Tech Talk with Mathew Dickerson

Mathew Dickerson

Technologist Mathew Dickerson speaks with James Eddy to give a weekly summary of the latest technology developments from around the world. Send questions to ask@techtalk.digital

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S6 · E40
October 4 · 57 min
Pilotless Planes, Rogue AI, Robot Road Rules and Bottle Bots - The Future Is Taking Control.
Pilotless Progress: Plane Proves Cross-Country Autonomy. Robot Road Rules: Who Cops the Fine When Driverless Cars Cross the Line? Bin There, Seen That: AI Garbage Trucks Grade the Grass. Simulated Skills: Speeding Up Smarter Robot Training. Festival Fraud: AI Makes Scam Stalls Frighteningly Convincing. Gemini Goes Rogue: Google’s AI Accidentally Hacks the Real World. Bottle Bots: AI Accelerates Plastic’s Path Back to the Fridge. Silicon Style: Tech Titans Turn T-Shirts into Tribal Tokens. Paws, Patrols and Pet Pixels: AI’s New Robotic Rover.
S6 · E39
September 27 · 1 hr 7 min
EVs Overtake Petrol, Restaurants Lock Up Phones, AI Hits the Brakes and Robot Dogs Take to the Farm.
August Amped: EVs Electrify Australian Sales and Overtake Petrol for the First Time. Pocket-Pause Push: Restaurants Reclaim Real-World Relationships. Brakes on the Bots: What an AI Slowdown Would Actually Look Like. Undies, Urinals and Unusual Insights: The Ingenious Ig Nobels. Tomorrow Through Ten-Year-Old Eyes: Robots, Risks and a Remarkable 2050. Algorithmic Arms Race: When Viral Views Turn into Dangerous Dares. Pitch-Perfect Performances: Auto-Tune Takes Centre Stage. Paws on Patrol: Robot Dogs Dig into Digital Farming. Accent Attack: AI Voices Turn Familiar Speech into a Fraudster’s Friend.
S6 · E38
September 20 · 50 min
AI Toothbrushes, Fake Jobs, Facial Checks, VR Fighting and Drone Vacuums - Is Tech Getting Too Smart?
Molar Machine Learning: Dyson’s AI Toothbrush Takes Aim at Flossing. Calorie Con: Why Your Smartwatch May Be Fudging Your Fitness Figures. Facial Firewall: Dating Apps Face Up to Fakes with Biometric Checks. Recruitment Ruse: When Dream Jobs Deliver Digital Disaster. Menu Makeover: Artificial Intelligence Is Changing What We See - and What We Eat. Cameras, Cops and Constant Capture: The Surveillance Sitting in Plain Sight. Kicking into the Cloud: Contactless Combat Comes to Competition. Drone-Derived Dustbuster: DJI’s Daring Domestic Cleaning Debut. Sound Gets Smarter: Sonos’ AI Audio Ambition.
S6 · E37
September 13 · 58 min
Plastic Cookies, Tennis Robots, AI Search Lies and Pizza-Bot Flops - Tech’s Future Gets Weird.
Plastic to Palate: Pollution-Powered Protein Produces Printed Pastries. Paws, Portions and Pet Prep: PetPumpkin’s Push for Automated Animal Meals. Braking Before Breaking: Driving Data Detects Danger Before Disaster. Rally Robot Revolution: TERO Takes Tennis Training Tech-Side. Stroke Smarts: Speedo’s Sensor Specs Make a Splash. Pizza, Pivots and Pizza-Bots: Why Robotic Restaurants Keep Getting Burnt. Search Smarts: Sorting AI Answers from Artificial Assumptions. Purple Performance: Colourful Cooling Clothes Conquer the Heat. Artificial Intelligence, Academic Anxiety and an Acrimonious Agreement.
S6 · E36
September 6 · 1 hr 1 min
Robots Beat Bolt, Cars Dodge Kangaroos and AI Glasses Give Sight - The Future Just Got Real!
