GizmoSapiens Podcast

Chris and Matt talk about a smattering of topics about business:

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Chris and Matt pay tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Walter Koenig who we have lost this week.  

In addition, Chris and Matt Discuss Television:  VisionQuest, NCIS, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and other new TV that has come out or is coming out.

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Chris Interviews Science Fiction and Fantasy author TD Wilson about his latest story coming out in a new SciFi Anthology.

You can find information about TD Wilson here: https://tdwilsonbooks.com/

You can find his books at all of the finest purveyors of books online.

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Chris and Matt Discuss Low Earth Orbit and the fact that its getting VERY crowded in Space around Earth/Terra and soon to be the moon.

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Chris and Matt discuss the finale of Star Trek Strange New Worlds as well as recap much of Season 4.  

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Chris and Matt discuss how America's relationship with food is quietly being rewired. In Episode 287, "Grazing and Gorging," we start with the news that America is falling out of love with pizza — once the country's go-to, now getting squeezed by price, quality, and competition — then widen the lens to two forces reshaping eating habits behind the scenes: weight-loss drugs shrinking portions and appetites nationwide, and a growing shift away from three square meals toward all-day snacking. Turns out the story isn't that Americans are eating less — it's that they're eating differently.

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It's been a wild few weeks in orbit. Show 286 — "Solar Shenanigans" — rounds up a month-plus of space news into five big-picture storylines: a heated global launch race where China is landing rockets and scrubbing Moon missions in the same news cycle, SpaceX's Starship notching its softest landing yet while still fighting its oldest problem (the heat shield), a genuinely wild plan to put AI data centers into orbit running headlong into questions nobody's answered about space e-waste, the Trump administration's push for 1,000+ launches a year colliding with cracks in America's crewed-spaceflight backup plans, and a batch of science wins and...

Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is officially in full swing, and Show 285 — "Strange Enterprises" — is our deep dive into the first seven episodes. This season has swung harder between tones than any prior run of the show: we open on a genuine dinosaur-extinction time-travel epic, detour into full-blown horror with a derelict ghost ship, throw the crew a wild bender on a pleasure planet, go full noir behind Klingon lines, turn half the bridge crew into literal puppets, nearly lose the ship to a slipstream malfunction during an off-duty shift, and close out with an omnipotent being trap...

Who's watching whom — and what happens when the watchers get it wrong, or go rogue? In Episode 284, "Criminal Intent," Chris and Matt discuss a federal case testing whether wiping your own phone at the border can be a felony, the mounting scandal around Flock's nationwide license-plate camera network being turned into a personal stalking tool by the very officers meant to police it, and the corporate surveillance creeping into your trash pickup, your Instagram feed, and even your face — courtesy of Meta's smart glasses. It's not paranoia if the cameras are actually watching. Tune in.

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RAM prices didn't just go up — they time-traveled back to 2007. In Episode 283, "RAM-aggedon," Chris and Matt break down the memory crisis strangling PC pricing, why Jensen Huang says it isn't ending anytime soon, and how Intel, Qualcomm, and Silicon Motion are scrambling to build around the shortage instead of waiting it out. Then they head into the AI chip wars, where Huawei, Intel, and Qualcomm are all making very different bets on how to challenge Nvidia. If you've priced out a new computer lately, this episode explains why it hurts — and whether it's about to hurt more.

Work isn't what it used to be — and neither are the workers. In Episode 282 ,  Chris and Matt  dig into what is reshaping the modern workplace: fresh data that's finally pushing back on age bias at work, a new report on why your Windows laptop might be failing you more than your Mac ever would, the rise of a scrappy new "middle class" of content creators quietly cashing out of the 9-to-5, and mounting evidence that return-to-office mandates are torching employee trust from the inside out. Plug in and find out what it really means to work for a living in 2...

Chris and Matt discuss how age discrimination is still baked into many hiring and promotion decisions, especially in tech, even as demographic and performance data increasingly show older workers as critical to stability and knowledge transfer. At the same time, the “modern digital workplace” is creaking under the weight of unreliable, unpatched endpoints and a rush of unmanaged AI tools that sit on top of fragile basics. And in Detroit, Ford has quietly admitted that its AI-driven quality systems couldn’t replace decades of tacit know‑how, rehiring 350 experienced engineers to catch problems and mentor juniors. Episode 281 asks what it reall...

Chris & Matt connect three big anxieties about the future of work and learning: students who struggle to read long‑form texts, communities racing to save endangered languages with iPads and Macs, and an AI data center boom colliding with a massive shortage of skilled workers. We zoom out to ask what happens when literacy, culture, and infrastructure all hit their limits at the same time.

