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Photo by Mikey Frost on Unsplash Published 8 June 2026 e556 with Michael, Andy and Michael - Michael R’s annual edu-cation, chatbot trickery, data center data visualization, LeRobot Humanoid open source robotics, LEGO and a whole lot more! Michael, Andy and Michael get things started with Michael R’s annual edu-cation, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference.   Then the team turns to a news story about tricking Meta’s support chatbot into granting access to Instagram accounts.  This is not a new tactic - check out e429 for a link to try this out for yourself with lakera.ai's Gandalf game. Next up is...

Photo by Michael Martine: The Bean in Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, June 2019 Published 25 May 2026 e555 with Andy, Michael and Michael - Ploopy’s The Bean and Lenovo’s TrackPoint, The Guild, The Movie, AI in commencement speeches, AI in podcasts, Virtual Worlds and Virtual OS museums and a whole lot more! Andy, Michael and Michael get things started with an appreciation of Andy’s work to migrate the Games at Work hosting site to a new service in uninterrupted fashion for our listeners.  Next, a new piece of open source hardware that Andy’s purchased, the Ploopy The Bean.  After the cohost...

e554 - SPI vs I: Stories and discussion on #LLM #PhoneNumber lookups, #proctors returning to #Princeton, lavish #LEGO, #LOTR and a whole lot more!

Stories and discussion on a robot monk, the Dead Internet Theory, agentic autonomy, Happy Net Box, the Artemis II minifig.me crew and a whole lot more!

e552 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #AI, #LifeOnMars, life of the #VisionPro, #retro #C64s and a whole lot more!

e551 with Michael, Michael and Andy - a tour of the #Atmosphere with #ATProto, #Sifa, @eurosky.social, #Leaflet, a #LEGO #cacophonous #karaoke of “Mad About Me” and a whole lot more!

e550 with Michael, Andy and Michael - celebrating #MoonJoy with the #ArtemisII #crew, #Nutella in space, #AI, an #isomorphic reboot of #Wolf3D and a whole lot more!

e549 with Andy, Michael and Michael - boldly go into a deep set of #space discussions featuring #ArtemisII, ways to keep track of the historic flight, #COTS #software & #hardware aboard the #spacecraft, #BernieSanders conversation with #Claude, #TUWien’s mini #QRcode and a whole lot more!

e548 with Michael and Michael - Stories and discussion on #UncomfortableValley & #UncannyValley, Nintendo’s #TalkingFlower, #8bit #PixelAgents for #AIorchestration and a whole lot more.

e547 with Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #Bot2Bot communications, 50 years of #Apple, #LEGO #SmartPlay #SmartBricks and a whole lot more.

e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories and discussion on #LEGO’s new #SmartPlay brick, this is a human brain (cells) on #Doom, #OrcAudio for #vibecoding, #LiquidDeath’s Spotify #urn for playlist #immortality and a whole lot more. www.gamesatwork.biz .

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash Published 2 March 2026 e545 with Andy and Michael - Get to talk about mostly non-AI topics this week, as we look at a cool kickstarter, Titan, that is building out a futuristic gauntlet. Do you want a forearm mounted drone? Is so, go check it out, along with the opportunity for community modules. Very cool! We then dip back into the world of AR and VR, as people speculate how Apple's rumored AR glasses may benefit from the recent acquisition of Q.AI. We spend some time thinking of how a new App can help ide...

This week's episode dives into the latest on AI devices, privacy issues, and tech giants like Apple and Meta. Plus, some fun chats about listening through fruit and the fate of VR.

e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael - #AgenticAI and the changing nature of work, #agents #RentingHumans, #RealTimeTranslation, artistic #roads, #e-bikes for your feet and a whole lot more.

e542 with Michael, Andy and Michael - Stories and discussion on #ProgrammingLanguage #localization, #VirtualBoy #hardware & #emulation, #AR & #LaserKeyboard, #LEGO terrestrial & orbital #dwellings and a whole lot more.

e541 with Michael & Michael: Stories and discussion on #AI with local #Claude (and #Clawdbot, #Moltbot & #openclaw), collaborative #agents, 25 cent physical #microtransactions ( #quarters ), #InvisibilityCloaks, #LEGO #SmartPlay and a whole lot more.

e540 with Michael, Andy and Michael - Stories and discussion on #MobileControllers, #AI playing #Anchorhead, #Zork & #RollerCoasterTycoon, an #isometric #NYC, human artistic #creativity and a whole lot more.

Michael R interviews Ian Hughes to discuss recent changes at Meta, Apple, and Wikipedia. They explore how large company layoffs can create opportunities for startups and highlight innovative uses for VR following Meta's shift towards wearables. The discussion also covers older games, Apple's Creator Studio, and Wikipedia's 25th anniversary.

e538 with Michael M and Andy - Stories and discussion on #CES2026, #EuroTech, #PhoneTech, #AI playing your games for you so you can watch and a whole lot more.

e537 with Michael M and Andy - ringing in the new year with the amazing power of #music to move and #heal, #LEGO and #retro #builds and a whole lot more.

A look at what the team was playing in 2025, some retro gaming hardware, restoring old paintings, and Public Domain Day 2026.

e535 with Michael M and Andy - #AdversarialPoetry to jailbreak #LLMs, #iFixit’s #FixBot, power of #DigitalTwins, putting the breaks on #Rewind, #RatsPlayDoom, #Nintendo #VirtualBoy and a whole lot more.

e534 with Michael, Andy and Michael - #AI and #ML training data, #camouflage, #OpenSource #Zork, #Deadpool #VR, #NPH #movies and a whole lot more.

e533 with Andy, Michael and Michael - rings to chart the heavens and control your home, repurposing smart TVs, retro La Machine and Vectrex hardware made newly available, new Valve Steam hardware and a whole lot more.

e532 with Michael and Michael - Halloween Spooktacular edition with #AI #whale #communications & implications, #robotic #vacuums that phone home, #AdSupported #TV and a whole lot more.

Michael R and Ian "Epredator" Hughes get together for a chat about #gaming, #VR, and #technology.

e530 with Michael and Michael - An AI extravaganza with #VibeCoding, #AI #GamingChums, rating #LLMs via #Infocom games, #robots for #construction, #SelfAssembling #SpaceHabitats and a whole lot more.

Stories and discussion on #AR #glasses & #snarky #AI #wearables, #CarrotWeather, #RabbitOS2, #ShakeToSummarize, #Doomscroll and a whole lot more. www.gamesatwork.biz .

e528 with Michael, Andy and Michael - stories and discussion on #AI #ImageEditing with #NanoBanana, #GAN enabled #LLM evolution with #R-Zero, #MentraOS #OpenSource #SmartGlasses, #AutomotiveSoftware, #MakingMonsters, #OfficeJob, #Kazeta and more!

e527 with Andy, Michael and Michael - stories about #AI #restaurant experiences, #historical #LLMs, #zoetropes and a whole lot more.