This week, Mike and Rob go over the week’s Google announcements, debate the implications of water on Mars, and fantasize about buying an SUV from Tesla. Links: New Chromecasts Google Keep on iOS The new Tesla Model X Supermoon Eclipse Photo Pebble’s Round Smartwatch Pokemon Go for mobile This episode of Future Chat is brought… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we talk about the European diesel emissions scandal, Rob might not fully understand the conflicts in the Middle East, and we have a new ancestral cousin. Links: VW Emissions Software Scandal BMW Might Also Be Involved in Emissions Scandal Siberian Frankenvirus Verizon Tests First 5G Network Flooding Helps California’s Water Table First Withdrawal… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
On this week’s show, we talk data plans, smartening your old appliances, and the next steps for Uber. Stay tuned for the after-show (1:35:00 or so), where we discuss the benefits and ills of auto-play video in social networking. Links: Chrysler mails USB security patch Toyota teams up with MIT and Stanford for car AI… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
On this week’s show, we agree non-Celiac gluten sensitivity probably isn’t a real thing, electric, self-driving cars will be all over our roads soon, and space elevators likely won’t work. Links: Harperman Protest Song Project Soli fingertip “Wearable” dev kits Tesla breaks Consumer Reports review scale Google Car vs. trackstanding biker Cyanide in apples, not… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, Rob is back from his honeymoon, we catch up each others’ lives, Google Alphabet news, and discuss new UK research on vaping. Links: Soylent and the law Future Tech Chat #24 – Google Y Project Ara drop tests Google’s New OnHub router E-cigarettes are “safer” than tobacco Smoking vs. Vaping – ASAP Science… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, we discuss the possible coming shortage of medical isotopes and decay rates, we learn a little about Nick’s work with gold, and we can’t all tell hoppy beers apart. We’re on vacation (wedding/honeymoon/vacations, etc.) for a month after this episode, so we’ll catch up with you in late August! Enjoy the rest… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, we discussed T-Mobile’s new Uncarrier US-Canada-Mexico roaming plans, Sweden buying trash from Norway, and Mike doesn’t believe you could forget hitting a moose. We’ll see Mike, we’ll see… Links: Pluto’s Dark Side Reacting To Technology With Age Self-Destructing Mosquitos Solar Impulse Flight T-Mobile Uncarrier Roaming Policy Giant Robot Fight CDC Guide To… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week on the show, we discuss all the latest goings on around Pluto, the ramifications of the leap second, and how you might not get Windows 10 for a while. Links: ISS Finally Get New Supplies New Horizon Glitch New Horizons Back Online Leap Second Tom Scott Explains Leap Seconds All The Recent Leap… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, the latest Falcon 9 launch is unsuccessful, Rob talks all about his week on Soylent, and we revisit mobile phone corner. We also try a moment of silence on a podcast, so the episode isn’t over. If you like the new, more compact format of the show, please do let us know (even… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, storing electricity like plants do, we try DuckDuckGo, and no more trans fats. And, find out how Mike trying FlexDelivery has gone so far, and Rob is going to be trying Soylent this week. Links: More Crowdfunded PhD Research Hyperloop Design Contest 3D-printed Rhino Horn Novel Solar Energy Storage In The Grid Nano-robots… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we talk sexiness in science labs, really old dinosaur blood cells, and so so much space news. Links: Hyperloop Agreements Secured Glimpse at Hyperloop Design More on the Right to Repair Sexism in Science & #DistractinglySexy Saturn’s New HUGE Ring 75 Million Year-Old Dino Blood Cells Wifi-Powered Camera Demonstrated Google’s Sidewalk Labs Philae… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, we talk about the newly discovered link between the brain and the immune system, give a look ahead to WWDC this week, and find out about Nick’s secretive Liberal agenda in the aftershow. Links: Rob’s Blue Thing Missing Link Between Brain and Immune System Found! This Gay Marriage Study Is A Fraud… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, we discuss our favourite new things from Google I/O, go deeper on bike lanes, and we determine Mike would be a terrible research dictator in a conversation about physical vs. mental attraction. Links: Audi’s New Synthetic Biofuel Alberta’s New Natural Gas Plant NPR: Will Your Job Be Automated Planet Money on NPR… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we talk Let’s Talk Science funding, wind turbines with no blades, and look forward to Google I/O later in the week. Links: Humans Suck At Driving Let’s Talk Science Gets New Funding Record-breaking Stone Tools Found Seismic Signals Used To Track Explosions Genetic Engineers Build Kill-Switch Spyware Shows Up In App Stores Bladeless… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, are Google cars less safe than human-driven ones, Nick uses his pirate voice several times, and we all lust after $1000 blenders (or do we?). Links: Google’s Driverless Car Report Better beer with Fizzics Windows 10 Changes Stance on Pirates Editorial about perceived slowness using Google Chrome Killing Cancer with the help of… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, Tesla goes gangbusters, it’s zeppelins