For Tech's Sake Podcast
1) Prophecy girls
In this final episode of 2025, Elaine and Kelly wonder if being on the naughty list could be a way for tech billionaires to hoard coal resources, and also offer up some predictions for a new year in t...Show More
2) Slop ’til you drop
’Tis the season of shopping and scams, so arm yourself with knowledge from the For Tech’s Sake buyer’s guide to what you need to know about online shopping in the slop era. Come for the explanations o...Show More
3) Say sorry, be nice, stand up for workers’ rights
This week, Kelly and Elaine discuss why a delay in the release of Grand Theft Auto VI to late 2026 might be the least of Rockstar Games’ problems as protests have kicked off outside their offices foll...Show More
4) Ryanair’s app trap
This episode may contain a rude word or two when Elaine starts going off on one about Ryanair’s decision to force app downloads under the guise of ‘paperless’ boarding (that’s not actually paperless)....Show More
5) The good guy of tech
There’s been some Wikipedia drama this week as Jimmy Wales has been doing the rounds on a press tour promoting a book that bills him as ‘the good guy of tech’ – but Elaine and Kelly have a different m...Show More
6) Tech Treehouse of Horror
In this very special Halloween episode, Elaine and Kelly are communing with the digital after life and sharing (barely) spooky stories about data from beyond the grave. It’s a bumper episode with a sp...Show More
7) Tech will fail and you will die
Well, our maxim has finally caught up with us. We’re always saying the only certainties in life are that tech will fail and you will die and – while Elaine and Kelly are both still very much alive and...Show More
8) Return of the dead
It’s no coincidence that the launch of endless feeds of AI-generated video from Meta’s Vibes and OpenAI’s Sora have coincided with a marked increase in video slop online, but what kind of social media...Show More
9) On the campaign ad trail
Tech and democracy expert Liz Carolan joins Kelly and Elaine to explain some new regulations on political advertising hitting the EU this week, right in the midst of an Irish presidential election. Th...Show More
10) Sims, sEMG and soft robotics
Mark Zuckerberg’s live demo of gesture controls for his Meta glasses may have failed, but the underlying technology in the wrist-worn Neural Band, known as surface electromyography (sEMG), made us cur...Show More