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Chris and Matt talk about the first Episode of the new Season of Start Trek: Strange New Worlds!

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Chris and Matt dive into how automation and algorithms are quietly reshaping daily life: police misusing Flock’s license‑plate surveillance to stalk people, AI tools allegedly helping gas stations nudge prices higher, and seed patents tightening control over the food system. We also look at the UK’s push for “trusted” news ranking, the fragility of old‑school checks in the era of mail theft, and why more than half of Americans say they’ve basically stopped posting on social media. Along the way, we pull the threads together into a bigger story about power: who gets to watch, who get...

Chris and Matt cover everything going on in the space industry (and man is there a lot going on)!

Spring and early summer 2026 have been rough, chaotic, and genuinely wild for the space industry. Here's the condensed version.

Starship goes big, then goes public. SpaceX's redesigned Starship V3 completed a full wet dress rehearsal and then launched for the first time on May 22, deploying 22 mock Starlink satellites despite losing an engine mid-ascent. Weeks later SpaceX itself went public in a roughly $75 billion IPO, one of the largest in recent memory, while simultaneously unveiling an 11-million-square-foot "...

Chris and Matt talk of the things going on in the Entertainment arena!

May and June 2026 brought box office surprises, streaming mega-mergers, and a couple of franchise casualties.

Star Wars stumbles, then gets outdone by YouTubers. The Mandalorian and Grogu opened stronger than expected at $82 million domestic, but still ranks among the weakest live-action Star Wars debuts ever — though its smaller $165 million budget softens that blow. The bigger story came a week later: the film dropped a brutal 70% in its second weekend, landing in third place behind two ultra-low-budget horror hits directed by YouTubers in th...

Chris and Matt discuss the Cult of Coscto, what kicked off the upgrade of PC hardware, GM laying off workers, and more.

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In this week’s transport-tech roundup, Chris and Matt discuss a sector under pressure from regulation, economics, and real-world safety debates. On the EV side, the UK is moving toward a mileage-based tax, Ford is trimming its EV ambitions, and new U.S. rules are forcing automakers to strip out some Chinese software dependencies.

Autonomous vehicle headlines are also getting sharper: Waymo is back in the spotlight after a dog collision in San Francisco, raising familiar questions about accountability and whether robotaxis should be judged by a higher standard than human drivers.

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Chris and Matt explore how ordinary tools—browsers, smart speakers, cameras, police gadgets, and even robotaxis—have quietly turned into powerful surveillance and attack platforms.

They look at data exfiltration via simple copy‑paste, police use and abuse of AI-powered systems like Flock license plate readers, security disasters in both consumer and government tech, and the growing backlash against invasive tracking.

The line between “helpful tech” and “creepy, dangerous infrastructure” is getting thinner, and our security and consent models are not keeping up.

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In this episode, Chris and Matt explore four stories that show what happens when AI, automation, and gadgets step off our screens and into the physical world. First, we look at a live demo where security researchers hijacked a commercially available humanoid robot using nothing but spoken commands, then used short‑range wireless to spread the exploit to an offline robot—turning embodied AI into a potential physical weapon.

Next, we head to Japan, where Ishinomaki City is deploying Terra Drone–built “bear‑repellent spray drones” to deal with record numbers of human‑bear encounters, injuries, and d...

Chris and Matt discuss school and university systems are quietly rethinking some of their biggest bets of the last two decades. In K‑12, districts that spent billions on laptops and tablets during the pandemic are now limiting screen time or putting devices away in response to parent concerns about distraction, mental health, and academic performance. At the same time, Kansas City Public Schools is making a dramatic platform shift, replacing around 30,000 Windows PCs and Chromebooks with Apple devices it describes as more secure, durable, and reliable.

In higher education, Harvard has voted to cap straight‑A gra...

In this episode, Chris and Matt break down a wave of new laptop and PC news that’s reshaping the platform landscape for the next few years. Nvidia’s N1X Arm chips are finally headed to consumer Windows gaming laptops, with a next‑gen N2 platform already on the roadmap for 2027. Intel is firing back at Apple’s MacBook Neo with its new Core Series 3 mobile CPUs, while Microsoft doubles down on Intel for its latest business‑focused Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 models.

We also look at Googlebook, Google’s new AI‑native laptop platform that blends An...

Chris and Matt discuss various legal technology issues across various states and the Federal Government!

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