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TechCraft Podcast is your weekly deep dive into the world of tech, where we offer you more than just news. Listen to our analysis and opinions about the good, the bad, and the ugly in the world of technology. Join us - Sergey Slashchev, Ben Curdy, and Hrishi Ballal - in an intellectual discussions about the old, the new, and the future of the technology industry. We all come from tech backgrounds, have been working in the industry, and feel just as passionate about it as you do! Language: en Genres: Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Episode 140 - Talking about the Olympics, Firefox Servo and China's new bus
Tuesday, 9 August, 2016
This week Hrishi and Sergey discuss the Olympics, Firefox going multithreaded and China's new bus. - Hrishi’s mobile phone contract coming to an end. He will get out of the bill contract - Sergey against bill pay and has a month-to-month contract - Best time to upgrade is early next year - Olympics have started: Where do we watch it? There are no live streams as such. - The media is a very critical of Brazil -Hrishi is boycott the olympics since is a corporate money splurging - Hong Kong based bitcoin exchange got hacked - Bitcoin has been out of the news, it is a good thing. - It is great Bitcoin is still around, the tech is maturing - Also good that Ethereum is developing rapdily. - The real test of Bitcoin is how many new people are joining the ecosystem: how many new retailers supporting bitcoin? - Coinbase now supports Ethereum, - Pokemon gets tons of 1 star reviews for some update on the tool - iPhone has a music industry model, one or two become superstars - Firefox goes multi threaded: the ececltrolysis project. - It is slow now compared to other browsers. Firefox needs to innovate and move the stack forward. - A great example of this is the new Firefox Servo engine - Mozilla is a non profit committed to keep internet open so there is a conflict of interest. - Mozilla needs to focus on the basics - Windows 10 Anniversary update is out: How do you tell if you have it? - People are having a lot of issues with drivers including Sergey whose camera does not work properly on Skype. - Bash is now on Windows is quite good - Some people are reporting data corruption issues. - Finally China launches rollin bus, it is a bridge on wheels - It is good they are trying something out and trying something new, kudos to them.
