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Today on the show: global communications for adventurers, the very purest of laptops for tinfoil hat wearers, quantum wireless charging, the half-truths of Fisker, and underage smartphone use along with Content I Like and Today I Learned.

  Today we talk about potential uses for that spare mac mini you have sitting around, how much I hate to love my new phone, Solar roof sales are… through the roof (deal with it), Intel and AMD’s new CPU architectures, converting 80 years of film to HDR, I’m not a millionaire, two deathwatch discussions, Today I Learned and more - but we’ll lead off with your spare Mac Mini, Ethan. WHAT SHOULD ETHAN DO WITH A SPARE MAC MINI? 16GB, i7, 1TB Fusion drive. Home automation center? Is there such a thing? Media server such as Plex? VMware ESXi? Linux? ERIC HATES TO LOVE HIS NEW PHONE. [...]

Tesla Solar Roofies, some solar blinds to augment that roof, Microsoft OSXing Windows 10, Fan made games, herd immunity requires… you know… the whole herd, Spotify Scan Codes, Conquering the world with stirrups, Tesla’s Model 3 will earn them money, CIL, TIL, and more! This is a jam-packed episode.

Today on the menu we’ve got: Net neutrality, Macrophage heart-throbs, Cassini’s crash and burn (for science), is EV market interest really as high as full size pickups?, renewable energy is more appealing in the long term than fossil fuels, CIL, TIL and other complete nonsense.

Departing from our normal format, we take a look back at tech of the past with this feature show on retro computing. Our guest is Paul Hagstrom. Blog: http://yesterbits.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesterbits Retrocomputing Roundtable: http://rcrpodcast.com Drop III Inches [Apple ///]: http://drop-iii-inches.com

Today on the show we have In-Car Edu-navi-tainment, The USA’s conspicuous lack of space travel, Microsoft Murdering Another of Ethan’s Beloved Apps, Credit cards with your fingerprints stored inside, Uber are a bunch of jerks, CIL and TIL!

Today on the show: Solar power, a new EV from Honda, Patent trolls, How Many FPS can the human eye actually see?, Haiku, Nintendo, Content I Like, and Today I Learned.

Citizens of Tech Episode 66 proves that, like Schrodinger’s cat, we can be both here and gone at the same time. Now that Eric and I have found compatible calendar space, we have cleverly cornered in canny cohesion the craftiest conversation starters we could connect with

Robots wearing your skin (and other pieces!), 94 year old Goodenough battery tech, AMD Ryzen, Youtube TV, Nokia 3310 redux, Privacy Watch, Content I Like, and Today I Learned!

The Citizens are taking a couple of weeks off to deal with travel and family. While we’re gone, send us some feedback to let us know how we’re doing. Thanks! citizensoftech@gmail.com http://reddit.com/r/citizensoftech @citizensoftech

On this the 63rd episode of Citizens of Tech, the citizens have spoken. And what have they upvoted? By the light of the tent Enhance! Enhance! Enhance! Tesla’s new power distribution buddy Mesh backhaul and more!

Today we’ve got Tesla getting pushback from legislators, unlocking brains, the most reliable hard drives, the Chevy Bolt reviewed, a Hackintosh Dell-enstein, and of course Content I Like and Today I Learned.

Today on the show: Star Trek Discovery, a HUD for your (current) car, ASUS starting a Pi fight, star dust on your roof, REM is good for your brain, Deathwatch, Content I Like, and Today I Learned!

Today on the show: A blockchain social network, China driving down the price of solar power, Nintendo’s Switch issues,  EV owners avoiding taxes, Faraday Future’s FF91 sticker shock, giving away bio-data with a simple photo, measuring infinity with Verizon math, Content We Like and Today I Learned!

In this episode: AT&T unlimited data gets more expensive, healing teeth with an Alzheimer’s drug, your brain on booze, encrypted cell phone messaging, (Ge)Forcing Mac gaming not to suck, Deathwatch and Today I Learned!

The Citizens of Tech podcast opens 2017 with a look at the tech devices affecting us either right now or very soon along with today we learned and content we like.

Today: Antimatter is exactly the same as regular matter, only completely different. Also, Machine Learning makes Bach-style music, Solar (shocking, right?), 2 tech items get added to deathwatch and much, much more!

This week on the show we dive into Bluetooth 5, Phones on a Plane, dinosaur feathers in amber, the Tesla of Trash, cooling off the globe with aerosols, along with Content We Like and Today I Learned.

In today’s show, the Citizens of Tech take on the news from the industries of energy, electric vehicles, off-the-grid living, consumer espionage, wireless networking, and medicine. Eric Sutphen and Ethan Banks go back and forth discussing these nerdy stories, starting out with our very first debunking. Yeah. We think the wireless power network for drones story is a steaming load of…uh…laundry. Uh-huh.

Today we have the Impossible emDrive (or is it?), a massive Canadian Tidal Turbine, X-Rays for long-haul space communication, artificially sweetened fatness, and a small truckload of Content I Like and Today I Learned.