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Pirates and Robots: A Conversation With Annalee Newitz
Pirates and Robots: A Conversation With Annalee Newitz
Big Tech's Blackballing of Neo-Nazi Sites Shows Who Controls the Internet
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Facebook Wants to Convince Us That VR Is Cool
Virtual reality adoption has been slow. Despite promising leaps in the tech over the past several decades, relatively few VR headsets have been sold worldwide, especially compared to smartphones. Can the world's most popular social network bring V...
Infamous Hacker Kevin Mitnick Tells Us How He Created Fake Identities
Radio Motherboard sits down with infamous hacker and computer security expert Kevin Mitnick—AKA The Condor—to discuss internet safety, online privacy, and the art of hacking.
Gender-Swapping Sci-Fi With 'Ancillary Justice' Author Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword (2014) and Ancillary Mercy (2015) duly followed Ancillary Justice, completing Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy and carving Leckie's category-defining concepts into the pages of the Space Opera genre for aeons to come. The Impe...
Gender-Swapping Sci-Fi With 'Ancillary Justice' Author Ann Leckie
Ancillary Sword (2014) and Ancillary Mercy (2015) duly followed Ancillary Justice, completing Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy and carving Leckie's category-defining concepts into the pages of the Space Opera genre for aeons to come. The Impe...
Gender-Swapping Sci-Fi With 'Ancillary Justice' Author Ann Leckie
The award-winning sci-fi novelist's new book 'Provenance' is due out September 26. A far-flung space empire on the verge of internal collapse? Check. A multi-body artificial intelligence that calls all people "she"? Si. Tea? O...
What is Bitcoin really for?
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies aren't just for making money. Enthusiasts often believe the technology could help give rise to a political revolution. But of what kind? On this week's episode, we talk to two researchers about the ideology ...