Spark from CBC Radio

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Spark on CBC Radio One Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.

Website: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting
Description: Spark on CBC Radio One Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.
Language: 🇬🇧 English
last modified: 2019-03-30 13:44
last episode published: 2019-03-29 12:00
publication frequency: 6.93 days
Contributors: CBC Radio; Author; CBC; Managing editor Owner
Explicit: false
Number of Episodes: 97
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Categories: Technology Radio

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Date	Title & Description	Contributors
2019-03-29	Spark 432: Grocery store technology Tech at the Food Retail Lab, the impact of self checkout, grocery delivery services, and reducing food waste.
2019-03-22	Spark 431: The quest for immortality, designing for seniors, Google gets into the gaming game, your genome and privacy The quest for immortality through extreme fasting and radical life extension. Designing tech for the older crowd. Google's new streaming service aims to be Netflix for gaming. Your genome could be a privacy nightmare.
2019-03-15	Spark 430 The ethics of posting photos of strangers online. How social media data could be used to set your insurance rates. The Girl Scouts introduce a 'cybersecurity' badge. New research shows online habits of people in the developing world aren't that differe...
2019-03-08	Spark 429 Designing a safer YouTube, self-harm on social media, an embroidered computer and how to embrace your 'inner elder' at work.
2019-03-01	Spark 428 A special look at some surprising - and pretty scary - uses for Artificial Intelligence.
2019-02-22	Spark 427: Robot reporters, menstruation emoji and security in a 5G world Chinese tech giant could be a 5G security threat: There's a push in Canada and internationally to upgrade our cellular networks to 5G. But there are also potential security concerns about the leading provider of that technology: Chinese tech giant, Hua...
2019-02-15	Spark 426: Memes grown up, Man vs AI debate, robot decisions, hanging on the landline, and the case for paper maps Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress, uses memes with panache, and is even teaching her fellow Democratic representatives how to properly use social media. So are memes now a serious part of the public discourse? ...
2019-02-07	Spark 425: The history of the future of cell phones This week on Spark, a special look at the mobile phone: no other technology has so dramatically changed the way people all over the world interact with each other. And it's all happened so fast-a lot of it within the lifetime of Spark as a show. We ar...
2019-02-01	Spark 424: Pop-up office cubicles that reflect your personality, real-time political fact checking, blogging makes a comeback, cowboy drones and decluttering your digital life, 'Marie Kondo' style A Duke University team, led by professor and Politifact founder Bill Adair, is developing a product that will allow television networks to offer real-time fact checks onscreen when a politician makes a questionable claim during a speech or debate. Whe...
2019-01-25	Spark 423: Facebook petitions, WhatsApp and the spread of misinformation, designing the modern airport, and the lives of digisexuals. A look at how more and more people are identifying as "digisexuals," a new term describing those whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology. Whether bright and modernist, or dark and brutalist, one problem all airport designers c...