Show Notes
This is the pilot episode of Technical Tea before we came up with a name for it! We tested it out during Experiment Week on DTNS and your feedback was good enough that it is now becoming a real show!
Show Notes
Intro DTNS Live, Nerdtacular 2026: Science vs. Tech | https://www.youtube.com/live/o_UmCyk1oKU
Niki Topic/Stories - A blood test that screens for multiple types of cancer? It may be available soon | https://www.npr.org/2026/06/21/nx-s1-5858691/blood-test-multi-cancer-early-detection-mced
Huyen Topic/Stories Retro Tech ONE35 V2 Camera | https://joinflashback.co/en-us/products/flashback-one35-v2-camera The Commodore Callback 8020 Is a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb | https://www.wired.com/story/commodore-callback-8020-is-a-digital-detox-phone-that-isnt-dumb Meaning and purpose in the age of AI Mission / purpose in the age of AI for software engineers: Why Software Engineers Are Grieving | https://dev.jimgrey.net/2026/06/25/why-software-engineers-are-grieving What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math | https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
Other Links HMD Barbie™ Phone 4G | https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-barbie-phone?sku=1GF030APC1L01
Niki's recommendations: iNaturalist | https://www.inaturalist.org Merlin Bird ID | https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org
Poem by Joesph Fasano https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper
Credits
Thanks to Amos for editing and Roger Change for Producing, and to the whole DTNS family for letting us test out the show!
Hosted by Nicole Ackermans and Huyen Tue Dao ▶ Follow us: Website: https://technicaltea.show Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/technicaltea.show Instagram: https://instagram.com/technicalteashow
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More from Technical Tea
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Why do we name birds, beetles, telescopes, and principles after people? The good, the bad, the weird. Is there Death of the Author for Eponyms? Why infinitely optimizing (and going 5mph over the speed limit) may not work. Why, we would love to stop adding exclamation points to our emails! Never have I ever been an apothecary.
We recorded office hours and, as we do, had a chat full of tangents while we figured out how to set up our livestream. Take a peak behind the scenes! This episode is free for all, however in the future, office hours will be provided to patrons only.
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