Podcast Episodes

It’s So Not Over for Hollywood (with Devindra Hardawar)

Emanuel talks to Devindra Hardawar about AI in Hollywood and the state of the movie industry.

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3 days, 15 hours ago

Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

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1 week, 1 day ago

A Repairable, No-Tech Tractor

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1 week, 3 days ago

How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones

This week Joseph speaks to Zack Whittaker, an editor at TechCrunch. Zack has been leading coverage into the spouseware or stalkerware industry. This …

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Boo-sters

We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Sch…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris

This week, I’m delighted to be joined by Britt Paris. Britt is a critical informatics scholar and Associate Professor of Library and Information Scie…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams

We start this week with Joseph’s story about how we obtained Haotian AI, a sought-after piece of realtime video deepfake software that lets you turn …

4 weeks, 1 day ago

How the World Became a Casino (With Natasha Schüll)

The logic behind Polymarket, Kalshi and sports betting apps can be traced back to the inner workings of the slot machine. 

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1 month ago

Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch

This week we start with Jason's story about Flock accessing cameras in a children's gymnastics room as a sale pitch demo. After the break, Emanuel te…

1 month ago