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Mashable reporter and tech extraordinaire Johnny Lieu joins our host Lucy Smith for a weekly breakdown of tech news from here and abroad.

  • 12 minutes 48 seconds
    13.12.17 - The Final Episode - Taxify & Shazam's New Owner

    It's the final episode of Start Up! Johnny Lieu is moving on after coming in every week to talk tech, and Lucy Smith is wrapping up as host of Up For It after two stellar years behind the mic. In their final chat, Johnny and Lucy discussed the launch of a brand new app called Taxify that is set to compete with Uber, as well as the acquisition of everyone's favourite music-identification app Shazam by tech giant Apple.

    12 December 2017, 11:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 2 seconds
    6.12.17 - Animal Exploitation Via Selfies & 25 Years Of The SMS

    Johnny Lieu joined Lucy Smith to chat about how Instagram is chock full of animal pictures, but now the social network is cracking down on selfies that might be considered exploitation. 25 years ago the first text message was sent, so Johnny and Lucy also discussed how, since then, the ways we’ve chatted using our phones have changed quite a bit.

    5 December 2017, 11:00 pm
  • 15 minutes 19 seconds
    29.11.17 - 'Pay To Win' Games & Net Neutrality

    Lucy and Johnny talked about the furore over 'pay to win' games, which have people so mad that the government is considering labelling them as gambling. They also looked at net neutrality debates in the USA, and what they could mean for Australia.

    28 November 2017, 11:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 11 seconds
    22.11.17- YouTube Kids & AllVoices
    For exhausted parents, YouTube’s Kids app has been a easy way to entertain young children with endless video — but there’s been increasing concern on the type of so-called kids content that’s making its way onto the platform. Following #MeToo, a new startup is building an app to combat sexual harassment at workplaces. It’s a web platform called AllVoices and it will let people anonymously report their experiences of sexual harassment at work, and will in turn aggregate that data to give companies insights on the true scale of the problem.
    21 November 2017, 10:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 25 seconds
    08.11.17- Ban AI Robot Killers and How To Get Banned On Twitter
    In the last 10 years, artificial intelligence and robot technology has made leaps and bounds. But experts in these fields have urging governments to stop these technologies from well, killing us. Twitter needs to fix its harassment problem... again. Three weeks ago, Women took a stand on Twitter by staying off the social platform in a uniform protest called #WomenBoycottTwitter. Now this was instigated by the temporary suspension of Rose McGowan, who has been very much vocal about Harvey Weinstein and other abusers. Last week they had issues with someone deactivating Trump's account on their last day at work. The other thing is that searching #bisexual' gives error message, but not #gay or #lesbian...
    7 November 2017, 10:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 24 seconds
    1.11.17- A Chat With The Gamerunner of Rumu
    Johnny brought a guest in from the PAX convention in Melbourne over the weekend- Ally McLean, the gamerunner behind Rumu- a murder-mystery noire style game about a robot vacuum that becomes self aware.
    31 October 2017, 10:00 pm
  • 8 minutes 47 seconds
    25.10.17- Getting Keen for Melbourne's PAX Convention
    Johnny takes us through wha he's looking forward to seeing when he visits the PAX gaming conference in Melbourne: - Rumu, where you play a vacuum cleaner - Paperbark, where you play a wombat in the bush -- this one is really inspired by Australian children's literature - Virtually Impossible - a VR party game - Maybe as a laugh, Pure Farming 2018
    24 October 2017, 10:00 pm
  • 9 minutes 19 seconds
    18.10.17- Flirting on Instagram and Facebook for Jobs
    Forget about Tinder, Grindr, Her, Bumble, or whatever other apps you're hitting up for all your dating needs. There's another app that's rapidly becoming a hotspot for digital flirting, whether you want it to be or not: Instagram. Facebook may be testing a new Resume / CV feature. The update could indicate a larger interest in the job searching and recruiting space, putting Facebook in direct competition with LinkedIn.
    17 October 2017, 10:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 43 seconds
    04.10.17 - Elon Musk Pushes for Mars Colonisation and Bumble Introduces Interesting New Feature
    Elon Musk wants to send you to Mars by 2022, and could Bumble be the new platform to launch your career?
    3 October 2017, 9:00 pm
  • 6 minutes 17 seconds
    27.09.17- Australia is Launching a Space Agency
    Australia wants a slice of the booming private space industry, and it's launching an agency to capitalise on it.
    27 September 2017, 12:00 am
  • 11 minutes 44 seconds
    20.09.17- iPhone X Facial Recognition is Creepy and Autoplay Ads are on Their Way Out
    Apple's Sept. 12 unveiling of the iPhone X brought with it the official reveal of Face ID: face-scanning tech that will be used in lieu of Touch ID to both unlock smartphones and authenticate Apple Pay. But privacy experts, security consultants, and at least one sitting U.S. senator are concerned that the technology is ripe for abuse. So just how worried should you be? Browsing the web is an integral part of most people's lives, but that process is frequently a jarring one complete with loud autoplay ads and video making it difficult to focus on what's in front of you. Google, however, has decided to do something about that. Starting in early 2018 will block autoplay video with sound on its popular Chrome browser. But what does this mean for the internet ecosystem as a whole? Google is an advertising company, so why would it take a stand against any type of ad? Could Edge, Safari, and Firefox soon follow suit, and how will this move affect surfing the information superhighway (yup) on our smartphones? Could we soon be heralding the end of noisy autoplay video?
    19 September 2017, 11:00 pm
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