Meena Thamarajah, CEO and founder Huey Books, an ed-tech start-up using machine learning to create a bookbot to make it fun for kids to find books they love; and our hosts are joined…
Hosts Ro Murray, Lily Ryan and Warren Davies are joined by Shlee, maintainer of aus.social Mastodon instance, and Aurynn Shaw, maintainer of cloudisland.nz Mastodon instance, to delve deep into the differences between Mastodon…
Our hosts Dan Morganti, Lily Ryan and Adam Christou interview Darcy Smith from Studio Folly, creator of Gubbins - a friendly puzzle game described as Solitaire meets Scrabble with a psychedelic visual component…
Our hosts Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon speak with app developer Dylan McDonnell about Foodini, the app that connects the 1 in 3 people with food intolerances and allergies with the restaurants that…
Hosts Paul Callaghan, Laura Summers and Jo Eaton speak to Professor Nicholas Davies from The Human Technology Institute at UTS, on building Australia's capability in ethical and responsible use of AI and facial…
Hosts Dan Salmon and Rowena Murray are joined by Professor Carsten Rudolph, Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, to discuss what data breaches tell us about how…
Presenters Vanessa Toholka and Dan Morganti bring us a Melbourne International Games Week special episode. Our hosts chat with Dan Golding, PhD, about the 2022 edition of local game-maker showcase festival, Freeplay Parallels…
Melbourne contemporary artist J. Rosenbaum talks about their show, 'AI Perceptions of Gender', on at Melbourne Fringe Festival; plus an interview with Tim Colwill from Game Workers Australia, Australia's first union for game…
Cybersecurity expert Dr Arash Shaghaghi from UNSW explores how messaging apps that don't offer end-to-end encryption means that private conversations might be accessed without your consent, and Fishburners CEO Alan Jones talks about…
Hosts Lily Ryan, Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon speak with Lucy Wark, founder CEO of sex tech startup NORMAL, a sexual wellness and sex education company on a mission to change the conversation…
Hosts Lily Ryan, Warren Davies and Dan Salmon talk to Professor Peter Holland from the Business School at Swinburne University about post-pandemic workplace monitoring and what companies may have done to overstep privacy…
Hosts Rowena Murray and Vanessa Taholka talk to Garry Williams, founder of Tractor Ventures, about community building and support for entrepreneurs. Vanessa and Ro also unpack a recent publication on O'Reilly titled The…
Hosts Lily Ryan, Dan Salmon and Warren Davies talk to Dr. Diana Bossio, Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University, about Elon Musk's Twitter lawsuit; and Maria O'Sullivan, Deputy Director of…
Hosts Maize Wallin and Dan Morganti present their monthly gaming episode of Byte Into It, reviewing the game 'Risk of Rain 2' made by Hopoo Games. And Seb Chan, Chief Experience Officer from…
Hosts Rowena Murray, Paul Callaghan, Vanessa Taholka talk to Gerard Brody, CEO of the Consumer Action Law Centre about what banks could be doing to stop scams and protect their customers. Plus, Associate…
Hosts Jo Eaton, Lily Ryan, and Rowena Murray talk to Grace Brown, co-founder of Andromeda, about The Melbourne Accelerator Program and how humanoid robots can improve lives in aged care; and translator and…
Hosts Lily Ryan, Paul Callaghan, and Warren Davies talk to Choice Journalist Jarni Blakkarly about 'Buy Now, Pay Later' platforms, their pros and cons, and what Australian consumers can expect from them; and…
Hosts Dan Morganti and Maize Wallin bring you their monthly gaming special, including interviews with Dr. Fraser Allison from the University of Melbourne, who explains the design and UX of voice-controlled applications and…
Hosts Vanessa Toholka, Rowena Murray, and Maize Wallin explore the serious implications of the recent U.S. Supreme Court overturning of abortion rights for women, what that could mean for Australians, and what it…
Ethicist and philosopher Dr Simon Coghlan from Melbourne University to discuss sentience in artificial intelligence; and Tess O'Brien and Daniel Levi from The Australian Unemployed Workers Union (AUWU) discuss Centrelink's point-based (PBAS) system…