Robot Racers Rewrite Records: Beijing’s Bolt-Beating Bots. Roof Rescue: Genesis Gives Rollovers an Airbag Above. Creature-Clever Cars: Cow-Detecting Brakes Could Curb Kangaroo Crashes. Driver-Assist Dilemma: Smart Safety Systems Struggle to Stay Switched On. Seeing Smart: Spectacles Supporting Sight-Loss Independence. Robot Revolution: MOVA Makes Mundane Home Maintenance Mostly Automatic. Battery-Powered Backyards: Landscaping Leaves Petrol Behind. Robot Reception: Routine Health Checks Roll Towards a Robotic Revolution. Neck Fans Find Their Cool: Wearable Wind Wins at Work.
S6 · E35
August 30 · 1 hr 2 min
From Electric Ferraris to AI Clones, Maglev Rockets and Book-Eating Bots - Tech Takes a Wild Turn.
Electric Elevation: Battery-Powered Behemoth Breaks into the Blue. Poolside Protection: AI’s Extra Eyes for Australian Aquatic Safety. Clone Control: CEOs Copying Themselves with Artificial Intelligence. Electric Exotica: Ferrari’s First EV Fetches a Fortune. Magnetic Momentum: China’s Maglev Makes a Mighty Move. Paperback Pipeline: Are Pre-Loved Pages Powering AI? Cautious Code: Why Japan’s Companies Are Avoiding AI Acceleration. Watermark Warfare: Will AI Essays Finally Fail the Fake Test? Blockbuster Boxes: Bringing Back the Friday-Night Film Fix.
S6 · E34
August 23 · 54 min
Census Scams, Spy Specs, Robot IPOs, AI Cyclones and Salt Batteries - Plus Bots That Boss and Write.
Census Con: Counting on Australians to Click Carefully. Specs Offenders: Smart Spectacles Spark a Surveillance Scare. Kung Fu Capital: China’s Robot Revolution Reaches the Stock Market. Cyclone Crystal Ball: AI Adds a Day to Deadly Storm Warnings. Salty Storage Surge: Sodium Batteries Shake Up the Power Grid. Smart Sleep Saviour: A Bassinet That Hears Baby Before You Do. Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Income: Luna’s Lenient Leadership Loses Loot. Artificial Authors: Are Bots Beating Bookworms at Their Own Story? Artificial Articulation: Spotting the Subtle Signs of Synthetic Speech.
S6 · E33
August 16 · 57 min
Smart Rings, School Drones, Robot Falls, 3D Printed Lenses and Big Tech’s News Battle.
Sweat Smarts: Sensing Secrets with Smart Rings. Pepper Patrol: Drone Defence Drives Debate. Robot Retail Revolution: Chinese Bots Boost Britain's Buying Boom. Prototype Plunge: Humanoid Hype Hits the Floor. Schoolbot Standoff: Classroom Companion or Controversial Creation? Printed Precision: Personalised Lenses Poised to Transform Vision. Drone Delivery Dilemma: Garden Grounding Gives Amazon Airborne Anxiety. Mapped Memories: Google Maps' Heartfelt Time Capsules. Bargaining Battle: Big Tech, Big Bills and the Battle for Australian News.
S6 · E32
August 9 · 1 hr 5 min
GTA VI Explodes, AI Escapes, Lost Voices Return and Formula E Charges into the Future.
Agent Anarchy: AI’s Autonomous Assault Alarms Australia. Grand Theft Auto Greatness: GTA VI Gears Up to Rewrite Entertainment Records. Photo Preservation Plan: Protecting Your Pixels for Posterity. Melody or Mimicry: Mapping Music’s Machine-Made Mix. Voice Victory: Bringing Back Beloved Voices with AI. Electric Evolution: Formula E’s Fast-Track Fight with Formula One. Meeting Minutes Made Magical: AI Note-Taking Meets Modern Productivity. Vibe Verdict: App Avalanche or AI Afterthought? Diary to Digital: AI Animates Anzac Accounts.
S6 · E31
August 2 · 57 min
EV Ute, Robot Umpires, Mosquito Assassins, Invisible Drones and the Font AI Can’t Read.
Mosquito Mayhem: Drone Destroys Disease-Carrying Devils. Band Behaviour: BURŪV Brings Better Sun Sense. Dash-Cam Drama: Dangerous Driving for Digital Fame. Phantom Phenomenon: The Disappearing Drone Dazzle. Robot Referees, Reduced Reputation: Korea’s Fairer Fastballs. Clubbing Caution: Cameras, Clicks and the Cost of Cutting Loose. Bumpy Buddy: Beni Brings Brilliant Backyard Broadcasting. Flowing Forward: Frugal Flow Batteries Fuel the Future. Hidden Headlines: Ghost Font Gives AI the Slip.
