About Owen Williams

Owen is an technology journalist with a background in software development and helping people understand the industry.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Owen writes a weekly column for Medium's OneZero, and spends his days as Content Strategy Manager at Shopify.

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007: Android's in rough waters

This week we talk about Europe's antitrust lawsuit against Google's Android operating system and the way Medium's killing Wordpress. We also have a special guest, Justin Johnson from Keen.io, to tell us what he learnt this week.


006: The Facebook botpocalypse

The Facebook botpocalypse is upon us, as a swathe of machines descend on Messenger to converse with you about the weather. That, and John and Owen talk about Magic Pony, Artificial Intelligence, BlackBerry's shady dealings and a whole lot more.


005: Facebook's thirst to get you sharing

This week Owen and John look at Facebook's decline in sharing and its newfound focus on getting you to live stream your life, how Tesla is changing the game with the Model 3, how Google considering Swift for Android could change the game and the new world of ownership in the Internet of Things.


004: Linux inside your Windows

This week John and Owen talk about Microsoft bringing Linux inside your Windows PC, the FBI dropping the case against Apple (for now), SoundCloud's new subscription service, Spotify's insane $1 billion dollars raised in debt and a sneak peek at a very cool new app.


003: Algorithms shaping us

This week on Charged Podcast, John and Owen discuss Apple's rumored migration from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform, the takeover of algorithms on our social media feeds, Playstation VR and Baidu's self-driving cars. Plus, our special guest Ryan Walsh, former VP of product at Apple Music joins us to talk about advertising technology and monetizing the web.


002: AI takes down the humans

This week on Charged Tech we talk about Google's AlphaGo beating humans 4-1 at the infinitely complex game of Go and what that means for us, Opera adding adblock into its browser, the first app that snuck malware onto OS X and Sonos' huge layoffs.


001: Slack slaughters Hangouts

Charged Podcast is finally here! We kick off our first-ever episode this week with the low-down on how this podcast will shape up (probably), and jump right into the deep end.