The BIG Tech Show

This is the farewell episode of the British Tech Network. See the post about the end of BTN, a bit of history, and some humour at: https://britishtechnetwork.com/blog/british-tech-network-the-big-farewell And, from all of us, a BIG THANKS to Ewen Rankin, BTN's founder, heart, and soul. Here's to you mate!! Guests: Ewen Rankin and a bunch of BTNers “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-06-05

This Week's Topics: Google employee charged with Polymarket insider trading Waymo launches Ojai vehicle Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-28 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Google releases Fitbit Air Product announcements from Google I/O Plex triples Lifetime Plex Pass price to $750 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-21 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: UK fines water supplier $1.3M for customer data leak Google introduces Googlebook Gruber suggests EU should designate smart TVs as gatekeepers Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-14 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Google Chrome's 4GB AI download Spirit Airlines is no more Chinese GPU maker earns Microsoft certification Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-07 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Copy Fail zero-day enables root access on Linux Joby demonstrates electric air taxi in New York Musk-Altman trial begins Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-30 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Dave Ginsburg, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Allbirds pivots to AI Google announces TurboQuant AI compression algorithm Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-16 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Farewell Chuck La Tournous Outlook trouble on Artemis Amazon ends support of older Kindles Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-09 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Arm ships first CPU chip Instagram and YouTube landmark civil suit Amazon plans to reenter mobile phone market Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-26 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Websites bloated with ads Meta shutting down Horizon World, or not? Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-19 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI Can Coding Agents Relicense Open Source Through A ‘Clean Room’ Implementation Of Code? Grammarly pulls AI author-impersonation tool after backlash Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-12 Guests: Ian Grant, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Canon has patent for f1.4 lenses Accenture acquires Downdetector, Speedtest Jensen Huang says NVIDIA pulling back from OpenAI, Anthropic investing Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-05 Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: HP says RAM cost now 35% of PC bill of materials xAI data center turbine noise causes trouble in Mississippi Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-26 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: WD hard drives already sold out for 2026 Copilot error exposes confidential emails Google adds music generation to Gemini Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-19 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Waymo releases 6th gen Driver system Microsoft invests in superconducting cables Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-12 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Datacenters in space Amazon closes Fresh and Go stores OpenClaw AI agent Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-05 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: TikTok immigration status tracking drives uninstalls RAM prices surge Microsoft announces ne AI inference chip Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-29 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Ads coming to ChatGPT Digg launches new Reddit rival Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-22 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Internet collapses in Iran Wikipedia turns 25 Lidar used to discover massive wall Atlantic Ocean Bandcamp bans AI music Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-15 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Review our predictions for 2025 Make predictions for 2026 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-08 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Christmas Quiz: How well do we remember this year’s news? Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-12-18 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Netflix and Paramount bid for Warner Bros. US State Dept switches back to Times New Roman font Time names AI architects persons of the year Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-12-11 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Micron to end Crucial memory products Cosmic rays grounded Airbus planes Ship-based fusion reactor Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-12-04 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Cloudflare outage Meta and Google delay Red Sea cable plans Founding Mastodon CEO stepping down Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-11-20 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

This Week's Topics: Elon hopes Optimus robot can be a Robocop Firefox releases anti-fingerprinting features OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 model Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-11-13 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry

This Week's Topics: Parents out on school’s use of AI, surveillance Figma acquires AI-media generation company Grokipedia launches with AI-clone of Wikipedia Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2025-10-30 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology