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TechStuff is getting a system update. Everything you love about Tech Stuff now twice the bandwidth with new hosts, Oz Woloshyn (Sleepwalkers) and Karah Preiss (Sleepwalkers). Oz and Karah bring humour and wit to the table as they break down what's happening in tech...and what it says about us....
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Week in Tech: Did Social Media Just Change Forever?
Are you ready to bond over AI videos? This week in tech news, OpenAI dominates the game. Their new social media app is the talk of the internet, they...
The Story: Spies vs. AIs
This week, we check in on the CIA and how it’s faring in the age of AI. Oz sits down with David Ignatius, a foreign affairs columnist for The Washingt...
Week in Tech: Does 'Workslop' Affect Your Workplace?
Do you know the definition of a friend? This week in tech news, workplaces may not be getting a good return on their AI investments and a new wearable...
The Story: Everyone in Hollywood Already Uses AI
This week, we explore Hollywood’s open secret — that everyone is using AI, they just aren’t talking about it. Karah sits down with Lila Shapiro, a fea...
Week in Tech: Cast Your Ballot On Discord
Who are the teens debugging in the bathroom? This week in tech news, there’s a Gen Z-led revolution in Nepal and Discord made it possible. Early 2000s...
The Story: ON CRISPR: The Story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson
This week, we’re bringing you the first episode of Season 3 of the podcast ON CRISPR. Walter Isaacson — the bestselling biographer behind Musk, Einste...
Week in Tech: Why the Charlie Kirk Video is Everywhere
What does the viral video of Charlie Kirk’s assassination say about the state of content moderation on social media? This week, Oz and Karah unpack th...
The Story: Social Media is Ruining Our Sex Lives
This week, we take a deep dive into why Gen Z isn’t having sex. Karah talks with Carter Sherman, a reproductive health and justice reporter for The Gu...
Week in Tech: Turning China's Surveillance Against Itself
What does getting older actually feel like? This week, Oz and Karah discuss MIT Researchers who are using technology to simulate aging. Then, Oz tells...
The Story: Russian Bots vs American Gamblers
This week, we’re all in. Oz chats with Kit Chellel, a Bloomberg writer who focuses on gambling, technology, and sports betting. He wrote an article ab...
Ferrari Fandom, Supercharged by AI
Scuderia Ferrari and IBM are redefining fan engagement with AI-driven insights, and cutting-edge digital tools. Learn how IBM is helping Scuderia Ferr...
TechStuff Redux: Mars, Asterisk w/ Nathaniel Rich
We’re taking this week off! But don’t worry, we’ll be back with new episodes starting September 10th. In the meantime, we’re sharing some of our favor...
TechStuff Redux: Russia’s Espionage ‘Laboratory’ w/ Ben Taub
We’re taking this week off! But don’t worry, we’ll be back with new episodes starting September 10th. In the meantime, we’re sharing some of our favor...
TechSupport: 22 Jobs For An AI Future
We’ve all read the headlines that AI will take over white-collar jobs. But this week, Oz and Karah spoke with journalist Robert Capps about the 22 new...
Inside View: The AI Personas Needed to Diagnose Disease
This week, we went to the doctor. Oz speaks with Dr. Matthew Lungren, the Chief Scientific Officer for Microsoft Health & Life Sciences, who co-author...
Week in Tech: Chips are the New Oil
How will we send memes when the world ends? This week, Oz and Karah recap the first ever World Humanoid Robot Games – the Olympics for Androids. Then,...
The Story: Inside a Couples Retreat for AI Companions
This week we go on a romantic getaway for people who are in love with AI. Karah talks with Sam Apple, an author and journalist who wrote an article fo...
Week in Tech: If Versailles Could Talk
Is technology actually good for older people? This week, Oz and Karah explore the French palace of Versailles by talking to a statue-turned-chatbot. T...
TechSupport: Nothing’s Private – Even Conversations with ChatGPT
How did around 100,000 ChatGPT conversations end up indexed on Google? Users who sent conversations with a now-defunct “share” feature in ChatGPT made...
Week in Tech: Talk To Me Like AI’s Do
Should we let AI have its own language? This week, Oz and Karah check out what the world’s most powerful people have on their Spotify playlists. Then...
The Story: Inside the World of Kidfluencers w/ Ines Novacic
Documentary director Ines Novacic spent five years following kidfluencers and their families to get the behind the scenes scoop on the industry. She j...
Week in Tech: Diners, Dating, TikTok PI’s
How good is Dr. GPT? This week, Oz and Karah spill the tea on Elon Musk’s new retro-futurist diner in LA—where robots serve popcorn and the food comes...
Inside View: Making Cancer Visible w/ Andrey Zarur
On the Inside View, we talk to the experts behind the innovations shaping our lives. This week, Andrey Zarur discusses the future of cancer surgery an...
Week in Tech: Do You Share Your Location?
Which company has the best AI engineering talent? It may be shifting. This week, Oz and Karah discuss how the most powerful CEO’s in the tech industry...
The Story: AI-Induced Psychosis w/ Kashmir Hill
This week we unpack a disturbing new phenomenon: people being driven into a state of delusion after extended conversations with ChatGPT. Oz sits down...
Week in Tech: My Deepfake, My Choice
Are we starting to sound like ChatGPT? This week, Oz and Karah explore a new AI-powered recipe tool and test whether mustard and pasta actually go tog...
The Story: User-Centered AI at Google w/ David Webster
David Webster is the head of UX at Google Labs, the company’s experimental AI division. When he stepped into the role in 2022, the tech world was scra...
L’Oréal and IBM: AI-Powered Beauty
This week, the show takes you behind the scenes at L'Oréal’s research center in New Jersey. Malcolm Gladwell delves into the complexities of cosmetic...
Week in Tech: Hot Maps and AI Judges
Is betting on current events the ‘future of news’? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah ask AI if their favorite restaurants are hot or not and...
The Story: Roblox and the ‘Prehistoric Era’ of Gaming w/ David Baszucki
David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, the gaming platform that’s become a digital playground for millions of kids around the world. Basz...
TechStuff Classic: The Story of the Sony Walkman
This week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes — all about the Sony Walkman. Jonathan Strickland dives into why Time named the portable devi...
The Story: Selfhood in the Digital Age w/ Vauhini Vara
Writer and journalist Vauhini Vara has been entangled with the tech world for most of her life — first as a kid in the Seattle suburbs and a college s...
Week in Tech: The Music Industry Strikes Back
How can you detect AI music? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah unpack the music industry's scramble to build tech that labels AI-generated t...
The Story: Big Tech, Small Town w/ Yasmin Green
When Yasmin Green joined Google almost two decades ago, she knew she wanted to focus on the complex problems facing humanity in a technological world...
Week in Tech: There's No Place Like AI
What does Google Search sound like? This week in the News Roundup, Oz explores Google’s new AI-generated audio summaries — and why a simple question l...
TechSupport: The Two Sides of Biometric Data w/ Adam Clark Estes
Adam Clark Estes is a senior technology correspondent at Vox and the author of the User Friendly newsletter. Estes sits down with Oz to discuss Amazon...
Week in Tech: AI’s Problem Solving Problem
What’s inside AI’s black box? This week in the News Roundup, Oz unpacks the uncomfortable truth that even the people building today’s AI models often...
The Story: Are the US and China in a Tech War? w/ Jake Sullivan
When the Biden administration announced the CHIPS and Science Act back in 2022, it was seen as a pivotal move to boost the US semiconductor industry a...
Week in Tech: Nintendo Thinks Sideways
Did search just get worse? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah discuss how AI is reshaping search engines — for better or worse — and uncover...
The Story: From Woolly Mice to De-Extinction w/ Ben Lamm
Ben Lamm is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. That's the genetic engineering company making headlines for its bold miss...