Hosts Jo Eaton and Vanessa Taholka talk to Chandni Gupta, Policy and Program Director at the Consumer Policy Research Centre, about a recently released report outlining the ways in which Australians have been…
Hosts Paul Callaghan and Dan Salmon speak with Zoë Condliffe, data activist, gender advocate researcher and founder of She's A Crowd - a feminist tech startup that aims to close the gender data…
Despite achieving critical acclaim, The Last of Us Part II attracted heated debate and was "review bombed" when it was released in 2020. Presenter Dan Morganti gives the third-person action game an honest…
Hosts Vanessa Toholka, Lily Ryan and David Nichols speak with Associate Professor Andrew Perfors from the University of Melbourne about how we can identify and navigate misinformation; and James Clark, Executive Director of…
Presenters Warren Davies and Dan Salmon speak with Kath Albury, Media Professor from Swinburne University, about crushedbutokay.org.au, an initiative to help young people cope with rejection online; and RMIT's Robbie Coleman talks about…
Presenters Vanessa Toholka, Jo Eaton and Lily Ryan discuss the leaked internal report from Facebook engineers admitting their lack of control over how user-generated data is used; and Vidya Rajan, one half of…
Maize and Dan return with their monthly games special. We hear about a couple of free, browser based games they've uncovered, Narrow One, and Titanic II - Orchestra for Dying at Sea, and…
Hosts Rowena Murray, Warren Davies and Paul Callaghan talk to Matt Ngamurarri Heffernan from Indigital about new pathways for young Indigenous people around the country to get into technology; Sean Sands, Professor of…
Presenters Dan Salmon and Vanessa Taholka interview guests Cherida Longley and Murphy Whitmore from Rail Projects Victoria, about a project in which 600,000 square metres of Melbourne’s city centre has been recreated in…
Hosts Warren Davies, Laura Summers, and Rowena Murray discuss all things climate tech on this episode with guest Jas Moore, RRR presenter and graduate of UTAS Sustainability course, focusing on sustainable living; and…
Hosts Maize Wallin and Dan Morganti present the monthly gaming episode of Byte Into It. Maize reviews the game 'But You Seem Fine' by KJAM. The game is a visual novel based on…
Hosts Vanessa Taholka, Rowena Murray and Paul Callaghan chat to brothers Eden and Josh Porter about their Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, 'Escape to the Megaverse'; Vanessa and Rowena discuss the the Federal…
Presenters Dan Morganti, Warren Davies and Rowena Murray are joined by Professor Peter Holland, who talks about surveillance at work, particularly E-monitoring and surveillance; guests Samantha Floriani and Ruby Quail talk about creating…
Dan Salmon, Laura Summers and Vanessa Taholka interview Viveka Weiley from CSIRO about data ethics and the ethics of invention; host Laura Summers puts her guest hat on to talk about an open…
Presenters Jo Eaton, Warren Davies and Lily Ryan explore how technology is playing a role in the Russia-Ukraine war and how the big tech platforms can play a more active role in policing…
Our monthly show dedicated to all things gaming with hosts Maize Wallin and Rowena Murray. A look at world-building game 'Brave Mouse Cartographer' and Australian actress Anne Charleston talks about an upcoming game…
Dr. Saad Mekhilef, Professor at Swinburne University, talks about the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia. Eliza Sorensen, founder of Switter, a sex worker friendly social networking site, examines the online safety of…
Hosts Dan Salmon, Laura Summers and Warren Davies talk to Digital Strategist, tech expert, and author Olivia Yallop about her new book 'Break the Internet: In Pursuit of Influence'; and artist Ellis Moseley…
On this games special, Couch Co-Op episode with presenters Dan Morganti and Maize Wallin, we get an overview of single-player, story-driven adventure game Wayward Strand, a review of GOTY award-winning Hades, and an…
Hosts Vanessa Toholka, Lily Ryan and Jo Eaton discuss the arrival of Melbourne's latest alternative transport option, e-scooters; and they interview Donna Benjamin from the Open Practice Library, a community driven, open-source repository…
