Podcasts by The Zip Files

#026 - The Zip Files - { August Holiday Break } from 2018-08-05T14:55:52

I'm off on my August holidays to eat vegetables, find out what the sun is, and recharge for the next half year of The Zip Files. I'll see you all again in September. Have a great few weeks until...

#025 - The Zip Files - { Facebook loses $120bn } from 2018-07-29T16:48:58

Stay tuned for such learnings as Facebook crashing and burning in the stock market, Samsung releasing an unbreakable screen, facial recognition tech that has a serious problem with racial bias, ...

#024 - The Zip Files - { WhatsApp Lynchings in India } from 2018-07-22T14:59

Listen out for such scoops as Elon musk going totally bananas on Twitter and calling a bloke a pedo, Amazon.com crashing on one of the biggest shopping days of the year, WhatsApp trying to stop ...

#023 - The Zip Files - { WTF is Blockchain? } from 2018-07-15T19:17:10

Listen out for such intrigues as an Apple employee stealing trade secrets and trying to leg it to China, Elon Musk building a tiny submarine in an effort to be a good bloke, Twitter deleting mil...

#022 - The Zip Files - { Where Should We Live? } from 2018-07-08T14:43:19

We’re talking about an artificial intelligence that is wicked at playing Quake, Tesla hitting its production goals, a new Russian data law that will help the Kremlin spy on its citizens, and muc...

#021 - The Zip Files - { Exclusive Dating } from 2018-07-01T15:13:07

Listen out for Andreessen Horowitz’s new 300 million dollar crypto fund, Uber winning its license back in London, an AI healthcare startup named Babylon claiming its better than doctors, and muc...

#020 - The Zip Files - { Should People Starve? } from 2018-06-24T17:06:32

Stay plugged in for such scoops as Japan losing their only unicorn, digital crypto-cats lacking love and attention, an artificial intelligence that can spot cardiac arrest and much much more. Listen

#019 - The Zip Files - { Is WeWork Doomed? } from 2018-06-17T14:57:39

Keep your headphones in for such scoops as Tesla laying off 9% of its staff, Uber knowing when we are drunk, Apple locking down iPhones and much much more.

In the middle of all that we h...

#018 - The Zip Files - { Data Dystopia } from 2018-06-10T19:41:13

This week I’ll be spooning the top 10 most interesting world of tech news bits into your ears.

We’re talking about illegal drugs on social media sites, Tesla wasting ridiculous sums of ca...

#017 - The Zip Files - { How to Live Forever } from 2018-06-03T10:30:55

Want to know how Instagram are tracking us in unsurprising ways, why China’s first ever cyber security law is a threat to multinationals and how Jeff Bezos plans on building a manufacturing plan...

#016 - The Zip Files - { HQ Trivia's Dystopia } from 2018-05-27T16:37:37

Brace yourself for such revelations as Obama working for Netflix, Amazon Facial recognition tech getting lambasted for working with police departments, and Mr. Mark Zuckerberg being roasted in E...

#015 - The Zip Files - { WTF is Quantum Computing? } from 2018-05-20T17:12:42

The usual feast of newsworthy news will have at its core a long listen on Quantum Computing. I’ll explain what on earth Quantum Computing is, why we need it, and how it will help us solve imposs...

#014 - The Zip Files - { World War III } from 2018-05-13T16:58:32

This week you’ll need to be wearing a set of sturdy undergarments, because we’re going to war. Not the kind of war where guns get pulled, but one that is fought with information.

You migh...

#013 - The Zip Files - { Giveth My Data Back, Please } from 2018-05-06T15:21:11

Lots of good stuff tech’d its way into last week. Richard Branson told us that high-speed pod travel will be a reality within 3 years, whilst Mark Zuckerberg - the internet sensation turned love...

#012 - The Zip Files - { How Safe is Uber? } from 2018-04-29T19:07:05

This week's long listen considers the safety of Uber - the safety of getting into a stranger's car. Around that we quick fire pepper you with all the interesting tech news of the week.

#011 - The Zip Files - { China, 2020: George Orwell's Unwritten Sequel } from 2018-04-22T19:31:12

It's easy to worry about artificially intelligent robots rising up and putting us to sleep (death) with laser-arm-guns, but what's more likely is that naughty humans will deliberately use AI in ...

#010 - The Zip Files - { Choking on Plastic } from 2018-04-15T17:16:01

Plastic is extremely useful. Like a prince in shining armour it can be pretty much whatever you want it to be - and at a low cost. However, plastic is bad for us and bad for the world. Bad for t...

#009 - The Zip Files - { Tesla’s Borrowed Future } from 2018-04-08T17:10:14

Tesla is trying to revolutionise the car industry - to have us whizzing around in fully-electric vehicles. It has made impressive progress towards this vision, but have borrowed a hell of a lot ...

#008 - The Zip Files - { SpaceX's Guide to Surviving The Apocalypse } from 2018-04-01T17:49:20

Elon Musk wants to take us to Mars, to make us an interplanetary species. This week our ‘long listen’ explores what this future might look like. Around that we quick fire pepper you with all the...

#007 - The Zip Files - { Facebook, You're Breaking My Heart } from 2018-03-25T16:00

This week our main story is about how Facebook's love affair with innovation left our private data out in the cold. Around that we quick fire pepper you with all the interesting tech news of the...

#006 - The Zip Files - { Bad Blood - The Elizabeth Holmes Saga } from 2018-03-18T15:00

This week our main story is one to rival Twilight - a story of bad blood and misguided lies at Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos.  Around that we quick fire pepper you with all the interesting tech new...

#005 - The Zip Files - { Humans do Fake News } from 2018-03-11T15:00

This week our main story is on how us humans are to blame for spreading fake news, not just bots. Around that we quick fire pepper you with all the interesting tech news of the week.

#004 - The Zip Files - { Sexism in Crypto } from 2018-03-04T15:00

This week our main story is on how sexism in crypto is keeping women out. Around that we quick fire pepper you with all the interesting tech news of the week.

#003 - The Zip Files - { Snapchat, Tech Monopolies, Scary Artificial Intelligence } from 2018-02-25T15:00

This week our main stories are on Snapchat failing to keep people engaged, the naughty side of tech monopolies, and the scary, and I mean scccarrry, potential consequences of Artificial Intellig...

#002 - The Zip Files - { Dyson, Cyber-warfare } from 2018-02-18T15:00

This week we are talking about a bloke who makes vacuum cleaners trying his hand at the electric car game and the increasing threat from cyberwarfare, whilst catching you up with all the most im...

#001 - The Zip Files - { SpaceX, Crypto, Uber } from 2018-02-11T15:00

This week we are talking about SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch, the state of Cryptocurrency, and Uber vs Waymo in San Francisco whilst catching you up with a bunch more.