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Tech News: Why Facebook Went Offline
Facebook and all its services disappeared on Monday, October 4th. What caused the outage? Also, the US Senate interviews a Facebook whistleblower, a …
4 years, 11 months ago
The Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
It was an engineering feat to link England to France via subsea cables. Connecting Europe to America would require even greater innovation. From fail…
4 years, 11 months ago
The History of Subsea Cables
Listener Antriksh asked that I look into subsea cables, the physical connections that link distant lands together for communication and power transmi…
4 years, 11 months ago
Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid Cloud at the Edge
The world is hitting a data tipping point where vast connectivity requires massive network capacity. In this episode of Smart Talks, Malcolm Gladwell…
4 years, 11 months ago
Rerun: The Mythology of Area 51
Area 51 factors into stories about everything from weather-control devices to aliens. Ben Bowlin joins the show to look at the mythology of Area 51.
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4 years, 11 months ago
Tech News: Instagram Strikes Back
Instagram and Facebook argue that the Wall Street Journal inaccurately interpreted data about Instagram's effects on mental health. A California law …
4 years, 11 months ago
Audio Wars: Analog vs Digital
A listener asked that I talk about ADCs and DACs, but to do that we have to understand how sound works, how analog works and how digital works. And t…
4 years, 11 months ago
TechStuff Classic: The History of Area 51 - Part Two
What's been going on at the Area 51 site since the days of the U-2 and A-12 spy plane tests? We look at stealth technology, drones and more.
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4 years, 11 months ago
Tech News: Jonathan Gets Mad at the News
We learn more awful stuff about Facebook. Texas's law against social media companies is challenged in court. And the White House is meeting with comp…
4 years, 11 months ago
What Lies Ahead for the International Space Station?
We finish up our series about space stations and talk about the most recent modules to join the ISS, the private citizens who visited the ISS as tour…
4 years, 11 months ago