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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.
Each Sunday, Brad Shoemaker and Will Smith discuss a new technology topic. Come for the long-form conversations about virtual reality, space travel, electric cars, refresh rates, and a whole lot more. Support the pod on Patreon: http://patreon.com/techpod
Episodis Recents
353 episodis
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 t...
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 attem...
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...
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...
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...
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 s...
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. W...
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...
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 u...
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...
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...
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 episod...
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...
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...
329: A Plaid Decade
We just passed the 25th anniversary of the GeForce 3, which felt like a good reason to dust off the April 2001 issue of Maximum PC. We reflect on both...
328: Shared Resources, Shared Problems
It's another glorious bounty of listener questions for the monthly Q&A, touching on a bunch of subjects like modern HDMI switchers, enormous turn-of-t...
327: Two Hours of War
There's... a lot going on lately, so we're rounding up some of that news this week, starting with Discord's forthcoming age verification policy rollin...
326: Quantumly Entangled Keyboard Switches
Magnets have been replacing potentiometers in a variety of places for a while now, especially as Hall effect and TMR joysticks have started popping up...
325: renderDEEZ128
It's been a while since we did a deep dive on our home networking and server infrastructure (what some might call a "homelab"), so it's time for the 2...
324: The Intel Batman
After two months of accumulated Qs, we felt we still had plenty of As to dispense, so we're wheeling back around to a supplemental questions episode t...
323: Ignore All Previous Instructions
The questions piled up over the holidays and now it's time to answer them in this, the first Q&A of 2026. This month we touch on topics like the splen...
322: It Was DNS
We get into the nitty gritty this week with a grab bag of home computing projects that's really more like a set of cautionary tales. Will discovers th...
321: How to Charge Your Knife
Another new year means another CES means another roundup of CES news. This year we cover all the announcements from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia (or at leas...
320: Maybe Somebody Hates Brian Eno
We're back to start the new year with the second and final installment of our ranking of startup sounds. To close out the tier list we consider later...
319: An Amuse-bouche for Your Device
As is tradition (?) around here, over the holidays we're doing another extended ranking, and this year it's a two-part tier list of... every startup s...
318: System B or systemd?
As the end of the year rolls up on us, we attempt a little personalized year-in-review, looking back at 2025 without dwelling on the various tech cris...
317: Schrödinger's AirPod
It's briskly, unusually cold here in the Bay Area this year, so what better time to crack open another tray of cold opens for your bite-size listening...
316: I Don't Like the Sparkle
Things are getting so dire in the PC-building space that we had to revisit the subject again this week, primarily to discuss the sudden and shocking e...
315: Work-in-Progress Till I Die
The end of November brings a fresh crop of your questions, this month addressing subjects like getting lost in a corporation's Kafka-esque support inf...
314: We Hope, We Wish, We Ask, We Request
It's a news roundup this week, with a ton of recent goings on to discuss, including the sudden explosion in RAM prices (and a similar looming problem...
313: Chan's on the Move
It seems like this week's big salvo of Valve hardware announcements is all anyone's talking about right now, particularly the Steam Machine, and who b...
312: The Original Tree Puncher
Online game design veteran Raph Koster recently posted a new piece about how he thinks about game design, which got us talking about the history of on...
311: The Fab Floor
PC World's Adam Patrick Murray stops by this week to discuss the trip he and Will recently took to visit Intel's new 18A chip fabrication facility in...
310: Target Has a GitHub Account
It's that time again for more of your questions, and this month we discuss medical equipment conducting secret data collection, dangerously fast CD-RO...
309: Tivoization
A bunch of products and services seem to be going end-of-life all at once right now, so we did a round-up of some notable ones this week. Believe it o...
308: NEW Lake???
It's been a bit since we did a roundup of tools and tricks that are making our tech lives a little easier, so we're doing that again this week! Will t...
307: I Hate Smishing
A handful of news stories have caught our eye recently, so we're rounding them up this week. We start with a pair of stories about everyone's least fa...
306: The Worst Thing About Bluetooth Is "Sometimes"
Question time is here again, and this month we attempt to provide answers about subjects such as homebrew on the Steam Deck, outsourcing the universit...
305: Hardly an Off-the-Shelf Knob
We've been tinkering with a lot of esoteric PC hardware stuff lately, so we're here with a roundup on what we've been up to this week that you'll hope...
304: Gamify Your Sleep
Apple really brought the goods to its iPhone 17 event this week, with a freakishly thin phone in the new iPhone Air, major production-level video feat...