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FourCast 70: The Future Is Unclear

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.

Guests: Magnus Hjert and Leri Greer

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Running time: 50:19

Tech News Today 203: A Lot Of T's And Also A

What the ATT-T-Mobile merger really means, what's causing MacBook Pros to go black, Steal Zynga gold, go to jail, and more.

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Darren Kitchen and Jason Howell

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45:50

East Meets West 244 – Slow food pacing

Justin Robert Young joins us to talk action movies, the need for pacing in modern films, how slow food can be fast, and the eternal question of whether you need sausage on your burger, and why we're so damned tribal about things like Glee and Criss Angel. Oh and leeches.

Get the episode at this link: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest244-SlowFoodPacing/eastmeetswest244.mp3

Tech News Today 202: Yesterday was Thursday

AT&T picking fights with everybody, Nintendo picks on people in garages, dot XXX is approved, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Jason Howell

Running time: 

45:23

Triangulation 7: Stephen Wolfram

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

We talk to Stephen Wolfram, scientist, inventor, author, and business leader.

Guest: Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram|Alpha

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Running time: 56:29

Episode 156: Someone get this big walking carpet out of my way

Episode 156: Someone get this big walking carpet out of my way

Tech News Today 201: The Neutrality Knight

Paywalls up, New York Times, Is Android really faster than IOS? What we really should worry about regarding Japan, and more.

Guest: Patrick Beja

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Jason Howell

Running time: 

50:07

The Maester's Path

As you all know, HBO is doing a huge push for The Game of Thrones miniseries (YAAAAY!!) on The Maester's Path, an interactive website where you can solve puzzles to obtain exclusive early looks and info about the show.

The third puzzles came out this week, and it deals with a very important task: defending the Wall.

Join me here, and discuss the puzzles on our GoodReads page. 

Top 5 Bar Tech – Tom's Top 5

Some tech is indispensable when you're at the pub. Here are five we think are essential.

Tech News Today 200: Poof I'm An Analyst

Apple stocks tumble, IE 9 Firefox and White House all agree on privacy, but etsy not so much, a Zune Lover, and more.

Guest: Scott Johnson

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Jason Howell

Running time: 

51:39