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Feb 2025 TEC News & Events
TEC at CactusCon Events - and we'll buy your ticket! | HAM Radio Meetup & Study Group | Join our Iron Mountain Data Center Tour | New TEC Talks | Privacy PIE: More Relevant Than Ever (and we tell you why)
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January 2025 TEC News & Events
NEW Amateur Radio Operators Club & Study Sessions | Best of TEC Talks | Privacy PIE: Celebrating the...FCC?! | Right to Repair - Bring Us Your Busted Tech - and Learn to Fix It
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December Goodies from TEC
HTTPS: The TEC Talks Holiday Special | Cool tech books, articles and podcasts | No December events but big things coming in January
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Be our guest for the Holiday TEC Talks Podcast Special! (HTTPS - see what we did there?)
We're recording a special episode of TEC Talks on Tuesday, November 26 and Tuesday, December 3 starting at about 6 p.m.(ish) invite YOU to be our guest on the show!
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November Right to Repair: Repairers Assemble!
TEC invites you to our November Right to Repair Workshop on Tuesday, November 12th at 7 p.m. This FREE hour-and-a-half workshop is at the GateWay Community College Washington Campus in the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab (ACSL). See below for detailed location and parking information.
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October 2024 Privacy PIE. Surveillance Economy: What Your Car Knows About You
Your car tracks where you were, are and will be! Will the whole world know too? It's simple, but not really. Your car has sensors and comes already equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) that keeps track of your every move. Christina will present at TEC's
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TEC Went Full Nerd on Industrial 3D Printing at PADT and Loved Every Second of It
TEC got a glimpse at industrial 3D printing with a tour of Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies, better known as PADT. The TEC trip (pun 100 percent intended) took place on Tuesday, September 24 at the company's Tempe campus.
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Join TEC on a Private Tour of Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies (PADT)
Join TEC on a private tour of Phoenix Analysis and Design Technologies (known as PADT), an industrial 3D printing facility, on Tuesday, September 24th at 5:30 p.m.
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August 2024 Privacy PIE: Shop Online Without Giving Away Your Personal Data
You can shop online and live your life – even make hotel reservations! – without giving away all your personal data.
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August 2024 Right to Repair Workshop: Keep Your Laptop Juiced & Cool
You're not the only thing that gets drained in the summer heat. Your laptop needs to refresh its battery occasionally and stay cool to operate. This month, we'll cover how to change your laptop's battery safely and also how to keep your laptop cool, even in this heat.
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Privacy PIE: Smart Cities: What They Know About You (July 2024)
* July 23rd, 6 p.m. * Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at Gateway Community College Summary Talk: Smart Cities: What They Know About You This month Christina Eichelkraut - an unabashed, car free urbanist – will discuss smart cities and their implications for personal privacy. Much of this technology is incredible, necessary and
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Right to Repair Workshop: RAM More Memory into Your Computer (July 2024)
* July 9th, 7 p.m. * Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at Gateway Community College Summary This month TEC’s own Wyatt Johnson will be leading a session on replacing or upgrading a computer’s RAM. There will be brief section on the theory behind this and then attendees will get to
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Right to Repair Workshop (May 2024)
* May 23rd, 7 p.m. * Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at Gateway Community College Summary TEC invites you to our May Right to Repair Workshop on Thursday, May 23, at 7 p.m. for a great hands-on introduction to your technology. This FREE hour-and-a-half workshop is at the GateWay Community College
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Right to Repair Workshop (April 2024)
* April 25th, 7 p.m. * Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at Gateway Community College Summary TEC invites you to our April Right to Repair Workshop on Thursday, April 25th at 7 p.m. for our. This FREE hour-and-a-half workshop is at the GateWay Community College Washington Campus in the Advanced Cyber
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Privacy PIE (April 2024)
* April 18th, 6 p.m. * Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at Gateway Community College Summary EULA Never Believe What “I Agree” Means TEC’s April Personal Privacy Information and Education (Privacy PIE) Meetup will be on Thursday, April 18 at 6 p.m. This hybrid event will be in-person and online.
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AzTEA (ISTE/COSN Arizona) & Arizona Department of Education Tech Town Hall
* March 28th, 12 p.m. * Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at Gateway Community College Summary We had so much fun hosting AzTEA (ISTE/COSN Arizona) and ADE Technology Town Hall yesterday! 🔓 In addition to touring the Advanced Cyber Systems Lab at GateWay Community College , TEC set up a micro-lock picking “village”