Tech Tales Podcast
1) Microsoft Kin
Microsoft Kin was a phone platform "designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives," but was deemed a failure before it even launched. Two Kin phones finally arrived i...Show More
2) Techathon 2025!
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3) Movie Club: Pirates of Silicon Valley
Watch Pirates of Silicon Valley: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/pirates-of-silicon-valley Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Zachary Wander and Katie Janzen. Follow on Bluesky: https://b...Show More
4) Internet Time and Sputnik 99
Swiss watch company Swatch came up with a new way to tell time in 1998, known as "Internet Time" or ".beats time." It led to an international controversy over advertising, radio frequencies, and Russi...Show More
5) WannaCry
The WanaCry ransomware quickly spread to hundreds of thousands of Windows systems on May 12, 2017, impacting everything from car manufacturing to hospitals. A few hours later, it was stopped by a cybe...Show More
6) Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, helping guide the country through the Civil War and advocated for an end to slavery. Nearly 100 years later, he was resurrected as a robot ...Show More
7) Movie Club: Tron Legacy (2010)
Watch Tron Legacy: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/tron-2-0 Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Zachary Wander and Joe Fedewa. Follow on Mastodon/Fediverse: https://mas.to/@techtales Supp...Show More
8) Apple's Intel Transition
Apple helped develop PowerPC processors as competition against Intel in the 1990s, but by the early 2000s, the architecture was falling behind. Apple's switch to Intel x86 processors revived its Mac c...Show More
9) Google AMP
Google introduced AMP in 2015 as a solution for slow and unresponsive mobile websites. It didn't go well. Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Adam Conway. Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.c...Show More
10) Movie Club: Tron (1982)
Watch Tron: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/tron-1 Making of Tron documentary: https://youtu.be/sbgHMrLPQrE Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Zachary Wander and Joe Fedewa. Follow on Tw...Show More