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This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.

Audible editor Sam Danis delves into spatial audio with Dolby Atmos: what it is, what makes it so immersive, and what the future holds for audio entertainment. Featuring conversations with experts in sound design and production, as well as samples from some of the most unique Audible productions available in Dolby Atmos. Listen in to discover the storytelling magic this innovative technology can offer.

Recoding History: The Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World is an immersive look into the lives of some of computer history's most ingenious and audacious women. Pulling from the Computer History Museum’s archives and hosted by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, listeners will learn and laugh along with these great minds as they recount their stories in their own words.

In the movies, robots can be terrifying. In reality, thinking machines are disrupting the world in ways that are even more disturbing than in Hollywood fantasies - but they also have the potential to change our lives for the better. In this stirring, visionary work, acclaimed roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard explores how the tech world’s racial and sexual biases are infecting the next generation of Artificial Intelligence, with profoundly negative effects for humans of all genders and races.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee what lay in store. Did their invention provide the answer to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—smoking—or did it introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, spreading an intractable addiction? Hosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes unravel the polarizing story of Juul Labs and dive into the illegal vape market that sprouted up in its wake.

To be human in today’s world means that you engage in constant linguistic interactions with some form of technology, from your smart phone to your refrigerator. That’s not as new a trend as you might think. Language has shaped - and been shaped by - some of our world’s most significant communication technologies. Our current language bears the marks of millennia of interaction between humans and our technologies, beginning with the very first primitive writing systems and moving into the age of the printing press, the telegraph, and the typewriter.

Sunday Times best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious.

Will AI lead to the transformation of society as we know it, or bring about its destruction?

Una experta en relaciones humano-máquina y un periodista recorren varios países para analizar, a través de experimentos y entrevistas, los dilemas de la Inteligencia Artificial. "Laife" es un podcast que trata sobre cómo es y cómo será nuestra vida con los robots. Es un proyecto multimedia que analiza las posibilidades de los robots y también los dilemas más inquietantes que tendrá que afrontar el ser humano en su convivencia con las máquinas.

No estamos en una época de cambios, sino en un cambio de época. "Digital Explained" es un podcast con el que aprenderás diferentes conceptos del mundo digital con píldoras sencillas, sin invertir demasiado tiempo. Descubrirás, entre muchas cosas, cuáles son las mejores herramientas de comunicación para tu tienda online, cuáles son los conceptos básicos de la analítica web o qué es el marketing de influencia.

Die Wirtschaft wächst und wächst, Technologie wird leistungsfähiger und das globale Klima erwärmt sich weiter und weiter. Gefühlt wird alles immer schneller. Doch es ist nicht nur ein Gefühl. "Große Beschleunigung" nennen Forschende dieses Phänomen, um das es auch in diesem Podcast geht. Der Journalist Christian Stöcker hilft im Gespräch mit Expertinnen und Experten, die Große Beschleunigung besser zu begreifen.