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TechStuff is getting a system update. Everything you love about Tech Stuff now twice the bandwidth with new hosts, Oz Woloshyn (Sleepwalkers) and Karah Preiss (Sleepwalkers). Oz and Karah bring humour and wit to the table as they break down what's happening in tech...and what it says about us. TechStuff is the podcast where technology meets culture. We speak to the folks building the future to understand what tomorrow will look like and how our technology is changing us: how we live, how we ...
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What does Google Search sound like? This week in the News Roundup, Oz explores Googleโ€™s new AI-generated audio summaries โ€” and why a simple question like โ€œwhatโ€™s two plus two?โ€ triggered a two-minute podcast. Then, Wikipedia tried its own AI experiment and faced backlash from editors. On TechSupport, Semaforโ€™s Reed Albergotti recasts Big Tech as chโ€ฆ
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Adam Clark Estes is a senior technology correspondent at Vox and the author of the User Friendly newsletter. Estes sits down with Oz to discuss Amazonโ€™s expanding use of palm scanners and what that might mean for the future of healthcare and our biometric data. They also dive into Estesโ€™ months-long experiment of trying about a dozen health trackerโ€ฆ
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Whatโ€™s inside AIโ€™s black box? This week in the News Roundup, Oz unpacks the uncomfortable truth that even the people building todayโ€™s AI models often canโ€™t explain how they work โ€” or why they behave the way they do. But that hasnโ€™t stopped tech companies from pushing colleges and universities to embrace chatbots. On TechSupport, 404 Mediaโ€™s Jason Kโ€ฆ
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When the Biden administration announced the CHIPS and Science Act back in 2022, it was seen as a pivotal move to boost the US semiconductor industry and maintain Americaโ€™s leadership in AI development. But the legislation was just one piece of a broader, multi-year strategy to counter Chinaโ€™s AI ambitions โ€” and leading the way was Jake Sullivan, foโ€ฆ
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Did search just get worse? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah discuss how AI is reshaping search engines โ€” for better or worse โ€” and uncover a surprising downside of vibe coding. On TechSupport, journalist and kill switch host Dexter Thomas unpacks the murky early days of Nintendo and the unlikely figure who transformed it into the family-โ€ฆ
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Ben Lamm is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. That's the genetic engineering company making headlines for its bold mission โ€“ bringing extinct species back to life. From dire wolf pups to woolly mice, Colossalโ€™s breakthroughs have sparked awe and controversy. Lamm sits down with Oz to unpack the science behind de-extinโ€ฆ
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Vibecoding is everywhereโ€”and it feels like anyone can launch an app. So weโ€™re revisiting one of our favorite episodes: a look back at some of the biggest apps to crash and burn. Jonathan Strickland dives into the nostalgiaโ€”spotlighting programs that once seemed unstoppable, until they werenโ€™t. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.โ€ฆ
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This is an episode of kill switch โ€“ a new podcast about our supercharged technological lives. In this episode, host Dexter Thomas explores the biggest hack youโ€™ve never heard of and how one man saved us from complete disaster. This is the xz utils story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.โ€ฆ
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Is it still ghosting if the chatbot texts you back? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah discuss the recent changes to Appleโ€™s App Store policies, the future of brain implants, and the plans for AI-powered Netflix ads. On TechSupport, 404 Mediaโ€™s Sam Cole explains how one startup is using chatbots to help people process being ghosted โ€“ and wโ€ฆ
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Statistician David Spiegelhalter is no stranger to AI โ€“ he used it to help him research his recent book and, back in the late 70s, he helped develop foundational algorithms for the tech. So, he understands the pandoraโ€™s box that technology can represent, as well as the uncertainty embedded in its future development. Spiegelhalter sits down with Oz โ€ฆ
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Malcolm Gladwell visits Kennesaw State University to learn about Jiwoo, an AI Assistant that helps future teachers practice responsive teaching by simulating classroom interactions with students. Discover how AI can enhance teaching methods to prepare teachers for the classroom. This is a paid advertisement from IBM. The conversations on this podcaโ€ฆ
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Smart Talks with IBM returns Tuesday, May 20th, and this season, weโ€™re really shaking things up. Host Malcolm Gladwell will visit various companies to tell stories of how IBM clients are using artificial intelligence and data to transform the way they do business. This is a paid advertisement from IBM. Visit us at ibm.com/smarttalks See omnystudio.โ€ฆ
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What kind of technology do air traffic controllers use? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah discuss how AI determines your real age, why chatbots can lead to delusions and what to know about a familiar sounding blood-testing startup. On TechSupport, features writer at New York Magazineโ€™s Intelligencer, James D. Walsh, explains how AI-fueledโ€ฆ
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Chaim Gingold is a game designer and author of the book Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine, which explores the simulation games created by developer Will Wright. Gingold sits down with Oz to discuss why a computer game about city planning became such a big hit in the โ€˜90s, the surprising legacy of SimCity, and the deeper cultural aโ€ฆ
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Could you be on a livestream for three years straight? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah explore the push to include AI education in schools, the parallel universe of the Chinese car market and why criminals should be wary of Interpol. On TechSupport, The Washington Postโ€™s technology reporter Drew Harwell reflects on his time shadowing Emโ€ฆ
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Nicolas Niarchos is a journalist whose work focuses on conflicts, migration and, most recently, the energy transition. Specifically, the hidden costs of extracting minerals like cobalt, which remains a critical element in the technology we use to run our lives. Niarchos sits down with Oz to discuss what heโ€™s observed in mineral-rich Congo and Indonโ€ฆ
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Can AI help search-and-rescue dogs do their job? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah explore the AI-powered technologies being used in war and why some Meta staffers worry about underage users interacting with their AI companions. On TechSupport, Olivia Carville, an investigative reporter at Bloomberg and the host of the podcast Levittown, โ€ฆ
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Evan Ratliff is an investigative journalist and podcast host. His Wired article, โ€œThe Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians,โ€ marked the culmination of a two-year deep-dive into a group of young tech radicals and their spiral into violence. Ratliff sits down with Oz to unpack how the group formed, what they believed โ€“ the parts wโ€ฆ
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Should you delete yourself from the internet? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah dig into humanoid robots running a half-marathon, the AI-generated personas helping law enforcement interact with potential suspects and Googleโ€™s updated โ€˜Results About Youโ€™ tool. On TechSupport, Jeff Rosenthal, the co-founder of the venture capital firm CIV, โ€ฆ
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Lionel Barber is a journalist, author, and former editor of the Financial Times. Heโ€™s interviewed state leaders like former US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But in Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japanโ€™s Masayoshi Son, Barber chronicles the life of SoftBankโ€™s enigmatic CEO from his childhood as an ethnic Korean in Japanโ€ฆ
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How would Salvador Dalรญ have used generative AI? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah dig into this yearโ€™s most common uses for generative AI, the rise of code editor, Cursor, and how Google DeepMindโ€™s Veo2 interprets a surrealist screenplay. On TechSupport, The Washington Postโ€™s staff writer, Naomi Nix, discusses the first week of Metaโ€™s anโ€ฆ
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Jen Statsky is a comedian, writer, and producer whoโ€™s worked on some of TVโ€™s biggest comedies like The Good Place, Parks & Recreation and Broad City. Most recently, sheโ€™s been behind the scenes as one of the co-creators of the hit show Hacks. Jen sits down with Karah to talk about how writing and producing for TV has changed in the face of acceleraโ€ฆ
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Whatโ€™s a โ€˜mega APIโ€™? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah break down the ever-evolving landscape of tariffs and what it all means for tech companies, Tinderโ€™s ChatGPT-powered dating game, and the rise of โ€˜Frankensteinโ€™ laptops in India. On TechSupport, The Wall Street Journalโ€™s Family & Tech Columnist Julie Jargon explains how imposter scamsโ€ฆ
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Reid Hoffman is a longtime entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Throughout his career, Hoffman has helped build or support some of the biggest tech companies we know today. He was one of PayPalโ€™s first employees, a co-founder of LinkedIn and an early investor and board member for OpenAI. These days, Hoffman spends a lot of time thinking aboโ€ฆ
