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7:14

Lyft Will Pay You to Ditch Your Car. Will It Work?

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2018/09/28

What would it take for you to give up your car? An all-access pass to a bicycle, maybe, plus some safe lanes to ride it in? A smartphone, stocked with apps for cheap ride-hail services? A competent public transit system? A chauffeur, willing to drive you around instead? Lyft, the ride-hail company that has always said that its goal is to get more Americans out of their personal cars, would like to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:48

A Better Motor Is the First Step Towards Electric Planes

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2018/09/27

In a white and grey laboratory, where neat runs of orange cables on the walls provide a relief of color, a three-bladed propeller spins on the front of a Cessna “Iron Bird” test frame. It’s eerily quiet, free of the buzz you expect from a propeller-propelled aircraft. Just the whoosh of air, like a ceiling fan spinning at full speed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:25

The Latest Company to Try a Subscription Streamer?...

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2018/09/27

In the early ’00s, few web endeavors seemed less bound for long-term glory than CollegeHumor.com. The site launched in 1999 as a video and sight-gag repository “dedicated to grinding your academic efforts to a halt.” Early on, that meant lots of bro-friendly distractions, like photos of students passed out on lawns/), naughtily titled JPEGs, and video series like “Husky Dave the Fat Guy”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:16

How to Use Screen Time Controls on iOS 12

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2018/09/26

The arrival of iOS 12 means you can now use Apple's long-awaited suite of Screen Time tools. The new features, which appear under Settings > Screen Time, are designed to give you a better idea of how you're spending time on your phone and limit the time you spend on certain apps. It’s all part of a greater push by tech companies to mitigate the ways personal devices are engineered to be addictive, by creating all kinds of new “digital wellness” features. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:06

How Lego Came to Be the World's Most Famous Brick

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2018/09/26

When Ole Kirk Kristiansen imported a newfangled contraption called a plastic-injection-molding machine to Denmark in 1946, people thought he’d lost his mind. Kirk Kristiansen was a master carpenter who made wooden toys sold under the brand name Lego (abbreviated from leg godt, Danish for “play well”). The machine cost nearly 7 percent of the company’s annual revenue, but Kirk Kristiansen reckoned there was no limit to what he could manufacture with the new technology. Learn more about your ad

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6:46

The Stubborn Bike Commuter Gap Between American Cities

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2018/09/25

Cycle commuting is hot. Warm, at least. Depending on where you’re living. Each year, the League of American Bicyclists, a nationwide cycling advocacy organization, takes a look at the annual commuting numbers out of the American Community Survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:47

How Would Teleportation Change Society?

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2018/09/25

Peter F. Hamilton, one of Britain’s leading science fiction authors, has been hard at work on his massive seven-volume Commonwealth series since 2003. His new novel Salvation, about a world where teleportation is cheap and easy, is a major change of pace. “It’s something I wanted to do as a writer, just to keep fresh,” Hamilton says in Episode 327 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:27

In Defense of Amazon's Alexa Microwave

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2018/09/24

Amazon is all-in on Alexa, and this week, it revealed a new set of voice-enabled products ranging from a a wall clock to a doodad that goes in your car. The star and symbol for this bold new wave of Alexa devices? The AmazonBasics Microwave. At a glance, it looks identical to every other 700W microwave, but it has some new tricks. By touching the Alexa button on it, you can ping a nearby Echo speaker, which will let you tell the microwave what you want to cook. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:05

Model 3 Crash Testing Hammers Home Tesla's Safety...

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2018/09/24

Smash! Bang! Success! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the arm of the Department of Transportation charged with reducing the number of Americans killed on the road, yesterday released the results of the crash test for the Tesla Model 3: five stars in every category. The perfect score is a welcome ray of sunshine during a (tweet)stormy stretch for Tesla—just yesterday, Bloomberg reported the automaker’s supply chain manager has left the company. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:07

Germany's Self-Driving Streetcar Puts Autonomous Tech...

