TMF 010 - Buy iPhone 13, Get Nokia 3310

Touching on topics that keep PTA and Tesla in the news as well as learning why your computer might be able to mine Crypto behind your back - this and much more on the 10th episode of Tech Made Fun.

Hosted by Saqib Tahir and Khayyam Jafri

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:24 How PTA tax and Sales Tax will affect the smartphone market in Pakistan
06:00 The main reason for introducing PTA Tax
07:55 PTA fines Jazz 30 million rupees 
09:44 Government focuses on quantity not quality of websites and apps in Pakistan
16:48 Punjab Govt installs solar plants in 528 villages 
21:51 German Teen hacks Tesla’s API through breaching third-party systems   
24:20 Elon Musk offered teen $5K to stop tracking his private jet on Twitter
27:13 Podcast feedback
32:02 Oladoc Pakistan’s top Health Tech startup raises $1.8m in pre-Series A funding
34:16 The rise of Telehealth services across the globe
44:22 Why antivirus software are not good for you
48:04 Norton 360 uses a consumers system to mine crypto without consent
53:31 Now you can buy tea using cryptocurrency in London
54:33 Journalist uses Apple AirTags to identify an intelligence agency HQ
56:28 Dominos Pakistan’s extremely poor customer service

References:

• PTA tax increased yet again
• PTA Rate List
• PTA fines 30 million to Jazz for poor service
• Punjab Govt instals solar plants in 528 villages 
• Teen hacks tesla
• Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta has an ‘assertive’ driving mode that ‘may perform rolling stops’
• Elon Musk offered teen $5K to delete Twitter tracking his private jet
• Oladoc raises $1.8m in pre-Series A funding
• Norton AntiVirus mining your PCs
• Crypto Chai Ada in London 
• Researcher claims to have found a secret intelligence agency with an apple device