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How do LLMs solve math problems? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah explore what AI models could mean for the fashion industry, the humble-but-mighty device our modern world depends on, and what Anthropicโ€™s researchers learned about the inner workings of their LLM. On TechSupport, The Washington Postโ€™s technology reporter Gerrit De Vynck eโ€ฆ
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Zak Brown is the CEO of McLaren Racing, the second-oldest Formula 1 team. When he joined in 2016, McLaren was in a difficult spot โ€” lagging behind in race wins, sponsorships, and morale. Brown set out to transform the team by elevating their in-house racing technology and fostering active collaboration. He led the team to win the F1 Constructorsโ€™ Cโ€ฆ
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What even is a crypto mixer? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah dig into potential Slack-enabled corporate espionage, the recall of a Kim K-beloved product and the group chat that broke the internet. On TechSupport, The Washington Postโ€™s technology columnist Geoffrey Fowler discusses 23andMeโ€™s financial woes and what it means for the genetโ€ฆ
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This is the first episode of a new podcast called Levittown. Itโ€™s a real-life horror story for the AI generation. In this six-part series from Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts, reporters Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy take listeners from the quiet suburbs of New York to as far as New Zealand and into the darkest corners of the internet.โ€ฆ
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How do you calm down a chatbot? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis dig into the book that Meta doesnโ€™t want you to read, chatbot reactions to stressful stimuli, and the new home of Pokรฉmon Go data. On TechSupport, 404 Mediaโ€™s Joseph Cox discusses a tool with surprising data scraping capabilities that is used by US agencies โ€ฆ
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Astro Teller is Alphabetโ€™s Captain of Moonshots. He oversees projects at X โ€“ the moonshot factory behind innovations like Waymo and Google Brain. To celebrate Xโ€™s 15 years of pushing boundaries, Astro Teller decided to take listeners inside the factory. On The Moonshot Podcast, inventors and entrepreneurs behind breakthrough technologies reflect onโ€ฆ
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Could AI help you land an internship? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis explore the rise of vibecoding, what it means for the future of software development and how one college programmer hopes to reform the Big Tech hiring process. On TechSupport, Oz chats with the founder and researcher of the Exponential View newsletterโ€ฆ
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David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, author, entrepreneur and host of the podcast Inner Cosmos. In his podcast, he explores how our brains interpret the world and construct reality. Eagleman sits down with Oz to discuss AI relationships, the human urge to anthropomorphize chatbots and the benefits of living on the exponential curve. See omnystudio.cโ€ฆ
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What if AI could read your mind? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis explore the latest tech investment in the US, Metaโ€™s brain-to-text breakthrough and the creation of the woolly mouse. On TechSupport, 404 Mediaโ€™s Jason Koebler takes us to an AI-generated film festivalโ€ฆ spoiler: the tech isnโ€™t there yet. See omnystudio.com/โ€ฆ
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Bradley Hope is a journalist, author and co-founder of Project Brazen, a narrative non-fiction production studio. His piece in Wired, โ€˜A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI,โ€™ outlines how one Gulf royal โ€“ Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan โ€“ came to control vast sums of sovereign wealth. Hope sits doโ€ฆ
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This week, Oz is on the road, at the Web Summit Qatar, and heโ€™s not alone. Joining him from the iHeart pop-up studio in Doha is a very familiar figure, Jonathan Strickland. Oz and Jonathan sit down to discuss some of the highlights of the Web Summit, including the future of the AI chip race, advances in augmented reality and how news organizations โ€ฆ
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Ben Taub is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker. His piece, โ€œRussiaโ€™s Espionage War in the Arctic,โ€ covers tensions at the Russian border with Norway, an area Russia uses as a testing ground for future intelligence operations. Taub sits down with Oz to discuss the technology being used for survival aโ€ฆ
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This week, TechStuff teams up with Part-Time Genius for a special crossover episode. Oz and Mangesh Hattikudur, host of Part-Time Genius, discuss a largely misunderstood group of machine destroyers. The Luddites. Joining them is tech journalist Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine, to dig into the history of humans fighting against job auโ€ฆ
