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Tech News: Twitter's Board Won't Be Musky Apr 12, 2022

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Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's Board of Directors after all. Plus, what happens when cops pull over a driverless car? And we learn about a gorilla who is spending too much time looking at smartphones.

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Rerun: TechStuff Samples Some Raspberry Pi Apr 11, 2022

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What is the Raspberry Pi? Who came up with the idea? What can the Raspberry Pi do? Listen in as your favorite tech gurus break down Raspberry Pi.

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TechStuff Classic: A Series of Tubes Part One Apr 08, 2022

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How do pneumatic tubes work? Lauren Vogelbaum joins the show to talk about the physics and history of pneumatic tube systems.

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Tech News: Meta Still Wants to Make Zuck Bucks Apr 07, 2022

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Meta ditched Diem but still plans to introduce a digital currency that employees call "Zuck Bucks." Some of Mark Zuckerberg's employees refer to him as the "Eye of Sauron" and somehow he doesn't think that's a bad thing. And we hear about a lawsuit that claims IBM fudged numbers on its revenue filings.

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TechStuff Tidbits: The Terahertz Gap Apr 06, 2022

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Take a close look at the electromagnetic spectrum and you'll notice there's a span of frequencies we don't seem to use very much. Why is that?

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Tech News: Exploring the Amazon (News) Apr 05, 2022

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Employees at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island pass a vote to unionize. Elon Musk becomes Twitter's newest board member. And scientists have created a new message to tell aliens where to find us.

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Using Tech for Good with Baratunde Thurston Apr 04, 2022

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Advocate, technologist and comedian Baratunde Thurston joins the show to talk about his podcast How to Citizen and how, with a little work, we can make tech live up to its potential as a tool for positive social change.

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TechStuff Classic: How Steganography Works Apr 01, 2022

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How can you hide a message so that no one knows you're even communicating? Use steganography! Ariel Kasten joins the show to talk about the art of hiding messages.

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Tech News: Big Tech, Big Problems Mar 31, 2022

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Today's news covers a lot of important problems cropping up around Big Tech, from anticompetitive practices to deceptive lobbying strategies to the spread of misinformation on social networking platforms. Plus learn how researchers were able to hack into a Canadian broadcast satellite.

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TechStuff Tidbits: Satellite Orbits 101 Mar 30, 2022

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What are the different kinds of satellite orbits, and what purpose do they serve? From low Earth orbits to Lagrange points, we take a high-level view. From space.

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