Codebreaker

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2016-12-27

  S02-7: Technology Crossing Borders

The gadget that saved a refugee in the middle of the Aegean Sea, how an agent uses technology to patrol the U.S. border with Mexico, and how a journalist in exile broadcasts the news with WhatsApp. Listen, decode, and decide: Can technology crossing bo...
  Marketplace author
2016-12-20

  S02-6: Encryption

How encryption hides all around us, how it was used in 18th century Paris to separate merchants from their money and the difference between your brain and your fingertip. Listen, decode, and decide: Can encryption save us? Stay updated on all things Co...
  Marketplace author
2016-12-15

  Five ways a bioethicist wants to change our bodies to fight climate change

Dr. S. Matthew Liao, a bioethicist at New York University, believes that solving climate change starts with the individual. That’s why he suggests we turn humans into cat-eyed, meat-allergic, semi-genius, hobbit people. His proposal is dead serious, no...
  Marketplace author
2016-12-14

  Smile! You're on camera, and the person watching could be a world away

This story is from Codebreaker, our tech podcast that asks "Can it save us?" Every morning Barbara Morrow, an 80-year-old woman in rural Northern Ireland, wakes up at 6 a.m. and puts on a kettle of water. She makes a cup of coffee, powers up her comput...
  Marketplace author
2016-12-14

  S02-5: World Building

A proposal to bioengineer shorter humans with cat eyes, a decades-old idea for a totally new kind of power, a battery made from trash and Bill Nye the Science Guy tries to get us in gear. Listen, decode, and decide: Can world-building save us? Stay upd...
  Marketplace author
2016-12-07

  S02-4: Watching

A small city known for its Amish population and surveillance cameras, an old lady in Northern Ireland who watches video feeds in Brazil and getting footage from the fin of a shark. Listen, decode, and decide: Can watching save us? Stay updated on all t...
  Marketplace author
2016-11-30

  S02-3: The Augmented Self

The man who collected too much data, cyborgs who want to make their body-hardware mainstream, robots that rebuild your hairline and a conversation with Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge aka LeVar Burton. Listen, decode, and decide: Can the augmented...
  Marketplace author
2016-11-23

  S02-2: Alternate Reality

A therapist who creates virtual reality experiences for people with dangerous disorders, a grandmother who uses a headset to escape her surroundings and Ernest Cline on virtual reality in fact and fiction. Listen, decode, and decide: Can alternate real...
  Marketplace author
2016-11-16

  S02-1: Recognition

A toddler who saved her mother's life with Siri, a man whose mysterious ailment opened up a world of voice recognition technology and a dating service that wants to scan the faces of all your exes. Listen, decode, and decide: Can recognition software s...
  Marketplace author
2016-11-02

  Introducing Codebreaker Season 2

  Marketplace / Ben Johnson and Clare Toeniskoetter author