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2019-06-25

  For Police, Social Media Is Now Part of the Job

When police officer David Gomez was first stationed at a school in rural Idaho, he thought he’d spend his time breaking up fights in bathrooms and scanning the hallways for weed. Instead, he found that almost every problem was either happening on socia...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-06-18

  Why Silicon Valley Is Hiring Bird Experts

A few years ago, reporter Sarah McBride noticed that a top engineer at Twitter was also an expert on the brains of birds. Then, more and more, she started seeing that many top tech companies have bird brain experts in their highest ranks⁠—that includes...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-06-11

  Google Workers Rise Up: Inside the Protests

Google has long had a special relationship with staff, encouraging employee input on all sorts of internal matters. For the last two decades, this approach has worked well. But after a series of controversies and protests in the last two years, some wo...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-06-04

  The Science of Resurrecting Extinct Species

Northern White Rhinos are functionally extinct: The two remaining females have no males to breed with. But an ambitious plan is underway to save the species. This week on Decrypted, reporter Kristen V. Brown meets the scientists using cutting edge stem...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-05-28

  WWDC Preview: A Conversation With Apple’s Former App Approval Chief

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is an annual pilgrimage for software developers whose businesses are built on the App Store. This week, Bloomberg Technology's Mark Gurman speaks to Phillip Shoemaker, the former head of app review at Apple who p...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-05-23

  Bloomberg and Wondery Present: The Shrink Next Door

Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. His parents had recently died. He had troubles at work. A failing relationship. He needed someone to help him through this rough patch in his life. So he decided to get some professional help from a psychiatri...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-05-21

  Silicon Valley's Van-Dwellers

Mountain View, California, is home to Google and Silicon Valley's tech boom. Rents and home prices have soared, and hundreds of people have been forced to live in recreational vehicles parked on the city's streets. This week on Decrypted, we explore ho...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-05-14

  The Strange World of Virtual Bike Races

Cycling enthusiasts have a new way to work out at home: By hooking their bikes up to Zwift, they compete in a video game with other stationary cyclists. This week on Decrypted, reporter Gerrit de Vynck spends a month training on Zwift. He explores whet...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-05-07

  Your Guide to the Uber IPO

It's finally happening. A decade after Uber started out as a black car service in San Francisco, it's going public in one of the largest IPOs of all time. This week on Decrypted, Bloomberg Technology's Eric Newcomer joins Brad Stone to discuss what it ...
  Bloomberg News author
2019-04-30

  Silicon Valley Is Making Gasoline Out of Thin Air

A growing number of experts believe that a promising technology, known as carbon capture, will be an essential part of any plan to confront climate change. But until now the science of removing carbon from the air has only ever been demonstrated at a s...
  Bloomberg News author