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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 383
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2016
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…
00:06:11 |
Sun 14 Aug 2016
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.
00:11:25 |
Thu 14 Jul 2016
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 comi…
00:11:44 |
Tue 14 Jun 2016
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.
00:08:46 |
Tue 31 May 2016
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 …
00:10:03 |
Sun 22 May 2016
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.
00:11:54 |
Sun 15 May 2016
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 wa…
00:11:10 |
Sun 01 May 2016
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.
00:07:34 |
Sat 23 Apr 2016
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 sec…
00:09:17 |
Mon 11 Apr 2016
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.
00:11:08 |
Tue 22 Mar 2016
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.
00:21:27 |
Mon 07 Mar 2016
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.
00:08:07 |
Tue 01 Mar 2016
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.
00:28:56 |
Tue 23 Feb 2016
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.
00:19:59 |
Tue 16 Feb 2016
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.
00:18:15 |
Tue 09 Feb 2016
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.
00:11:19 |
Tue 02 Feb 2016
Boys of Tech 367: Round the bays
Haptic feedback technology in vehicles, Microsoft's concept app makes it difficult to snooze.
00:19:22 |
Tue 26 Jan 2016
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, hacker…
00:32:41 |
Tue 19 Jan 2016
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 …
00:10:13 |
Wed 23 Dec 2015
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…
00:14:04 |
Sun 20 Dec 2015
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