Unencrypted

The PC market is going through a time. They're losing market share to the Mac. Losing mind share because of a technology gap that is growing because they are relying on 3rd party suppliers like Intel and AMD. Who better than Yesh Sujoodeen, MD for HP South Africa to explain what the future of the PC looks like. “I think that during the pandemic era, we had a lot of demand for devices that allo...

There’s a line in Redemption Song that goes “have no fear for atomic energy” and it speaks to a post-World War II mistrust of science. We’re in the moment right now with AI. GhostDraft has been automating customer communications since 1984 and the current CEO Wayne Toms thinks that 2024 is the year that AI gets elevated above the hype cycle as an integral communications tool. "CCM is essentially t...

Podcast originally produced for St George's Rod and Staff https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/st-georges-rod-and-staff/id1503957357 Host: Lindsey Schutters Guest: Archdeacon Rodney Whiteman

There were about 14,463 Uber trips made in each minute of 2022 across the 900 cities where you can get an Uber. Uber, however, doesn’t say how many of those trips were in electric vehicles, but does say that it saved over 18 million litres of petrol from the 25,000 EVs in its global fleet. In 2008 Travis Kalanick pitched the idea of Uber to possible investors as the convenience of a cab in New Yor...

You know the just energy transition South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is always talking about? It’s going to cost an estimated one and a half trillion Rand to get started. Of course the bulk of that money will be spent on overhauling the electricity sector, but it is an ENERGY transition, which means changing how we do all fuels that power our economy. One of those fuels is Hydrogen. One out...

Microsoft took the fight to its competitors in the consumer space when it added the OpenAI’s GPT engine into its search engine Bing, and its Edge browser and now everyone is in love with a moody chat bot… What a time to be alive. But this isn’t Microsoft’s first rodeo or even its first billion dollar investment into OpenAI. First, the company was founded by a consortium that included Elon Musk and...

Christiano Ramos (or Tiano in the game), the best Call of Duty Mobile player in the country – or the continent, depending on who you’re speaking to – says high refresh rate displays are a massive benefit. Specifically, the ability to lock framerate on a game. If you believe the marketing and the popular youtubers, you’d think that high refresh rate displays on mobile devices are a transformative t...

There is no touching in the metaverse, no floral fragrances in Web3, and DeFi is distinctly flavourless. The promise of the digital world is a stark – because minimalism is encouraged due to development constraints – existence without the comforts of life. But artists like Jan Hendrik Viljoen, better known as Portchie, are bringing beauty to our second lives and making a little bank with Non-Fungi...

Humans, on average, listen to 18.4 hours of music each week. That’s equivalent to around 368 three minute audio tracks. This is according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry 2021 Engaging with Music report. The 2019 version of this report put that weekly average at 18 hours. Over that time period music streaming listenership increased by 51 percent and now constitutes 23 p...

It’s US CPI data day again, which tanked BTC by 10% last month… Microsoft had an event and there are new Surface machines on the way.

Unencrypted ep.6: How technology is changing photography (ft. Ian McNaught Davis) Ian is one of the most accomplished photographers I know and not only because of his masters in photography that he achieved abroad, but rather the fact that he has been a photographer in an active war zone. Scratch that, you can’t officially call Ukraine a war zone yet. We’re talking on the morning of the Made By Go...

British pound volatility, the imminent Credit Suisse liquidity crisis and the European gas situation contributed to a 3 percent gain for Bitcoin. The premier crypto has arrived at the $20 000 level again and things could go either way. The shares of one of the widely tracked crypto funds Greyscale Investment’s bitcoin trust - a darling of institutional investors who want exposure to bitcoin withou...

That’s James McCall, chief sustainability officer at HP. Yes, I’m back in the desert, but this time I’m taking about ocean bound plastics. Specifically the stuff HP is using in 99 percent of its new devices. You see, plastic manufacturing is actually a bit of a scam. On 18 July 2017 the sovereign nation of the People’s Republic of China filed a notification of technical barriers to trade with the...

Bitcoin retreats from $20300 in wake of USD surge and BoE debt counter. XRP was an early winner, but QNT had a spectacular Wednesday. Public BTC miners have lost money. Amazon Kindle Scribe is an e-ink tablet with a stylus - which begs the question: WHO ASKED FOR THIS? Apple does about turn to bring Stage Manager to non-M1 iPads, but it may be a Pro only update when iPadOS 16 finally breaks cover.

Binance is the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and has aggressively entered South Africa. Lindsey Schutters spoke to the local Binance business head Hannes Wessels about the plans for Mzansi and how Binance is going to move crypto into the mainstream. We didn't expect him to have an answer on the second question, but he did. And it's going to blow the roof off of crypto u...

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Not many tech commentators gave Huawei a chance after the company was hit with sanctions that stripped it of its ability to source from US intellectual property. With no access to Google Mobile Services or even 5G connectivity, and unable to manufacturer its own silicon chips, Huawei fought back with a software response. We will never see the HarmonyOS brand in South Africa, but that doesn’t mean...

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Samsung didn’t give much details on how they are reproducing HiFi audio in the Galaxy Buds2 Pro, they’re just trusting that you buy the product and the story. This week Gavin Dudley, editor of TECH magazine, joins Unencrypted to unpack and demystify Bluetooth audio. Unencrypted is brought to you by https://www.addvirtt.com And recorded at https://www.atkarena.com

Lindsey Schutters, thedecryptr.com editor reporting from the HP Amplify Executive Conference 2022, Dubai.  How is the second biggest PC manufacturer in the world navigating the supply chain crisis? Listen to Chief Supply Chain Officer Ernest Nicholas chart the company's course forward. This episode is brought to you by Virtual | sports | addvirtt

The final episode of South Africa's most accessible consumer technology podcast. Thanks for the memories. Gavin's main hustle is here: http://techmagazine.co.za/ And you can also find us here: http://thatopinionguy.co.za https://global.techradar.com/en-za Follow Gavin at https://facebook.com/TechMagazineZA/ Find Lindsey at https://twitter.com/SharpSchutters. Email us at overclocked@gmail.com Recor...

Head of marketing for TCL South Africa tells OVRCLKD what makes TCL special and why they've chosen to hit the South African market right before Christmas.

Rejoice Samsung Galaxy S21/+/Ultra users, for your overlords have granted you Android 12! Lindsey still has no regrets, Gavin tames the loadshedding beast, we were right about Huawei and Honor, and South Africa's most accessible consumer technology podcast mourns the loss of Joox. Elsewhere Apple makes big right to repair strides and Engen 1App makes your life better in one very specific way. Gavi...

A delayed episode sees South Africa’s most accessible consumer technology podcast have André de Ruyter's back in the loadshedding debate, Lindsey falls out of love with Android, Eskom are unexpectedly helpful, 5G remains a myth and Gavin has feelings for Intel. If you care about ARMv9 and cascading failure, tune in. Gavin's main hustle is here: http://techmagazine.co.za/ And you can also find us h...