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2025-02-21

  TechStuff x Part-Time Genius: Redefining ‘Luddite’ w/ Brian Merchant

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 M...
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2025-02-19

  The Story: Liar, Liar, Deepfakes on Fire w/ Hany Farid

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 decades—pioneering ways to identify if an image, audio or video has been di...
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2025-02-14

  Week in Tech: Musk and Federal Money–A Love Story

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 don’t mix, the UK government’s demand for a backdoor to iPhones and the James Webb Space Telescope–it rocks! ...
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2025-02-12

  The Story: Denial Isn’t the Answer w/ Geoffrey Hinton

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, ‘Godfather of AI,’ but in recent years, he’s warned that without adequate safeguards...
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2025-02-07

  Week in Tech: Are You There God? It’s Me, AI

Do smart fridges help business? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and producer Eliza Dennis unpack Walgreens’ refrigeration woes, the future of supersonic planes, and what the Vatican has to say about AI. On TechSupport with 404 Media’s Joseph Cox, the...
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2025-02-05

  The Story: Ask Lots of Questions w/ Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. She is also the co-founder of NYU’s AI Now Institute. Whittaker got her start at Google, where she worked for 13 years until resigning in 2019 after she ...
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2025-01-31

  Week In Tech: DeepSeek Freak Out

Is China winning the AI race? This week in the News Roundup, the story that roiled US stock markets on Monday – DeepSeek. Oz and producer Eliza Dennis unpack the hype. On TechSupport with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler, how human ingenuity continues to subv...
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2025-01-29

  The Story: Mars, Asterisk w/ Nathaniel Rich

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, “Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?” The piece explores NASA's CHAPEA (“Crew Health and Perfor...
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2025-01-28

  Smart Talks with IBM: How Infrastructure is Powering the Age of AI

In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell speaks with Ric Lewis, IBM’s Senior Vice President of Infrastructure.  They discuss how hardware capability has enabled the matrix math required to run large language models. Furthermore, they d...
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2025-01-24

  Week in Tech: Broval Office

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 M...
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