vs. dirigibles, and trucks are driving themselves in Nevada. Get excited, because we’ll be delivering this one to a Canada Post near you! Links: Tesla Powerwall Sold Out Through 2016 Gigafactory Not Big Enough Hawaii Telescope Debate Essay from Slate Made for Apple Watch Program Tesla Model… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, Rob gets a new job, we discuss Microsoft’s Build conference (much to Nick’s chagrin), Tesla’s big new battery, and how a woolly mammoth burger would taste. Links: Microsoft Continuum HoloLens Update Microsoft Band gets web apps Tesla Batteries Tesla Press Release Fresh water with solar power More on Electrodialysis (Wiki) Renewable Diesel from… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, we discuss Google’s new mobile network, Google Fi, the possible “cure” for asthma, and decide whether buying a field Roomba (aka a tractor) means you own it. Links: Trek Bike Recall Recall RSS Feed Android Wear Update Lower-calorie rice Tesla Battery Event Canada’s Google Anti-Trust Investigation Google Fi John Deere DMCA Inquiry… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week on Future Chat, we were joined by a special guest, Christopher Johnson! We talked about the Apple Watch try-ons and Apple Pay, NASA and SpaceX, and the intersection of politics and new media. Links: Apple Pay and Canada’s Banks Curiosity Hits Blue Gold…aka Water Elon Musk on Twitter NASA will be getting humans… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
We’re back with Season 2 of Future Chat. We’re well rested and chatted about giant telescopes, the end of Soylent flatulence, and tiny, tiny “computers”. We’re so glad to be back, be sure to go tell a friend about Future Chat! Links: New 30 m Telescope Hawaiians don’t like the 30 m telescope AT&T Data… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
In this episode, we discuss Canadian Open Source science research, updates to nuclear fusion, and dwarf planets. And much, much more! This is the last full Future Chat episode until April, when we begin Season 2, so buckle up! Links: NSERC & SSHRC Open Access Hillary Clinton Emails New Fusion Reactor Bill Nye on GMOs… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, net neutrality wins big, we debate the validity of hydrogen fueled cars, and maybe “gluten sensitivity” is really a thing. Links: #TheDress Net Neutrality Win Android Pay Pebble Time on Kickstarter Toyota Fuel Cell 5G Cellular Hyperloop Test Track More on Hyperloop (Wikipedia) New Inflight Wifi Tech Aspartame Studies funded by Big Sweetener… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, Rob teaches Nick (and Mike) about the security of Apple Pay, we complain about the agglomeration of corporations in the Western World, and debate the future of human space research. Links: The Math of a House-sized Battery Samsung Apple Pay competitor In-Depth on Apple Pay Canada’s Smart Gun Crowd-sourced Corporate Info App Corporate… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we discuss the future of electric cars some more, decide if inappropriate drinking will save, or bring down our civilization, and endlessly debate the worthiness of a smell-detecting patent from Google. This one got a little crazy… Links: Battery to power your home Crazy-looking Toyota Can beer ward off dementia? People trust their… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, net neutrality has a fighting chance, Google Glass starts over, and we have more than one story about poop. Links: WhatsApp Voice Net Neutrality More on anti-terrorism bill C-51 Organism that hasn’t evolved Explain XKCD 892 – Null Hypothesis Poop Transplant Obesity There’s Gold in that there sewage! Ubuntu Phone gets a release… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we follow up on Windows 10, the Internet gets better in the US, and scientists can’t get no respect. Links: No Free Windows 10 Enterprise Unboiling an Egg FTC Throttling FCC Redefines Broadband IIHS Report on Death Rates Ugly Mercedes-Benz Drone Shooting Roman Candles Everyone Disagrees with Scientists Avian Flu Hits Canada Bill… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we get up to speed on the week in Microsoft news, reflect on why people keep using ‘password’ for security, and dream about Google Voice going mainstream. Links: Microsoft HoloLens BPA – No risk? No more hoaxes on Facebook Illinois bullying password debacle The worst passwords are getting better Public Solar and Wind… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, more pseudoscience debunking, cool stuff Google’s been up to, and are we doing enough to deter fraud as services move online? We record in HD now as well, so enjoy the higher quality audio version of the show here! Links: BPA-free could still be dangerous The Town Without Wifi Google Translate Real-Time Translation… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, a CES recap of all our most exciting futuristic tech, lots of science entertainment news, including Discovery Channel, Phil Plait and Neil DeGrasse Tyson, as well as some thoughts on “human” rights for primates. Links: More on Hoverboards Self-parking car Self-driving car Wireless charging “router” Wireless standards merger Wireless earbuds Discovery vows real… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
This week, we covered Back to the Future’s view of 2015, and how close we came to that vision, how much of cancer is just bad luck, and what the implications of the Canadian piracy crackdown means for consumers. Links: The Interview Online Release Numbers Canadian ISPs Customer Alerts How much of cancer is “bad… Continue reading Click the icon below to listen....
