e480 — Time to Face the Music

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AI powered streaming fake songs, new GenAI text to video, a mycelia motivated robot, Nike+LEGO and a whole lot more! Continue reading

e432 – Monitoring Pirated Cars

A look at the latest in tech and legislation; car manufacturers having Really Bad Privacy Policies; games sold with deliberately broken DRM; and more. Continue reading

Email handling

This will NOT be a political post.  Over the last few years, the world has gone insane.  It has become obvious, at least to me, that people are using more and more technology that don’t have a clue how it works.  Governments, companies, and hackers are enjoying this, as many people don’t understand what data is stored where, and how that data is handled or secured.  Many people are willing to give up all of their privacy just to play a game (if you don’t believe this, take a look at how many of the freemium games on your phone … Continue reading

Gaming the Bots!

As podcasters, @carolinabigblue and @michaelrowe01 have been pretty lucky.  We’ve been doing this between different shows since 2006.  I guess that makes us old timers in the world of podcasting.  In that time we’ve had the pleasure of having @Veronica Belmont on our show, and meeting her in person at least twice.  This has been a challenge given that the epicenter of podcasting appears to be San Francisco, and we are located in RTP, NC. When we heard that she was moving into the world bots as a product manager for growbot, we just had to check it out.  Growbot monitors slack … Continue reading