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Hany Farid is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He's been a leading voice on digital forensics for over two decadesโ€”pioneering ways to identify if an image, audio or video has been digitally altered. Since the rise of social media, Farid has kept busy helping news organizations, gโ€ฆ
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What do the Brits want from Apple? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis explore how lithium-ion batteries and wildfires donโ€™t mix, the UK governmentโ€™s demand for a backdoor to iPhones and the James Webb Space Telescopeโ€“it rocks! On TechSupport with 404 Mediaโ€™s Emanuel Maiberg, a new study finds that AI might affect our criticโ€ฆ
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Geoffrey Hinton is a computer scientist, cognitive psychologist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. His work on artificial neural networks earned him the title, โ€˜Godfather of AI,โ€™ but in recent years, heโ€™s warned that without adequate safeguards and regulation, there is an โ€œexistential threat that will arise when we create digital beings thaโ€ฆ
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Do smart fridges help business? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis unpack Walgreensโ€™ refrigeration woes, the future of supersonic planes, and what the Vatican has to say about AI. On TechSupport with 404 Mediaโ€™s Joseph Cox, the FBIโ€™s unique relationship to one encrypted phone company. And finally, Oz tests out Googleโ€™s virtโ€ฆ
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Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. She is also the co-founder of NYUโ€™s AI Now Institute. Whittaker got her start at Google, where she worked for 13 years until resigning in 2019 after she helped organize the Google Walkouts. She speaks with Oz about learning on the job, championing datโ€ฆ
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Is China winning the AI race? This week in the News Roundup, the story that roiled US stock markets on Monday โ€“ DeepSeek. Oz and producer Eliza Dennis unpack the hype. On TechSupport with 404 Mediaโ€™s Jason Koebler, how human ingenuity continues to subvert tech. We hear how one coder has decided to entrap AI web crawlers. And finally, Oz digs into oโ€ฆ
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Nathaniel Rich is a novelist, essayist and writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. Rich sits down with Oz to talk about his essay, โ€œCan Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?โ€ The piece explores NASA's CHAPEA (โ€œCrew Health and Performance Exploration Analogโ€) mission, a simulation meant to test a major challenge of Mars missions โ€ฆ
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In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell speaks with Ric Lewis, IBMโ€™s Senior Vice President of Infrastructure. They discuss how hardware capability has enabled the matrix math required to run large language models. Furthermore, they delve into some creative examples of how to put AI to work: from your bank to your local coffee shopโ€ฆ
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Is AI charging you different prices for groceries than your roommate? This week, Oz and Karah bring you a news roundup featuring a look at surveillance pricing and the rise of AI companies eager to work with the U.S. military. On TechSupport with 404 Mediaโ€™s Jason Koebler, the hosts dive into last weekend's temporary TikTok ban and why Mark Zuckerbโ€ฆ
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Jessica Lessin is the founder and CEO of The Information, a media company thatโ€™s a trusted source for tech readers and tech leaders. Sheโ€™s reported on the industry for almost two decades and is deeply familiar with the culture shifts in Silicon Valley. Lessin sits down with Oz to discuss these trends, including tech titans appealing to the new Trumโ€ฆ
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Are you sharing misleading Instagram stories? This week, Oz and Karah bring you a news roundup including a ChatGPT-powered gun and a free app thatโ€™s keeping people informed about the LA wildfires. On TechSupport with 404 Mediaโ€™s Joseph Cox, they get to the bottom of why a group of hackers have become so fond of U-Haul user data; and a look at when โ€ฆ
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Nicholas Thompson is the former editor-in-chief of Wired and current CEO of The Atlantic. There, he negotiated a controversial partnership with OpenAI that The Atlanticโ€™s newsroom referred to as โ€œa devilโ€™s bargain.โ€ In his free time, he uses AI to help himself run faster and write better. Through it all, he maintains a worldview perhaps best descriโ€ฆ
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How scared should we be of deceptive AI? Oz and Karah take the mic from Jonathan for their first episode of TechStuff and bring you a news roundup of their favorite headlinesโ€”including using ChatGPT to plan a crime and brain benefits for those who can still navigate without Waze. On TechSupport with Jason Koebler from 404 Media they discuss a recenโ€ฆ
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