Tech Talk

The geeks talk about politicians' social media blow-ups, Stephen Fry’s warning for the web, Google co-founder building the world's largest airship, Matt’s King of the Crowd featuring the Banana Phone, a phone with appeal, the unveiling of the robot priest in Germany, and 25,000 private photos from cosmetic surgery clinic being published by hackers. See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...

The IBM Bluemix Garage is an initiative that leverages the IBM Bluemix cloud platform and agile development methodologies to create a bridge between the scale of enterprises and the culture of start-ups. The result? An ecosystem of innovation that thrives on collaboration. We speak to Rachel Reinitz, the CTO of Bluemix Garage and Shawn Murray, the Global Director for Bluemix, about the creation of...

Karamjit Singh, Goh Thean Eu and Anushia Kandasivam from Digital New Asia.com (DNA) talk about: 0:18 - Soft Space Sealed Series A and set so scale aggresively 5:34 - Celcom Outlines Game Plan To Gain Share In Second Half 9:47 - Fusionex updates 15:03 -    E -Commerce Ready For Innovation 18:52 - SEA Ripe For ‘Massive Opportunities’ Through Digital In Next Decade 22:14 - Gobi...

Freedom of speech and expression are all about our right to make a statement. However, where is the line drawn between expressing one’s frustration on a Facebook comment and valid censorship? Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is here throw some light on what the media has been calling The Facebook Files, a drop of confidential company documents that outlines Facebook’s policies towards p...

The geeks talk about the brain eating itself after chronic sleep deprivation, a 94-year-old professor who develops a longer-lasting battery, our brains preferring invented visual information to real information, Google’s AlphaGo AI defeating the world’s best human Go player, Ke Jie, Matt’s King of the Crowd featuring RompHim, a romper specially designed for men, healthy mice bein...

Victor Yap from PC Mag SEA highlights the biggest tech news of the month and also reviews the Dell XPS 13 2017 edition in #GadgetInFocus (GIF Review).   0:27 - Sony Launches Sony 4K OLED 2:13 - Microsoft EDU Goes Official: The Simplified Windows That Is Designed For Education 6:22 - Samsung Launches Samsung Galaxy S8 9:44 - Microsoft Build Highlights (Build 2017) 9:57 - Build 2017: Microsoft...

What better way to start Fun Friday than to fill everyone’s heads with worms? Millions of tiny electric worms have been boring into the brain of Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage, turning it from a nice Emmental-like consistency into a binary cottage cheese. All it will take to repair it is a pocketful of Bitcoin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The geeks talk about the strange world of patents, Apple patenting a pizza box, the complexity and implications of microbes, what former NSA employee, Edward Snowden, is saying on the Wannacry epidemic, Facebook’s promise to combat the spread of fake news, the potential death of the MP3, and Matt’s King of the Crowd features Knops, which are noise cancelling headphones that can tune ou...

Data is like the oil flowing down the fuel pipe, it is a resource and a currency of the future. With the data companies on the rise, our personal information is being seen, heard and monitored. The data companies were able to analyse and predict our behaviour. This week, Matt Armitage talks about the energy of tomorrow, data and how we are actually on a higher ground. See omnystudio.com/listener f...

The geeks talk about a faster Facebook prototype translator, how Snapchat moves a step closing to Instagram, Foodpanda, Waze’s ultimate customisation to allow users to record their voice, augmented reality surgery, touch sensitive surface using conductive spray paint and Matt’s King of the crowd is Zero Breeze, a portable air conditioner that is the size of a pet carrier! See omnystudi...

Believe it or not, the PayWave technology has been in Malaysia for the last decade. However, there has been a number of viral news about how your 16 digit credit/debit number and expiry date can be lifted through the PayWave technology. KB Ng, Country Manager for Visa Malaysia is busting the misconceptions and shares his vision on the future of payment gateway. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

You wore that forensic suit. You shaved your body hair. You taped plastic sheeting over every inch of your killing ground and melted everything down with acid. You might think you’ve committed the perfect crime, but, as Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage has found, microbes could still land you in jail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Geeks talk about the ‘exercise pill’, Facebook adds moderators, Echo Look, the AI fashion police and King of the Crowd is about Swarovski momenzzGLOBE. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The word digital means many different things to almost every sector. For some, it’s about real-time data, access, platforms, business models, automation and so forth. As for the design and manufacturing industry, it brings all of that with an additional value to the end consumer. Kajin Teoh, Technical Business Consultant at IME Group of Companies urges manufacturers to keep up with the world...

The Geeks talked about increase revenue growth in music labels today, crime fighting robots, Uber promises Flying Cars by 2020 and King of the Crowd is about PAPR Watch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage was predicting the impending loss of our digital heritage to obsolete formats and forced upgrades. This week he wants to balance the scale with some of the formats that are fighting against their own obsolescence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The usage of video in analytics is significantly underutilised for operational, business and public safety data. Over at Hitachi Data System’s, video is believed to be the solution to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience. Keith Roscarel is the Director of Public Safety and Smart Cities for Asia Pacific unravels the benefits of video analytics. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...

The Geeks talk about digital destruction, Facebook's brain control idea, new phishing technology based on letters, and the personal air conditoning-The Evapolar 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karamjit Singh, Anushia Kandasivam, from Digital New Asia.com and Aaron Sarma, from Touristly talk about:   0:28 - AirAsia Takes 50% Stake in Touristly for US$2.6mil 13:01 - Founder Institute Ready to Kick Off Fifth Semester 18:24 - Eatigo Launches in Malaysia 24:42 - Gogoprint Ready to Disrupt SEA’s Printing Industry 29:21 - N2N Connect Takes Big Step Towards Goal with US$11.5mil HK Ac...

Over the past year, there have been several cases of high profile cyber attacks on multinational corporations as well as smaller enterprises. Unfortunately, most Malaysian SMEs underestimate their vulnerabilities to cyberattack and they view cyber risk insurance as an unnecessary expense. This perception of cyber risk is made even more worrisome as SMEs play integral role in Malaysian economy. See...

The word FinTech has been a buzzword throughout Southeast Asia as investors, VCs and even fundings seem to be capitalising on this explosion in the startup space. Talent, however, is scarce. Michelle Katics, co-founder and CEO of PortfolioQuest shares how they play a role in the FinTech space with their “virtual world” training simulation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

The Geeks talk about Humbleworks' standing desk designed specially for the white collars, how a chicken nugget-obsessed teen could break a Twitter record after taking on a challenge from Wendy's to get 18million retweets in exchange for one year supply of free nuggets, how a Twitter user challenged Wendy's claim that they never use frozen beef, Google's Home software, and how Jordanian Airlines fl...

In the digital age we have things like bitcoins, cryptocurrency and mobile wallets. But physical cash is still used widely today. SoCash is a startup that aims to bridge the gap between the digital world and the physical by eliminating the need for ATMs, allowing its users to select participating merchants who act as cash pickup points from its app. We speak to founder, Hari Sivan on how SoCash pl...

Later this year, we have another Star Wars movie to enjoy. All that space travel, laser fights, robot companies is what makes science fiction absolutely breathtaking. The funny thing is though, if we look at our smartphones, smartwatches, rocket ships to mars, drones that fly themselves, machines talking to each other and talking to us, all these were previously figments of the imagination at some...

We speak to Elia Hernando who is based in Barcelona about what the city of Catalunya has to offer being a smart city in today’s world and how all this was made possible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.