Geeks Interrupted

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:PAX Australia plays its cards right [SMH]MyRepublic wants you to lobby for a better NBN, launches unlimited gamer plans [CNET Australia]Foxtel launches fibre-to-the-premises NBN service [ZDNet]Amazon Shopping Is Coming To Australia [Gizmodo Australia]Adobe's New Audio Software Eerily Mimics Human Speech [Pitchfork]LastPass is now free across all your devices [Engadget]YouTube is still having trouble getting people to pay for YouTube [The Verge]Microsoft announces its Slack competitor - Microsoft Teams [The Next Web]Slack shows it's worried about Microsoft Teams with a full-page newspaper ad [The Verge]'Doctor Strange' Reigns Supreme With $240M+ Overseas/$325M+ Global; Gives China A Shot In The Arm - Intl Box Office [Deadline]'Back to the Future' Screenwriter Bob Gale Happy for Cubs, but Bummed a Good Joke Is Now Spoiled [The Hollywood Reporter]Now You Can Watch Aussie TV Anywhere On Your Pho

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Australia's biggest data breach sees 1.3m records leaked [iTnews]Australian government invests AU$4.8m into revenge porn reporting tool [ZDNet]Telstra apologises for NBN outage that affected thousands [The Age]Telstra and Optus improve services complaints [CRN]Twitter is shutting down Vine [TechCrunch]Pornhub offers to buy Vine [CNET]Tesla's Electric Domination Moves Forward With Debut Of Beautiful Solar Shingles [Gizmodo Australia]Microsoft announces upgraded Surface Book with 16-hour battery life, for $2,399 [The Verge]Microsoft Surface Studio PC announced with "world's thinnest LCD monitor" [The Verge]Hacker who stole nude photos of celebrities gets 18 months in prison [The Guardian]Here's How Much Jail Time You'll Get for Destroying the Apple Store [Fortune]Apple's New MacBook Pro: Everything You Need To Know [Gizmodo Australia]Stan expecting to be profitable when it reaches 1 million su

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Samsung sets up exchange booths at airports to prevent the Note 7 from blowing up planes [The Next Web]Australian tech guru Leslie Nassar killed in hit-and-run [ABC News]Leslie Nassar [GoFundMe]'Tinder murder' trial almost derailed by juror's daily Instagram habit [Mashable]Technology giants look to tap into Australian content [AFR]DDoS Attack Snarls Friday Morning Internet Traffic [eWeek]AT&T will acquire Time Warner for $85.4B in content play [PCWorld]The Nintendo Switch is Nintendo's new home console, out March 2017 [Vooks]Apple plans to launch new Macs at an October 27 event [Recode]Report: Apple slams the brakes on electric Apple Car to focus on auto software [Macworld]AirPods review: Apple's promise of wireless wonder [The Age]Director Tim Miller, Ryan Reynolds Part Company On 'Deadpool 2' [Deadline]Further Details On The "Deadpool 2" Split [Dark Horizons]Donald Glover Cast as Land

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Pauline Hanson receives seat on NBN committee [ZDNet]Census meltdown played out in new FOI documents [SMH]MPs warned smartphone app messages could be released under FOI laws [ABC News]Telstra's fight to keep mobile network to itself [SMH]No one wants to buy Twitter [The Verge]Twitter to stream Melbourne Cup live [SMH]The New $5 Note Can Play Vinyl Records, Seriously [The Huffington Post]Brisbane Apple Store staff sacked in explicit photo sharing scandal [The Age]Samsung permanently stops Galaxy Note 7 production [ABC News]Samsung Note 7s are getting difficult to return [CNN Money]Qantas and Virgin ban troubled Samsung phone [ABC News]Coen Brothers to Write Internet Thriller 'Dark Web' for Fox [The Hollywood Reporter]Netflix to co-produce Glitch with ABC [TV Tonight]Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature [The Guardian]Jim Henson's 'Fraggle Rock' Returns To HBO [Deadline]Something we mention

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Yahoo Reportedly Spied on Millions of Users' Emails for the Government [Vice]High-speed travel is coming... fast [The Australian]Would you get behind the wheel of Australia's first self-driving car? [ABC News]Bureau of Meteorology launches simple-to-use weather app [ABC News]Samsung Note 7 replacement emits smoke on US plane: report [CRN]Samsung is suspending production of the Galaxy Note 7, says Korean news agency[The Verge]Man's Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Catches Fire, Samsung Accidentally Texts 'I Can Try And Slow Him Down' [Gizmodo Australia]Facebook Marketplace could be the new eBay [SMH]Pixel 'phone by Google' announced [The Verge]Here Are Telstra's Plans For The Google Pixel [Gizmodo Australia]Google's Daydream View Is A Super Soft, Super Light VR Headset [Gizmodo Australia]Google Wifi: price, release date and features [TechRadar]What is Google Home, how does it work, and when can you

