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Episodes
The AI Middle Class
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI Middle Class discusses the changing landscape of employment brought about by automation. The piece specifically aims to move beyond the common ...
The App Store of Emotions
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode outlines a critique of the technology industry's approach to human well-being and emotional states. The central argument is th...
Push Notification Nation
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Push notifications have evolved from basic alerts into a complex system that subtly influences user behaviour in a competitive battle for attention. T...
The TikTokification of Everything
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The "TikTokification of everything" refers to how accelerated content consumption has trained users to expect quick emotional and informatio...
Streaming the Past
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Streaming the Past" analyzes how Big Tech and streaming platforms monetize nostalgia as a core business strategy. The host explains that ...
The Screenshot Economy: Digital Proof and Social Currency
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explains an extensive analysis of The Great Screenshot Economy, arguing that digital image captures have become the primary form ...
The New Tech Etiquette: Digital Workplace Norms
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The New Tech Etiquette” discusses the unwritten rules and shifting norms governing communication in the modern digital workplace. The host expl...
Introducing ChatGPT Atlas Browser
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser developed by OpenAI with integrated artificial intelligence capabilities. OpenAI introduces Atlas as a way to ret...
Unbundling the Smartphone: Attention Shifts to Ambient Devices
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode examines the phenomenon of "unbundling the smartphone," arguing that the long-reigning mobile device is experiencing ...
Screens as Modern Third Places
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explores whether digital platforms are now fulfilling the societal role once held by traditional physical gathering spots, such as...
The Return-pocalypse: Returns, Recommerce, and Emissions
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode sheds light on the often-overlooked logistical costs for retailers, illustrating how many returned items end up being discarded instead of...
The Great Streaming Rebundle: A Ctrl Alt Society Special
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we outline how the streaming landscape, initially heralded as a cost-saving alternative to traditional cable, has evolved into a **"rebund...
iPhone 17 and the decline of innovation at Apple
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode discusses the perceived decline in Apple's innovation regarding its iPhone products. It contrasts the groundbreaking launches ...
Product Privacy: Moat, Marketing, or Mandate?
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explores the crucial role of privacy in the modern digital landscape. It poses a vital question: Does privacy provide a genuine co...
AI Art: Copyright, Ethics, and the Future of Creativity
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode offers a comprehensive overview of the current landscape surrounding AI art, focusing on its technical foundations, legal ramific...
The Rise of AI Virtual Companions
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explores the growing phenomenon of AI companion apps, which are advanced chatbots designed to offer friendship, support, and even...
Made by Google 2025: Pixel and Gemini
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus episode:A multifaceted look at Google's "Made by Google 2025" event, primarily focusing on new product announcements and the ev...
Flow: Google's AI Filmmaking Tool for Veo
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode introduces Flow, Google's new AI-powered filmmaking tool designed for creatives. Flow is custom-built for Google's advanced mod...
Chat GPT-5 Prompting Guide
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This guide offers comprehensive prompting tips for GPT-5, a new flagship model designed for advanced agentic tasks, coding, and general intelligence....
Erasing Your Digital Footprint: A Comprehensive Guide
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode provides a comprehensive guide on managing and reducing one's digital footprint, acknowledging that complete online erasure is highly...
Alphabet Q2 Earnings: AI-Powered Growth Across Products
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode presents the remarks made by Alphabet's CEO during their Q2 earnings call, highlighting a strong quarter driven by advancem...
Deepfakes & Filters: Reshaping Reality's Face
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explains that deepfakes and digital filters are AI-generated or AI-altered media that manipulate appearances, ranging from subtle...
Passwords Are the Worst: Never Forget One Again
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explores the widespread frustration and security risks associated with traditional password practices. The host highlights common...
Why Do We Call It “The Cloud”? (A Brief History)
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine pointing your phone at a fluffy white cloud in the sky and saying, “Hey, there’s my data!” Sounds silly, right? Yet many of us casually ...
Lose Your Phone? The Cloud’s Got Your Back. Real-life tips on recovering files, contacts, and even your device using cloud tools like iCloud, Google
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We do a deep dive on recovering lost smartphones and their data using cloud services, primarily focusing on Apple's iCloud and Samsung's Smart...
What Happens to Your Cloud Stuff When You Die? Digital legacy planning — how to give access to your cloud accounts to family
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode emphasises the critical importance of digital legacy planning in an increasingly online world, highlighting how our digital assets...
Running your business remotely from the cloud
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode explores how cloud-based tools enable small businesses and sole proprietors to operate remotely, often from any location with an...
Apple WWDC25 announcements
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's bonus episode outlines software updates like iOS 26, macOS 26, and iPadOS 26, along with the integration of Apple Intelligence. Apple'...
