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The BIG Tech Show

British Tech Network

The Tech show that looks at all the BIG Tech stories of the week…mostly

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  • 20 episodes
  • Updated June 6

Episodes20

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  • June 6 · 1 hr 30 min

    Fare Thee Well BTN Listeners!

    This is the farewell episode of the British Tech Network. See the post about the end of BTN, a bit of history, and some humour at: https://britishtechnetwork.com/blog/british-tech-network-the-big-farewell And, from all of us, a BIG THANKS to Ewen Rankin, BTN's founder, heart, and soul. Here's to you mate!! Guests: Ewen Rankin and a bunch of BTNers “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” — Charles Dickens Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-06-05

  • May 29 · 1 hr 5 min

    Off The Rails In 10 Seconds

    This Week's Topics: Google employee charged with Polymarket insider trading Waymo launches Ojai vehicle Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-28 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • May 22 · 1 hr 5 min

    Ian Can Read

    This Week's Topics: Google releases Fitbit Air Product announcements from Google I/O Plex triples Lifetime Plex Pass price to $750 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-21 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

  • May 15 · 1 hr 18 min

    Gloriously Absurd

    This Week's Topics: UK fines water supplier $1.3M for customer data leak Google introduces Googlebook Gruber suggests EU should designate smart TVs as gatekeepers Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-14 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • May 8 · 1 hr 16 min

    Patrice Airways

    This Week's Topics: Google Chrome's 4GB AI download Spirit Airlines is no more Chinese GPU maker earns Microsoft certification Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-05-07 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • May 1 · 1 hr 15 min

    Poop Air Taxis

    This Week's Topics: Copy Fail zero-day enables root access on Linux Joby demonstrates electric air taxi in New York Musk-Altman trial begins Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-30 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Dave Ginsburg, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • April 17 · 1 hr 12 min

    iBooks In Space

    This Week's Topics: Allbirds pivots to AI Google announces TurboQuant AI compression algorithm Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-16 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • April 10 · 1 hr 23 min

    Da Big Show

    This Week's Topics: Farewell Chuck La Tournous Outlook trouble on Artemis Amazon ends support of older Kindles Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-04-09 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

  • March 27 · 1 hr 6 min

    Ian The Art Critic

    This Week's Topics: Arm ships first CPU chip Instagram and YouTube landmark civil suit Amazon plans to reenter mobile phone market Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-26 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • March 23 · 1 hr 15 min

    Jeff Needs An Intervention

    This Week's Topics: Websites bloated with ads Meta shutting down Horizon World, or not? Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-19 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology

  • March 12 · 1 hr 17 min

    Ian Grant, Therapist

    This Week's Topics: Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI Can Coding Agents Relicense Open Source Through A ‘Clean Room’ Implementation Of Code? Grammarly pulls AI author-impersonation tool after backlash Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-12 Guests: Ian Grant, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology

  • March 6 · 1 hr 23 min

    Whiskey And Glassware

    This Week's Topics: Canon has patent for f1.4 lenses Accenture acquires Downdetector, Speedtest Jensen Huang says NVIDIA pulling back from OpenAI, Anthropic investing Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-03-05 Guests: Ewen Rankin, Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • February 26 · 49 min

    Talk Nerdy To Me

    This Week's Topics: HP says RAM cost now 35% of PC bill of materials xAI data center turbine noise causes trouble in Mississippi Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-26 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • February 20 · 1 hr 18 min

    Alexa, STOP!

    This Week's Topics: WD hard drives already sold out for 2026 Copilot error exposes confidential emails Google adds music generation to Gemini Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-19 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • February 15 · 1 hr 8 min

    Crazy Show Day

    This Week's Topics: Waymo releases 6th gen Driver system Microsoft invests in superconducting cables Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-12 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • February 6 · 1 hr 35 min

    Sports Ball And Earrings

    This Week's Topics: Datacenters in space Amazon closes Fresh and Go stores OpenClaw AI agent Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-02-05 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • January 31 · 1 hr 2 min

    Whales In Austria

    This Week's Topics: TikTok immigration status tracking drives uninstalls RAM prices surge Microsoft announces ne AI inference chip Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-29 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology

  • January 29 · 1 hr 4 min

    Today In Bread

    This Week's Topics: Ads coming to ChatGPT Digg launches new Reddit rival Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-22 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant #podcast #technology

  • January 16 · 1 hr 20 min

    Wikipedia’s Brain

    This Week's Topics: Internet collapses in Iran Wikipedia turns 25 Lidar used to discover massive wall Atlantic Ocean Bandcamp bans AI music Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-15 Guests: Jeff Gamet, Patrice Brend’amour #podcast #technology

  • January 9 · 1 hr 2 min

    Annual BS Predictions

    This Week's Topics: Review our predictions for 2025 Make predictions for 2026 Episode's chat: https://britishtechnetwork.com/chat/view.php?dt=2026-01-08 Guests: Patrice Brend’amour, Ian Grant, Tom Ferry #podcast #technology