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:At Chobani, Now It's Not Just the Yogurt That's Rich [The New York Times]NBN Co dumps Optus HFC for FTTdp [iTnews]South Australia blackout: entire state left without power after storms [The Guardian]Telcos grapple with storm aftermath in South Australia [Computerworld Australia]Vodafone Hands Out 2GB Of Free Data After Nationwide Network Outage [Lifehacker Australia]Catching The Right Tram, At The Right Time [Premier Of Victoria]FREE Wi-Fi in Melbourne CBD (Finally) [Craving Tech]Square launches 'queue busting' Apple Pay reader in Australia [SMH]BlackBerry to stop making its own smartphones and will focus on software [CBC News]Swipe right for a sperm donor [Quartz]UK retailer leaks Google's Pixel phones in detail [Engadget]Google brings Cloud Platform to Sydney [iTnews]Video claiming drilling into iPhone 7 will reveal hidden headphone port goes viral [The Guardian]Angry man smashes iPhones a

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Amazon Australia expansion set to shake up JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman [The Age]ABS claims IBM's botched geoblocking failed the Census [iTnews]Census 'completed by 95pc of households' as deadline looms [ABC News] Victorian police warn of harmful letterbox USB drives [ZDNet]Yahoo hit in worst hack ever, 500 million accounts swiped [CNET]What To Do With Your Hacked Yahoo Account [Gizmodo Australia]Twitter reportedly in talks with Google, Salesforce for potential sale [The Verge]Twitter's new, longer tweets have arrived [The Verge]Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years [Wall Street Journal]macOS Sierra is now live! Here's what's new [The Next Web]The Verge's Deputy Editor Chris Ziegler Was Secretly Working for Apple for Two Months [Gizmodo]Man arrested in connection with Pippa Middleton iCloud hack claim [The Guardian]Monty Python's Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia [BBC News]Ne

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Samsung is capping Note 7 batteries at 60% capacity [The Next Web]Samsung Australia restocks Galaxy Note 7 after battery problems [iTnews]Samsung crisis began in rush to capitalise on 'uninspiring' iPhone [SMH]Consumers want ACCC to monitor broadband speeds, industry doesn't [The Age]Senator Stephen Conroy resigns [Computerworld Australia]Govt denies plans to block retail sites that don't pay GST [iTnews]JB Hi-Fi buys The Good Guys [Appliance Retailer]Adblock Plus now sells ads [The Verge]Instagram now lets everyone filter comments using blocklists, will show friends' comments first [TechCrunch]'Bad people messed it up': misuse forces changes to New York's Wi-Fi kiosks [The Guardian]Google Street View blurs bullock's face in Cambridge [BBC News]Google Maps gets lane guidance in Australia [Ausdroid]Global outage hits Google for Work users [iTnews]People waiting for iPhone 7 Plus to release at

Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Nathan Littel.Show Notes:Galaxy Note7 'explodes' in Perth hotel causing $1800 damage [The Age]Airlines ban Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 [Sky News]Repair, replace, refund? What to do about the Samsung Note 7 recall [CNET Australia]WA become fourth state to criminalise 'revenge porn' following NSW, SA and Victoria [Yahoo News]Girls in Tech to launch first Australian chapter [ABC News]Foxtel confirms NBN offering next month [ZDNet]The PS4 Pro: A stronger GPU, 4K & HDR support and more [Stevivor]The PlayStation 4 Slim Has Finally Been Announced [Press Start Australia]Twitter just turned DMs into a chat app [Engadget]Porn Site Hacked: Brazzers' Accounts, Users Personal Info Leaked Online [International Business Times]Everything Apple announced at today's iPhone 7 launch event [The Next Web]Apple Watch Series 2: Our Complete Overview [MacStories]iPhone 7 and 7 Plus announced with water resistance, dual came

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Ban on excessive credit card surcharging begins for large merchants [The Age]Target pulls 'sexist' girls' shirt from stores [The Age]Telstra is preparing for the shutdown of their 2G network offering customers a new 3G phone [Ausdroid]Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy [The Guardian]SpaceX rocket explodes on launch site at Cape Canaveral [ABC News]It's Official: Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Worldwide [Gizmodo Australia]Apple announces 'iPhone 7' September 7 event, Apple Watch 2 and MacBook Pros may be unveiled [9to5Mac]ANZ Expands Apple Pay Support to MasterCard in Australia [MacRumors]Apple will implement App Store improvements on Sept. 7 [Macworld]Apple's $14.5 Billion EU Tax Ruling: What You Need to Know [Bloomberg]Gene Wilder, 'Willy Wonka' Star and Comedic Icon, Dies at 83 [Variety]Netflix Greenlights 'White Rabbit Project' Reality Series From 'Mythbus

