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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...
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 Con...
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 th...
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 M...
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'...
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 late...
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...
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 t...
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 (...
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 refle...
It's another glorious bounty of listener questions for the monthly Q&A, touching on a bunch of subjects like modern HDMI switchers, enormous...
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 pol...
Magnets have been replacing potentiometers in a variety of places for a while now, especially as Hall effect and TMR joysticks have started...
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...
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...
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...
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 di...
Another new year means another CES means another roundup of CES news. This year we cover all the announcements from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia (...
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 consi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The end of November brings a fresh crop of your questions, this month addressing subjects like getting lost in a corporation's Kafka-esque s...
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 loomin...
It seems like this week's big salvo of Valve hardware announcements is all anyone's talking about right now, particularly the Steam Machine,...
Online game design veteran Raph Koster recently posted a new piece about how he thinks about game design, which got us talking about the his...
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 fa...
It's that time again for more of your questions, and this month we discuss medical equipment conducting secret data collection, dangerously...
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. Be...
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 we...
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'...
Question time is here again, and this month we attempt to provide answers about subjects such as homebrew on the Steam Deck, outsourcing the...
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 y...
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...
For years, Blendo Games has been releasing its unique brand of systems-driven games on open source id Software tech, most recently with this...
A few links from this episode: The musical No BS Podcast #100: https://archive.org/details/no_bs_podcast_100 A particularly cool cyberdeck:...
Some handy links if you want to start playing with your own virtual Windows 95 machine: https://86box.net/ https://winworldpc.com/home https...
Have we really done 300 episodes of this podcast? We have now! To mark the occasion, we're taking a look back at a lot of the things that ha...
It's a topic two-fer! Brad's refrigerator died last week, which gives us a chance to talk about online appliance-buying on a budget in 2025,...
The situation we talked about in the episode is evolving pretty rapidly; here are some of the latest updates since we recorded: Info on how...
It's the monthly question time again, and this month we talk about what's going to happen when AI is only left with AI-generated content to...
What better way to beat the summer heat than with another stack of cold opens for your listening micro-pleasure? This time around we delve i...
Wired 04.12, December 1996: https://archive.org/details/wired-magazine-04.12-1996-december Show notes with page numbers for everything we di...
Brad's historic YouTube video, "Here's Like 18 Minutes of Destiny 2 at 4k60:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIipgLFxpt4 Support the Pod! C...
The monthly Q&A ep is here again, and this time around we field emails and Discord Qs about managing the cognitive load of your hobbies, doi...
On this week's ep, we take inventory of upcoming tech projects we've been looking into, to evaluate our use cases and pick each other's brai...
Apple's WWDC and Google I/O have both come and gone, and... well, we took a look at I/O and it was practically all AI this year, so we skipp...
Will got a chance to attend the Switch 2 launch event at Nintendo's brand new San Francisco store and then started feverishly digging into t...
Will's here with a two-fer trip report this week, one of which was a literal trip to the grand opening of the brand new Bay Area Micro Cente...
That Q&A time is here again, and this month we field emails and Discord Qs about such things as the hopeful return of the webring, what to d...