PODCAST · technology
Technogaze
by JOY 94.9 - LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex, Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities
News and opinion covering electronics, gadgets and technology
Episodes
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Dr Hon Weng Chong – “actual intelligence” from Cortical Labs
In today’s episode, Mark and Jason sat down with Dr Hon Weng Chong, founder of startup and research firm Cortical Labs. We discussed the prospect of developing a computer that – in place of a silicon, the central processing can be performed instead by neurons grown in a petri dish. That’s right,...
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Data privacy and security at United States border control, magnetically influencing viruses to fight disease, Microsoft turns 50
In this episode, Michael, Mark, and Jason were joined by Josh Taylor, journalist at The Guardian. We discussed the powers United States officers have in searching and seizing devices at the border. We also discussed the latest data breach in Australia, this time affecting superannuation funds. We...
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Dr Michael Milford – Robotics, television, movies, and Artificial Intelligence
Raena sat down with Dr Michael Milford, the director of the Centre for Robotics at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. We discussed his current research on creating next-generation navigation systems for robots, people, and various assets that move around in different...
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Astronauts back in gravity, Pebble smartwatch making a comeback, nostalgic video game tunes
Mark, Michael, Raena, and Jason discuss the latest in tech, including the astronauts who have finally returned to Earth after an unexpected 9 months in space. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft malfunction caused the delay, and it would have been a relief to be back on Earth, Jason shares his…
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John Buchelin – Rewiring Australia and the practical steps to electrifying your house
We sat down with John Buchelin from Rewiring Australia. Rewiring Australia is a non-profit organisation that explores the concepts and the practicalities of electrifying households. John discusses the experience of building a community that focusses on replacing home appliances, and cars that…
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4D printing, Apple’s dispute with the UK government over consumer data privacy, Pokémon Go
In today’s show, Jason, Mark, Michael, and Raena, 4D printing, which is a new form of printing that allows objects to change shape over time based on environmental conditions such as humidity, temperature, electric current, and magnetism. They also mention potential applications for this…
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International Women’s Day – women in technology
Getting together to celebrate International Women’s Day, we had guests Donna, Tamzyn, and Miranda, offering their perspectives on the lived experiences of women working and consuming technology. We covered a lot of ground, including participation in the industry today, and challenging historical...
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Apple bugs, nuclear fusion reactions sustained for a record breaking 20 minutes
Jason, Mark and Raena joined the show today, where Apple and its Find My network was our first topic of conversation. Researchers at George Mason University found a vulnerability in the Find My Network that allowed hackers to track Bluetooth devices after processing the device’s unique identifier...
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Dr Tauel Harper – social media platforms and their influence on society and politics
Mark sits down with Dr Tauel Harper, Associate Professor with the School of Media and Communication at Murdoch University. We discuss the impact of social media platforms on public discourse and democracy, platforms use of algorithms in big data mining for media preferences, amplifying the…
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Avoiding online scams, tech predictions of the past
In today’s episode, Michael, Mark, and Jason discuss various types of scams and how to avoid them, particularly focusing on phone calls, emails, and websites claiming to be from banks or other official institutions. Recommendations include always verifying contact information by calling a listed...
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Sam Floreani – Artificial Intelligence, online discrimination, landlord tech and tenant rights
We’ve moved to a Saturday time slot! If you’d like to catch us live on-air, you can tune-in Saturdays 4-5pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time. JOY broadcasts live in Melbourne on 94.9 FM, DAB+ under the name “JOY”. You can also tune in anywhere in the world via our online stream –...
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Meta announces the removal of facts from its platforms, content consumption and content creation in 2025
Jason and Mark joined you today to discuss the recent announcement by Meta to remove fact checking from its platforms, starting in the United States. We also got together to discuss how content is both consumed, and created in the year 2025. The post Meta announces the removal of facts from its...
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Latest tech news, electric vehicles in 2024, city transportation
Today Raena, Michael, and Mark were joined by old friend of the show, Jason to discuss tech news including the recent class action settlement with Apple around the “unintentional” recording of private conversations. We discuss electric vehicles, focusing not just on cars but on various types of...
