TechStuff Classic: Tech Memes

When documentary filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough set out to make a movie about OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, he hoped to get an interview with his main character. But when that didn’t happen, Adam found a workaround — he created a chatbot version of Sam Altman. From San Francisco to India ... Show More

This week, we’re bringing you an episode from the podcast No Such Thing. Join Manny, Noah, and Devan — three best friends and journalists — as they settle dumb arguments by actually doing the research. Each week, they start with a debate or discussion. In this episode, they ask: ... Show More

Tilly Norwood caused quite a stir when she was introduced in late 2025. Her creator, actor-producer Eline Van der Velden, said she wanted Tilly to be the “Scarlett Johansson” of AI actors. But she immediately felt the backlash from Hollywood. Emily Blunt called Tilly “really, rea ... Show More

Aujourd’hui un meme est une expression de la culture internet. Il suffit de se connecter à Instagram, Twitter ou Facebook pour voir la même image détournée des dizaines de fois, circuler pendant des mois, évoluer puis disparaître. Sur internet, un meme est un contenu viral, souv ... Show More

What's a meme? And what makes a meme, dank? Today's guest is Lawrence Pierson, a PhD student in theoretical astrophysics at Stanford University, will answer these questions, and more. He's the author a paper detailing how he and a classmate built a neural network to generate meme ... Show More

<p>The girlies hop into the meme pool to investigate how memes are made, why they spread, and what happens when the worst moments of someone's life follow them forever in the memeiverse. Digressions include a mysterious case of Souping, the Binchtopia infirmary ward, and one list ... Show More

Turns out the Classical world is ripe for use in memes! Liv speaks with Ben of the Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens Twitter and Facebook empires about Classics, memes, and a whole lot else.Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be fo ... Show More

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Que sont les technologies quantiques ? Merci d'avoir posé la question ! Les technologies quantiques sont des outils qui utilisent les propriétés physiques de toutes petites particules, les ions ou les photons par exemple. Ça peut paraître un peu abstrait, mais les nouvelles techn ... Show More

<p>Why was Gandhi convinced one woman had truly been reincarnated? Are memes actually alive? What's going on at the Steelcase Pyramid? All this and more in this week's listener mail.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">ht ... Show More

We're looking at health tech. Our reporter gets hands-on with a new ultrasound system in Kenya helping to keep mothers healthy during pregnancy. And tech for the menopause. Why isn't there more of it ? Also on this edition of Tech Life, the social media platform we used to call T ... Show More

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'd like ... Show More