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A New Competitor for Bitcoin Aims to Be Faster and Safer
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 5 mins
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A Stanford professor claims to have invented a Bitcoin-like system that can handle payments faster and with more security.
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A New Competitor for Bitcoin Aims to Be Faster and Safer
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 06-01-15
- Language: English
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Google’s Quantum Dream Machine
- 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: 12-18-15
- Language: English
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One Startup’s Vision to Reinvent the Web for Better Privacy
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 3 mins
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Blockstack’s system would let you control your own personal data—for example, by revoking a site’s access to it.
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One Startup’s Vision to Reinvent the Web for Better Privacy
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 02-22-17
- Language: English
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When Your Boss Is an Uber Algorithm
- 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: 11-23-15
- Language: English
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With Hospital Ransomware Infections, the Patients Are at Risk
- 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: 04-08-16
- Language: English
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Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free
- 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: 06-01-15
- Language: English
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The Tiny Startup Racing Google to Build a Quantum Computing Chip
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
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The airy Berkeley office space of startup Rigetti Computing boasts three refrigerators - but only one of them stores food. The other two use liquid helium to cool experimental computer chips to a fraction of a degree from absolute zero. The two-year-old company is trying to build the hardware needed to power a quantum computer, which could trounce any conventional machine by tapping into quantum mechanics.
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Computer spoken??
- By Simson Garfinkel on 10-29-19
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The Tiny Startup Racing Google to Build a Quantum Computing Chip
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 02-08-16
- Language: English
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High-End, Cord-Free VR Headsets Are Nearing Reality
- 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: 09-30-16
- Language: English
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A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets
- 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: 12-04-15
- Language: English
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Teaching Machines to Understand Us
- 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: 10-15-15
- Language: English
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AI That Dreams Up Drugs
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 12-30-16
- Language: English
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Facebook's New Map of World Population Could Help Get Billions Online
- 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: 02-22-16
- Language: English
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Machine Dreams
- Narrated by: Todd Mundt
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 05-01-15
- Language: English
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Meet Facebook’s Stratospheric Internet Drone
- 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: 07-30-15
- Language: English
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Team is Collaborating with Google’s Stratospheric Balloons Project
- 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: 10-06-15
- Language: English
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
- 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: 10-15-15
- 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: 12-01-15
- Language: English
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5 Things You Need to Know About Facebook's Next 10 Years at Facebook's Annual Dev
- 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: 04-22-16
- Language: English
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Reinventing Intel
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 10-28-16
- Language: English
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Microsoft's Civil Rights Crusader
- By: Tom Simonite
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 14 mins
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The No. 2 executive at Microsoft is fighting the U.S. government in a series of cases that will shape online privacy - and the cloud business.
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Microsoft's Civil Rights Crusader
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 10-28-16
- Language: English
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