

Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
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.
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Nov 4, 2016 • 1h 13min
184: Peak Segal
Auto-correcting humanity; shocking, collusion; a peach is now just a peach; community commitments; indentured Ubertude; Slack smarmy; Google’s bony finger of shame; Pzizz on you; Trainspotting 2; AuthaGraph map FTW; bomb sniffing spinach; In-N-Out rules! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/184 Take the survey at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/survey
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Oct 28, 2016 • 1h 31min
183: Throwing Pagers at Squirrels
Ello, Echo; Vine is dead, Twitter on life support; gig economy; Microsoft rising; autonomous beer delivery; the botnet that broke the internet; Death’s end; Fahrenheit 451 irony; taking down drones; expat 2.0; shoegazing; LostWorld; painting Blade Runner. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/183
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Oct 21, 2016 • 1h 24min
182: Trump for 500, Alex
Nomophobia; Bad hombres & nasty women; Uber drone ads; fact-checking fails; false unlimited data; 50TB of stolen classified data; Lessig’s high road; creepy VR games; Amazon Echo; new Queen; facial recognition; this check goes to $11; the unreadable web. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/182
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Oct 14, 2016 • 1h 18min
181: Instant Gratification Generation
Silicon Valley visionless; Samsung on fire; Comcast caught; Facebook’s Workplace; Inept IoT; social media surveillance; Airmail, Pzizz & Trumpwalling; Rogue One, Says You!, Fraggle Rock & the Grand Tour, your vacuum attachments; facepalm facecradle. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/181
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Oct 7, 2016 • 1h 23min
180: Chabuduo!
Fridges are heating up; Coolest investigation; Ewww Apron; digital rights; Facebook gets local; Google unveils hardware; Yahoo surveillance; Prime reading; bloated apps; superheroes, robots & Mr Robot; bad passengers; the web’s past; R2, get my coffee. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/180
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Sep 30, 2016 • 1h 9min
179: Streaming Gouda
Uber trucking, vertical take-off planes; Google Express hits New England; Amazon starts own delivery service; Elon delivers to Mars; Snap brings Spectacles; Blackberry is done; DOS attacks get bigger; Meerkat’s Houseparty; Netflix Tax; watch out for Schumer. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/179
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Sep 23, 2016 • 1h 23min
178: Taste the Hate-bow
Soylent but not deadly; YouTube Heroes; because science; Tesla for California; Amazon’s screw you algorithm; dark-web design; ransomware everywhere; Ello, Allo; Star Trek, Delayed; McAffee, Gringo; smart candles; 2 ferns and a candidate; Sullivan unplugs. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/178
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Sep 16, 2016 • 1h 50min
177: Benedict Pleepleusbatch
Zane Lamprey drops in; iOS 10; cookies everywhere; the tech bubble; elephant charts; exploding batteries; Facebook annoys Norway; stank cyber hygiene; stream ripping; Penn, King & Tolhurst; laser tag backpack; ethical hacking; Sherlock & the Grand Tour. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/177
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Sep 9, 2016 • 1h 19min
176: Ready Player Pobama
Apple’s premature tweet; exploding Samsungs; Airbnb’s “constitutional rights”; costly cord-cutting; Americans not into self-driving cars, ride-sharing; Attack of Things!; slogging through the Gunslinger; baby apps; the build team & the triplets are back. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/176
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Sep 2, 2016 • 1h 27min
175: We Are the Dreamers of Dreams
Paternity leave is over; psychology on the ropes; Ireland doesn’t want Apple’s taxes; Olds & Emojis; dark forests & Dresden bombing; big ol’ TVs; pinch & zoom & knuckle drag; unbundling gets pricey; Mac Sabbath; putting on the ritz. This episode is sponsored by Freshbooks! To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/GRUMPY and, this is REALLY IMPORTANT, enter GRUMPY OLD GEEKS in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/175
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