Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge bring you Bad Voltage, in which there is an accidental oversupply of buzzwords, there is no podfading, and:
- 00:04:35 Mozilla have declared that they’ll stop selling FirefoxOS phones through carriers and will “pivot” to an IoT; Jolla have run out of money; these two recent changes knock a big hole in the idea of Linux-based non-Android phones, and Canonical’s Ubuntu phones haven’t exactly taken over the market either. What’s going on?
- 00:30:45 Jeremy reviews two wifi security cameras: the Arlo by Netgear and the Guardian DCS-2630L by D-link
- 00:48:20 Can we solve the energy crisis by building solar panels on the moon and then beaming the power back to earth with microwaves? Maybe. Let’s do it!
- 2015 year in review: our favourite and least-favourite technology things from this year