Crypto in Kentucky: The next extraction
Since the collapse of coal, Eastern Kentucky has lived through a procession of supposed revivals. Each new idea was treated as something close to salv...
Cloudy with a chance of Algorithms
Tech giants say artificial intelligence can outsmart the storm, predicting tomorrow’s weather faster than ever. We return to a conversation we had wit...
AI and the weather forecast
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of weather forecasting — spotting storms sooner, warning us faster, and increasing the potential to sav...
Erased: The curious case of UyghurEdit++
China’s surveillance of Uyghurs has leapt from the physical world to the digital one. No longer just QR codes on doorways, it’s now hidden in cloud se...
Erased: Silencing a kindergarten
In a small classroom in western China, children once learned to sing and count in the language of their ancestors — Uyghur. Then the doors were locked...
The ego exploit
Zoom was built for speed. But in its rush to connect us, it may have left a few doors open. We return to a conversation with Dan Guido, the CEO of the...
Introducing kill switch
An episode from kill switch: On October 20, an Amazon Web Services outage knocked out big swaths of the internet — from Snapchat and Reddit to smart ...
The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry
We return to a conversation we had with Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general. He's has always had an open mind when ...
Introducing The Homework Machine
An episode from The Homework Machine: Three years after ChatGPT landed in classrooms, schools are still sorting out what comes next. What counts as c...
A former North Korean hacker speaks out
For years, North Korea has quietly dispatched an army of IT workers overseas—not to innovate, but to infiltrate. Disguised as freelancers, they apply ...