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| Sep 24, 2025 | В будущем экраны в основном синие | Мы видели будущее, и будущее в основном синее.
Или, другими словами: в наших представлениях о будущем в научно-фантастических фильмах синий цвет кажется доминирующим цветом наших интерфейсов, работающих с технологиями, которые ещё предстоит... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Don’t be “A Square” – Escape from Flatland and start thinking in new ways | article-article-body
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a book called Flatland. I’ve always loved the analogy of that book and recently was reminded of it during a RadioLab podcast. Nothing is more dangerous to a business or a brand than st... |
| Oct 19, 2023 | There’s a new way to flip bits in DRAM, and it works against the latest defenses | Enlarge reader comments 64 with
In 2015, researchers reported a surprising discovery that stoked industry-wide security concerns—an attack called RowHammer that could corrupt, modify, or steal sensitive data when a simple user-level applica... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Two Excellent Podcast Episodes Techdirt Readers Might Like | We’re hard at work on a very cool new project that will be released very soon, so I didn’t have time to record a podcast this week. However, there were two recent (much more well known) podcast episodes that I heard that Techdirt readers mi... |
| Jul 20, 2022 | Rational Security 2.0: The 'This Edition is Too Damn Early' Edition | This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott got together for another early morning session to hash through the week's big national security news, including:
“Stuck in the Middle (East) with You.” As President Biden ends his trip to the Middle East h... |
| Nov 13, 2017 | Genesis Noir is a surreal voyage through the Big Bang | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Genesis Noir explores a mysterious liminal space that somehow feels both small yet expansive. The protagonist, No Man, travels through ... |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Your 2017 ISTE Cheatsheet Is Here—and Jam-Packed | San Antonio, one of America’s fastest growing metropolises, is about to get a whole lot busier. Starting June 24th, thousands of educators, entrepreneurs and edtech enthusiasts will flock to Alamo City for the annual International Society f... |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Founder Stories: Reham Fagiri of AptDeco | Founder Stories are conversations with people that have been through YC.
Reham Fagiri is cofounder and CEO of AptDeco (YC W14).
Discussed: Skills Learned During Her MBA; Going From a Bank to a Startup; Starting AptDeco; SFNYC During YC; R... |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Hacking DNA: The Story of CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive | The very nature of the human race is about to change. This change will be radical and rapid beyond anything in our species’ history. A chapter of our story just ended and the next chapter has begun.
This revolution in what it means to be h... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | Spotify launches PlayStation 4 podcast support — and it’s spotty | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Both Sony and Microsoft consoles now support playing podcasts in the background while you’re in games or other apps — although the Play... |
| Aug 24, 2016 | Look up: Police surveillance planes are probably flying over Baltimore right now | The FBI surveillance planes that circled Baltimore during protests that followed Freddie Gray’s death showed how police have the capability to monitor the city from above without the public knowing. But that may be remembered as a pilot com... |
| Apr 26, 2016 | Rightspeed helps you devour audio books at a terrifying pace | Podcasts and audio books are enjoying tremendous popularity at the moment, and the fresh-off-the-app-presses app Rightspeed is a $2.99 iOS app that’s here to help you speed-listen your way through your audio library.
Most audio book apps ha... |
| Apr 15, 2016 | The Business of Zapping Brains With Electricity Heats Up | Two new company’s hope to boost the brains of gamers. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
There’s a non-chemical, probably not addictive, seemingly safe method for getting more out of life. Maybe. Proponents refer to it as TDCS (or tran... |
| Feb 13, 2016 | The Lawfare Podcast: Daniel Placek on Darkode | Last week as part of the University of Texas at Austin Strauss Center's conference on "The Frontiers of Cybersecurity Policy and Law," Daniel Placek, formerly one of the key figures behind the underground hacker website Darkode, o... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | After weeks of anticipation, a U.S. naval vessel sailed near the Subi Reef in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands, challenging China’s expansive maritime claims in the region. The vessel, the USS Lassen, was accompanied by surveillance pl... |
| Sep 10, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The Islamic State is now ransoming two foreign hostages kidnapped in Syria, one Norwegian and one Chinese citizen. CNN reports that pictures posted in the latest issue of the group’s online magazine, Dabiq, appeared to show the two hostages... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | Morning Read: Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks dies, Amicus acquires Scioderm in a $229M deal | Amicus Therapeutics has acquired a drug to treat a rare skin disorder through its purchase of Scioderm in a $229 million deal that could eventually be worth $618 million after clinical, regulatory and sales milestones are met. Scioderm’s to... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Aren’t An Overnight Success | When Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett launched Relay FM, they expected to build a small independent network of weekly tech podcasts. Just a year later, Relay FM features 16 different shows and delivers 1.5 million downloads every month. Buil... |
| Feb 28, 2015 | No one could describe the color 'blue' until modern times | Science No one could describe the color 'blue' until modern times
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| Jan 7, 2015 | The Nasty Patent Games Drug Companies Play To Stop You From Getting Cheaper Drugs | The astoundingly wonderful radio program/podcast Radiolab just recently had an episode called “Worth” — which included a few different stories trying to establish how much something is truly “worth.” The first story in the collection talked... |
| Oct 27, 2014 | Quebec Is Also Wrestling with Police Violence and Impunity | Hood of a police vehicle in Montreal. Photo via the author.