S6 · E30
July 26 · 59 min
Robot Rentals, Salt Batteries, AI Romance and Dibber Dobber Robotaxi: The Future Is Closer Than You Think.
Cooling Con: Counterfeit Coolers Cashing In on Heatwaves. Robo Rides, Real Rules: When Robotaxis Report Riders. Solar Souls: Powering Plots with Purpose. Boyfriend Bots Banned: Beijing Battles Bonding with AI. Rental Robots, Ready Recruits: Hiring the Humanoids of Tomorrow. Hydrogen Horizons: Fuel Cells Flying into the Future. Sodium Surge: Salt-Powered Storage Set to Supercharge the Battery Boom. Fabricated Fire Safety: AI Alarms and a Landlord’s Lie. Workplace Wizardry: ChatGPT’s Career Comeback.
S6 · E29
July 19 · 1 hr 1 min
PlayStation Drops Discs, AI Revives Legends and Mars Rovers Learn to Swim Through Sand.
Physical Farewell: PlayStation’s Disc Departure. Connected Car Confusion: Stolen Vehicles, Smart Apps and Security Shortfalls. Starter Success: Sourdough Sidekick Simplifies Slow Baking. Wonka’s Wired Whisper: AI Voice Sparks Vintage Vision vs Modern Misgivings. Paywall Pushback: Premium Price for Practical AI. Electric Evolution: BMW’s Bold Battery Bet. Ford’s Flawed Formula: Why Human Know-How Beat Artificial Intelligence. Sandy Swimming: Sandfish Science Steers Smarter Mars Rovers. Apple Access Advantage: The Hidden Hack for a Happier Kids’ Phone.
S6 · E28
July 12 · 1 hr 1 min
Robots, Rogue Phones, Supercomputers and Social Media: The Tech Shaping Tomorrow.
Ban, Backlash and Big Tech: Australia's Bold Battle for Better Behaviour. Robot Revolution: Rapid Robotic Restorations for Dental Crowns. Phone Pull or Powerful Pullback: Tackling Tech’s Toughest Temptation. Password Perils: The Chatbot Sharing Slip-Up. Silicon Sprint: China’s Supercomputer Surges Ahead. NanoStack Next: Building Better Brains Beyond the Billion Barrier. Proteus Progress: Amazon’s Autonomous Automation Accelerates. Gummy Guilt: Wobbly Wonders and the Weirdness of What We’ll Eat. Policing Powered by Prediction: AI, Axon and the Future of Frontline Force.
S6 · E27
July 5 · 1 hr 5 min
Foiling Car Thieves, Smart Surf Drones, Robot Cleaners, AI Beds and Hidden Risks in Modern Tech.
World Cup Wristwatch Watch: Tracking Football Fever in Real Time. Aqua Aerial Adventures: The Self-Flying Surfside Scout. Pouch Protection: Foiling the Fob-Focused Car Thieves. Sunscreen Spin: Social Media’s Sun-Safety Scam. Privacy for Polishing: AI’s Free-Cleaning Future. Pompeii Panic Preserved: AI Recreates a Roman’s Final Run. Slumber Surveillance: Can AI Beds Buy Better Sleep? Cobot Conflict: Robots, Redundancies and the Road Ahead. Wi-Fi Whisks: Can Connected Kitchens Create Culinary Confidence?
S6 · E26
June 28 · 56 min
Swallowable Sensors, Soundwave Espresso and Smart Glasses: Tomorrow’s Tech Today.
Berry Brilliant: Swallowable Sensor Brings Body Temperature Tracking to the Core. Soundwave Sips: Sonic Science Shakes Up Espresso. Face-First Future: Smart Specs, Seeing and Speaking with AI. Seeing Smarter: Sensor Sight Sharpening Self-Driving Safety. Peak Performance: Škoda’s Premium-Priced Peaq Pushes EV Ambitions. Flight Fun: Browser-Based Booming for Google Earth. Radio Rhythms or Robo Riffs? The AI Music Airplay Argument. Virtual Validation: Why China’s Youth Are Finding Family Through Faux Parents. Cancer-Catching Code: AI Accelerates Earlier Lung Diagnoses.
