Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

349: We're Gonna Do Some Popcorn Science Here

It's our first-ever solo Q&A episode, and Will takes on a backlog of awesome questions from the audience. Topics include Will's favorite way to make popcorn, under-volting for fun and profit, good boo...

2026-07-26

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348: Vincent Caravella, Back Alley Electrician

In a wide-ranging conversation, Nextlander's Vinny Caravella sits down with Will to ask a cavalcade of questions. Topics include whether paid search engines are worth the cash, what happens when your ...

2026-07-19

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347: Is That The Monster from Godzilla?

PC Gamer and Read Only Memo's Wes Fenlon joins us on the pod this week to talk about the latest retro game recompilations for N64, PSX, and Xbox 360 games, with a big bonus helping on the latest MiSTe...

2026-07-12

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346: Are Steam Sales Even That Good?

This week, Will is joined by Tested's Norman Chan to dig deep into their extensive hands on testing with the Steam Machine, including how it fits into Valve's burgeoning hardware ecosystem, performanc...

2026-07-05

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345: I Covered This On My Livejournal

This week, Will is joined by tech journalist Florence Ion, of PC Mag, Material Podcast, and Android Faithful to talk about what Google's been up to, the inevitable encroachment of Gemini into Android,...

2026-06-28

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344: A Fistful of Videogames

Brad's out of town this week, so Will welcomes Expedition: Handheld and The Full Nerd's Adam Patrick Murray to run down the current state of the handheld gaming console market. We talk about Intel's n...

2026-06-21

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343: Siri Lives on Dynamic Island

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference happened this week, and there was enough going on that we wanted to unpack the whole thing, primarily due to the company's uncharacteristic backpedaling on its....

2026-06-14

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342: Faster Thinner Quieter Cooler Cheaper

Computex happened this week, and there was enough to talk about to devote this week's episode to rounding up the high points, including Nvidia's attempt to dominate the consumer Windows market with RT...

2026-06-07

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341: F2 Is My Most Used F

Question time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and uploadin...

2026-05-31

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340: Like a Bong for Your CPU

Brad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a chec...

2026-05-24

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339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs

After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 20...

2026-05-17

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338: Everything for Everything

Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, ...

2026-05-10

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337: They're 3D-Printing Shoes Now

We've got a project potpourri this week of things we've been getting our hands on, literally in the case of Will and his brand new Steam Controller. We talk through the ins and outs of Valve's first n...

2026-05-03

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336: When Triple Redundancy Isn't Enough

After all these monthly Q&A episodes, you folks continue to send us great Qs every month, and this time around we dig into such topics as the MacBook Neo's target audience, Windows running on Linux, t...

2026-04-26

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335: With Craft and Focus

It's time to fix Windows 11. OK, that might be a little ambitious for one podcast episode, but it's at least time to step through the plan Microsoft unveiled recently for improving Windows 11 and addr...

2026-04-19

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334: We Nailed the Math!

Friend of the show and all-around science guy Kishore Hari joins us once again, this time to dig into humanity's return to the Moon in NASA's Artemis program. We explore everything from the astronauts...

2026-04-12

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333: I Used To Do a Podcast

Brad's out this week, so Norman Chan takes the guest chair to talk us through the current state of the art in 3D printing. We cover the latest in FDM printers, whether resin printers are right for you...

2026-04-05

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332: Shout Out to the 1979 Lady Kenmore

Is it time for another Q&A again already? How the months just fly by. This month we address everything from auto-generated podcast chapters and episode links to computer class-action lawsuits, corpora...

2026-03-29

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331: More Teddy Ruxpin, Less Chucky

It's been a while since we got down to brass tacks with a tips and tricks episode, so that's what we're doing this week with a new list of tech that's making our lives a little more pleasant lately. W...

2026-03-22

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330: Our E-Cores Are Better Than Your P-Cores

There's kind of a mountain of hardware news from the last week, so we're rounding it up this week, starting with Microsoft's Project Helix (a.k.a. the next Xbox), interrogating what exactly that box i...

2026-03-15

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