Space Welders Podcast

Mike and Steve talk about President Obama's farewell address, 10 years of the iPhone, the latest trails and tribulations of the Star Trek Axanar fan film, the ongoing Centrelink debt saga, Atlassian buying Trello and Steve shares his thoughts on "Fake News".

Duck and cover as Mike and Steve round up the year that was, chat about the latest Centrelink debacle, the sale of Hills Hoist, and spoilers abound for Rogue One.

I triple dog dare you to listen to this week's episode with Mike and Steve discussing the year's happenings in DevOps, Tim Cook's meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump and the future of Apple desktops, and speculate on what next year's innovations might be.

Oh the weather outside is frightful and Mike and Steve are chatting about the scale of Netflix's AWS environments, Google's new self driving car company, the Australian government ordering ISPs to block torrenting websites and the initial impression of Star Wars: Rogue One.

Prepare your Christmas crackers and party hats as Mike and Steve reflect on the life of John Glenn, speculate on how Amazon Go works, upvote the new Reddit voting algorithm, wonder if PewDiePie will delete his channel (spoilers: he doesn't), mourn the death of the Pebble watch, and argue the details of the Samsung/Apple lawsuits.

Commit your code and check your tabs as Mike and Steve chat about FitBit aquiring Pebble, Netflix allowing offline downloads, Amazon using a 100 petabyte truck to move data to the cloud and No Man's Sky's latest update.

The house lights are still out as Mike and Steve return to talk the FTC requiring homeopathic medicine to be correctly labelled, Amazon removing incentivized reviews, and the reason for the Schiaparelli probe crash.

Mike and Steve talk about the Big W online store displaying other customer's details, how Facebook won Donald Trump the US election, Visual Studio being released for Mac, coding lessons becoming mandatory in Queensland schools and the launch of Amazon QuickSight.

Mike and Steve vote with their opinions on the US election result, NASAs latest EM drive results, Adobe starting to charge GST on it's cloud suite and (finally) talk bout The Expanse, only 12 months late.

With special guest Dave Gertler (http://castawayawards.com.au/). Mike and Steve are joined by Dave Gertler from the Cast Away Awards to chat about podcasting in Australia, and the future of the medium. Also the product launches from Microsoft and Apple and, big news, Hamilton is coming to Australia!

With special guest Matt Koadlow. Mike and Steve are joined by Matt Koadlow to chat about the upcoming release of Red Dead Redemption 2, Tesla announcing all future cars will allow full autopilot, the Schiaparelli Mars Probe landing failure and the announcement of the Nintendo Switch.

In which Mike and Steve stand quietly in the shadows and discuss the Samsung Note 7 recall, the inevitable failure of a Wi-Fi enabled kettle, the potential security flaws of the humble favicion, the release of Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Mike and Steve talk about all the announcements from the recent Adobe MAX conference, Apple heralding the arrival of dongle-mageddon, the Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter and the imminent release of the Hamilton mixtape.

A well titled podcast in which Mike and Steve discuss the newly announced Google Pixel, the new Oculus Rift controllers, and speculate on why the US Department of Energy are freaking out about Stranger Things.

Mike and Steve take a trip to the cosmos with Elon Musk's architecture for manned Mars missions, China's new 500m radio telescope, the beginnings off 5G mobile networks and the latest drama surrounding No Man's Sky.

In which Mike and Steve try to understand why robots are getting arrested in Russia, the North Korean DNS leak, Apple attempting to patent a paper bag and whether people are feeling bad about using ad blockers.

After a short break the Space Welders are back discussing the Falcon 9 launch failure, the iPhone 7 and it's lack of headphone jack and the Mythbusters build team getting their own Netflix show.

In which Mike and Steve analyse the Bauhaus architecture style, the newly discovered exoplanet at Proxima Centuri, the new Android Nougat operating system, and Whatsapp changing their terms of service and sharing data with Facebook.

Prepare for the wubs as Mike and Steve drop the bass about the possible current in the Olympic pool, the shifting of Australia's coordinates slightly north, using Blockchain to sell solar power back to the grid and, is the Xbox becoming a PC?

Mike and Steve cope with the huge demand and discuss the Australian census fail, the legalisation of Uber in Queensland, the release of No Man's Sky, more details about Star Trek: Discovery and Stranger Things.