Cloud Based Productivity Hacks for Students
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is an extensive guide on cloud-based productivity hacks for high school, college, and graduate school students. It systematically...
Veo 3: State-of-the-Art Video Generation by Google
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Todays episode offers a comprehensive overview of Google Veo's diverse AI capabilities and initiatives, highlighting its commitment to responsible...
Where Do Alexa and Siri Get Their Smarts?
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we explain the intelligence of voice assistants like Alexa and Siri.
Google I/O 2025 announcements
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus episode today is from Google I/O 2025 highlights the annual developer conference's focus on artificial intelligence. Enjoy!
What happens 'If' AWS goes down
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we discuss the significant impact of Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages, explaining that AWS is a crucial infrastructure provider for a larg...
How to use Cloud Location Services to find Lost Devices
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we provide a comprehensive guide to using built-in “find my device” services offered by major operating systems, including Apple's Fi...
The Invisible Cloud: Powering Modern Business Operations
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode elucidates how cloud technology underpins the seamless operations of various industries, such as airlines, supermarkets, and ban...
How Your Photos Are Stored in the Cloud
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud photo storage is like having a secure online photo album or locker that only you can open. Services like Google Photos, Apple’s iCloud, or eve...
Alphabet Q1 2025 Earnings Results
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alphabet Inc. announced its first quarter 2025 financial results, showcasing a 12% increase in consolidated revenues year-over-year.What company s...
How to use LLMs
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode serves as a guide for leveraging LLMs in everyday tasks and professional workflows by explaining their functionalities and limitat...
SAP on Google Cloud: An Overview
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud provides a comprehensive platform for businesses to run SAP applications and accelerate their digital transformation. Today's episod...
Create virtual machines with upto 90% discount with Azure
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
These discounted virtual machines are ideal for workloads that can tolerate interruptions, such as development, testing, big data processing, and ma...
How to host a Static Website on AWS
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This resource from AWS provides a step-by-step guide on hosting a static website using AWS Amplify. The tutorial outlines how to deploy a simple web...
ChatGPT: Turn Images into Studio Ghibli Style
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A recent article from Open AI discusses the new capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4o, specifically its ability to transform uploaded images into the di...
Build a Serverless Web Application using Generative AI
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use AWS Amplify to build a serverless web application powered by Generative AI using Amazon Bedrock and the C...
Google to Acquire Wiz for Cloud Security
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google has announced its agreement to acquire Wiz, a cloud security platform, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. This acquisition aims to bo...
Getting Started with Amazon CloudFront
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Amazon CloudFront's "Get Started" documentation provides guidance for new users. It begins by outlining AWS account setup and the necessity of...
Oracle Fiscal Year 2025 Q3 Financial Results
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oracle's fiscal year 2025 third-quarter results showcase substantial growth, particularly in cloud services and remaining performance obligations....
Understanding APIs: Definition, Types, and Uses
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An API, or Application Programming Interface, acts as an intermediary allowing different software programs to communicate and exchange data.
DeepSeek-R1: Reasoning-Driven AI with Reinforcement Learning
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's deep dive, we talk about DeepSeek, a framework designed to enhance reasoning in large language models (LLMs) using reinforcement learning ...
NVIDIA Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NVIDIA's press release announces the company's financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025, highlighting record revenues and...
Google app engine architecture in cloud computing
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud's App Engine enables developers to build and host web applications. An application consists of various services, each housing multi...
Gemini in BigQuery: AI-Powered Data Insights and Analytics
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud has announced the general availability of several Gemini in BigQuery features. These AI-powered tools within BigQuery aim to revolutioni...
Google Lyria AI music generator
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google DeepMind has unveiled Lyria, a cutting-edge AI music generation model, alongside two innovative projects: Dream Track, a YouTube Shorts experim...
Introduction to Amazon Elastic kubernetes
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It removes the burden of managing Kub...
Valentine's day special
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today's bonus episode, we talk about the origins of Valentine's Day, tracing its evolution from the brutal deaths of two early Christian sa...
Google Cloud Dataproc: A Comprehensive Guide
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud Dataproc is a fully managed service for running open-source big data tools like Apache Spark and Hadoop. It offers serverless deploymen...
Alphabet Q4 Fiscal year earnings results
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we discuss Alphabet's Q4 earnings and highlights and discuss its performance
Introduction to Google App Engine
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud App Engine is a fully managed serverless platform for building and deploying web applications and websites. It supports numerous popular...
SAP on AWS
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This deep dive from Amazon Web Services (AWS) details how to migrate, implement, configure, and operate various SAP solutions on the AWS cloud platfor...
Content delivery Networks- How they work
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Google Cloud documentation describes Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network), a service that improves website and application speed by serving conte...
