Boys of Tech

New Zealand's longest running tech podcast. An engaging and entertaining round-table discussion on the latest technology news from around the world hosted by Edwin Hermann and a selection of other regular panelists. Informative and sometimes provocative, this show is sure to provide new insights and make you think. A section of the show focuses on technology news from New Zealand.

Boys of Tech 383: They hold their cards close to their chest

Second sighting of possible Apple vehicle, Google looking to take on Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud, self-driving Tesla crashes in Beijing, New Zealand researchers develop rice cooker that runs on manure.

08-14
06:11

Boys of Tech 382: People wandering around almost like zombies

Faroe Islands have sheep view instead of Street View, Pokémon Go is the game that has captured the world, the PokeGone extension for Chrome, Fiat Chrysler offers money for finding bugs.

07-14
11:25

Boys of Tech 381: Trolling the FBI

Norway may ban fossil-fuel cars by 2025, Larry Page rumoured to be secretly funding a flying car start-up company, Anonymous hacker breaks into ISIS supporter's Twitter account, Kevin Mitnick is coming to New Zealand, Apple announces iOS 10.

06-14
11:44

Boys of Tech 380: Audio emojis

The ethical dilemmas of self-driving cars, Apple had considered buying Netflix, the Holy Bible has been translated into Emoji.

05-31
08:46

Boys of Tech 379: A really horrible experience

Firefox more popular than Internet Explorer and Edge combined, a hypersonic jet that could fly from London to Sydney in 2 hours, the future of the Blu-ray format, Uber's self-driving taxi, trademark applications suggest Samsung will release iris scanning technology, rumours that Apple will enable Macs to be unlocked via Touch ID on an iPhone.

05-22
10:03

Boys of Tech 378: Autumnal

Street View catches Google's car speeding, people upset by Google's search results in black, PCs and tablets on the decline.

05-15
11:54

Boys of Tech 377: iPhone 5C devices

Windows 95 can run on the Apple Watch, choosing the right words to boost your eBay sales, how to correctly pluralise Apple product names, the top phone manufacturers, how the San Bernardino iPhone was cracked is still under wraps, ANZ in Australia now supports Apple Pay.

05-01
11:10

Boys of Tech 376: A 3-D printed concrete castle

A translator from sign language into spoken word, the sound of your skull as biometric data, rumours that Apple is testing self-driving technology, a 3-D printed concrete castle.

04-23
07:34

Boys of Tech 375: The start of the slippery slope

The FBI obtains data on the San Bernadino cellphone, the US government needs data from another iPhone, new technology to help determine cellphone use in vehicle accidents, claims that ANZ bank is secretly testing Apple Pay, exploiting the iPhone 1970 bug over a wireless network.

04-11
09:17

Boys of Tech 374: Singular for bacteria

How Samsung and Apple phones handle being submerged in water and dropped onto hard surfaces, Dick Smith will live on as an online brand, a bacterium that can break down PET plastic.

03-22
11:08

Boys of Tech 373: I’d love to be a beta tester

Inventor of email dies aged 74, drones that autonomously follow you, the National Day of Unplugging.

03-07
21:27

Boys of Tech 372: Squeaky clean

Google's self-driving car no longer has a clean driving record, Apple achieves a small victory in its case against the FBI.

03-01
08:07

Boys of Tech 371: Handing over the keys to the ranch

FBI asks Apple to create software to help brute force a suspect's iPhone, Qantas to introduce free wireless Internet access on all domestic flights, ambulance called after request via Reddit.

02-23
28:56

Boys of Tech 370: No one’s that desperate

Nissan's self-parking office chairs, guilty plea from man who shot down drone, Google's latest Android ad mocks Apple, the iOS 1970 bug.

02-16
19:59

Boys of Tech 369: They’ve got bad data, we don’t have any data

Twitter suspends 125,000 accounts linked with terrorism, Facebook analysis reveals 3.6 degrees of separation, Toyota to drop the Scion brand.

02-09
18:15

Boys of Tech 368: A senior network engineer who can also scuba dive

Microsoft to trial an underwater data centre, Apple is no longer the world's most valuable company.

02-02
11:19

Boys of Tech 367: Round the bays

Haptic feedback technology in vehicles, Microsoft's concept app makes it difficult to snooze.

01-26
19:22

Boys of Tech 366: Journey through the Nevada Desert

CES booth raided by US marshals and stock confiscated, programming a drone to land autonomously on a moving vehicle, Germany gets Google, Facebook and Twitter to agree on removing hate speech, hackers break fuel discount voucher algorithm.

01-19
32:41

Boys of Tech 365: We did it

Facebook ditches Flash for video, mobile browsing to surpass desktop browsing by the end of 2016, technology to prevent truck drivers from falling asleep at the wheel, The Beatles now available from streaming services, Google Play lets you choose one half-price album.

12-23
10:13

Boys of Tech 364: Only four sleeps to go

US law requires drone owners to register their drones, draft legislation in California would ban completely autonomous vehicles, TechRadar puts five smartphones to the test, pre-paid duty free orders delivered by robotic arm at Auckland Airport.

12-20
14:04

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