Podcast Episodes

A tech company that ‘happens to build homes’

When it comes to homebuilding, Ronda Conger, vice president of CBH Homes, wants to be like the Savannah Bananas.

“We are out there trying to do things so differently,” she said. “It’s one of the reaso…

Published on 15 hours ago

A whiplash year for electric vehicles

2025 brought some new speed bumps for electric vehicle sales, namely the Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It cut federal EV tax credits — up to $7,500 for new cars and $4,000 for used ones. T…

Published on 1 day, 15 hours ago

AI-powered chatbots sent some users into a spiral

AI psychosis became a thing in 2025. That's when a chatbot leads a user into a delusional spiral.

The technology's tendency to affirm what people say can result in conversations that become untethered…

Published on 2 days, 15 hours ago

Robotaxis moved into the fast lane in 2025

This year turned out to be a pretty big year for autonomous vehicles. Waymo is the leader in the robotaxi race and over the last year, its signature Jaguar electric vehicles have become a common sigh…

Published on 3 days, 15 hours ago

How online age-gating laws went mainstream this year

About half of U.S. states now require some form of online age verification to prevent kids from accessing certain content — usually pornography. But in some cases, that also means broader categories …

Published on 6 days, 15 hours ago

The year in AI wearables

Will Gottsegen, a staff writer at The Atlantic, tests out Meta’s AI smart glasses and gives us a recap of how AI continues to get embedded in consumer tech.

Published on 1 week ago

Mushrooms could help curb plastic waste

Polystyrene is the chemical compound that makes up styrofoam, which is used for packaging and insulation. But it’s not the most environmentally friendly.

By one estimate, 40 million tons of polystyren…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Why Big Tech leaders aligned themselves with White House politics this year

In January, we saw a who's who of tech leaders front and center at President Donald Trump's inauguration.

Since, the White House has advocated for the build out of AI infrastructure and put a moratori…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Dr. AI will see you now

Could AI chat bots replace human doctors? Probably not, but that won’t stop people from trying.

Just as they did during the emergence of Google, doctors across the country are grappling with the chang…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Bytes: Week in Review - Micron's big earnings, Oracle's data center woes and "slop" is Merriam-Webster's word of the year

Building artificial intelligence tools requires a lot of graphic processing units, and those GPUs need huge amounts of ultra-fast memory to feed them data. Micron Technology is one of a handful of me…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago