Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

June 27, 2017 A Short History of the Many, Many Ways Uber Screwed Up

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13 min
June 26, 2017 While You Were Offline: Yeah Sure Why Not, Give Barbie's Boyfriend a Man Bun
Amidst all the turmoil both online and off, it might have been easy to miss, but guess what? Summer is here! And you know what that means: Things are heating up. And we're not just talking about the mercury rising. From the halls of Congress to the tubes of the internet, heated discussions and hot takes abound. Think you might have missed something online over the last week? Grab a cool beverage and lean back—everything you need to know is right here.

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12 min
June 26, 2017 If You Need a Digital Detox, You'll Love This Smart Dumbphone
To cash in on the growing anxiety that we are fast becoming a bunch of Wi-Fi-enabled cyborgs, the marketplace has spawned a new consumer category: products to free you from the crushing grip of always-on digital ubiquity. There are digital detox retreats: off-grid playgrounds where the habitually frazzled do downward dog in grassy fields and type letters on manual typewriters. There are $76 bath salts, too—minerals specially formulated to cleanse the bodies and minds of digital natives.

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17 min
June 23, 2017 Patients Are Experimenting With Ketamine to Treat Depression
Sean Spencer was ready to give up. For two years, since suffering a major panic attack, the entrepreneur had been living under a cloud of depression. Nothing seemed to make it better. He took traditional antidepressants, but they made him “want to die.” Meditation gave him a fleeting sense of relief, but it wasn’t enough to get him through the day. Out of desperation, he finally traveled to a clinic to try a controversial new therapy: ketamine IV infusions.

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10 min
June 22, 2017 WoeBot, The Chatbot Therapist, Will See You Now

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13 min
June 21, 2017 Sci-Fi TV Doesn't Have to Be 'Prestige'—It Can Just Be Fun
You live, it’s true, in a Golden Age of Television, and at least some of that gold comes in the form of lucky coins from leprechauns that reanimate unfaithful dead spouses. Which is to say, some of the most premium-est of premium TV right now is genre—science fiction and fantasy. It’s American Gods, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Westworld, The Leftovers.

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4 min
June 21, 2017 What's Wrong with Apple's New Headquarters

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22 min
June 20, 2017 IBM's Silicon Nanosheets Breakthrough Will Help Push Moore's Law Forward

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9 min
June 16, 2017 Scientist Screwed Up? Send 'Em to Researcher Rehab

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26 min
June 15, 2017 Review: Microsoft Surface Laptop
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop says nothing about the future of technology. The team in Redmond didn’t concern itself with the way things will be in 2025—which ports users will want, what kind of device they’ll use, how they’ll feel about bezels. Instead, Microsoft built a laptop optimized for 2017. Contrast that approach with Apple’sMacBooks. To trim every millimeter from its laptops, Apple invented a shallower keyboard.

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11 min

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