December Goodies from TEC

It's the holidays so we're taking it easy and filling your inbox with casual, festive fodder including a VERY special episode of TEC Talks. Don't be fooled though - we're hard at work creating new events, programs, exciting TEC Trips and even better techtastic content for 2025. But for now, all of us at TEC hope whatever you do for holidays - including if you do nothing special at all - the rest of your year is filled with whatever makes happy...especially cool tech. ;-) TEC wishes you happiness, health and the kind of wealth that matters most this holiday season.

NEW TEC TALKS PODCAST EPISODES

We've got two new episodes of the TEC Talks podcast, including our very special holiday episode! It was a blast to record and we hope it's as much fun to listen to.

HTTPS: Holiday TEC Talks Podcast Show

In this casual, fun and festive episode we asked visitors to the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab what tech is on their wish list.

The rules were simple: Money was no object, it could be ANYTHING - from the military catalogue, NASA, or just Best Buy - but the device has to exist in real life and incorporate some kind of computing power. 

The Answers. Were. Awesome. 

Special thanks to all our guests, some of whom had no idea they’d be on a podcast that day. As always, you make TEC an awesome community and the ACSL a great place to hang out, work on independent tech and creative projects, and meet some pretty incredible people.

What Does a Digital Forensics Specialist Do?

Digital forensics specialist Jonathan Dellmar discusses what it's like to acquire and analyze digital evidence for the legal system in this short podcast episode. All opinions are his own.

Bookmark podcast.techedcollab.org and never miss an episode! Or, listen on Spotify or the RSS feed.

Be on the show!

If you're an experienced technologist and would like to be on the show, contact us or email contact@techedcollab.org. Interviews for day-in-the-life segments can be done remotely and generally take about 30 minutes. Longform interviews and discussion topics are also welcome.

December Events

Our Right to Repair Workshop, TEC Reads Article Club and Privacy PIE meetup are taking a holiday break, but both will return in January!

If you'd like to catch up on old TEC Reads Article Club discussions, just hop into that TEC Discord channel - the discussions are async for a reason!

December Reads and Pods

Perfect for fuzzy socks and curling up by the fire, here's some awesome tech-related reading and listening to enjoy.

Making ‘Food Out Of Thin Air’
By Philip Maughan for Noema
August 13, 2024
Blurb: On the outskirts of Helsinki, a pioneering factory is harvesting natural, scalable proteins all from fermented bacteria. Could this be the future of food?

Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage
By Charles Digges for Nautilus
November 15, 2024

Blurb: The internet is a series of tubes. In the ocean.

BOOK: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
By Claire L. Evans

PODCAST: Your Undivided Attention

In Your Undivided Attention, co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into our lives, and how they fit into a humane future.

What are you listening to, reading, skimming or thinking about? Let us know in our Discord server!

Thanks for making it down to the end! If you love what TEC does and want to see more great events, opportunities to interact with the community and more, we welcome your support.

We are an all-volunteer Arizona 501(c)3 nonprofit and donations are tax deductible.

We're only $350 from reaching our annual goal of $600 – that's how much the infrastructure for this org costs. This includes our required insurance for in-person events, domain and website hosting, snacks for ACSL, etc. No one at TEC is paid for their volunteer efforts.

And you'll get TEC swag, too! Who needs a sticker when you can get an awesome 3D printed fidget spinner?