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THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss the UK's Budget 2016 and its impact on the tech sector, including 5G, sharing economy support via tax breaks, the Institute for Coding competition, driverless lorries and cars, a new Broadband Investment Fund, the intention to work with the ‘New Bank Start-up Unit’, and more. If you want a 20-minute explainer about everything tech and digital in this year's budget, this is the episode for you. Plus we discuss Sony and Microsoft's openness to having their Xbox and PlayStation networks interoperate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20 Mar 201633min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss whether it matters that the UK, amongst other countries, has potentially got a less powerful octa-core CPU in its Galaxy S7 phones while other regions get a more robust quad-core version. Plus what does a "fear of the number four" -- tetraphobia -- possibly got in common with this situation, and the consumer technology world in general? Could it explain why Samsung has released phones with eight processing cores rather than four in some regions? Probably not. But it was almost certainly why Nokia jumped from the 3xxx series to the 5xxx series, and from the N93 to the N95, and from the C3 to the C5; and why Psion released the Series 3 and Series 5 palmtops in the 1990s but never the Series 4; and why Canon, over in Japan, released the G1, G2, G3 and G5 cameras, but never a G4; and... You get the picture. Plus, a look at the week's UK tech news that doesn't involve superstitious conspiracy theories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13 Mar 201630min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and CNET's Andy Hoyle discuss the BBC's plan to close the iPlayer loophole that allows people without a UK license fee to watch catch-up content for free; plus the little-known ebook reader business (in the UK, at least) Nook is pulling out of the British market; and in our major feature section we discuss the future of the photography world in an era dominated by increasingly impressive smartphones. Where do we go from here in the imaging world? How are SLRs influencing smartphone design? Who's partnering with whom to make the next big thing in mobile imagine (hint: Leica and Huawei)? We'll discuss all this and more. Listen now! 782vptpu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

6 Mar 201639min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss our highlights from Mobile World Congress: the LG G5, and the HTC Vive. But in more detail we discuss how virtual reality, which stole the MWC show this year, is helping change many other areas of science, entertainment and medicine. These include travel simulators, use in crime scene investigations, sex and pornography, pain relief and other psychological treatments, post-war PTSD therapy for soldiers, training for Nasa astronauts, relief from fears of flying, training sports players, rehabilitating stroke patients, and giving public talks. And although some of this has been underway for two decades in research labs, the consumer availability of affordable devices means this is really just the beginning for virtual reality. 782vptpu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

28 Feb 201641min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss mobile network Three's decision to start offering ad-blocking at the ISP level to a potential 9 million UK subscribers; Samsung unveils it's new Galaxy S7, S7 Edge and Gear 360 VR devices and we get a first hands-on look and report our findings and opinions; plus Nate gets his Uber account hacked and manages to cancel the thief's journey as he's still riding with his driver -- but what happened next? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

21 Feb 201634min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss Transport for London's worries over Twitter's decision to change the social network's timeline to a non-chronologically-ordered format; plus the UK's videogame industry hits a new peak value of over £4 billion; and what biotech-meets-science movement in food has got the American egg industry so panicked -- and what could this mean for British consumers or businesses? WIRED feature writer Olivia Solon joins the show to explain all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

14 Feb 201632min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate is joined by CNET.com's Andrew Hoyle. They discuss the news that Microsoft has bought UK-based startup SwiftKey for a reported $250 million. What might this mean for Xbox and Windows, they wonder? Plus, Europe's top court is looking into whether linking to any webpage or online content without permission could be in breach of the law. Yes, linking. Against the law. One to watch. Plus, Ian Livingstone of Eidos and Tomb Raider fame, is opening two free schools in the UK dedicated to science, technology, engineering, arts and maths. This is great news for the next generation of STEAM students. All that, plus a major reason EA isn't being terrible will become clear this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

7 Feb 201632min

THIS WEEK ON TECH'S MESSAGE Nate and Ian discuss the news that Bluetooth audio is no longer a terrible way to listen to music (or, in other words: Nate buys a pair of really good Bluetooth headphones and discovers 10 years of hating Bluetooth was about three years too long). Plus BT gets EE's network officially in a done-and-dusted deal for £12.5 billion, and we discover just how much combined distributed network resources are required to know some big websites offline in 2016 (clue: it's 500Gbps). Also, iPad Air 3 rumours. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

31 Jan 201631min