Ranked #1
16: Heavy HDMI
16: Heavy HDMI
Will and Brad turn Qs into As in another mailbag edition of the Tech Pod. Topics include getting hands-on with Half-Life... Read more
5 Jan 2020
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57mins
Ranked #2
15: Bob Iger Will Eat You
15: Bob Iger Will Eat You
A new decade is nigh, so what better time to look back on the tech trends that defined the twenty-tens... teens... whate... Read more
30 Dec 2019
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1hr 21mins
Ranked #3
3: 340 Trillion Trillion Trillion
3: 340 Trillion Trillion Trillion
Here's the mid-'90s memo outlining the use of private address ranges like 192.168.0.0 for internal network use. If you h... Read more
29 Sep 2019
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #4
12: I Have a Website!
12: I Have a Website!
You ask and we answer! This week, we tackle relevant tech topics like chicken farming, vaporware, drive-by-wire, upgradi... Read more
1 Dec 2019
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1hr
Ranked #5
14: It's Just Math
14: It's Just Math
This week we dip our toes into the wild world of ray tracing, from the physical basics to emerging APIs, a brief history... Read more
22 Dec 2019
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59mins
Ranked #6
17: Jimmy Dean Organic
17: Jimmy Dean Organic
Another Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and while we dodged the Vegas bullet this year, we still read all t... Read more
12 Jan 2020
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58mins
Ranked #7
6: Spray the Frame Hose
6: Spray the Frame Hose
This week we crack open the time capsule with the first episode we ever recorded, about screens! From their humble origi... Read more
20 Oct 2019
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1hr 28mins
Ranked #8
2: Captain Crunch's Electric Car
2: Captain Crunch's Electric Car
Batteries power everything from phones and laptops to cars now, but it feels like the technology is lagging behind. Brad... Read more
23 Sep 2019
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1hr 1min
Ranked #9
24: The Mad Max Threshold
24: The Mad Max Threshold
d.Light Solar Lantern + Phone ChargerMPOWERD inflatable Solar LanternBigBlue 5V 28W Solar ChargerAnker Backup BatteryLif... Read more
1 Mar 2020
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38mins
Ranked #10
13: Tech the Halls!
13: Tech the Halls!
Programmable lights: www.twinkly.comHomebridge: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
15 Dec 2019
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1hr
Ranked #11
7: Singularities All Around Us!
7: Singularities All Around Us!
The technological singularity may or may not be looming in our future, so we attempt to get to the bottom of singulariti... Read more
27 Oct 2019
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52mins
Ranked #12
8: The One Where We Go Dark
8: The One Where We Go Dark
The best reference material I found on quantum computing (It's a comic).Scott Aaronson's blog with a ton of good quantum... Read more
3 Nov 2019
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53mins
Ranked #13
22: Like a '70s Oldsmobile
22: Like a '70s Oldsmobile
Our super-definitive ordering of every Windows concludes with the all the modern ones: XP and SP2, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and... Read more
16 Feb 2020
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1hr 19mins
Ranked #14
10: The Corgi of Cars
10: The Corgi of Cars
That self-driving car GIF
17 Nov 2019
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59mins
Ranked #15
11: Spatchcock Central
11: Spatchcock Central
The annual giving of thanks is almost upon us, so Brad and Will sat down to chew the well-rendered bird fat about a few ... Read more
24 Nov 2019
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53mins
Ranked #16
18: A Cave for Your Hard Drives
18: A Cave for Your Hard Drives
This week we're getting NASty... network-attached storage, that is. From wi-fi-enabled USB drives to Synology to FreeNAS... Read more
19 Jan 2020
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59mins
Ranked #17
9: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
9: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
Apologies for the crackling in the audio! A recording snafu forced us to use a backup recording that wasn't as high qual... Read more
10 Nov 2019
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55mins
Ranked #18
4: A Bomb That Sits on Your Stove
4: A Bomb That Sits on Your Stove
This week we had the brilliant idea of talking about food tech while we were starving. Pressure cookers! Air fryers! The... Read more
6 Oct 2019
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51mins
Ranked #19
5: Punch a Couple of Nuns
5: Punch a Couple of Nuns
This week, we talk about supply chain. Why did the iPod Nano beget the iPhone? What's the big deal with batteries? What ... Read more
14 Oct 2019
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #20
21: WINDOWS ON TRIAL
21: WINDOWS ON TRIAL
Don't miss Will's old magazine reviews of Windows 2000 and Millennium Edition. It's like traveling through time!
9 Feb 2020
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57mins