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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Future Chat 128 - Cadillac of Blueberries
Mike and Nick take the reins this week and get wrapped up in the turmoil that is the state of science in the USA. They also find themselves discussing the impending rise of the machines, both in the office and on the baseball diamond.
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Sunday, January 22, 2017
Future Chat 127 - Someone Has Your Password
Rob gets upset about disinformation in politics, Mike gets upset about disinformation in Ontario pollution, and Nick returns to the show, probably not upset about anything.
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Monday, January 16, 2017
Future Chat 126 - We've Talked About Y-Axes Before
Nick's gone for the weekend, so of course Rob and Mike get distracted from the news and focus on a whole lot of the usual, including SpaceX, Tesla, Soylent, Climate Change, and smartwatches.
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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Future Chat 125 - Nick Wouldn't Know
This week, the boys get reacquainted after a few weeks off, taking about their new wearable devices they got for Christmas. Then they get down to business and discuss art vs. pornography and a Indiegogo campaign exploring that idea with science.
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Future Chat Review - Samsung Galaxy TabPro S
This summer, Rob reviewed the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, a Windows 10 laptop/tablet hybrid. As 2016 draws to a close, here it is!
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Sunday, December 11, 2016
Future Chat 124 - It's Weathercock
This week on the last episode of 2016, we discussed the federal electoral reform survey at mydemocracy.ca (go take it!), how the year went for the smartwatch industry, and finally, Gen 2 of Pokemon might be hitting Pokemon Go as early as this week. Who knows!?
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Sunday, December 4, 2016
Future Chat 123 - Incidents Per Unit Volume Length Oil
Today's discussion includes the latest pipeline projects from the Canadian West, talk about the sweetness of Nestle chocolate and other sugar, as well as a discussion of how we all deal with tech support.
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- Trudeau cabinet approves Trans Mountain, Line 3 pipelines, rejects Northern Gateway
- This Is That - Oil Planes
- Researchers build tool to help prevent 'selfie deaths'
- Nestlé discovers way to slash sugar in chocolate without changing taste
- xkcd 627 - Tech Support Cheat Sheet
- xkcd 979 - Abandoned Thread
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Monday, November 28, 2016
Future Chat 122 - We Should Be A Startup
After a few weeks of decompressing post-election, the gang talks about the role of fake news in society, and then take another look into the future of messaging.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
Future Chat 121 - I Still Have The D
In an episode that seemed destined not to air, the guys discuss coffee, video calling in chat, and CRISPR on people.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Future Chat 120 - Planning To Keep It On Track
This week, while all hell breaks loose around us, the boys tell their listeners to secure their communications, before having the all-electricity episode they promised last week.
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Monday, November 7, 2016
Future Chat 119 - Down Dongle Lane
Once Rob gets his backup computer out to start the show after a crash, the guys talk about USB-C and its role in the future of computers, and discuss what Niantic has been doing lately to try to keep people coming back to Pokémon Go.
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- YouTube now allows creators to pin comments, add moderators, blacklist words and phrases, and more
- Samsung's bigger, more expensive Gear S3 watches launching in the U.S. Nov 18
- This new Thunderbolt 3 dock will help 2016 MacBook owners avoid the dongle life
- Pokémon GO introduces daily bonuses to keep players coming back
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
Future Chat 118 - Super Fresh News For Geology
It's a ceramic concept phone, some really old rocks, and this week's Mac event on the show this week!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Future Chat 117 - Ripping Past Each Other With Precision
It's a solid week of car news, followed by a breakthrough in antibiotics research, and we finally talk about that ceramic iPhone!
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- Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Teslas
- Apple scales back driverless ambitions to develop only software
- Tesla bans use of driverless cars for ride-sharing purposes except on its own network
- The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance
- Why Your Next iPhone Won't be Ceramic
- The Definition of Ceramic
- Google Keep update lets you pin notes
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
Future Chat 116 - I Have To Touch Important Stuff Later
As Nick returns to the show with a new gadget in hand, the guys discuss Tesla as a luxury vehicle, carbon fiber in bikes and bringing prices down, and an in-depth discussion of the game many fans have given up on, Pokemon Go.
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- Why Obama’s “giant leap to Mars” is more of a bunny hop right now
- Tesla Model S is the best-selling US luxury sedan, by a wide margin
- Lemond Composites
- Nick's Favourite Use of the PoGo+ - Photo
- FastPokeMap post about tracking
- Nick's Pepper - Photo
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Monday, October 10, 2016
Future Chat 115 - Long Live The Nexus
As Nick celebrates his birthday with a trip to the mountains, Mike and Rob chat about Google's approaches to updates, first thoughts on the Pixel, and how the Nexus will live on in our hearts.
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- Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
- Google is demoting Hangouts to "optional" in the Google Apps package for Android, to be replaced by Duo
- BlackBerry to release new keyboard smartphone sometime in the next six months
- Google Pixel and Pixel XL: What to expect from the Nexus successors
- The Pixel 'Buy Now' page looks SUPER familiar
- Pixel’s best features won’t make their way to other Android devices via Nougat 7.1
- The Nexus line is dead, says Android chief
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Future Chat 114 - Solar Is Not Renewable
After finding Nick, the gents chat too much about phone hardware (for Nick), about the Mars colony that apparently didn't inspire a majority of our hosts, and Mike and Nick wait for Rob to leave to talk Pokemon Go.
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- BlackBerry to end internal hardware development
- The price of solar, dropping dramatically?!
- Shomi is shutting down
- Software 8.0 is Here
- Everything we know about Elon Musk’s plan to colonize Mars
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Sunday, September 25, 2016
Future Chat 113 - Off On A Secondary Tangent
Google Allo, the Apple Watch, and thoughts on future electronics.
We are missing one of our hosts, and, without him, we go deep on wearables. Oops.
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Sunday, September 18, 2016
Future Chat 112 - Four Inches of Head
Foamy beer, mobile data caps, and alternative energy solutions.
Our trio is back to their usual form, critiquing ISPs for their irresponsible billing, finding Teksavvy new customers, and spilling beer for science.
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Future Chat 111 - Unlimited Time and Resources
As our intrepid trio returns from break, we sit down to discuss everything Elon Musk did over the summer, the highs and lows of Apple's fall event, and all about the latest cutting edge giraffe research, which is apparently a thing.
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- Dave Shoesmith was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Google Just Killed Its Modular Phone Project
- Winnipeg limo company going with Tesla
- Apple Just Launched a Radically Futuristic New Device. It Isn’t an iPhone.
- Samsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 worldwide due to exploding battery fears
- DNA analysis reveals there are four distinct giraffe species, not one as previously thought
- Wait But Why - Intelligence Ceiling
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Sunday, July 31, 2016
Future Chat 110 - A Bunch of Stuff Happens
Mike and Rob discuss some of the crummy changes to Pokémon Go with the latest update, all about Tesla's vision systems and the new Gigafactory, GMOs, Soylent, and Dolly, and then catch up on Facebook.
It was a busy week before the show takes a summer break until September.
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- Pokémon GO' Cuts Off Access To Pokévision And Other Creature-Finding Apps
- Every Pokémon Go secret so far
- Tesla mulling two theories to explain 'Autopilot' crash: source
- Tesla parts ways with chipmaker behind its Autopilot system
- George Hotz's self-driving car
- Gigafactory Opening - YouTube
- Watch SpaceX fire up the Falcon 9 rocket that landed in May | The Verge
- Proudly Made with GMOs - Soylent
- Dolly the sheep clones age healthily
- Facebook's site should follow Messenger's design language
- Facebook's "New" Site Design
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