Episodes

Privacy Concerns? The EFF Has Your Back!

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2013-05-18

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense when our digital freedoms come under attack. A non-profit detected to “Defending your rights in the digital world” – this episode of GeekSpeak Dan Auerbach, Staff Technologist at the EFF joins Lyle Troxell to cover GeekNews and talk about human rights in the digital age.

Stealing Cash, Bikes, and Spectrum from Virtual Machines

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2013-05-11

Virtual computer systems, monitoring, stealing cash using cash cards, bike planning is good, iOS tape cassette app, Maker Faire this month, and more when James Dennis, Director of Engineering of Catbird, joins Lyle on this episode of GeekSpeak.

Dale Questions 3D Gun Robots at Mach 5

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2013-05-04

Lyle is alone in this episode of GeekSpeak – covering UN suggestions about robot overlords, Google loves Palestine, printing guns in your home, Facebook lawsuit, many phone calls – and some web update news.

This episode was dedicated to Dale Owen, who we will miss at KUSP. If you do not love classical music – go watch this Benjamin Zander’s TED talk about loving Classical music.

IKEA Robot Tweets Private Eyes

2013-04-27

Hacking Twitter, Geek Entertainment news, robots and artificial intelligence, Geek Word of the Week and much much more with Bonnie, Lyle, and Ben.

Reddit visits Mars Galaxy Cell Coverage from Home

2013-04-20

Programer and produce Charley Manske joins Lyle to chat about home network cell coverage, his new Galaxy Note, and about Facebook, Reddit and more.

Pecha Kucha, Perception, Population, Patches, and Privacy

2013-04-13

Say it five times fast! Miles & Bonnie find out how to make geeks speak briefly, and cover the latest crop of gaffes, advances, & creepiness in geek news.

Dark Matter Robot Blinks & Facebook Goes Home.

2013-04-06

Ben, Lyle and Bonnie cover the week’s news.

Musically Shaving Bytes with Frozen Smoke

2013-03-30

Ben and Lyle chat about music, code, astrophysics and material sciences.

Apple Security News - the Universe Darkens

2013-03-23

Google and Apple and other security issues, some calls from listeners and more on this episode with Ben and Lyle.

Sick Wind Farm Games with out Google Reader

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2013-03-16

Founders of Gaijin Games, Mike and Alex, join the geeks to chat about game development and play and their new game Runner2, a fun side scrolling platform game.

Pledge for Plastic Skulls, Frozen Phones, and Rovers in Distress

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2013-03-09

Curiosity software bug, 3D Printed Skulls, Compromising phones by freezing them, Sexism in Gaming, and your opportunity to support this, and many shows at KUSP.

Patented Billboard Shows Skydiving Rats- Live!

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2013-03-02

Billboards collecting water, parachute in poison rats to kill snakes, re-use old phones for video cams, Pandora restrictions, patent lawsuits, thermochromotic fashion, sports gadget, calls, and more with Al Luckow and Lyle Troxell.

Robot Drinks, Rails Problems, JS ASM

2013-02-23

Miles is back for a Geeky episode with Bonnie and Lyle.

Space, Time, Heat & the Kitchen Sync

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2013-02-16

VERY long distance duets without the awkward delay; Jet lag; explaining burns to children; and storing your digital stuff for yourself and others.

The Union of Benevolent Electrical Workers

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2013-02-09

Alternate Universe Geeks take over the show to philosophize, obfuscate, and to make the case for meat-space networking.

Ease of Use vs Security

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2013-02-02

Groundhog Day, bad websites, UPnP and your security, astroid updates, quicky on GitHub, calls from listeners and emails too.

Monster Cards, Kracken, and Cracking Cases

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2013-01-26

Being silly, Java todo, Kracken video, make monster cards, fixing small tech stuff and calls from listeners.

Deathstar Full of Banana Slugs

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2013-01-19

Bad java flaw explanation now with slugs, animated tattoos, make your own 3d printer “ink”, Facebook search, and more geeky topics of the week.

Watson Swearing Robot Seal "Ze Bike Crank!"

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2013-01-12

New law allows Netflix to help users spam movies to FB, Ze Frank is in Santa Cruz, Watson is introduced to Urban Dictionary, Amazon lets you get mp3s from CDs you purchased, and more Geeky news from Lindsey, Ben, and Lyle.

Hot Humans, Exoplanets and CodeSchool

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2013-01-05

Adam Fortuna from CodeSchool joins the geeks for a chat about the week in geek news, online education, programing and other geekyness.

Gamification Ion Slime in Your Email Automagically

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2012-12-29

Hagfish Slime, Ion thrusters work, Insurance and climate change, 386 linux drop, Gamification, Email settings, Automagically annoy Miles, and more tech news with Miles and Lyle.

Intellectual Social Property

2012-12-22

Intellectual property attorney and friend Michael Mount returns to GeekSpeak to chat with Lyle about twitter, ownership, copyright, and work for hire.

Be Creative - Robots, Legos, and Science Games

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2012-12-15

Author Michael Margolis, author of Make an Arduino-Controlled Robot from O’Reilly , joins Lyle and Wyatt to chat about Autonomous and Remote-Controlled Bots on Wheels, Legos, and wonderful computer games that help teach your children science.

Mayan Calendar and No Free Privacy

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2012-12-08

The Mayan calendar is really quite geeky, learn the real details of this epic time keeping system. And is your privacy worth some money?

Syria Denies Access to Microsoft Quick-Release Antivirus Land Mines

2012-12-01

Syria drops off the internet, both Microsoft AV and hotel key cards get a failing grade, Google Fiber ahead of its time, and more in the Week in Geek as Lyle, Alex, and Miles answer your calls and questions about technology.

Hany Farid, Digital Image Detective with Robert Pollie of The 7th Avenue Project

2012-11-24

Regularly on GeekSpeak Lyle speaks about Robert’s wonderful radio show The 7th Avenue Project
With Miles and Lyle away, you get the pleasure of one of Robert’s geekier episodes: a conversation with computer scientist and photo fakery expert Hany Farid. Robert and Hany discussed the ways that digital retouching (e.g., Photoshop) has altered our relation to photography.

Insecure Androids in Space

2012-11-17

The geeks cover the week in geek news, and take your calls.

Beluga Whale Reports Narwhal Beats Orca

2012-11-10

Political problems in tech, friction discussion, New Bowing 787, Apple awarded design patten ridiculous, MPAA wants inside your home, Steam for Linux and more news plus calls from listeners.

Humans Programing and Awesome Humans Vote

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2012-11-03

Are you an american? Vote on Nov 6th or before! One Laptop Per Child – > Humans are awesome! A debate about weather programing should be taught to everyone like mathematics and literacy. IBM’s Watson goes to med-school. A WWII carrier pigeon is found.

Lyle’s big question: “How do you teach programing”?

Uranus Viewing, Algebra Packets and Metaphoric Circus Drives

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2012-10-27

New fast data transfers using algebra packets, new images of Uranus, Lyle describes hardrives using circus metaphor and more helping people with their technical calls.Uranus Viewing,