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Google’s Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring ISIS Recruits
September 08, 2016 19:07 - 9 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The iPhone 7: More Camera, More Colors, Less Headphone Jack
September 07, 2016 21:40 - 7 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Death of Project Ara Shows Google Is All Grown Up
September 07, 2016 09:16 - 5 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech
September 05, 2016 15:13 - 9 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Forget Software—Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics
August 31, 2016 17:25 - 7 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Astronomers Don’t Think That So-Called SETI Signal Is Aliens—and Neither Should You
August 30, 2016 22:26 - 8 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Parents Didn’t Just Dislike Super Nintendo 25 Years Ago—They Thought It Was a Scam
August 28, 2016 15:36 - 8 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Flying Bum Just Crashed—So Why Are We Building Airships?
August 25, 2016 22:48 - 6 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Of Course Everyone’s Already Using the Leaked NSA Exploits
August 24, 2016 17:13 - 5 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality
August 23, 2016 23:14 - 5 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Android Nougat Proves How Good Google’s OS Already Is
August 22, 2016 19:34 - 1 minuteLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WIRED ENDORSES OPTIMISM
August 18, 2016 16:12 - 12 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump Hates the Media, Right? But Now a Media Exec’s Running His Campaign
August 17, 2016 17:35 - 5 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ford Says It’ll Have a Fleet of Fully Autonomous Cars in Just 5 Years
August 16, 2016 21:49 - 4 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sorry, But Your Astute Election Posts Aren’t Changing Anybody’s Mind
August 16, 2016 13:59 - 4 minutesLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Adorable Island Fox Is Back—But Saving It Meant Going to War
August 11, 2016 17:55 - 3 minutesThis is the story of the little fox that came back from oblivion, and the people who have dedicated their lives to protecting it. This is the story of wildlife conservation in the age of mass extinction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
August 10, 2016 21:22 - 9 minutesGarcia and a new team of researchers are back with another paper that shows how Volkswagen left not only its ignition vulnerable but the keyless entry system that unlocks the vehicle’s doors, too. And this time, they say, the flaw applies to practically every car Volkswagen has sold since 1995. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Trump’s Second Amendment Line Probably Won’t Land Him in Jail
August 09, 2016 21:07 - 6 minutesDonald Trump addressing supporters at a campaign event in Wilmington, North Carolina, this afternoon, suggested that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency and people disagree with her Supreme Court nominees, well … If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
August 08, 2016 13:13 - 20 minutesHistory will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death-metal band and worked in a planetary science lab. One day, while comparing different satellite images of a single Martian crater taken at various times of year, he noticed something odd: a set of dark streaks in the soil that grew in the Martian summer and shrank in the winter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Stop Trying to Psychoanalyze Donald Trump
August 05, 2016 11:01 - 7 minutesHumans are naturally inclined to try explaining things that don’t make sense, and Donald Trump’s behavior falls far beyond what anyone expects of a politician. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices