Latest David pogue Podcast Episodes
How Impossible Meats Might Save the Earth
Unsung Science - February 11, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsPeople talk about greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, planes, and factories, but one source out-pollutes them all: Cows. Raising meat animals like cows generates more methane than the entire fossil-fuel industry. So Pat Brown left his job as a Stanford biochemistry professor to dedicate...
The Man Who Stopped the Spammers
Unsung Science - February 04, 2022 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsBy the year 2000, the internet was already becoming a cesspool. The bad guys used software bots to sign up for millions of fake email accounts—for sending out spam. PhD student Luis Von Ahn stopped them. He invented the CAPTCHA, that website login test where you have to decipher the di...
Where Emoji Come From
Unsung Science - January 28, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsEach year, the powers that be endow our phones with about 70 new emoji. For 2022, you’ll be getting a mirror ball, a crutch, an X-ray, coral, a ring buoy, and a bird’s nest—with or without eggs in it. But who ARE the powers that be? Why do they add the emoji they add? Why do we have a ...
How the Fitbit Knows You're Dreaming
Unsung Science - January 21, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsOver the last decade, a group of California scientists has quietly amassed the biggest sleep database ever assembled. It includes every dozing off, every wakeup, every REM-cycle, every chunk of deep sleep, from 15 billion nights of human slumber. It can tell us the average person’s bedt...
Subtitles for the Blind
Unsung Science - January 14, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsYou already knew that you can turn on subtitles for your TV show or movie—handy if you’re hearing impaired, or just want to understand the dialogue better. But there’s a corresponding feature for people with low vision: audio description tracks, where an unseen narrator tells you, in re...
Chainsaws, Women, and the Cape Town Drought
Unsung Science - January 07, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn 2018, following a historic three-year drought, the water sources in Cape Town, South Africa ran dry. It was the first major city to face Day Zero: when you’d turn on the faucet—and nothing would come out. The town leaders discussed expensive, environmentally disruptive projects like...
How to Prepare for Wildfires
Unsung Science - December 31, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsYou’ve survived 2021—thanks, no doubt, to the science and tech that made your medical care, your internet, and your smartphone work. Tonight, New Year’s Eve, many podcast hosts are taking some time to reflect, to rest—and to post a re-run. But not “Unsung Science!” To tide you over unt...
Where to Live in the Climate-Change Era
Unsung Science - December 24, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIt’s the night before Christmas—and many podcasters (and listeners) are nestled all snug in their beds. But we didn’t want to leave you without a dose of witty Pogue science writing. So here, for your listening pleasure, is a free chapter from David Pogue’s latest audio book, “How to Pr...
Leap Seconds, Smear Seconds, and the Slowing of the Earth
Unsung Science - December 17, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThe earth’s spinning is slowing down. Any clocks pegged to the earth’s rotation are therefore drifting out of alignment with our far more precise atomic clocks—only by a thousandth of a second every 50 years, but that’s still a problem for the computers that run the internet, cellphones...
How the Cellphone was Born: Three Months of Craziness
Unsung Science - December 10, 2021 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIn the early 1970s, “mobile phones” were car phones: Permanently installed monstrosities that filled up your trunk with boxes and, in a given city, could handle only 20 calls at a time. Nobody imagined that there’d be a market for handheld, pocketable cellphones; the big phone companies...
How Apple and Microsoft Built the Seeing-Eye Phone
Unsung Science - December 03, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsYour smartphone can see, hear, and speak—even if you can’t. So it occurred to the engineers at Apple and Microsoft: Can the phone be a talking companion for anyone with low vision, describing what it’s seeing in the world around you? Today, it can. Thanks to some heavy doses of machine...
How to Prepare for Climate Change: Intro
Unsung Science - November 26, 2021 05:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIt's Thanksgiving weekend, and for many podcasts, a week off. But we didn't want to sock you with some re-run—or, worse, leave you with no episode at all. So David Pogue is here to offer a free chapter from his audio book, "How to Prepare for Climate Change." You'll hear the complete In...
Who Makes the Fake Languages for Hollywood?
Unsung Science - November 19, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThe first time you heard “Star Trek” characters speak Klingon, or the “Game of Thrones” characters speaking Dothraki and High Valyrian, you might have assumed that the actors were just speaking a few words of gibberish, created by some screenwriter to sound authentic. But these are comp...
How NASA's $2 Billion Rover Landed Itself on Mars: "Seven Minutes of Terror"
Unsung Science - November 12, 2021 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsPerseverance, NASA's latest Mars rover, is a one-ton, $2 billion marvel. The plan was for it to enter the Mars atmosphere going 12,000 miles an hour. The problem: How do you slow it down enough to set it down gently on the surface? You can't use retro rockets, because they'd stir up so ...
Tornado Alley is Shifting Eastward—and We're Not Ready
Unsung Science - November 05, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsTornadoes are nasty and dangerous. They appear and disappear so fast, there’s usually no time for evacuation—and the United States gets 75% of all the world’s tornadoes, about 1,300 of them a year. They occur all year ‘round, in all 50 states, but the biggest swarm forms in Tornado Alle...
Audio Deepfakes and the End of Trust
Unsung Science - October 29, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThe media is plenty freaked out about “deepfakes”: Computer-generated videos of famous people saying things they never actually said. But only the video is faked; the audio parts, the voices of those fake celebrities, were supplied by human impersonators. But now, software exists to mim...
How We Almost Blew the Vaccine
Unsung Science - October 22, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsIt may seem as though we got the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines incredibly quickly. But Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó had been trying to make mRNA vaccines work for 30 years while fighting scientific gatekeepers who thought her idea was absurd. Her grants were denied, her paper...
What Happened to the Mosquitoes in Fresno?
Unsung Science - October 15, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsMosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on earth; they kill 500,000 people a year—and as the planet warms, more species are spreading North from the tropics. In 2013, a nasty new type, called Aedes Aegypti, arrived in Fresno, California. But traditional tactics, like spraying insecticide...
Coming Soon: Unsung Science with David Pogue
Unsung Science - September 27, 2021 14:45 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThe untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the worlds of the people who’ve built the best in transportation, entertainment, food, internet, and health. Hear new episodes each week starting October 15. See Priva...
Introducing: Unsung Science with David Pogue
Unsung Science - September 27, 2021 14:45 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratingsThe untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the worlds of the people who’ve built the best in transportation, entertainment, food, Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. Host Da...
MWSF08: Episode 1
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - January 16, 2008 02:49 - 20 minuteslisten to Adam Jackson and me Sam Downie rambling on from the 1st two days from Macworld 2008. This is a dailytechtalk.com and Tech:Casts co-production! more info and to watch us LIVE visit: www.dsoundz.co.uk
Guide to Macworld Conference & Expo 2008
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - December 17, 2007 18:25 - 23 minutesListen to the 1st Timers Guide to Macworld Conference & Expo 2008, written by Adam Jackson, editor of online daily technology website: http://dailytechtalk.com Find out all about this years Macworld 2008 Conference taking place in San Francisco, USA in January 2008. More podcasts from ...
Sounds-Expo 2007: SoS Producers Seminar
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - March 05, 2007 16:23 - 45 minutesMore from Sounds-Expo 2007 http://www.sounds-expo.co.uk This podcast is over 40 minutes and it features the whole seminar from the Sound On Sound Seminar stage, featuring 3 popular world class music producers, who are: Mike Howlett (OMD, Gang of Four, Gong) Marshall Jefferson (Phut...
Sounds-Expo 2007: Yamaha Tenori-On Prototype
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - March 05, 2007 15:33 - 7 minutesOnce in a Blue Moon an invention comes along which seems to turn conventional wisdom upside-down and kick it around a bit for good measure. But I think it's fair to say that most bright new ideas never see the light of day But at Sounds-Expo 2007 I spotted a experimental musical instrum...
Sam Downie at Mac-Expo 06, on MacFormat this week
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - November 06, 2006 20:42 - 14 minutesSam Downie at Mac-Expo 06, on MacFormat this week. Hear my reports from the Mac-Expo 2006, on the MacFormat this week podcasts! - archived here. For more info, visit: www.dsoundz.co.uk For more info on MacFormat this week, go to: www.macformat.co.uk Thanks to ClickCast and Brad Gib...
Apple Expo 2004 (Video)
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - September 15, 2006 19:45 - 2 minutes - VideoWatch my video I made, while I was working at the AppleExpo 2004, in Paris. I was working on the Apple booth as a Solution Expert in both Pro and Consumer applications! come see what I looked like in my Apple staff tee-shirt! (many thanks to the team at Apple Europe!)
Rene Auberjonois - the interview
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - August 24, 2006 12:00 - 21 minutesRene Auberjonois - Interview with TV, Film and Television actor, painter, artist and Mac geek... Rene Auberjonois, from Boston Legal (CBS) and Star Trek DS9 (Paramount).
Devils Bluff
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - August 24, 2006 11:48 - 1 minuteDevils Bluff, the movie. Hear direct from the film's producers about this horror film in the making! http://www.devilsbluff.com
Grand Opening report from the 1st UK Apple Store
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - June 20, 2006 11:58 - 15 minutesGrand Opening report from the 1st UK Apple Store. November 2004.
MacBoy at Macworld 2005
Sam Downie's Tech:Casts - June 20, 2006 11:52 - 12 minutesMacBoy at Macworld 2005 on IMR
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