Wrecked By Tech

Episode 63: Digital pills and Lyft in Canada

November 15th, 2017  |  42 mins 15 secs

amazon, bose, canada, cell phone, freedom mobile, indiegogo, lyft, microsoft, nintendo, pharma, pill, snes, toys r us

Yes there are digital pills now and no that doesn't mean nanobots

Episode 60: Breached WiFi and AI philosophy

October 17th, 2017  |  49 mins 33 secs

ai, amazon, canada, facebook, netflix, security, tech philosophy, tesla, wifi

This might be the nerdiest we've ever been.

...on second thought, nah

Episode 53: The Canadian kid taking on big cellular companies

September 5th, 2017  |  40 mins 35 secs

android, andy rubin, canada, canadian telecom, ccts, crtc, essential, frank phone, frank., google, ontario, rcmp, telecom, windows, windows phone

There's other stuff too but that's pretty cool

Episode 48: YouTube loves Canada and your car is now a hotspot

August 2nd, 2017  |  52 mins 12 secs

apple, automatic, canada, cars, hotspot, iphone, nano, rogers, rogers smart drive, shuffle, spotlight canada, wifi, youtube, youtube spotlight, zte

We love you too, YouTube

Episode 47: A Canadian ran the Dark Web and we're getting "the Netflix of sports"

July 26th, 2017  |  1 hr 1 min

alphabay, canada, cellular, censorship, dark web, dazn, google, internet security, microsoft paint, mspaint, netflix, rogers, tech, telus, tor

Extremely varied news, everyone!

Episode 46: Canadian 5G, hunting with drones, and Canadian Alexa

July 21st, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins

1password, 5g, alexa, alphabet, amazon, canada, drones, google, huawei, mosquitoes, security, telus

And a buncha other stuff too

Episode 43: All Uber's controversies in Canada & the US

June 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 28 mins

apple, canada, nintendo, ridesharing, snes, snes classic, susan fowler, travis kalanick, uber, uber ceo

Here's why you're supposed to hate them

Episode 36: BlackBerry: Canada's Icarus of tech

May 10th, 2017  |  1 hr 8 mins

blackberry, blackberry keyone, canada, canadian tech, keyone, research in motion, rim, tech canada, waterloo

Oh how the times have a-changed

Episode 35: Does Canada have net neutrality? Is the next Fitbit ugly?

May 5th, 2017  |  1 hr 31 mins

apple, canada, crtc, fcc, fitbit, net neutrality, smartwatch, tech canada, telecoms, tinkercad, torrenting, verizon, wearables

Alt title: "thing people don't care about" and "thing people care too much about"

Episode 32: Canada saves your Internet privacy

April 12th, 2017  |  1 hr 3 mins

bell, bell canada, canada, google, internet, internet privacy, isp, jay z, microsoft, net neutrality, privacy, walt mossberg, youtube, youtube tv

Unlike some places (ahem, south of the border), the Canadian government doesn't want to sell your privacy. Yet?