TechStuff Tidbits: What is SWIFT?

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 signed a massive chip deal that rocked the industry, and they just released tech that gets ChatGPT one step closer to becoming the ... Show More

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 Washington Post to discuss his article, “A Band of Innovators Reimagines the Spy Game for a World with No Cover.” Ignatius has been coveri ... Show More

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 goes all in on advertisements, but they are getting defaced. Then, Italy has a new AI regulation law and there’s a buzzy new “act ... Show More

In today's globally-connected financial system, it's pretty easy to send money from one place to the next, across most of the planet -- and that's all thanks to a system called the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, or SWIFT. Many people outside of the ... Show More

A new player has entered the strange, often confusing world of Bitcoin -- the non-fungible token, or NFT. This digital token, which can be virtually anything, is technically unique. It's a one-of-a-kind thing existing in an entirely intangible state. Numerous artists, musicians a ... Show More

Que sont les NFT ? Merci d'avoir posé la question ! Les NFT “Non fungible tokens” ou jetons non fongibles en français, sont un genre de certificats d’authenticité, qui prouvent qu’on est le ou la propriétaire d’une œuvre virtuelle. Oui, il est désormais possible d’acheter des mem ... Show More

NFTs were a big sensation, but the market for them has crashed. This week, we invited a crypto-sceptic, FT columnist Jemima Kelly, to answer all the questions you were afraid to ask. What are NFTs exactly? What happened with them? And have they changed the way we think about art? ... Show More

Que sont les NFT ? Merci d'avoir posé la question ! Les NFT font parler d'eux en ce début novembre 2021. Booba a annoncé la sortie d'un nouveau clip exclusivement disponible en NFT, Quentin Tarantino met aux enchères des NFT de scènes inédites de “Pulp Fiction”... Les NFT “Non fu ... Show More

Neuromarketers claim that their techniques provide new and profound insights for consumers buying everything from soda to new cars. But can they really interpret data in a way that allows them to nudge a user's subconscious mind? And, if so, what does this mean for the future? Le ... Show More

This weekend, we discuss the power of disinformation, and how Russia has been using it in Ukraine. We are joined by Natalia Antelava, who has reported in Ukraine and Eastern Europe for years. Natalia is editor-in-chief of the popular news website called Coda Story, which focuses ... Show More

A message board meant for school chatter quickly turned toxic at a high school in Vermont. WSJ family and tech columnist Julie Jargon joins host Zoe Thomas to talk about the app Fizz and what happened at the school. Plus, AI is giving scammers a new edge in online fraud. We’ll te ... Show More

Prior to flight becoming common, 'SOS' was the standard distress call. Learn how the code 'mayday' was invented in this episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Ezra Klein joins Search Engine this week to answer a question that's increasingly confounded us: how do I use the internet now? How do I get information about the things I care about, without getting sucked into a vortex of opinion, unearned certainty, and yelling? If you want to ... Show More