Google Compute Engine Autoscaling
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Managed instance groups (MIGs) offer autoscaling capabilities that let you automatically add or delete virtual machine (VM) instances from a MIG base...
Amazon route 53, A comprehensive guide
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Route 53 is a highly scalable and available Domain Name System (DNS) web service offering three core functions: domain registration, routing ...
What you need to know about Azure Monitor
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Azure Monitor is a comprehensive cloud-based monitoring solution that collects, analyses, and facilitates responses to data from various sources, incl...
All about Azure Virtual Desktop
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Microsoft service enabling the virtualisation of Windows desktops and applications within the Azure cloud. Key feat...
Azure Functions Overview
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's deep dive is into Microsoft Azure Functions, a serverless computing service that enables developers to build event-driven applications with ...
How to congifure AWS Cloud Alarms
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's deep dive details how to set up billing alerts within Amazon CloudWatch. It explains how to enable billing alerts, create alarms based on esti...
Intro to Clould SQL
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This deep dive discusses Google Cloud SQL documentation and describes a fully managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQ...
Windows Server 2025: New Features and Enhancements
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This Microsoft deep dive details the new features of Windows Server 2025. Significant improvements are highlighted across security, performance, and...
Creating VMs with azure CLI
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy our bonus episode
Google cloud confidential VM
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Confidential VMs utilise hardware-based memory encryption, providing isolation and attestation to protect data and applications from unauthorised ...
How to increase the uptime of VMs using SUSE extension.
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This deep dive talks about using SUSE HA extension to make a virtual machine highly available
Deep dive on cloud load balancer
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's deep dive explains the different types of load balancers when to use each one, and how they are set up. It also shows how to manage them using...
How to use data to make better business decisions
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Looker from Google Cloud is a product that helps you explore, share, and visualise your company's data so that you can make better business decisions...
Apple Intelligence
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we dive deeply into Apple Intelligence, a new AI system integrated into Apple devices. What do you think we should do next?
Requirements for using Microsoft 365 Copilot
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A follow-up to the previous episode. Enjoy!
Microsoft Copilot
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we answered one of our listeners' requests for a deep dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot. What do you think we should do next?
Artificial intelligence and parenting
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we take a deep dive into a ResearchGate paper that explores the impact of artificial intelligence on child development. let us know which topic...
how to create your own website with azure
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Today's Deep Dive, we provide a guide for building a basic static web app using Azure Static Web Apps. Enjoy! Feel free to suggest topics for us ...
An overview of GPUs
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's deep dive concerns GPU machine types available on Google Cloud Platform's Compute Engine. Enjoy!
Google Hyper Disks
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we discuss Hyperdisk, a new generation of network block storage service designed for high-performance, mission-critical applications. Enjoy!
Intro to AWS EC2 Fleet
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's deep dive will guide you in creating an EC2 Fleet on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It explains the prerequisites, including a launch t...
How to send files secretly using the cloud.
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine two friends who live far apart and want to send secret messages. Instead of sending them through regular mail, where anyone could read them, t...
AWS S3 storage service
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how Netflix works? In today's episode, we give a comprehensive guide to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which Netflix runs on...
How Gemini works
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how an AI chatbot works? Today, we talk about Google's own Gemini. I hope you enjoy it. Please leave your comments.
Google cloud Sole tenancy feature
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk about Google cloud Compute Engine's sole-tenancy feature. This feature allows users to isolate virtual machines (VMs) on dedicated phy...
Tutorial: Azure dedicated hosts
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode we talk about Azure Dedicated Hosts: a service that enables users to reserve physical servers in Azure for exclusive use
Choosing a deployment strategy for your workload
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we will show you the best deployment strategy for your cloud workloads. Enjoy!
How to migrate from a physical datacenter to the cloud
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A guide to migrating virtual machines to Google Cloud using the Migrate to Virtual Machines tool Enjoy!
Create a GPU virtual machine with Google cloud
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk about the bad boys of computing 'GPUs' and how to create them. Enjoy!
Tutorial: Install applications with Azure
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are doing our first tutorial: Install applications in Virtual Machine Scale Sets with the Azure CLI
How to create multiple virtual machines using Google cloud
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know how to create multiple virtual machines automatically ? if you don't listen to today's episode Enjoy!
Using AWS to create virtual machines
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we discuss AWS's cloud computing offering and how to use it to create virtual machines
How to create a virtual machine using Azure
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, we dive deep into how to use Microsoft Azure to create a virtual machine and its benefits Enjoy
A dummy's guide on how to create a virtual machine
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode, we start where all beginners start on their journey to the cloud, Creating a Virtual Machine. This week, we start with Google...