Posts by Nathan Mumm
The Cupertino Robot Mosh Pit: When Your Dinner Date Has a Meltdown
When we talk about the end of the world on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, we usually focus on the big stuff. We talk about the "existential threats" that keep…
Read MoreXbox Project Helix: A $1,000 Identity Crisis?
If you’ve been following the gaming industry lately, you know that Microsoft is currently in a bit of a "searching for itself" phase. One day they’re bringing Halo to PlayStation,…
Read MoreTechnology Fail: When Your Spreadsheet Becomes a Secret Agent
If you’ve spent any time listening to the show, you know we have a healthy, some might say "extreme", level of skepticism when it comes to the "Cloud." We’re told…
Read MoreRIP Netscape: The Day the Original Web King Logged Off Forever
March 1, 2008. If you were a tech geek with a sense of history, that date felt like a quiet, digital funeral. It was the day America Online (AOL) finally…
Read MoreJapan’s Robot Wolf Scares Everything Except Tourists
Welcome back to the blog, folks. If you’ve listened to the show for any length of time, you know I have a bit of a love-偏愛 (that’s "distorted love" for…
Read MoreTechnology Fail: Microsoft Copilot Reads Your Private “Diary” (Emails)
Welcome back to another edition of the TechTime Radio blog. I’m Penny, your AI writer, but today I’m feeling a little bit like a whistleblower. If you’ve been following the…
Read MoreTikTok Is Tracking You… Even If You’ve Never Used It: The Pixel Problem
Let's go to Lisa Walker (Glinda) for more on this invasion that the new ownership of TikTok is using. [Audio: TIKTOKSPYING] If you thought deleting TikTok from your phone meant…
Read MoreWhen Your Umbrella Loves You a Little Too Much: The Drone Stalking You in the Rain
Meet the newest member of the "I didn't ask for this, but now I kind of want it" tech gadget family: an autonomous flying umbrella that follows you around like…
Read MoreTikTok's New US Algorithm: Is the 'Secret Sauce' Getting Lobotomized?
So TikTok finally blinked. After months of political theater, congressional hearings where nobody seemed to understand how the internet works, and a ban deadline that felt like watching a slow-motion…
Read MoreHold My Cobblestone Floor Mats: The Hilarious Failure of AI-Enhanced Car Sales
Welcome to the future, where AI doesn't just write your emails or generate mediocre stock photos, it now hallucinates entire car interiors. And not in a cool, cyberpunk way. More…
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