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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:01
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Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
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Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...
Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic poten...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WHRV, KWGS, RadioFreePalmer, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 58:23
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
On Radioactive, Lara Jones of KRCL 90.9FM talks with Bert Holland and Madelaine Lamah, founders and organizers of the first annual Artificial Inte...
- Added: May 10, 2023
- Length: 05:56
Tune in to learn more about Green Book Global, how it started, how it works, what they do, and how you can contribute to this platform and make a b...
- Added: Aug 30, 2022
- Length: 34:20
The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2022
- Length: 29:29
The pandemic wreaks havoc on the Carbon XPRIZE – it turns out, additional delays won't be the only impact. Upon arriving in Gillette, Cooper is in ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 51:18
From: Ray Samuels
Mandela Effect: Reality shift, alternative timelines or New Earth alien artificial simulation?
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 01:12:41
It's the summer of 2019. Two more coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch. Meanwhile, Jason Salfi i...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 45:50
What does the cave art of 30,000 years ago have to do with the new Solar Orbiter we sent from Planet Earth to explore our star? Quite a lot, it tur...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 28:00
My code is as long as here to Saturn
but condensed and confused in an anti-pattern.
This is Episode 104 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informa...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 07:44
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 49:30
Who hasn’t inadvertently pocket dialed someone? Smartphones are ubiquitous, and so are the phone foibles of the digital age. Jocelyn Robinson tells...
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- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 17:42
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Greg seemed to everyone like a mild mannered software developer. No one could predict that his invention could either save democracy, or lock the c...
- Added: Aug 15, 2020
- Length: 29:03
Today, we introduce you to five artists whose primary medium is sound. The diverse techniques and concepts they explore demonstrate the versatility...
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 58:01
