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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 25:04
  • Purchases: 1
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The Better Business bureau has a cool new feature on their website – an interactive map that shows what scams have been reported from where…all ove...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
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Bad news and good - a headsup on a new wrinkle in the email spam game, a look at some of the current cons, and a couple of examples to prove that s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
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Popular models of innovation (including buzzwords such as "creative destruction" or "disruptive innovation") prize getting rid of anything that's o...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Kevin MacDowell, manager of Monroe County Public Library's two new digital creativity centers, introduces us to Level Up, an all-ages productivity ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 04:58
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In Episode 19 of Behind The Thread, we go inside the 7-year energy crisis that has beleaguered Pakistan's vital textile industry and see what is be...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 46:30
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If you thought the "Heartbleed" bug was bad, get ready for Shellshock, as the Bash Bug is much, much worse. 70 percent of all computers -- includin...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:01
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Target, Michael's, AOL, EBay, Jimmy John's -- there's been a massive data breach discovered every month this year. Here's some perspective on the s...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:49
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Series: Better Beware!
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Radio Frequency ID is now coming into use in America, and a woman in Georgia has already had her identity stolen...just by hugging a stranger. Here...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:50
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WFHB News Director Alycin Bektesh investigates what a security breach such as Heartbleed means for the average cyberspace user for today's WFHB fea...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:46
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Now it’s LIKELY — not just possible — that your identity has been stolen. A data breach involving Experian (the credit-reporting firm), plus the re...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:01
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Nineteenth-century technology can trump Twenty-first-century tech if you let a telephone caller convince you he's working for Microsoft. It could c...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 05:01
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Science on a Sphere, a project from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, has arrived on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus. It wa...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 08:25
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Host Doug Storm talks with Ted Striphas, an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University and the author o...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:53
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On Thursday February 13 Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian came to Indiana University as part of a speaking tour. Alexis is an entrepreneur, investor, a...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:39
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Our weekly consumer watchdog segment Bloomington Beware!

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:51
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Collaborative researchers at Indiana University have received a six hundred and eighty-six thousand dollar grant from the National Science Foundati...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 07:03
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This week on Interchange host Doug Storm presents "Big Data Is Watching You," a conversation with Colin Allen, Director of the Cognitive Science Pr...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:26:19
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This week on Interchange, host Joe Crawford speaks with Indiana University Law Professor Fred Cate, an expert on privacy and “cybersecurity”.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:17
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The Monroe Circuit Court Probation Department will now use an iPhone app known as Telenav to track the location of its probation and community corr...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:41
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Aristotle said there are three kinds of friendships—those of utility, pleasure, and virtue. But what about Facebook friendships? One scholar is stu...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
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Scams are on the rise, and here's a heads-up on two kinds of really dangerous fake emails that have been hitting US recently.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
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It's doubled in the last three months: computers, and now smartphones, are being hijacked by very dangerous malware.

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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A software company based in Bloomington announced earlier this month it had reached a major new agreement with the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
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This week on Interchange, host Doug Storm talks with Colin Allen, a professor in the Department of History and the Philosophy of Science, about rob...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 57:29