Turn Off The Lights, Twitter
This week on “The Impromptu,” a discussion about what free speech *really* means, how it impacts individuals on private platforms, and how Twitter needs a new board and CEO to rebuild itself.
Category: The Impromptu
The Impromptu is a weekly podcast, hosted by Michael Norton and Alex Knight. It’s a multi-faceted show discussing how technology, art, design and equality converge on topics that matter most to us. From gaming culture to film, and other forms of media, we examine the creative process and how the decisions we make, shape our perceptions and lives.
Your Photos Are Dust in The Wind
This week, a discussion about how the media is celebrating Apple’s $1 trillion dollar market cap, instead of focusing on issues that really matter–an embarrassing situation of epic proportions that is 5GB of free iCloud storage.
The Ever Changing Landscape of Social Media
We are joined by guest and IT consultant Radu Stanescu to talk Intel’s delayed 10nm CPUs, what’s going on with Apple’s quality control, Apple ditching Qualcomm modems, Facebook bans Alex Jones’ Infowards, Facebook and Twitter stock tanks, and the ever changing landscape of social media behaviour.
MacBook Pro: Hotplate Edition
Apple’s new Intel i9 powered MacBook Pro is under fire from reviewers for extreme performance throttling. We talk about what’s going on behind the scenes and what can be done about it in future redesigns of its internal cooling system.
Silicone Slip, with Chris Clarke
iOS developer Chris Clarke from Midnight Drive Apps joins us to talk new MacBook Pros and a silent keyboard fix from Apple, why Swift as a programming language needs more work, forced OS upgrades, how Microsoft is doing great things with Fluent design, and why augmented reality is more practical than virtual reality.