Nick and Mike wrap up the summer with a discussion of their learnings from the Flying Into Hail event in Calgary, hosted by the Alberta Hail Suppression Project. We hear about how the project contracts Weather Modification International to reduce hail damage in an area of Alberta’s Tornado Alley by way of cloud seeding –… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
Senior Correspondent Nick and Correspondent-in-Training Mike attend the June 6, 2018 Genome Alberta TasteTECH event at The Tastemarket by SAIT in Calgary. Click the icon below to listen.
Nick and Mike (along with a special appearance by Rob) discuss the Genome Alberta TasteTECH event during a live recording at the June 7, 2018 APN Podcasts Connect event. Click the icon below to listen.
In what appears to be becoming a more-than-occasional occurrence, Nick and Mike are joined by a special guest - Dan Shessel from the Northern Nerdcast. Click the icon below to listen.
As the Unwind Media DadRob season continues, Nick and Mike are joined by Trina from the Northern Nerdcast as they delve into the details of Facebook’s privacy predicament, as well as Google’s own issues with handling personal information online. Click the icon below to listen.
Our trio spends this episode talking about Soylent and the CFIA and Google’s quantum computer, and finishes up with the story of Nick’s and Mike’s Ex Raid adventure(s). Click the icon below to listen.
Future Chat celebrates its 150th episode by looking back at how far we’ve come with vaccines, wearable technology, and space exploration in the last 4 years. Also, Mike has a new phone, and Nick is back with an old carrier! Click the icon below to listen.
This week, after discussing follow-up on the 10GB/$60 data plans from the end of 2017, we catch up on Apple’s battery/performance situation, and update everyone on what Microsoft has been cooking up for the Office suite. Click the icon below to listen.
This week’s show features an update on the future of food, some of the ‘competition’ in the wireless industry in Canada, and a new poop story (finally)! Click the icon below to listen.
Our intrepid trio is reunited and discuss the new Tesla Roadster 2, new phones for ⅔ of us, and some of the strengths and weaknesses of two-factor authentication. Click the icon below to listen.
Rob and Nick get together to discuss the Canada Food Inspection Agency ‘banning’ Soylent, why spicy foods hurt, and a little Alberta politics. Click the icon below to listen.
This week, we discuss commutes and their modes of transport, Nick’s new phone, and briefly consider what could be in store for the Halloween Pokemon Go event. Click the icon below to listen.
After literally 3+ months, our hosts and senior contributor Nick Maddox return to talk about the most niche topics possible: audio treatments, Pokémon Go in the fall of 2017, and electric shavers. But we have a good time. Click the icon below to listen.
Rob takes some time at the end of the summer hiatus to review the Samsung Galaxy S8. Click the icon below to listen.
Rob takes some time at the start of the summer hiatus to review the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3. Click the icon below to listen.
With Nick basking in the post-Canada Day afterglow, Rob and Mike take some time to sum up the tech they are currently using and loving (or not). Click the icon below to listen.
Rob and Mike finally settle their WWDC draft (or do they?), before Rob heeds a tornado warning and Mike and Nick succumb to fake news about Pokemon Go. This was a weird one. Click the icon below to listen.
Our intrepid trio don’t quite reach critical Musk this week, instead spending the week talking about the ethics of drone warfare, Telus’ new Android TV service, and the next few months of Pokemon Go. Click the icon below to listen.
This week, Android Pay comes out in Canada, the founder of Android Andy Rubin releases a home assistant, and the University of Alberta lost some fish involved in research due to corrosion. Click the icon below to listen.
Rob and Mike take some time during the hustle and bustle of the week to do a fantasy draft of potential announcements at the WWDC keynote next week. What follows is a great in-depth look at what we might get to see on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Click the icon below to listen.
The Canadian Conservatives have a new leader (with an interesting voting system)! Rob discovers (Columbuses?) OneNote! IFTTT opens its ‘Maker’ program to everyone! Click the icon below to listen.
On the show this week, we discuss the best aspects of Google I/O and Microsoft Build, along with some discussion of old violins and hot peppers. Click the icon below to listen.
Ransomware is sweeping across old versions of Windows in Europe this week, and the guys can’t agree on which voice assistant(s) will be the future of artificial intelligence. Click the icon below to listen.
For this week’s Future Chat, we reflect on the tech in our own lives, and specifically all the stuff that’s been going wrong with it, before setting out sights on the construction plans for a future Mars base Click the icon below to listen.
This is Rob's review of the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, marking a year since its release. Click the icon below to listen.
This week, we do a deep dive on Elon Musk’s newest venture, Neuralink. We talk about the viability of the concept, its implications, and how we feel about a future with brain-machine interfaces. Click the icon below to listen.
The gang gets back together for a new episode, tackling some more discussion on passwords (or lack thereof), the near future of airless tires, and a long-awaited CRTC corner (that’s why people tune in, right?). Click the icon below to listen.
With Nick sleeping off a long week, Rob and Future Chat make their triumphant returns to the airwaves. Click the icon below to listen.
After waking up an hour early for no reason (Daylight Saving notwithstanding), Mike suggests we get rid of time zones altogether. We also discuss some possible fixes for solar roadways, 'unlimited' data, and Uber's ethics woes. Click the icon below to listen.
Nick spends half of the episode regaling us with his Teksavvy/Shaw nightmare. We then spend the rest of the episode discussing Cloudbleed and web security. Click the icon below to listen.