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2018/09/21

Of the many acronyms engineers spend their lives internalizing, few are more valuable than KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Constrain the problem, reduce the variables, and make life as easy as possible when designing novel systems—like, say, a self-driving car. The world is a messy, complicated place. The less of it you need to solve, the closer you are to having a working product. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:51

The Case for Expensive Antibiotics

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2018/09/21

A handful of years ago, a small pharmaceutical company quietly acquired the rights to an old but commonly used antibiotic. Few noticed until last week, when the new owner did something that’s recently become common in the world of pharmaceuticals: It abruptly raised the price. A lot. The manufacturer is called Nostrum Laboratories, and the drug for which it hiked the price—by more than 400 percent—is called nitrofurantoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:33

Get Ready For Some New Amazon Hardware

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2018/09/20

Amazon is hosting a hardware launch event this morning at its Seattle headquarters, and has invited the press into the Spheres, Amazon’s urban botanical gardens, to show off the new products. It’s widely expected that Amazon will announce several new Alexa-equipped hardware products or device partnerships, adding to an already expansive line of Echos and other smart devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:04

The Alt-Right Are Savvy Internet Users. Stop Letting...

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2018/09/20

Far-right YouTube is the internet age equivalent of conservative talk radio: It’s a place for ultra-conservative commentators to react vehemently, personally, emotionally to the news of the day and the creeping horrors of American progressivism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:23

Waze Lights the Beacons to Guide Drivers Through...

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2018/09/19

In downtown Chicago, near where the river meets the lake, the city gets a bad case of Escheritis. The streets double—sometimes triple!—into three dimensions, dropping below each other and folding around the basements and sub-basements of skyscrapers, cutting across the river on bridges hanging below other bridges, and eliding into drivable strata in ways that cities generally promise not to do. In Chicago, the multi-level streets of Wacker, Lake Shore Drive, Michigan Ave. Learn more about your ad

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4:55

How Zipline Helps Remote Regions Get Blood From a Drone

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2018/09/19

WIRED ICON Anne Wojcicki, cofounder and CEO of 23andMe NOMINATES Keller Rinaudo, cofounder and CEO of Zipline Keller Rinaudo began his career as the cocreator of Romo, a tiny toy robot. But for the past five years his work has been, well, bloodier. His company, Zipline, uses autonomous planes to deliver medical supplies—vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and blood—to hard-to-reach places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:24

Mr. Know-It-All on Honesty and Social Media

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2018/09/18

How true does my online persona have to be? I like to be really curated. But my significant other is very honest. Too honest if you ask me. Who’s right? Should we be our raw authentic selves, or strike a pose? This feels like a quintessential dilemma of the digital age, but artists and philosophers have been grappling over this one for centuries, really. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:07

BMW's Tech-Stuffed Concept SUV Heralds a Fancy,...

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2018/09/18

Changing notions of what customers want from cars have pushed automakers to do plenty of weird things. They’ve unmoored the driver’s seat from the left side of the car, revived the rotary engine, and turned windshields into screens. BMW, though, is most likely the first to put down carpeting in the cabin of a cargo jet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:21

How Fitbit Started the Wearables Craze That Got Us...

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2018/09/17

As Japan entered the 1960s, everything seemed to be in motion. Construction swept through Tokyo as the city prepared to host its first Olympic Games. The TÅkaidÅ Shinkansen, the original bullet train, sped along the southern coast of Honshu. More cars filled the roads. The only thing not moving, it seemed, were people’s legs. Prosperity fostered convenience, which encouraged inactivity—or so a doctor reportedly told the founder of Yamasa Tokei Keiki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:44

When It's Time to Evacuate, Cities Struggle to Help...

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2018/09/17

Every hurricane season, news reports divide the country’s coast into two camps. You’ve got the leavers, who brave miles-long traffic jams as they make for higher ground. And the stayers, defiantly boarding up windows, stockpiling provisions, and kicking back on their couches—that’s how their parents and grandparents did it, anyway. Like most dichotomies, it’s a false one. It ignores a third group: Those who want out and can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:51

To Solve Flying Cars' Biggest Problem, Tie Them to...

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2018/09/14

Of the many challenges facing the nascent flying car industry, few turn more hairs gray than power. A heavier aircraft needs more power, which requires a bigger battery, which weighs more, thus making a heavier aircraft. You see the dilemma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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