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When Your Boss Is an Uber Algorithm
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
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It sends texts with last-minute requests for extra shifts and won’t consider requests for a raise. Yes, the software that manages drivers for Uber has a few things in common with unpopular human bosses.
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When Your Boss Is an Uber Algorithm
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 23-11-15
- Language: English
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With Hospital Ransomware Infections, the Patients Are at Risk
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
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Police departments, government offices, corporations, and countless individuals have been victims of malicious software that encrypts data and demands payment for its return. But a spate of recent ransomware infections at hospitals has some experts worried that patient care could suffer.
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With Hospital Ransomware Infections, the Patients Are at Risk
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
- Release Date: 08-04-16
- Language: English
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Team is Collaborating with Google’s Stratospheric Balloons Project
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Facebook and Google compete intensely for your time online and for the ad dollars of corporations. But now the two companies are collaborating on efforts to use balloons and drone aircraft to expand Internet access to the four billion people that don’t have it.
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Team is Collaborating with Google’s Stratospheric Balloons Project
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release Date: 06-10-15
- Language: English
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Google’s Quantum Dream Machine
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 16 mins
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The theoretical underpinnings of quantum computing are well established. And physicists can build the basic units, known as qubits, out of which a quantum computer would be made. They can even operate qubits together in small groups. But they have not made a fully working, practical quantum computer.
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Google’s Quantum Dream Machine
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 16 mins
- Release Date: 18-12-15
- Language: English
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A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
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Early this week the Austrian security company SEC Consult found that more than three million routers, modems, and other devices are vulnerable to being hijacked over the Internet. Instead of giving each device a unique encryption key to secure its communications, manufacturers including Cisco and General Electric had lazily used a much smaller number of security keys over and over again.
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A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
- Release Date: 04-12-15
- Language: English
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Facebook's New Map of World Population Could Help Get Billions Online
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
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Facebook keeps its map of the social connections of the 1.6 billion people who use the service each month to itself. But it is giving away for free new maps it is building that describe patterns of population density in the world’s poorest countries in unprecedented detail.
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Facebook's New Map of World Population Could Help Get Billions Online
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 4 mins
- Release Date: 22-02-16
- Language: English
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5 Things You Need to Know About Facebook's Next 10 Years at Facebook's Annual Dev
- Written by: Rachel Metz, Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
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This week at Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8, in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out the social network’s plans for the next decade. Here’s how he plans to keep the more than 1 billion people that use Facebook every day engaged - and lure in still more users.
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5 Things You Need to Know About Facebook's Next 10 Years at Facebook's Annual Dev
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 22-04-16
- Language: English
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Meet Facebook’s Stratospheric Internet Drone
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
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Facebook has built the first of what it hopes will be a large fleet of solar-powered drones that will bring Internet connectivity to hundreds of millions of people beyond the reach of today's telecommunications infrastructure. Aquila, as the V-shaped carbon fiber craft is known, is powered by two propellers and has a wingspan of about 42 meters, roughly equivalent to a Boeing 737 airliner.
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Meet Facebook’s Stratospheric Internet Drone
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 5 mins
- Release Date: 30-07-15
- Language: English
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High-End, Cord-Free VR Headsets Are Nearing Reality
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 2 mins
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The octopus was about five feet off the ground, over my right shoulder. I turned and stepped closer to walk around it. Anyone watching might have thought I looked silly - I had a bulky black virtual-reality headset strapped onto my face. But at least there wasn’t a cable running down my back to connect it to a PC.
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High-End, Cord-Free VR Headsets Are Nearing Reality
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 2 mins
- Release Date: 30-09-16
- Language: English
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
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In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain.
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Reinventing Intel
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 3 mins
- Release Date: 28-10-16
- Language: English
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Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 5 mins
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The world’s poor could benefit from a system that is blanketing half Earth’s surface with a signal that provides free access to Wikipedia and other useful websites.
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Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 5 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
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Twitter Boasts of What It Can Do with Your Data
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 4 mins
- Release Date: 01-12-15
- Language: English
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Teaching Machines to Understand Us
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 25 mins
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A reincarnation of one of the oldest ideas in artificial intelligence could finally make it possible to truly converse with our computers. And Facebook has a chance to make it happen first.
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Teaching Machines to Understand Us
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 25 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015: Where Are They Now?
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 8 mins
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Engineering the structure of metals and ceramic materials at the nanoscale can give them superpowers that might transform how we build just about everything. They can become incredibly flexible, strong, and extremely light all at the same time, and gain the ability to spring back into shape after being crushed flat.
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10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015: Where Are They Now?
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 8 mins
- Release Date: 01-02-16
- Language: English
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Dropbox Follows the Money into Crowded Market for Business Tools
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 6 mins
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Dropbox, the provider of online data storage, is adding productivity features as it wades into the corporate market dominated by Microsoft and Google.
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Dropbox Follows the Money into Crowded Market for Business Tools
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
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Probing the Dark Side of Google's Ad-Targeting System
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 6 mins
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That Google and other companies track our movements around the Web to target us with ads is well known. How exactly that information gets used is not—but a research paper presented last week suggests that some of the algorithmic judgments that emerge from Google's ad system could strike many people as unsavory.
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Probing the Dark Side of Google's Ad-Targeting System
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 01-08-15
- Language: English
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Claimed Breakthrough Slays Classic Computing Problem; Encryption Could Be Next
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 4 mins
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A professor who created an algorithm that may overturn an orthodoxy of computer science has the field’s experts excited.
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Claimed Breakthrough Slays Classic Computing Problem; Encryption Could Be Next
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 4 mins
- Release Date: 01-12-15
- Language: English
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Machine Dreams
- Written by: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 23 mins
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To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work.
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Machine Dreams
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 23 mins
- Release Date: 01-05-15
- Language: English
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AI That Dreams Up Drugs
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 2 mins
- Release Date: 30-12-16
- Language: English
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