousmammal.com/support --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a publ...

Chris speaks with Tanveer Saifee of Thingworx about creating interactive AR tools that help workers in modern industry understand and analyse the machinery and processes around them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.subs...

Chris speaks with Johannes Schickling of Graphcool, The GraphQL Backend Framework. The interview covers their love of GraphQL, community and how they try to help developers understand and use the API framework. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...

In this episode Cate and Chris tackle some difficult topics such as the backlash against tech, does the status quo even want to change, diversity, the naivety of engineers and much more. gregariousmammal.com/podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo...

Chris speaks with Ryan Blunden about what programmers and musicians can learn from each other, the affects of music on coding, what genres might be what programming language, computer generated music and much more. Show notes - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/podcast/ Support the show - https://www.gregariousmammal.com/support/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/mess...

As part of a forthcoming article on the Ukrainian tech/startup scene, I interview Anastasia Sleptsova Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at UNIT.City . gregariousmammal.com/podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.c...

Robots are appearing everywhere in our lives and workplaces, but how does a developer actually program one? Chris spoke with Jans Lembrecht of Gestalt Robotics about his experience programming industrial robots designed for single purpose tasks that use their own programming languages to newer robots that use C++ or Python to handle broader tasks that humans throw at them. http://www.gestalt-robot...