Start Up
Tech news from Australia and abroad, with Mashable reporter/tech extraordinaire Johnny Lieu and FBi's Lucy Smith.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2017
13.12.17 - The Final Episode - Taxify & Shazam's New Owner
It's the final episode of Start Up! Johnny Lieu is moving on after coming in every week to talk tech, and Lucy Smith is wrapping up as host of Up For It after two stellar years behind the mic. In the…
00:12:48 |
Tue 12 Dec 2017
6.12.17 - Animal Exploitation Via Selfies & 25 Years Of The SMS
Johnny Lieu joined Lucy Smith to chat about how Instagram is chock full of animal pictures, but now the social network is cracking down on selfies that might be considered exploitation. 25 years ago …
00:13:02 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
29.11.17 - 'Pay To Win' Games & Net Neutrality
Lucy and Johnny talked about the furore over 'pay to win' games, which have people so mad that the government is considering labelling them as gambling. They also looked at net neutrality debates in …
00:15:19 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
22.11.17- YouTube Kids & AllVoices
For exhausted parents, YouTube’s Kids app has been a easy way to entertain young children with endless video — but there’s been increasing concern on the type of so-called kids content that’s making …
00:11:11 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
08.11.17- Ban AI Robot Killers and How To Get Banned On Twitter
In the last 10 years, artificial intelligence and robot technology has made leaps and bounds. But experts in these fields have urging governments to stop these technologies from well, killing us. Twi…
00:13:25 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
1.11.17- A Chat With The Gamerunner of Rumu
Johnny brought a guest in from the PAX convention in Melbourne over the weekend- Ally McLean, the gamerunner behind Rumu- a murder-mystery noire style game about a robot vacuum that becomes self awar…
00:11:24 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
25.10.17- Getting Keen for Melbourne's PAX Convention
Johnny takes us through wha he's looking forward to seeing when he visits the PAX gaming conference in Melbourne:
- Rumu, where you play a vacuum cleaner
- Paperbark, where you play a wombat in the…
00:08:47 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
18.10.17- Flirting on Instagram and Facebook for Jobs
Forget about Tinder, Grindr, Her, Bumble, or whatever other apps you're hitting up for all your dating needs. There's another app that's rapidly becoming a hotspot for digital flirting, whether you w…
00:09:19 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
04.10.17 - Elon Musk Pushes for Mars Colonisation and Bumble Introduces Interesting New Feature
Elon Musk wants to send you to Mars by 2022, and could Bumble be the new platform to launch your career?
00:11:43 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
27.09.17- Australia is Launching a Space Agency
Australia wants a slice of the booming private space industry, and it's launching an agency to capitalise on it.
00:06:17 |
Wed 27 Sep 2017
20.09.17- iPhone X Facial Recognition is Creepy and Autoplay Ads are on Their Way Out
Apple's Sept. 12 unveiling of the iPhone X brought with it the official reveal of Face ID: face-scanning tech that will be used in lieu of Touch ID to both unlock smartphones and authenticate Apple P…
00:11:44 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
16.08.17- Facebook TV and Google Eating the Open Internet
Mark Zuckerberg has been preaching video as our future for the last couple years. On Thursday, he's launching the next big step in the company's quest to dominate every last second of your waking lif…
00:09:59 |
Tue 15 Aug 2017
09.08.17- Googles Anti-Diversity Rant and Computers Detecting Depression
A software engineer at Google by the name of James Damore, penned a 10 page manifesto against diversity at the company and sent it around to colleagues. He argued, without much citation, that women s…
00:10:23 |
Tue 08 Aug 2017
29.07.17- Google Kills The Search Bar and Microsoft Kills MS Paint
Google recently launched a personalized news feed on the company's flagship app, and it will soon rollout to browser versions of google.com. The update is a huge deal for a couple of reasons: First, …
00:10:08 |
Tue 25 Jul 2017
19.07.17-Aussie Government is Cracking Down on Encrypted Messaging and RIP SoundCloud
The jig is up for encrypted messaging, in the eyes of the Australian government. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Friday morning the government will bring in new laws to force tec…
00:11:00 |
Tue 18 Jul 2017
05.07.17- Medicare Hacked and Tinder Cheats
In a matter of clicks on the darknet, you can purchase the details Australians use for identification and to access health services in the country. As reported by The Guardian, a vendor on a large da…
00:12:23 |
Tue 04 Jul 2017
28.06.17- Netflix Tax and Augmented Reality on the New iPhone
From July 1 you’ll have to pay an extra 10 per cent on digital goods and services that are imported into Australia. The Netflix tax is a catchier name for an amendment to the GST which means anything…
00:12:41 |
Tue 27 Jun 2017
21.06.17- Woebot Can Help You Become A Better Person and Banning Smartphones for Kids
There’s a new generation of bots helping us be better at being humans. It’s an experimental bot called Woebot, developed by psychologists at Stanford University in the U.S. and it operates on Faceboo…
00:11:02 |
Tue 20 Jun 2017
14.06.17- Johnny Goes to Uluru and We're Not Making Any Money Off Bitcoin
One of Australia’s most famous landmarks is now on Google Maps Street View. Johnny Lieu headed up to Uluru to witness the capturing of the sacred sight on Street View. Now people that can't make it t…
00:13:10 |
Tue 13 Jun 2017
07.06.17- An Interview with Keith from Six8
Six8 – A live music community. Uber for live entertainment, Airtasker for artists, AirBNB for venues: Six8 is live music entering the sharing economy. Users can sign up as an artist or a host. Artist…
00:16:22 |
Tue 06 Jun 2017
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