Grumpy Old Geeks
We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 716
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
154: Fool Free Zone
Google's April Fool's joke; Gig economy falters; millennials love Facebook; Spotify pivoting to video, because money; Messenger becoming a platform; hospitals need security, badly; FBI opening more p…
01:03:06 |
Fri 01 Apr 2016
153: We Face a Shining Future
It's our 3rd anniversary show & there were drinks; we meander through biocoding, universal basic income, VR, death of Moore's Law, Apple is 40, basic security (again!), drones, things we're sick of t…
01:12:27 |
Fri 25 Mar 2016
152: Don't Kick Our Robot Overlords!
Modern life is rubbish; fast food moves to robots; Uber gets disrupted; Alzheimer's breakthrough; DARPA derps; Feds find Fappening phisher; Amazon Echo; funded fan films; sponsored content kills jour…
01:01:00 |
Fri 18 Mar 2016
151: There IS a Spoon
Social media can be good, really; music startup fails; brain pain via dyslexia & FBI; McAfee & idiots; drones in the USA; 8k/VR Olympics; Darth Maul; old school spying; printing Wikipedia; the troubl…
00:56:33 |
Fri 11 Mar 2016
150: The Truth is On Hiatus
Financial & emotional repercussions of social media; app bubble burst; big data & Banksy; Yahoo & Linkedin WTFs; McAfee, show your work; do not use 23andMe; active listening; X-Files; 3-Body Problems…
01:12:27 |
Fri 04 Mar 2016
149: Now, to Be Fair to Uber…
Uber's not to blame; don't write open letters to your boss; more journalism woes; Facebook emojis; Team Apple; Project Shield; Shatner & Nimoy; apps for everything; Vinyl, AbFab, Massive Attack & the…
01:08:41 |
Fri 26 Feb 2016
148: Give Me Secure iPhone or Give Me Death!
Apple takes a stand against the US Government; Twitter loses Stephen Fry, many others; Snapchat publishing; Moore's Law on the ropes; hospital pays off hackers; new scifi reads; Kanye again; AbFab, P…
01:12:56 |
Fri 19 Feb 2016
147: Jesus Take the Wheel
Brian’s recording from his Lanai; Jason charms a Lyft driver; Stupid Hackathons; Google kills Picassa, Jason longs for Flicker; Twitter Pivots; Flash is finally dead; no one is registering their dron…
00:56:29 |
Fri 12 Feb 2016
146: Beyond BananaDrone
The greatest hits collection: streaming & bandwidth charges; Uber logo idiocy; Alphabet, Amazon & Apple; Yahoo still clueless; copyright infringements; self-driving hack targets; drones & bananas; ph…
00:57:16 |
Fri 05 Feb 2016
145: The Curse is Real
The Grumps strike again, RIP Abe; more income inequality news, so meditate the pain away; our robot overlords are on the way; what's going on at Twitter?; Amazon on the march; Ello, Peach; X-Files; H…
00:55:19 |
Fri 29 Jan 2016
144: Internet of Poop
The Internet's taken a scatological turn this week; bad news from the WEF; Tidal's billing problem; Verizon kills Net Neutrality; blinding us with science; quantified break-ups; coffeeshop cube-farms…
00:58:44 |
Fri 22 Jan 2016
143: Flux Decapitator
Facebook's death-feed; RIP middle class, Bitcoin, desktops, Soundcloud, Foursquare; sexual harassment in Silicon Valley; going post-mobile; hidden Airbnb cams; Internet of Things hackery; Cloverfield…
00:59:24 |
Sat 16 Jan 2016
142: That Drone Really Tied the Room Together
The grumps abide news from CES; pre-net life; Lumosity lied; Zuck's Hoodie Home AI; taking down power grids; Everkey vaporware; Oculus Rift, Drone B4UFLY & cutting cords with Tablo; drunk movie revie…
00:49:31 |
Fri 08 Jan 2016
141: Should Auld Grumps Be Forgot
Sending out 2015 and ringing in 2015 2.0 with robot birds, leaving it at the office, suing Spotify, stealing art, crowdfunding intellectual properties, Uber, legislating not-hoverboards, voter record…
00:56:18 |
Fri 01 Jan 2016
140: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
A holiday potpourri of delights: Force blockers; internet famous, cash poor; Elon Musk; Taylor Swift; music windowing; driverless cars; phishing, hacking & drone nets; the fate of Abrams; schadenfreu…
01:29:04 |
Fri 18 Dec 2015
139: The Bill Murray Disruption Clause
Marissa Mayer, Martin Shkreli, Airbnb, Zano, Trump, Apple Music, Silicon Valley job production & other fails; whiskey pronunciations; to-do apps & “offboarding”; Ricky Gervais & Carrie Fisher; emoji …
01:26:27 |
Fri 11 Dec 2015
138: We Are 138!
Kickstarter, delayed; 7,728 years of Adele; Zuckerberg does good, gets yelled at; Apple changing cables again; Li-Fi from light bulbs; big hacks & lifetime subscriptions on the Dark Web; Pornhub wins…
00:54:13 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
137: I'm a Belieber!
Ello again; the digital prophet has no clothes; streaming is the future unless we make money; 30 years of Windows; Man in the High Castle; Jason on a Train; you can't un-McConaughey McConaughey; Emoj…
00:45:08 |
Fri 20 Nov 2015
136: Morale Removal Machine
More fun and lack of profit with Kickstarter; solving the last problem in the world, Dog Vacays; on asking permission; VHS FTW; gamified gunning; Rumblr & 3nder; announcing the announcement about an …
00:57:44 |
Fri 13 Nov 2015
135: The Satchel of Life
Working on spec; paying rent with reach; #BenCarsonWikipedia & the Temple of Grain; Oyster dies & Amazon goes brick & mortar; Candy Crush worth more than Star Wars; Mr. Null; the TSA snowjob; Pandora…
01:14:47 |
Fri 06 Nov 2015
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