22nd January 2018 - Tech News and Reviews on BBC Oxford

Fevzi Turkalp, the Gadget Detective, joins Howard Bentham on BBC Oxford to discuss the latest tech news. This week; A new study by Edelman shows only 1 in 4 trust social media, such as Twitter and Facebook. Plus Amazon open their first Amazon Go supermarket in Seattle, with no staff and no checkouts, how does it work?Gadget of the Week is InSpectre, a piece of free software by Steve Gibson which will check your computer to see if it is susceptible to the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities and tell you whether your system has been patched, and whether the patching is slowing down your performance. Scoring 4.5 out of 5, this software is available from https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htmYou can hear Fevzi on BBC Oxford every Monday around 6.20pm, and you can contact him on Twitter @gadgetdetective#Fevzi #Turkalp #Gadget #Detective #Tech #Technology #News #Reviews #BBC #Oxford #Radio #Howard #Bentham #Edelman #Study #Social #Media #Facebook #Twitter #Fake #Trust #Amazon #Go #Store #Seattle #App #Shop #Shopping #GadgetoftheWeek #InSpectre #Spectre #Meltdown #CPU #Processor #Chip #Vulnerable #Vulnerability #Check #Freeware #Steve #Gibson #GRC