Can Machines Tell Jokes? Discovering the Past of Portable Computers & VPN Innovations Today

This week’s podcast brings you a collection of in-depth explainers, which will show you how AI can (or cannot) create jokes, a look at the earliest portable computers, and the ways in which VPNs have evolved and improved.

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This week, we bring you the following tech explainers, tips, and tricks:

• Can AI Make Us Laugh?
• Early Portable Computers
• How VPNs Have Evolved

Christian Cawley, Gavin Phillips, and Ben Stegner host this week’s podcast. You can contact them on Twitter:@thegadgetmonkey ,@gavinspavin , and@stegnersaurus , with your suggestions for future topics.

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