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How Data Is Fostering Less Invasive Medicine Dec 04, 2016

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In a collaboration with Think: Health, this week we're taking a look at a few examples of non-invasive medical tech - tracking blood sugar without blood, exoskeletons for rehab, and using vibrations to help the blind see.

Playing Games With AI Nov 14, 2016

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Earlier this year Google managed to do something many thought impossible - they built an artificial intelligence that beat a human at the board game GO. Almost twenty years ago IBM did something similar, beating the world chess champion with their computer, Deep Blue. Understanding how these computers play games, as well as the myriad computer games we all know and love, reveals a lot about the evolution of artificial intelligence.

Tech Is Coming For One Of The Oldest Art Forms Nov 06, 2016

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Meet Stalker theatre, a Sydney-based theatre group that is experimenting with code and live performance.

How To Design Technology For A Human Oct 29, 2016

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Nomatter how exciting it may be, when new technology is developed, it's often really hard to use. The first few years of mainframes, smartphones and artificial intelligence all started this way. But gradually, the rest of us want in. And designers start trying to figure out how to make it accessible for almost anyone. This is how users get into design.

REBROADCAST: Why Are People Going Analogue? Oct 21, 2016

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This year saw a record number of vinyl records sold. It's a 28 year high, but the trend has been going this way for a while. But with so many digital options, why are people choosing to go analogue?

REBROADCAST: A Peek Inside A More Diverse World Oct 15, 2016

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This week and next are supporter drive here at 2ser, and Jake and Josh are busy cooking up some live shows to help us raise money and keep the station on air. So here's one of our favourite shows from this year -- a look inside a women's only hackathon at Fishburners

Talking Data With Prof Michael Blumenstein Oct 08, 2016

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UTS Professor Michael Blumenstein is someone we've had on the show a bit, helping us explain big data, new data, weird data and much else. On this week's show we dedicate the entire half hour to a chat with Prof Blumenstein, to get a more in depth look at the current state of data science and what will happen as chips get imbedded in more and more things.

It's Not Just Big Data, But New Data Too Oct 01, 2016

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Analytics and "Big Data" are becoming ever more prevalent, as new technology brings down costs and statistics is brought to bear in new and interesting ways. But technology isn't just making it easier to crunch the numbers, it's also allowing us to capture data on things we never could before.

How Tech Is Coming After Fashion Sep 24, 2016

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Technology has always been a part of fashion -- scissors and sewing machines are a good example. But recent technological revolutions haven't been mirrored with revolutions in fashion -- computers and the internet have largely made fashion more efficient, rather than changing what it looks like or does. But new tools, ideas and norms are changing this. We might be on the cusp of something rather different.

Cobbling Together A Big Data Set Sep 18, 2016

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When you think about big data, you're probably imagining something high tech. But when it comes to science, big data sets doesn't always look like this. Some researchers have cobbled together old data from the most disparate sources -- journals, ledgers, old computers etc., allowing them to do more with the data from their modern sensors and techniques.

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