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Schoolgirl porn ring back online [News.com.au]Uber gets green light to operate in Victoria [The Age]Uber $2 fee: Why should we pay for the taxi industry's refusal to adapt? [The Age]Optus Is Offering Free Data-Free Netflix And Spotify Streaming [Gizmodo Australia]Telstra announces free Netflix, Stan, Presto on mobile plans [Delimiter]Telstra extends free Netflix, Stan & Presto offer to Home Broadband plans [DeciderTV]Try PlayStation VR for yourself at Westfield [CNET Australia]Pinterest acquires Instapaper, which will live on as a separate app [TechCrunch]These Charts Show That Pokemon Go Is Already in Decline [Bloomberg]BuzzFeed divides its news and entertainment divisions in company-wide reorganization [The Hive]Apple forced to issue a global update of iOS after the discovery of sophisticated malware [News.com.au]Steve Wozniak says Apple must fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth or revive its headph

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Blendle's Micropayments Model Will Test Whether You'll Really Pay A Few Cents for News [Wired]Readability Is the Middleman Nobody Needs [ReadWrite]Victorians face 'trip tax' to compensate taxi drivers as government prepares to give Uber the green light [The Age]Police investigate pornographic website targeting Victorian schoolgirls [The Age]'Bunch of geeks': Pokemon Go players told to stay away from Melbourne golf course [The Age]Netflix may have to delay shows for Aussie users [iTnews]'Sick feeling': Lord Mayor not hopeful of recouping defrauded money [Brisbane Times]Telstra, Optus network fees among world's highest: Cloudflare [iTnews]Windows falls to 0.6 percent share in the smartphone market [BetaNews]ACCC Won't Grant Aussie Banks' Collective Bargaining For Apple Pay Straight Away [Gizmodo Australia]Apple Introduces Major Retail Changes, Including New Pro-Level Positions and Credo [MacRu

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Uber legal in Queensland from September 5, Premier announces on Facebook [Brisbane Times]The fallout from Australia's spectacular census failure will be felt for years [Business Insider Australia]Govt could chase IBM for damages over Census failure [iTnews]Telstra's $3 billion backyard blitz to defend its home turf [SMH]Adblock Plus has already defeated Facebook's new ad blocking restrictions [The Verge]Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [YouTube]Universal search on Apple TV goes beyond US services with Australia's Stan [AppleInsider]Tim Cook Discusses His Job, Apple's Long-Term Future, AI, Virtual Reality, and More [MacRumors]Kenny Baker, the Actor Who Brought R2-D2 to Life, Passes Away [Star Wars]Darth Vader returns in new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer [The Verge]Seven tipped to pull out of Presto [AdNews]Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes?

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Melbourne Grammar video scandal: alumnus shocked by year 12 'rate-your-date' video [The Age]'Debacle': Xenophon calls for Census to be postponed [SBS News]Victoria's first Uber 'rank' opens at Avalon Airport [The Age]Facebook tweaks the News Feed to show you less clickbait [VentureBeat]Olympic Committee bans press from releasing GIFs [Engadget]Tinder's threesome rival 3nder protests lawsuit with bizarre socks campaign [CNET]This guy has swiped right on 200,000 women, without much success [The Independent]Safe driving: Tesla autopilot drives owner suffering pulmonary embolism to ER [RT News]Windows 10's Anniversary Update is now available [The Verge]Water pistol emoji replaces revolver as Apple enters gun violence debate [The Guardian]Judge wipes out patent troll's $625M verdict against Apple [Ars Technica]Apple launches high-reward bug bounty program [iTnews]Seven scores an Olympics win - br

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Australia's banks want to force Apple to open up NFC [iTnews]Nick Xenophon calls for curbs on teen gambling in eSports video games [The Age]ABS forced to defend Census website security [iTnews]Uber is selling its China business to dominant local rival Didi Chuxing [The Verge]Uber is planning on investing $500 million to map the world's roads [The Verge]NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over [TechCrunch]Verizon to Buy Yahoo's Core Business for $4.8 Billion [Variety]Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones [The Verge]'Carpool Karaoke' Series Coming Exclusively to Apple Music [The Hollywood Reporter]Apple backs Australian marriage equality [The Age]Pocket Casts 6 brings dark mode, multitasking, and more to the iOS podcast player [9to5Mac]MTV Launches 'Classic' Channel Dedicated to 1990s [Rolling Stone]ABC should partner with Netflix to raise revenue, says Michelle Guthrie 

