Babbage from The Economist

By The Economist

Babbage is The Economist’s weekly podcast on science and technology—named after Charles Babbage, the grandfather of computing. Explore the science changing the way we live from AI to genet

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Babbage from The Economist episodes:

May 04, 2016 Babbage: Will your surgeon be a robot?
Surgical operations become more akin to driverless cars. And users try out IBM's quantum computer
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April 28, 2016 Babbage: The legacy of Chernobyl
We discuss the political and scientific impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on its 30th anniversary, and a new way to protect cells from many different kinds of virus
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16min
April 20, 2016 Babbage: One blockchain to rule them all?
This week we discuss how to keep drones away from manned aircraft and talk to Vitalik Buterin, inventor of Ethereum
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13min
April 14, 2016 Babbage: Better lives for autistic people
Researcher Simon Baron-Cohen joins our writers to discuss autism in the workplace. And our innovation editor on mapping technology in driverless cars.
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17min
April 06, 2016 Babbage: Mark Zuckerberg's vision
An efficient, low-cost way to detect explosives, and our US technology editor analyses Facebook’s future after an interview with its boss, Mark Zuckerberg
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14min
March 30, 2016 Babbage: What’s in a yeast?
New yeasts could open up new flavours for clever chocolate and coffee producers, and sonic booms may become less loud, unleashing faster private air travel
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13min
March 23, 2016 Babbage: How to crack an iPhone
The FBI claims it may be able to bypass the privacy protections on a terrorist's Apple phone. But the broader dispute over balancing user privacy and national security remains.
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14min
March 16, 2016 Babbage: Data heard, memories retrieved
Scientists find ways of analysing data sonically, not visually, and a new study suggests how memory problems in Alzheimer's disease aren't with storage, but with retrieval
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12min
March 09, 2016 Babbage: The future of computing
In a milestone for artificial intelligence, a program designed to play the ancient Asian game of Go has won the first of its five games against a human champion. It's an example of how smarter software, not just more powerful hardware, will drive progress in the computer industry in future
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14min
March 02, 2016 Babbage: From footies to selfies
Brain scans of American footballers reveal the darker side of contact sports and a new study on social media uncovers why we take selfies
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14min

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