• Rerun: Getting in Touch with Touchscreens
    Nov 13 2024

    What's the difference between a capacitive and a resistive touchscreen? Which came first? And are there other types of touchscreen technologies?

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    18 mins
  • TechStuff's Top Holiday Gift for 2024
    Nov 11 2024

    A little more than a decade ago, mobile computing revolutionized how we access software and the internet. It's about to happen again.

    At the top of my holiday wish list is an AI-augmented laptop powered by the Snapdragon X Elite processor for lightning-fast performance.

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    40 mins
  • Rerun: The Sad Tale of Microsoft Zune
    Nov 8 2024

    Microsoft jumped into the mp3 player space a little late. Apple had been producing iPods for five years when the first Zune hit shelves. But that was just the beginning of a series of problems Microsoft encountered. We explore the sad (and short) story of the Zune.

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    35 mins
  • Rerun: What was the first mp3?
    Nov 6 2024

    When developing the mp3 compression algorithm, engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg used a specific song to tweak settings and get them just right. What was that song? And why does Jonathan not like it?

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    11 mins
  • The Story of Microsoft Bing
    Nov 4 2024

    In 2009, Microsoft announced a new search engine called Bing. What was Microsoft's strategy, how is Bing different from the dominant search engine Google, and what's next?

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    44 mins
  • Tech News: Elections and Tech Clash
    Nov 1 2024

    We knew that the 2024 election season in the US would include some tough stories involving tech and potential election interference. In this episode, we look at a few headlines of how tech may have already played a role in misinforming voters either on purpose or by accident. Plus many more headlines in this jumbo news episode!

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    43 mins
  • REM Pods and Ghost Hunting
    Oct 30 2024

    What does an REM Pod do? How does it work? And why is Jonathan such a darn party pooper when it comes to ghost hunting?

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    38 mins
  • Doubly Exposing Spirit Photography
    Oct 28 2024

    In the 19th century, some enterprising and unscrupulous photographers convinced vulnerable people that they had developed (pun intended) a way to photograph the spirits of the dearly departed. But what was really going on?

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    39 mins