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:This Crazy Ghostbusters Scene May Have Cost Over a Million Dollars [io9]Brighton Grammar expels students who created vile Instagram account [The Age]School children charged with sexting offences [The Age]Delimiter editor Renai LeMay quits, calls for expressions of interest in brand [Mumbrella]Australian Communications and Media Authority Publish Pokemon GO Safety Tips [Press Start Australia]Milo Yiannopoulos, rightwing writer, permanently banned from Twitter [The Guardian]Double Standards: Leslie Jones' Racist Twitter History [Breitbart]Twitter opens up applications to become "Verified" to everyone [Ausdroid]Unilever Buys Dollar Shave Club for $1 Billion [Fortune]Amazon Drive Is Offering Unlimited Storage For $8 A Month [Gizmodo Australia]Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month [mental_floss]France: Windows 10 collects 'excessive personal data', issues Microsoft with formal warning [Bet

Phil Edwards and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Mark Macdowell.Show Notes:Secure Messaging Scorecard [EFF]Telstra wants to re-brand as a tech company [Business Insider Australia]Vaya updates their data plans, now with a monster 30GB for $65 - now that should get you catching all the Pokèmon on the go [Ausdroid]Australia Now Has a Cyber Minister [Gizmodo Australia]Nintendo Classic Mini Revealed: Coming In November [Press Start Australia]Microsoft wins landmark appeal over seizure of foreign emails [Reuters]Pokemon Go sends kids to notorious gay beat [News.com.au]Open casting call posted for Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' reality TV show [9to5Mac]Rumor: Apple latest bidder for Formula 1 race series [AppleInsider]"Ghostbusters" Sequel "Will Happen" Says Sony [Dark Horizons]"Star Wars Story" Films Skip Opening Crawl [Dark Horizons]iView Is Now Streaming Every Live ABC TV Channel [Gizmodo Australia]A Rick and Morty VR game is coming to the HTC Vive [Th

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:'Mind-blowingly awesome' Telstra phishing scam detected [CIO Australia]Customers slugged a 'Telstra tax' of up to 92 per cent despite ongoing network troubles [The Age]Vodafone Is Showing Off Its Network By Broadcasting A Live Radio Show [Gizmodo Australia]The ACCC Is Deciding The Future Of ADSL Regulation [Gizmodo Australia]FBI Recommends No Charges For Hillary Clinton In Email Server Case [NPR]Pokemon GO's unexpected side effect: injuries [The Age]Pokemon Go player finds dead body in Wyoming river while searching for a Pokestop [BBC News]Australia is ready for electronic voting, says internet industry body [CNET Australia]Apple To Launch First iOS Developer Academy In October At University Of Naples [Tech Times]Apple will double 'iPhone 7' minimum storage to 32GB [AppleInsider]Street View car arson suspect says he felt Google had been 'watching' him [The Guardian]Play School celebrates 50

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:5 Melbourne Podcasts You Need To Be Listening To [Triple M]IBM announces national cybersecurity facility in Canberra [Delimiter]Telstra announces network investment after months of issues for customers [EFTM]Telstra outage brought down banks, hospitals, airline [ZDNet]Guvera confirms local redundancies, downplays employee concerns about entitlements [Mumbrella]Tesla under investigation after first Autopilot-related death [Engadget]Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says [The Guardian]Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags [The Verge]Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Paper News Reading App [Fortune]Spotify Accuses Apple of Using App Store Approval Process as a 'Weapon to Harm Competitors' [MacRumors]Apple Slams Spotify, Says App Already Violates App Store Rules [BuzzFeed]Apple Ignores the Real Issue in Response to Spotify

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Who the hell are all these people on the Victorian Senate ballot paper? [Decryption Rants Here]'Short-sighted, expensive and backward looking': ex-NBN boss blasts Turnbull's plan [The Age]$110 for 15GB: Regional Australians struggle with poor internet access [ABC News]Where Do The Major Australian Political Parties Stand On Privacy And Encryption This Election? [Gizmodo Australia]Pirate Bay, Torrentz under spotlight in Australian website-blocking test case [ABC News]Victorian Government strikes deal with Sex Party over Uber regulation [ABC News]How Well Are Australians Protecting Their Personal Data? [Gizmodo Australia]800-pound Comodo tries to trademark upstart rival's "Let's Encrypt" name [Ars Technica]Amex demos Facebook Messenger bot with purchase alerts, restaurant recommendations, and more [VentureBeat]KFC's Latest Marketing Gimmick Is A Snack Box With A Built-In Phone Charger [Gizmodo