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The latest in-depth coverage covering the intersection of technology and culture will help you make sense of a world in constant transformation. Join us as we explore the ways technology is changing our lives.

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13:03

Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of...

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2024/05/29

The US military aims to maintain its dominance by building autonomous attack drones that collaborate with humans and overwhelm defenses in swarms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:42

What’s Up With These Crazy Northern Lights?

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2024/05/27

Solar winds at a million miles an hour and freaky magnetic turbulence are sparking some of the best light shows in centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:13

Most US TikTok Creators Don’t Think a Ban Will Happen

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2024/05/24

The Chinese-owned app is in serious trouble in Washington, but a survey of US creators suggests TikTok’s influencer economy is carrying on with business as usual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:47

What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in...

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2024/05/23

If Scarlett Johansson pursues legal action against OpenAI for giving ChatGPT a voice she calls “eerily similar to mine,” she might claim the company breached her right to publicity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:50

Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare

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2024/05/22

We're bringing you a special episode from our Business, Spoken show. Check it out wherever you're listening. Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the past two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:00

Crypto Astrologers See Price Moves in the Stars

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2024/05/22

They predict the ups and downs of Bitcoin based on planetary movements, and their super-secretive clientele listens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:11

The End of ‘iPhone’

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2024/05/21

Ken Segall is the reason so many Apple products start with “i.” Now he says it’s time to drop the prefix entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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13:34

A Huge Scam Targeting Kids With Roblox and Fortnite...

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2024/05/19

We wanted to bring you one of our favorite stories from 2023: The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:33

Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive...

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2024/05/17

The emotional mimicry of OpenAI’s new version of ChatGPT could lead AI assistants in some strange—even dangerous—directions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:01

These Electric School Buses Are on Their Way to Save...

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2024/05/16

Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:37

Tornado Cash Developer Found Guilty of Laundering...

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2024/05/15

Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:38

Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard

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2024/05/14

Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:11

Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It...

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2024/05/13

Neuralink experienced a mechanical issue with its first human brain-computer interface implant. Its novel design may make it more prone to failure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:32

How Not to Get Brain-Eating Worms and Mercury Poisoning

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2024/05/10

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. had both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time. Just how rare is each condition? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:43

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI...

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2024/05/09

OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:00

OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of...

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2024/05/08

ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:41

No One Knows How Far Bird Flu Has Spread

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2024/05/07

With little incentive for US farmers to test their cattle, and many undocumented laborers on dairy farms, the full scale of the outbreak is unclear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:53

The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise...

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2024/05/02

The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:33

The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop...

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2024/05/01

President Joe Biden will update the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:38

Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet

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2024/04/30

The FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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