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Now for a installment of our Tech Cab Confessions series, we have none other than NonSociety's Julia Allison, who answers Irina's never-ending query of how geeks have "destroyed themselves of others" on the internet. In case you are new to our Tech Cab, ...

Is it really possible to get over 1,000 miles out of single tank of gas? If you are a “hypermiler”, you know this to be true. This week we’re doing something a little different here at GETV. Our new field contributor Scott Stead in ...

Thanks to our friends at Intel, Irina and editor Kevin flew to Portland where not only did they get to tour the top secret chip-making labs (no camera's allowed) but they met some disprutive tech guys in the realm of CAPTCHAs. You may not know what a ...

In this episode, we get sorta serious with the subject matter, but dont worry, there's still LOLcats involved. We talk to a very esoteric and smarty-pants guy, Columbia University law school professor Tim Wu (he's hot too! but married) -- he's the guy ...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was a recent guest speaker at the Long Now Foundation's SALT (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) monthly speaker series. Typically, SALT hosts big thinker uber geeks like Jimmy Wales, Clay Shirky and Neal Stephenson. San ...

We know in your drunken stupor you all forgot that you went to SXSW and Texas last month, never mind what you confessed to Irina as she drove you around in our gloriously luxurious TechCab .... But guess what, it's all on tape for ever and ever and ever ...

So we all know RZA is one of the greatest rappers of all time. But did you guys know he's a total geek out gangsta? At another of RZA's Hip-Hop Chess events, we ask him to tell us his thoughts about technology and the internet. And the Wu Tang leader ...

Irina and Eddie of GETV showed up in their TechCab for a third year in a row armed with live streaming technologies. Their task? Trade cab rides for confessions. I was fortunate enough to catch a cab ride with Steve Garfield of SteveGarfield.com and my ...

For the first time ever, GETV heads over to WonderCon and Irina's fears of growing up without coming books and not knowing enough about super heroes were allayed. Attacked by a hot baby-dyke version of the Joker, she is saved by hot baby-dyke Batman and ...

After watching the movie ZOO during one night of insomnia, Irina decided that a Boeing geek who worked on black ops, built guided missile systems and ended up dying of horse intercourse could be a good topic for an episode. ZOO is about Kenneth Pinyan, a ...

We like Twitter so much, we’re bringing you a installment of Hot Twitter Habits. Some might even say scandalous! We find out what a bunch of drunken San Francisco tweetizens had to say about twittering on the can, following and celebrity identities. ...

Now that Twitter has hit the mainstream, let's find out how the masses use their beloved service. In this first episode of two, we discover what some San Francisco tweetizens' first Twitter posts were as well as how some use the service in more intimate ...

If you happen to be a daily TWiT watcher, you may have caught Leo Laporte and Irina doing some improvisational sketch comedy. Leo and Irina are pretty wacky together, their imaginations flowing as freely as dry-erase markers on a whiteboard. All Leo knew ...

For the first time in GETV history, the crew went to the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, canoodling with porn stars, directors and producers. Braving this new world, Irina scored an interview with uberstar Tera Patrick and her husband Evan ...

GETV was invited by Intel to come to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and we were happy to go. While every other new outlet was happy covering the Palm Pre (thinner than Nicole Ritchie, they say!) and the best blu-rays, GETV decided to go ...

We know there was some tech news at Macworld, but the only talk we heard was all about Steve Jobs’ absence from Apple’s party of the year and his fans’ speculation about his health. GETV is as grateful to Steve as any dedicated fanboy, ...

You may not know 24-year-old Aza Raskin's name, but if you are reading this in a Firefox browser on a Mac then you should say a big huge thank you to his family. Aza's late father Jef started the Macintosh project at Apple. YES. And Aza is the user ...

Santacon aka Santarchy, a jolly rampage of hundreds maybe thousands of Santas, is an annual tradition that occurs in cities all across the globe. Nowhere is it more diverse and well attended than in San Francisco, where the tradition started some 15 ...

If you've never seen muscle men in spandex, masks, tattoos and make up running around jumping on top of each other and screaming, you haven't been to a wrestling show! After 30 years of downtime, San Francisco's Fog City Wrestling promises a monthly dose ...