Introducing the new TechStuff hosted by Oz Woloshyn and Karah Preiss

TechStuff is getting a system update. Everything you love about TechStuff now twice the bandwidth with new hosts, Oz Woloshyn (Sleepwalkers) and Karah Preiss (Sleepwalkers). Oz and Karah bring humour and wit to the table as they break down what's happening in tech...and what it says about us. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you want to see into the future. Do you
want to understand an invisible force that's shaping your life?
Do you want to experience the frontiers of what makes
us human? I'm Osvoloshan, one of the new hosts of
the long running podcast tech Stuff. I'm slightly skeptical but
obsessively intrigued.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
And I'm care Price, the other new host, and I'm
ready to adopt early and often.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Together, we'll travel all the way from the minds of
Congo to the surface of Mars to the towers of
sim City to ask an attempt to answer burning questions
about technology.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
One of the kind of tricks for surviving Mars is
to live there long enough so that people evolve into Martians.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Like data is a very rough proxy for a complex reality.
How is it possible that the world's.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
New energy revolution can be based in this place where
there's no electricity at night.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'll also be mining the depths of TikTok to find
out what's really going on. And in our free time,
we've got some pretty pretty important guests life Jeffrey Hinton,
who just won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work
on AI, and Meredith Whittaker, who led the walkouts at
Google and now runs Signal, the encrypted messaging app.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
We feel honored that Jonathan Strickland is passing us the
mic on tech Stuff, a show he's been presenting since
Podcasts with things you downloaded onto your computer and then
transferred onto your iPod to listen to tech Stuff put
out its first episode all the way back in two
thousand and eight.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Which is the same year Apple released the App Store
and Google released Chrome, and Facebook had just overtaken MySpace
and I had just graduated from high school. A lot
can happen in a year in tech, and now we'll
be here to dive into all the news and the
stories behind the news with you. Together, Oz and I
will cut through the noise to give you real time

(01:45):
perspective on how tech is changing our world and what
you need to know to survive the inevitable singularity.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
So please check out the new tech Stuff. Every Wednesday,
we'll have a deep dive conversation with a different guest,
and every Friday we'll be doing around up of the
weekend tech

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Listen to tech Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.