Tech Talk

The geeks talk about a way to stop autoplaying videos in Facebook, Bluetooth gets a big upgrade to complement smart homes, robots will make the best fake news, Amazon moves into meal-kit market and the King of The Crowd features Spinbox, a DIY portable Turntable kit which makes vinyl easy and fun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mr Happy. Little Miss Fun. Mr Daydream. Little Miss Sunshine. Mr Cheerful. Little Miss Brainy. Fun Friday can only offer you a Mr Grumpy who thinks he’s a Mr Clever. That’s still better than his drag alter ego, Little Miss Fabulous. Today, Kulturpop’s doom prophet Matt Armitage asks: should you, really? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the new digital economy, traditional ways of running a business are swiftly becoming outdated. Disruption is happening across every sector. If large businesses do not make efforts to innovate their own business - someone else will. One way to start embracing digital adoption is through collaboration with digital companies, adopting the right culture in the organisation to drive productivity. We...

The recent WannaCry malware has thrown a spotlight on the issue of cyber security and many are now asking just how cyber secure their nation is, and what are the main malware threats that businesses and consumers should be aware of. Recently Malwarebytes, a leading malware remediation solutions providers, released its Malaysian State of Malware report that examined more than 1 billion malware infe...

Karamjit Singh and Anushia Kandasivam from Digital New Asia.com (DNA) talk about:   0:18 - Gaming – Malaysia’s Silent Religion 10:26 - Julo Raises Seed Funding Led By Skystar 16:40 - ‘You May Become Irrelevant In The Blink Of An Eye’ 21:38 - Mulah Pivots To Establish Foothold In Malaysia 29:33 - Analysts Divided On Telco M&As 36:02 - Signature Market Attracts Recor...

Your IOT devices, like your IP Security Cameras and such are an open invitation to cyber security risks. According to Akamai's State of the Internet/security Q1 2017 report, Mirai DNS Water Torture Attacks, a DNS query flood included in Mirai malware was the extremely prevalent in the first quarter attacking the financial services industry. Michael Smith, Akamai's Chief Technology Officer for Secu...

It's a byte-sized Game Time episode as Jeff Sandhu games alone in the studio and talks about:   0:53 - Wild West Online Gameplay Demo 2:56 - Oculus Rift Bundle Promo 5:54 - Jump, A New Subscription Based Gaming Platform 7:31 - No Man's Sky Big Anniversary Update 9:30 - Is Gaming Actually Bad For You? 14:40 - Star Wars Battlefront II Multiplayer Demo, Out Soon.. With A Caveat! 16:38 - PlayerUn...

The geeks talk about the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), also known as the 'car-eating' bus in China, AI that produces images in unconventional styles, Kodak's smartphone- Ektra, how AI can identify colours by studying bees, old brains can't hear similar sounds but a drug can change that, and down in the dumps goes to Sound Heroes: a bluetooth speaker of the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

The tech industry has been responsible for many miracles over the last two decades but nothing has been quite as meteoric as the rise of Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage. As listeners to BFM, you might think you’re getting Matt free, but you’re ignoring the mental and psychological his words are having on you. Today, it’s time to pay the price. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

First came steam and water power; then electricity and assembly lines; then computerization. And now we have the 4th industrial revolution, some call it Industry 4.0, but whatever you call it, it represents the combination of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Systems. It’s the idea of smart factories in which machines are augmented with web connectivity and c...

The modern world has many ridiculous riddles, such as when to squeeze and when to juice, or when is a bus not a bus. It seems that the tech industry has an amazing ability to reinvent things that were perfectly fine to begin with and therein lies the problem - Has the tech world run out of things to invent? Have we misinterpreted convenience with invention to the extent where what we claim to be &...

The geeks talk about the colour-changing tattoos that can monitor your health, the successful voyage of the Boaty McBoatface submarine, Kangaroo confuses Volvo's driverless car, Facebook in talks to produce TV-quality show, Gmail's offers a range of AI-generated responses, the Bluesmart Series 2: Smart luggage system and Feather, the furniture rental business. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

Earlier this year, our neighbours down south were affected by a data breach at the Ministry of Defence in Singapore, executed by breaching the web-connected computer terminals, and together with the recent WannaCry episode, it has left enterprises in the region wondering about their organisation’s security. Building a zero-day threat defence is crucial and to explain further, we speak to Fra...

Jeff Sandhu & Umapagan looks back at the month of June and picks our their highlights of the month in tech. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jeff Sandhu & Umapagan looks back at the month of June and talks about Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, CES Asia 2017 happened in China, Apple’s WWDC 2017, why iOS 11 is putting Apple in the right direction and highlights from this year’s E3. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This morning there will be no robot overlords trying eradicate humanity, no dark computer intelligence trying to beat us at mahjong and no psychotic vending machines waiting to lecture us on sustainability. Today, Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is taking us on a road trip. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The geeks talk about the launch delay of a KFC chicken sandwich to the edge of space, the time for e-SIM, Amazon Prime Wardrobe that lets you try clothes before you buy, a solution to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday and the King of the Crowd features UrbaNext, that could convert any bike to electric in a minute by just changing your front wheel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

A few weeks ago, the world was rocked by the malicious WannaCry cyberattack that infected over 200,000 machines, including logistics giant FedEx, Spanish telco Telefonica and the British National Health Service. Just as governments and cybersecurity vendors were reassuring the world that the worst was over and the situation was under control, reports have emerged that another cybersecurity attack...

BFM's resident gamers, Jeff Sandhu & Richard Bradbury, speak to Michelle Tan of Fundeavour.com and learn the trade to be a professional gamer as they discuss the highs and lows of this year's E3 2017. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we countlessly hit snooze on our phone alarms every morning, we often question ourselves – Why do we work? The conventional answer would be because we need to earn a living. However, is it as simple as that? Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is here to shine some light on the trendline between tech and work as well as how millennials view work today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

The geeks talk about GrabHeli in Jakarta, how chatbots learn to negotiate and drive a hard bargain, a type of bacteria powered by light that could one day help survive heart attack and the King of the Crowd features Mixxtape, a nostalgic and iconic glory makes a comeback - a fully functional Bluetooth music player. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We live in a world where jigsaw puzzles are made to fit perfectly and dots on a colouring sheet are meant to be joined together. Both forms of linkage, both forms of connection. Today, however, we see an elevated version of connection- One where objects themselves communicate with each other and one where these objects are allowed to collect and exchange data. Being a mildly understated concept, w...

Waiting for a package to be delivered can be frustrating as deliveries mostly happen during office hours. Furthermore, customers often miss the delivery window and proceed to worry about the safety of their packages. To ensure the convenience of online shopping, the Singapore government has created a nationwide system of delivery lockers from which the public can retrieve packages ordered online....

Jeff Sandhu and Richard Bradbury gets back online to review Alienation on the PS4. Is this the best arcade shooter game on the PlayStation console and is this worth your money? And updates on the world's most powerful console machine, Xbox Scorpion, and why Jeff isn't that all excited about Tekken 7. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Just as humans evolve, so too does the process of innovation. There was once upon a time an era where you would hear the nostalgic, whirring noises of a rotary dial in every office, or the abrupt taps from flipping a flip phone closed instead of the gentle clicks from locking an iPhone. But, then came the era after computers- An era filled with new gadgets and tools that is nearly impossible to ke...