Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to journalist Taylor Lorenz about her new book Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, And Power on the Internet. They talk about the rise of the modern influencer and how all of us have to make our peace with our online lives.
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Oct 2023
Farewell HANF, Hello Gadget Lab
Misinformation lives everywhere. False accounts of events, doctored photos, and purposely misleading news stories are quickly shared and passed around on social media, usually by well-meaning people who don’t know they’re sharing incorrect information. It's a big problem in the b ... Show More
45m 5s
Oct 2023
Some People Still Believe in Crypto
Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer of the cryptocurrency news site, CoinDesk. Almost a year after a CoinDesk report kicked off a series of events that led to the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, is there anyone who still believes in ... Show More
42m 14s
Sep 2023
Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions
<p>This week: How tech executives’ favorite place to take their pants off turned into a muddy hellscape. We talk to one executive who couldn’t just call a helicopter to escape.</p><p>Then, Jonathan Greenblatt, C.E.O. of the Anti-Defamation League, on how his organization went fro ... Show More
1h 4m
May 2021
Listen Again: Warped Reality
Original broadcast date: October 30, 2020. False information on the internet makes it harder and harder to know what's true, and the consequences have been devastating. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas around technology and deception. Guests include law professor Danielle Ci ... Show More
50m 28s
Dec 2021
Do you really want that device to be a connected device?
Guest Jay Radcliffe from Thermo Fisher Scientific shares his advice and security concerns with smart devices since the holiday gifting season is around the corner, Joe and Dave have some listener follow up about 2FA, Joe's got a story about the Robinhood breach, Dave's story is a ... Show More
47m 24s
Feb 2025
The Story: Liar, Liar, Deepfakes on Fire w/ Hany Farid
Hany Farid is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He's been a leading voice on digital forensics for over two decades—pioneering ways to identify if an image, audio or video has been digitally altered. Since the r ... Show More
29m 19s
Aug 2023
Fighting forest fires with technology
Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist at Microsoft's AI For Good Lab, tells Tech Life how artificial intelligence can help predict wildfires.Driverless cars are popping up on streets around the world. But not everyone welcomes them, and some protestors in San Francisco have t ... Show More
27m 18s
Oct 2023
Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test
<p>As the Israel-Hamas war broke out, misinformation and fake imagery surged on X, the platform formerly known at Twitter. Can Meta’s Threads fill the real-time news hole that X created? Should it?</p><p>Then, Kevin debriefs us on his reporting on Manifold Markets, where Silicon ... Show More
1h 6m