S6 · E25
June 21 · 1 hr 1 min
Bullet Buses, AI Vaccines, Silent Supersonic Jets and the EV Revolution Australians Want!
Electric Evolution: EV Enthusiasm Edges Out Engines. Busway Blitz: Bullet Buses Bolting Beyond the Bounds of Rail. Costco Current: The AI River That Never Ran. Ragwort Reckoning: Robot Ranger Rides to the Rescue. Flag-Free Football: FIFA’s Futuristic Offside Fix. Cheating Cheatsheet: Smart Scams Stir School Scrutiny. Sonic Silence: NASA’s Supersonic Soundbreaker Takes Flight. Fuel From Fries: The Sustainable Skies Shift. Pandemic Protection Pioneer: AI Architects a Vaccine Vanguard.
S6 · E24
June 14 · 53 min
VR Avocados, Scam Text Traps, Air Taxis, Robot Workers and EV Rescue Chargers Take Off.
Virtual Vision for Velvet Avocados: VR Vineyards to Veggie Aisles. Text Trap Trouble: Why Trolling Scammers Turns You into the Target. Taxiing to the Sky: Manhattan’s Air Mobility Ambition Takes Flight. Borderline Biometrics: AI Age Assessments at the Asylum Gate. Wheeled Workforce: Humanoid Helpers Hit the Factory Floor. Mobile Megacharge: The EV Rescue Revolution Rolls Out. Quantum Quandary: Backrooms Born from Qubits. CV Clones and Career Clarity: How AI Is Rewriting Recruitment. Argus Ascendant: A Bold Blob Bot Breaks Robotics Boundaries.
S6 · E23
June 7 · 53 min
Ferrari Sparks, Robot Legs, AI Glasses and Spotify Stories - Future Tech Gets Personal.
Lightning Luce: Ferrari’s Futuristic Leap from Roar to Recharge. Hiking Hyperdrive: AI-Powered Exoskeletons March Into the Mainstream. Pub Pals: Robots Raising the Research Bar. Robo Relief: Tenderloin Tech Tackles the Volunteer Vacuum. Leaks, Logic and Low-Loss Living: AI Satellites Saving Water from Waste. Ban Battles and Browser Blues: Teens Tackle the Social Media Showdown. Gemini Gambit: Google’s Great Glasses Grab and Search Shake-Up. Reality Reframed: ROG’s Rapid-Refresh AR Gaming Glasses. Spoken Stories: Spotify’s Magazine Move into Audio.
S6 · E22
May 31 · 56 min
AI Poems, Robo-Wolves, Scam Arrests, Smart Cameras and Robotic Fashion – Future Tech Gets Personal.
Poetic Pictures: Camera Creates Captured Couplets. Parcel Panic: Digital Arrests and Deceptive Delivery Drama. Robo-Revival: T-Shirt Tech Taking Tailoring to the Top. Wolf Warning: Japan’s Bear-Battling Bot Beasts Bite Back. Hedgehog Horizons: Satellites, Sensors and Saving Britain’s Spiky Survivors. Tappy Tones: Boox Brings Bold Bluetooth Book Browsing. Hunting Hacks or High-Tech Hype? When Gadgets Game the Great Outdoors. Discordant Decisions: AI’s Job-Judging Jumble. Sense and Surveillance: When Smart Security Cameras Go Spectacularly Silly.
S6 · E21
May 24 · 58 min
Robot Monks, Drone Drops and Floating AI Data Centres: The Future Just Got Stranger.
Tidal Tech: Can Floating Data Centres Ride the AI Power Wave? Robotic Reverence: Buddhism’s Bot Breakthrough. Slower Steps: How Hearing Health Hits Your Stride. Security Slip-Ups: Mowers, Messaging and Malware Mayhem. Hydrogen Hustle: Whyalla’s Young Racers Rev Up for a Swiss Showdown. Whisper Wars: Voice-Driven Workspaces Wage War on Quiet. Solar Sorrow: The Sun-Powered Plane That Fell from the Sky. Drone Drop-Offs: Prime Parcels Pilot the Postie-Free Future. Woodshop Wonders: Digital Dustbusters and Robo-Routers Reshape Woodworking.

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