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How Tech Spies On Us Jun 07, 2021

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Is your phone eavesdropping on you? Does that smart speaker listen in on your conversations? Turns out, they don't need to, because companies can access enormous amounts of personal data in other ways.

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TechStuff Classic: The HBO Story- Part Two Jun 05, 2021

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What happened to HBO once cable subscriptions hit a saturation point? We look at how the company transitioned from startup to corporate.

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Smart Talks with IBM and Malcolm Gladwell - Couch vs. cubicle: is the future of work hybrid? Jun 03, 2021

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Remote working has kept many businesses afloat over the last year, but has it kept employees productive, enthusiastic, and inspired? In this special episode of Smart Talks, recorded at IBM’s Think Conference, Malcolm spars with his longtime friend Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School, about what we’ve learned through remote working and how businesses can approach a hybrid model. Can we, and should we, return to “normal”?

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AT&T and Warner Media: A Failed Love Affair Jun 03, 2021

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Continuing our history of Warner Bros/Time Warner/WarnerMedia, we look at how the failed merger of AOL Time Warner shook out. Then we explore how the media landscape changed rapidly in the 2000s. And we learn why AT&T bought WarnerMedia only to turn around and sell it off again.

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Tech New: The Era of Killer Robots Jun 01, 2021

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A report claims Google purposefully hit location tracking settings to discourage users from turning them off. Facebook funds a questionable report. And we learn about a military drone that attacked targets autonomously.

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Rerun: TechStuff Moments with Mr. Lincoln May 31, 2021

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The Disneyland attraction Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln originally started out as a World's Fair attraction before taking up residence in the Happiest Place on Earth. We look at the history, technology and evolution of this popular Disney attraction.

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Smart Talks with IBM and Malcolm Gladwell: Can AI be empathetic? Reinventing client experiences May 28, 2021

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In a time that’s been challenging for everyone, perhaps no other industry has been hit harder than healthcare. Anthem, one of America’s leading health benefits companies, needed to be ready to answer member questions at a moment’s notice. In this episode of Smart Talks, Malcolm talks to Anil Bhatt, Senior Vice President and CTO of Anthem, and Glenn Finch, Managing Partner of Global Business Services at IBM, about how AI is helping people interact with healthcare in a whole new way.

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Tech News - Time Flies in VR May 27, 2021

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Human rights group urge Google to drop a cloud computing project in Saudi Arabia. UK Uber drivers now have a union they can join. And scientists think that your perception of time changes in virtual reality.

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The Warner Story Gets Messy May 26, 2021

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Continuing our episodes about the evolution of WarnerMedia, we look at a brief history of HBO and Cinemax. We learn about the Worst Merger of All Time. And we learn a bit about the cable business.

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Tech News – Tech and Global Politics May 25, 2021

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Today’s episode includes many stories of how tech and politics are clashing. From police in India raiding Twitter offices to China cracking down on bitcoin mining, we learn about how tech has come under fire from various governments and why. Plus lots more!

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