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Post-Pandemic Recovery Isn’t Guaranteed

The aftermath of a disaster like Covid can be divided into roughly three stages: the honeymoon, the slump, and the uptick. The aim is always to build back better—but in some cases that never happens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-25
03:58

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

Earlier this week, WIRED published a story about the AI-powered search startup Perplexity, which Forbes has accused of plagiarism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-24
13:16

Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong

The humble potato is a miraculous vegetable, but Americans are eating less of them than ever before and have ditched fresh potatoes for frozen. Is it time to rebrand the spud? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-21
12:04

STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

Students and young workers from more than 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-20
06:11

Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing

Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are only just getting going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-19
12:21

AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think

Companies aren’t replacing workers with AI yet. But they are sacrificing thousands of jobs in the race to further innovation in the technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-18
08:52

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

Food app Too Good To Go promises to cut waste by directing hungry bargain hunters to leftover restaurant food. But the week we spent living off the app had me wondering if Too Good To Go is too good to be true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-17
13:23

From the Archives: Scientists Have Finally Found the Origins of a Mysterious Asteroid

Astronomers show how a 50-meter space rock orbiting near Earth isn’t a typical asteroid: It probably blasted off the moon millions of years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-14
09:31

Apple Proved That AI Is a Feature, Not a Product

Other tech companies want to sell you chatbots. Apple’s demos show the value of seeing the AI as an integrated, holistic experience rather than a stand-alone app or device. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-14
08:36

US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren't Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets

Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she's worried China will steal American AI secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-13
09:40

From the Archives: The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed

Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-12
07:48

An AI Cartoon May Interview You For Your Next Job

As if trying to land a new gig isn't demoralizing enough, job seekers are meeting with characters powered by generative AI who are capable of meeting with infinite candidates to judge their skills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-12
09:11

The Snowflake Attack May Be Turning Into One of the Largest Data Breaches Ever

The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-11
11:15

The Case for MDMA's Approval Is Riddled With Problems

The FDA is considering approving MDMA alongside psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD. But evidence of the drug’s effectiveness isn’t clear cut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-10
11:16

From the Archives: Energy Drinks Are Out of Control

Highly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-09
12:27

From the Archives: Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-08
09:54

From the Archives: What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-07
10:34

Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid

Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-07
07:08

From the Archives: A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis

We're bringing an extra episode from our show Science, Spoken. Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-06
13:10

An American Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs

Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

06-06
08:07

Hardly Young

even the household batteries are problematic...if you don't want them in the trash ..do we just sort of leave them in the drawer for somebody else to deal with...they don't go in the compost ..the pigeons wont eat them .they stuck as buttons nothing..I think they might get collected if we use them like coins in slot machines..old casino machines converted to accept batteries we use🎰 you might get a coupon for new batteries -or win a prize🎫 with grandpa's old flashlight batteries♻️

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MASON SWAGERTY (Mswagerty02)

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12-21 Reply

Terry Vernon

Political propaganda inserted in your podcast, pretending to be a "fact correction", is not welcome. Especially when it amounts to a flat assertion that Trump's opponent was right and Trump was wrong - without the least shred of evidence to back it.

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Nick Mumby

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