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The year 2024 in tech wrapped, 3D printing
Michael, Mark, and Raena got together to discuss the evolving landscape of social media platforms, examining where people are spending their time and which platforms are gaining popularity. We also discuss a unique story published by QNews about a Sydney man who created an “unwrapped” version of...
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Weeeeee’re Back!
After a 9 year hiatus, Raena, Mark and Michael are back on air talking all things Tech! Some of the changes in the tech space over this period included the increase in popularity of QR codes, working from in light of COVID and how electronic drivers licenses are now a thing, with organisations...
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Hacked Hackers, a bit of BEEB and Saucy QR Codes
Raena, Mark and Michael were at the helm for this weeks show where they looked at the British PM’s thoughts on banning strong encryption in the country. Many questions remain unanswered, including the impact on the economy. The makers of RCS, the smartphone application designed to remotely turn…
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Fender Bender, Pink Dot and Appleness
Whoa – what a show! Dan, Mike, Byron, Michael, Josh, Lissa, Mark & Jason were on the show talking cars, tech and LGBTIQ. We partnered with Fender Bender to look into what was happening with Autonomous vehicles, beyond the usual Google related stories. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are starting…
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Radiothon, String of Death and Android Auto
It was Radiothon week and Mark, Michael, Raena and Josh Re:membered JOY along with Craig and Luke. On the Tech front, a specially crafted text message has been able to crash any iOS device. The bug, in a widely used Apple library, also affects OS X and the Apple watch. Our tin foil crinkled…
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LG’s wallpaper display, taxing Uber, video conferencing research
In this episode, the old gang are back together, with Ranea joining Michael and Mark from across the ditch via the wonders of fibre optic cable. We started off with LG’s latest prototype screen, a 1mm thick, 55″ panel that weighs in at just 1.8kg, and sticks to the wall via a magnetic backing.…
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WIndows 10, Anti-homophobic tech under Swedish waters, Netflix and Foxtel
On this show, Mark returned to the helm while Michael pushed the all-important buttons, and Jason made his way all the way down from Sydney to bring you the latest in tech. We kicked off with musings on Windows 10, the history of versions, the latest features, and no less than 7 editions that…
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Nano Pies, Aluminium Batteries and Metadata
Mark, Michael and Craig were lured into the studio this week on the promise of Raspberry Pie – Ice Cream optional. Their hips, however, were thankful when they found out it was the sub-$50 Raspberry Pi computer and not the dessert. Moving into the business world, the board on a computer can now…
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Apple’s Gay Propaganda, $mod and Zayn Malik
In the studio this week was Michael, Nicole & Luke talking about Apple’s quarterly results and initial feedback on the watch, as it started shipping. Tattoos and Qantas are issues. Traditional logistic methods are being challenged with a new drone capable of reforesting 1 billion trees a year and...
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Mobilegeddon, National Youth Week & IceMan Cometh
It was a jam packed show this week with Michael, Nicole & Donna looking at the fallout from Google changing the behaviour of their search engine to promote mobile friendly websites. This only applies if you are searching from your mobile device and rankings remain unchanged from desktops and...
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Printing Bunnies and Watching Apple as we Droned Along
Michael, Nicole & Josh were in the studio this week looking at the Apple watch, as it just went on pre-order. App makers for the watch were releasing new software with a number focused on health. Robotics is an emerging technology, with drones being a very visible part of it. A new drone from...
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Scratchy Transmitter, .com Power, Netflix and Data Retention
The resume button was pressed and Technogaze booted back On Air at it’s new time of 5pm on Saturdays. Michael, Nicole and Donna were eager to launch into Techdrive – with this year’s goal to buy a new Transmitter. As usual there was a lot to talk about. With .com power being applied in Indiana to...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook donates to GLBTIQ campaign, Alibaba’s rumoured gaming console, photo sharing apps
In this – the final episode for 2014 – Michael and Mark discussed Tim Cook’s substantial contribution to a campaign promoting GLBTIQ acceptance in the Southern US states of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. Popular photo sharing app Intagram performed what has now been dubbed the “Instagram...
