Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBroken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anti-consumerist Repair Cafés urge you to fix it instead of pitch it
On a drizzly Saturday morning in May, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
Betting that people will soon grow more comfortable having artificial intelligence agents shop for groceries, plane tickets, or diapers on their beha…
1 month ago
Steampunk festival brings Victorian style and sci-fi oddity to New Zealand town
Steam-powered vehicles, Victorian costumes, and remote-controlled teapots have taken over the New Zealand town of Ōamaru for its annual Steampunk Fes…
1 month ago
Obama museum lets visitors sit behind Oval Office desk, touch iconic dresses
The Obama Presidential Center opened to the general public on June 19 after a celebratory dedication in Chicago with dignitaries. But tens of thousan…
1 month ago
America’s tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices
Just a few years ago, America's public schools were rushing to get every child a laptop. Los Angeles middle school teacher Anna Soffer remembers it w…
1 month ago
UK orders Google to allow publishers to opt out of AI scraping for search summaries
Google must allow news sites to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed AI overviews and other artificial intelligence services and fe…
1 month ago
Energy, water use, and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, wh…
1 month ago
A new kind of date makes personal to-do lists a reason to get together with friends
Life tasks like paying bills, canceling subscriptions, and answering overdue emails are becoming a reason to socialize for friends, couples, roommate…
1 month ago
European Union launches tech sovereignty initiative to boost chips, cloud, and AI at home
European Union leaders, worried about the continent relying too heavily on American companies for AI and cloud computing services and Asia for microc…
1 month, 1 week ago
Could your next job interview be with an AI bot?
Imagine taking part in a job interview not conducted by a human, but by an AI avatar. What might seem dystopian in concept is an increasing reality f…
1 month, 1 week ago