Our weekly tech podcast for technophobes brings you the latest tech news that will affect you and some tips and tricks to help you get better results from your electronics.

For this week’s show, we asked ChatGPT to help out with outlining and even writing the show. Here’s a bit more information onhow we used ChatGPT to script the podcast .

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This week, we chat about the following tech news that matters:

• ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns
• Twitter’s blue ticks disappear as Musk attacks NY Times
• Mobile phone inventor made first call 50 years ago
  • The Mother of All Demos

We’ve got these explainers:

• Can All Ransomware Be Decrypted?
• How to Fix Games That Won’t Work in Windows
• Reasons to Use Office Online/Microsoft 365

We finish the show with the following recommendations:

• RoomGPT
• Booom AI Quiz
• HelloTalk

Christian Cawley hosts this week’s podcast, and is joined by Ben Stegner. You can contact them on Twitter:@thegadgetmonkey and@stegnersaurus , with your suggestions for future topics.