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NBN, Hackathon, Bitcoin and News
Donna returned this week with Mark and Michael and fellow JOYster Jono. News was in the News with Google removing all links to Spanish newspapers from its News site to comply with a recent law that forces aggregators to pay if they display text from a newspaper. New dating app Scissr expands the...
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Pollies Dictionary, Google Gender and Coder In Chief
Mark and Michael were somewhat amused but concerned, whilst remaining calm, with Malcolm Turnbull describing the latest copyright motivated Internet filter as not being a filter. In a case of ‘it’s not raining until I tell you it’s raining‘ Turnbull insisted that stopping access to certain sites...
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Happy Birthday JOY, a $700bn Apple and Spying Malware
This special JOY 21st Birthday episode reunited Mark & Michael with Raena as she joined Bek, from Bekfast, and Jayson Williams from GLOBE as special guests during the show. Apple became the first business in the world to reach a market capitalisation of $US700bn with 3 of the largest 4 companies...
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Vixen Panda, Open Source .NET and Farewell to Raena
Why did Tim Lenox call the Technogaze team Chaos Personified? Was it because Mark, Raena, Jason and Michael squeezed into the studio for this weeks show? The G20 was on everyone’s lips this weekend, with potential threats of hacking manifesting itself with Australian media organisations being...
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Sexting, Google Tax and Mac Malware
Raena, Jason and Michael were surprised when Mark popped into the studio to address the Google/Apple imbalance. Mac Malware spreading from OSX to iOS devices is infecting some users that are downloading OSX software from dodgy sites. Unfortunately the malware has well formed security credentials…
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Elizabeth R Tweets, Woz in OZ and Hoverboards
This week, Raena, Josh and Mark looked at an invisibility lens that hides objects in its view. It must also twist reality, as this is the only explanation as to why Mark was sporting a Windows laptop, Raena an Android phone and Josh an iPhone. This altered reality did not stop them from getting...
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Disorderly Internet, Fast Cars, Frozen Eggs and POODLE
The studio was empty this week as Raena & Michael ventured afar with an outside broadcast to bring to you this special In-Car Edition of Technogaze. POODLE is the latest SSL vulnerability taking advantage of a technology that should have been retired long ago. Many websites are now likely to…
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DuckDuckGone, Pollies on Grindr and a Snowball’s chance ..
This week, Raena and Michael looked at two new phones – targeted at two very different consumers. The $35 Firefox OS based phone destined for India and the super secure Blackphone with bundled encryption and security software. China has blocked access to privacy conscious search engine…
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Windows 10, Facebook Apology, Ello and Tax Avoidance
Mark and Michael were in the studio this week and started the show looking at Apple. There is a #shellshock patch for OS X that was released this week. Researchers looking at the randomised WiFi MAC addressing on iOS8 discovered that it only worked under very limited circumstances. Meanwhile the…
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Alibaba shellshocked into space on a bent phone
It may have been Grand Final day, but Mark and Michael resisted the urge to kick a footy round the studio and opted to look at how a future Space Elevator may change the way we go into space into the future. The Victorian Government in conjunction with Facebook have launched a campaign to combat...
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Aussie Community TV’s future in doubt, Apple made a small announcement, Scruff responds to Grindr privacy breach
In this special extended episode, Adam Richard joins Mark, Raena and Donna to discuss the latest in tech, including Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 6, Apple Watch, and Apple Pay. We discussed Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement to turn off Community TV here in Australia by...
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Ned Kelly, 3D printing, Apple Rumours and Creepy Apps
This week the studio was packed like sardines with Mark, Raena, Donna & Michael looking at Freeview’s new catchup TV service that allows you to watch shows previously broadcast across all free to air channels. Paul Mignone from the University of Melbourne was in the studio talking about the...