Last week, as tension mounted in Ferguson, Missouri over a recently leaked autopsy that supported the police account of the shooting of Michael Brown, Montreal was also coming to g... |
| May 16, 2014 | Maximum Orwell: Ending The War Without End, By Enabling A New War Without End… And Less Oversight | If you haven’t yet come across it, you should listen to the recent Radiolab episode entitled “60 Words.” It’s a bit different from the standard Radiolab fare, instead presenting a somewhat chilling look into the infamous 60 words in the AUM... |
| Feb 24, 2014 | The NSA Has Set Up Shop at the US Embassy in Mexico | When Edward Snowden's leaks revealed what the NSA had been up to in Mexico, Mexicans were understandably pissed. The National Security Agency had spied on Mexican presidents Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón, on Calderón’s cabinet, and... |
| Nov 28, 2013 | 5 non-mindless ways to avoid your annoying family on Thanksgiving | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Let’s play Annoying Family Bingo:
Alcoholic Aunt.... |
| Nov 12, 2013 | Healthcare Zoom Series: Blood Money – how the blood industry can inspire our thinking | Radiolab recently highlighted the complexities and surprising realities of the blood industry. What does it mean when a pint of freely donated blood can cost up to $300 by the time it reaches the patient?
It means we need to rethink healthc... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | DailyDirt: Terrible Tumors | Radiolab had a fascinating episode on famous tumors that aired recently (again). Cancer is usually a pretty grim topic, but there are some incredibly interesting facets of cancer if you can forget about its lethal nature. If you haven’t kno... |
| Jul 25, 2013 | Engineer can’t get decent dinner reservations, creates Urbanspoon-dominating bot | Want a seat here? Use Diogo Mónica's bot and thank him later.
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| Apr 30, 2013 | Jessie Borrelle – cofounder of Paper Radio | Jessie Borrelle is a writer, editor and producer. Originally from New Zealand, she has been published across Australasia, and her radio work broadcast nationally in Australia. In 2009 she cofounded Paper Radio with Jon Tjhia, an Australian ... |
| Feb 10, 2013 | New nanotech promises nothing will ever get wet—so how should it be used? | reader comments 171 with 143 posters participating
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| Nov 2, 2012 | Can You Take Fact Checking Too Far? | Earlier this year, there was a lot of attention paid to the popular radio program This American Life (TAL) having to retract its episode based on storyteller Mike Daisey’s one-man show, in which he claimed to be telling a story about his ow... |
| Sep 11, 2012 | Tweets… In… Space…. | I was just recently listening to Radiolab’s excellent episode about “Space”, which contains a really great talk with Ann Druyan, the widow of Carl Sagan, about how they worked together to produce a “record” that was shot into space with the... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | Chuck Close Succeeds In Stifling A Creative Homage… But Only For Another 100 Years Or So! | Chuck Close is an interesting artist. One of the most famous, most successful artists alive today, he paints giant portraits of people based on photographs. He does so by enlarging photographs, dividing up the images, and copying smaller ar... |
| Jun 29, 2012 | What Apple’s New Podcasts App Means For Listeners—And for Apple | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Without warning or fanfare, Apple introduced a new Podcasts app this week that gives users of iPhones, iPads, and iPods a much simpler way to find and listen to downloadable a... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | WNYC’s Radiolab Makes Mobile Debut With New iOS And Android Apps | WNYC’s Radiolab has garnered plenty of acclaim since its first shows went on the air back in 2002, and now thousands of fans (including myself) tend to champ at the bit in anticipation of hearing Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich geek out on ... |
| Jun 8, 2012 | Yes, Public Radio Shows Can Do Cool CwF+RtB Experiments Too | One of my favorite radio programs/podcasts is Radiolab. They do absolutely amazing storytelling on really interesting things. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a Radiolab program and then not gone off to talk to someone about it. Their mo... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Yet Another Of The FBI's Own Terrorist Plots… Involves A Group Of Senior Citizens | The latest Radiolab “shorts” episode, entitled Grumpy Old Terrorists, seems like a bit of a departure in subject matter for that program — but fits right in with something we’ve been talking a lot about lately. Over the past few years, we’v... |
| Jun 17, 2011 | The Story Of The Mechanical Padre | Radiolab has an excellent story about one of the most fascinating clockwork automatons ever made, a 15-inch high figure of a well-known miraculous monk, San Diego de Alcalá. The story is a bit apocryphal but the gist is this: the son of the... |
| Healthcare Zoom Series: Blood Money – how the blood industry can inspire our thinking | Businesses in healthcare are facing a problem. In such a diverse, complicated and innovative field, determining how to pursue growth can be overwhelming. From political influences and new technologies to cultural changes and economic shifts... |
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How Our ‘Stuck’ Housing Market Mutes Healthy Mobility | There’s almost nothing worse than feeling “stuck.”
Whether it’s not reaching your health goals, failing to achieve that promotion you were working toward at the office, or being in a relationship that doesn’t feel headed in any specific dir... |
| Morning Read: Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks dies, Amicus acquires Scioderm in a $229M deal | TOP STORIES
Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has died of cancer at the age of 82. One of his greatest achievements was to record his fascination with the inner workings of the human brain into conversational essays that made the... |
| On the History and Potential of CRISPR and Gene Drive | The very nature of the human race is about to change. This change will be radical and rapid beyond anything in our species’ history. A chapter of our story just ended and the next chapter has begun.
This revolution in what it means to be h... |