178: Meta Orion AR Glasses
Buckle up as Geoff and Kelvin take a deep dive into Meta’s sleek new AR glasses, Orion – from its cutting-edge display tech to privacy concerns that could give you whiplash. Plus, a peek at the future of AI-powered content creation and the battle for dominance in the AR/VR arena.. As always we cover all […]
171: Folding Phones Going Mainstream, Tesla’s Humanoid Robot
Samsung releases its 2021 range of folding and flipping phones. Will they finally go mainstream? And Elon is at it again announcing Tesla’s plans to build bots in humanoid form. As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked […]
144: Baby Musk, Dark Patterns, Killed By Google
Hello to our listeners in Sweden! You guys are trending around these parts and we’re not quite sure how.. please tell us! Another thing trending (still) is Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app and its ills. While Elon Musk continues to dominate the news cycle by having a baby, going on a podcast to talk about […]
143: Elon Meltdown, COVIDSafe App Teardown, Pandemic Drones
This week, Elon Musk walks the fine line between trolling the world and controlling the world with calculated tweets. Will he eventually go full Elon? Despite the Australian government not releasing the source code, the tech community have already conducted a teardown and reverse engineered the COVIDSafe app. What did they find? While ‘pandemic drones’ […]
118: Spotify Buys Podcasting, Reddit Worth $3B, FaceTime Bug
Spotify acquires Gimlet Media and Anchor for $230M and thus changes the podcasting landscape forever. While Tencent invests heavily in Reddit who may now be ready to take on Facebook and Google as your frontpage of the web. Apple is in trouble again with a horrendous FaceTime bug and Facebook keeps on being Facebook by […]
113: Foldable Phones, Web Summit, Elon’s New Boss
The foldable smartphone is closer to being reality as Samsung unveils its plans to make that a thing in 2019. Web Summit is also a thing that happened in Lisbon, and somehow it involves climate change. Australia’s Robyn Denholm is Elon Musk’s new boss for the next 3 years – how does the world feel […]
107: NVIDIA’s Ray Tracing Future, Elon’s Tesla Woes
NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang wowed SIGGRAPH by unveiling the world’s first real-time ray tracing graphics card but is he telling us everything? We deep dive into this new method of rendering computer graphics and the implications to the world of next-gen gaming and entertainment. Elon Musk has had quite a fortnight with regretful tweets and […]
105: Apple shows off its FAANGs, Google to China?
It’s official – Apple is the first US company to be valued at over $1 trillion, with the other FAANGs hot on its heels. Also, did you know what a FAANG is? You will after you hear this episode! Meanwhile Tesla stocks surge after Elon’s big apology but is that real reason for the bounce […]
102: Microsoft buys GitHub, IGTV, Google podcasts
It’s the catch all episode! With no major tech conventions, we looked at stories that happened over the last few weeks, covering Microsoft, Google, Instagram, YouTube, Tesla, IBM and more. It really is everything you need to know in tech. Get in touch with us on @thelazycouch on twitter, or search for ‘the lazy couch’ […]
99: Musk, Microsoft, Telstra troubles
The Lazy Couch podcast is your fortnightly dose of tech news and discussion on all things internet culture. We don’t just report the news but also how the news is being propagated across the vast interwebs and ask the big question – why? This week, we cover the latest in Elon Musk’s dating habits, Microsoft’s […]