TechTime with Nathan Mumm | E86: TechTime Best of the Best from CES 2022 | Facebook Crypto is Dead | Airdate: 2-1-22

By Nathan Mumm | February 28, 2022

Welcome to TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go “Hummmm” Technology news of the week for January 31st – February 6th, 2022.

Today on the show, Facebook’s Crypto Project Is Officially Dead, Elon Musk says Robots to be a more significant business than Tesla cars. We now have faith in the Metaverse with a VR Quest for Community and Fellowship along with TechTime’s “Best of the Best from CES 2022,”  our review show of the Consumer Electronic Show from Vegas. We have other favorite features including, “This Week in Technology,” of course, “Mike’s Mesmerizing Moment,” and, of course, our “Pick of the Day” whiskey tasting. So sit back, raise a glass, and Welcome to TechTime with Nathan Mumm.

Episode 86:  Starts at 3:18

— [Now on Today’s Show]: Starts at 5:40
— [Top Stories In The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 8:54

  • Elon Musk: To focus this year on robots. Let’s listen to his own words on what he told investors on the earnings call for Tesla. – https://tinyurl.com/yc4xes68
  • Faith in the Metaverse: A VR Quest for Community, Fellowship – https://tinyurl.com/2p94x4ch
  • Facebook’s Crypto Project Is Officially Dead

— [Pick of the Day – Whiskey Tasting Review]: Starts at 20:50

Earl Settler Bourbon | 80 Proof | $9.99

— [Technology Insider]: Starts at 22:25

TechTime’s “Best of the Best from CES 2022,”  our review show of the Consumer Electronic Show from Vegas 2022

— [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 37:36

January 30, 1982

Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple II boot program called “Elk Cloner“.

— [Stories You Didn’t Know]: Starts at 43:39

  • How Streaming Services have resulted in over-anxiety and has left us with too much to watch.
  • A Sea Shanty for IT workers: How about some IT music? Scott Simon- Host, Weekend Edition Saturday and Up First has come up with a few sea Shanties over the past week for IT workers.


— [Mike’s Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 48:47

Lie Detector Devices

— [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 51:34

Earl Settler Bourbon | 80 Proof | $9.99
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