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Worlds smallest 3G modem, Apple announcement coming soon, heart rate sensing tennis shirts
In this episode, Raena, Mark, Michael, and Ty discussed all the latest in tech, including the latest figures released on the Amazon Fire phone (and it doesn’t look good). Intel revealed the details of what is believed to be the world’s smallest 3G modem, which comes in at no more than 300mm...
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The Internet is Full, Accidental Spying, Meta data and URLs
The vexing question of the week was looked at by Michael, Mark and Ty as rumours bombarded the Internet that it was indeed full! Outages caused by routers reaching some preset limits at a number of ISPs has been identified as the root cause. The challenge is how to upgrade the equipment software...
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Telstra buys its way into media content delivery, Uber banned in Berlin, diversity in tech
In this episode, Michael, Mark, Jason and Raena discuss the latest in tech including Russia’s moves to further track citizens’ Internet usage. Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra, has bought into it’s way into media content delivery, with its recent $270m acquisition of video platform Ooyala....
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Ranty pants, Spy plants and Dating with your wrist
Mark, Raena, Jason & Michael kicked off this weeks show looking at rumours surrounding the 09-Sep launch of the iPhone 6. Larger, faster & better is the general consensus with screen size likely to grow to 4.7″ and 5.5″, increased resolution to maintain retina display and the faster and more…
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Internet of Things, Finger Reader and China v Apple
On Technogaze this week Mark, Raena, Dave and Michael looked at China accusing Apple of threatening its National Security with the location tracking capabilities of iOS devices. Meanwhile the US has been trying to get access to emails stored on mail servers located in Dublin that contain...
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3D printed blood vessels, dumping data from phone towers, solar energy in Australia
In today’s episode Raena, Mark and Michael discussed the latest in tech including 3D printing blood vessels, and military equipment. A New Zealand ISP has commenced offering a cloaking service – where customers can avoid geo-blocks on popular U.S. services like Hulu and Netflix. Russia’s been at…
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Solar Power in Germany, Cyberbullying setback in NY State, Facebook Experiments on us and Google IO in Detail
Raena, Mark & Michael looked an an amazing achievement in Germany, where for two brief periods, half of its electricity requirements were derived from solar power. Meanwhile chip maker Adesto is hoping to be at the forefront of the Internet of Things with its new non-volatile memory chips that…
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My Ex Boyfriend The Space Tyrant gets green lit, Google IO, 25 years of the Internet in Australia
In this episode, Mark, Raena, and Josh were joined by special guest Luke Miller. Luke’s game “My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant” has been green-lit on Valve’s social gaming platform Steam. This occurred after what could be described as an arduous year-long journey, where gamers’ comments, both…
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The Aus govt going after pirates, price gouging in tech, Iran makes Facebook illegal
In this episode, Michael, Mark, and Raena talked about recent revelations that the use of Facebook is now illegal in Iran. We talked about the possibility of finally having mobile coverage in the Melbourne City Loop, and the use of drones to spy on sports tactics in the World Cup. In Aussie...
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Supercritical solar power, Firefox phones, iPhone phishing, Dronies and Google tells you where to get off
In this episode Mark, Raena, Johnny and Michael looked at the death of the Nokia brand as Microsoft fulfils its acquisition obligations and progressively drops the name Nokia from mobile devices. In more mobile news, we learnt that Apple is decreasing the likelihood of your device being tracked,...
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Apple WWDC round-up, China blocks Tiananmen searches, the CIA joins twitter
Today Raena, Mark, and Michael discussed the latest in tech news, including the AFP collaborating with overseas agencies in breaking botnet rings, the Tasmanian Police are moving to mobile devices to enable paperless police cars, and Google has commenced fulfilling their obligations under EU law…
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Radiothon 2014, Koala cars, iPhone hijacking, Laser phones and Chromecast
This week we had a very special Radiothon 2014 episode with Mark, Raena, Jason and Michael. We chatted with our support admin volunteer Moshin about ‘That’s so JOY’ and what it means to him. On the tech side we looked at Google’s latest Koala car – well their prototype driverless cars (or is that...
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