IEEE Spectrum Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Is artificial intelligence likely to make humans extinct, or are we smart enough to control it?
Intellectual property lawyer Linda Thayer discusses the implications for high-tech companies
The author of “Someone to Watch Over Me” explains why sci-fi is more important than fantasy
Electricity expert Clark Gellings envisions an integrated, agile network to tie together millions of electricity producers and consumers
Vern Brownell, D-Wave’s CEO, talks about the company’s ongoing efforts to prove the potential of its hardware and its plans for the future
Erik Brynjolfsson has some suggestions for avoiding the negative economic impacts of automation
The Federal Communications Commission may still be able to enforce open network regulations despite losing the latest court case
Kodak thought it had a reliable way to estimate what its IP was worth. It was sadly mistaken
As the demand for bandwidth increases, wireless engineers are trying to figure out how to efficiently use all available networks, without sacrificing privacy and security
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft succumbed to mechanical failure, but there is more data—and perhaps some life yet—for the mission
Putting a public electric-vehicle charger in front of his house and changing local ordinances are just first steps for this passionate promoter of electric vehicles
Amazon’s talk of package delivery drones may just be pie-in-the-sky, but start-up Matternet has already begun testing a delivery-drone network in developing countries
A smarter technology reduces seizures in epileptic patients by identifying dangerous patterns of brain activity
Eighteen finalists from more than 120 countries come to California to compete in the Google Science Fair
Putting people who like to fix things together with those who need something fixed makes everybody happy. And that’s what the Repair Café movement is all about
An Israeli group is scanning and reassembling 250 000 document fragments that are hundreds of years old
The former head of R&D for General Motors, Larry Burns, talks about the convergence of lightweight electric vehicles and self-driving cars in new systems of personal transportation
He says our network architecture is shrinking the economy and impoverishing the middle class
A new book looks at the production, history, ethics, and nutrition of meat to answer the question: Should we eat it?
Despite thousands of cameras on the scene, the Boston Marathon bombers weren’t caught by face recognition technology
What happens when Watson learns a million databases? RPI students and faculty hope to find out
A start-up ranks data scientists and creates competitions between them for specific consulting projects
In several communities, Verizon has not restored landline phone service in seven months—and may never
Canadian start-up ePACT’s dedicated system keeps organizations connected in emergencies
Manufacturers are still not putting security first when designing implantable medical devices
In a timely new memoir, a geologist chronicles his journey from shooting model rockets to becoming one of Curiosity’s lead scientists
A Georgia Tech professor of robotics argues automation is still creating more jobs than it destroys
Aereo takes broadcast TV signals and puts them on your computer, tablet, and smartphone—for a fee
The successful paywall for Andrew Sullivan’s blog may have everyone rethinking free content
Philippe Dubost turned himself into an Amazon product page that got a million page views
The Guardian Project’s software authenticates human rights videos and protects activists in the field
Seventy percent of the Dreamliner is preassembled by a tiered system of subcontractors that Boeing has never used before
A Microsoft Research economist’s focus shifts from presidential prediction to Hollywood handicapping
Reviewers are gaming the system at Amazon and elsewhere for mischief, politics, and profit
Lynn University is putting its two-year common-core curriculum entirely on the iPad mini
After a mass shooting or natural disaster, Wikipedia’s volunteers are on the story within hours and make thousands of edits in the first days
Self-publishers are putting out thousands of books that almost nobody will read, and making money at it