Welcome to the Current Geek Film Festival, a special monthly look at the greatest movies of all time from a geeky perspective. I’m Scott Johnson and he’s Tom Merritt
Our monthly look at the best films ever continues, this time with The Godfather Part II
Top tech companies are looking to hire experience over formal education, Netflix wants to escape the Apple’s cut on subscriptions, and Microsoft cracks down on Russian bots.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Patrick Beja.
Amazon theaters, Verizon 5G rollout, and a new Star Wars trailer. All this and more on Cordkillers!
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Nvidia announces new consumer video cards based on its Turing GPU architecture, Financial Times drafting rules to penalize social media platforms for not removing terrorist content within an hour of notification, and Bittorrent’s creator criticizes cryptocurrency.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.
Shannon gives us a wrap of this years DEF CON security event. We explored the psychologically trauma that selfies can have on people with body issues. And the American Telco industry says government should kick in money to help roll out broadband to unserved areas.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Shannon Morse.
Google may be launching a smart speaker with a display by the holidays, Go-Jek almost profitable and set to expand and Nvidia’s great earnings are not enough.
SFF readers have more mature relationship views. It’s science. And hey! We’re still Hugo-nominated! Will we stay that way or become winners? Who can say? But we have other things to say, like what we think of Jade City by Fonda Lee.
Amazon has set its sights on buying Landmark theaters. What does this mean for the movie industry and will this push its rivals to pursue similar deals?
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang and Justin Robert Young.