Tech Tales is a podcast exploring the technology world’s epic failures, forgotten successes, and everything in between. The show is created and hosted by me, with a revolving cast of entertaining and knowledgeable guests.
Tech Tales has covered the history of NASA’s Voyager space probes, the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, Microsoft and IBM’s failed successor to Windows, Intel’s Itanium CPUs, malware attacks, and much more.
As of 2026, there are over 60 episodes available for free. You can also follow the show on Mastodon and Bluesky.
The Ouya home console tried to bring smartphone gaming back to the TV, and when it was revealed in 2012, it quickly became the most successful Kickstarter project in history. Two years later, it was discontinued.
Microsoft Kin was a phone platform "designed specifically for people who are actively navigating their social lives," but was deemed a failure before it even launched. Two Kin phones finally arrived in May 2010, and two months lat...
Swiss watch company Swatch came up with a new way to tell time in 1998, known as "Internet Time" or ".beats time." It led to an international controversy over advertising, radio frequencies, and Russia's Mir space station.
The WanaCry ransomware quickly spread to hundreds of thousands of Windows systems on May 12, 2017, impacting everything from car manufacturing to hospitals. A few hours later, it was stopped by a cybersecurity researcher.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, helping guide the country through the Civil War and advocated for an end to slavery. Nearly 100 years later, he was resurrected as a robot for the 1964 New York World's ...
Apple helped develop PowerPC processors as competition against Intel in the 1990s, but by the early 2000s, the architecture was falling behind. Apple's switch to Intel x86 processors revived its Mac computers, kicked off the Hacki...
