Killing IT Podcast

Topic 1: Military practices controlling hundreds of robots and drones at once – with AI Like it or not, AI is coming to military operations. It might be cheaper, but is it safer? But is…

Topic 1: Burger King diverts McDonalds customers – via Waze This one is kinda cool because it’s so sneaky. With just a taste of big data. When people are close to a McDonalds billboard and…

Topic 1: Hacked Ice Cream Makers at McDonalds A very strange right to repair! If you buy an expensive machine, do you have the right to buy a third-party add-on that makes it work better?…

Topic 1: Racist (and other offensive) Tech Jargon Words matter. The most obvious example is “master/slave” but there’s plenty of other insensitive terminology around. Remember, these terms might make sense to you, but you clients…

Topic 1: Will Bots Take Jobs? AI Robots are coming for your jobs! Or – in a much more realistic interpretation, they are coming to reduce the amount of mundane process work that humans do…

Topic 1: Should you rely on best practices? We return to the question of what ARE best practices and how you define them. But more than that, should you be following other peoples’ so-called best…

Topic 1: Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud It’s time to take this seriously and talk about Integration. As always, we take a stab at the terminology used by our industry and ponder about…

Topic 1: Cops and Robots Move to stop NYC police from using armed robots. Note: The police do not own any armed robots, but they do own some robots. So this is totally a preventive…

Topic 1: AI Mayflower to Cross the Atlantic This is a recreation of the Mayflower voyage with a 100% autonomous ship. Great for research and proof of concept. The Smithsonian doesn’t talk about autonomous shipping…

Topic 1: What works, works: Big Tech Targets DC via Old-School Media Facebook, Amazon, and Google ads are blanketing inside-the-Beltway newsletters in a bid to rehab their tarnished reputations. The big tech companies are getting…