TechStuff

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Behind every innovation is a new kind of power. TechStuff unpacks how technology reshapes influence, creativity, and control, from Silicon Valley’s rising moguls to the cultural forces they create.

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The podcast currently has 2,596 episodes available.

TechStuff episodes:

May 31, 2018 Tim Schafer: From Monkey Island to Brutal Legend
TechStuff listener Juan asked that we talk about Tim Schafer, a computer game designer famous for making clever, quirky adventure games. In this first episode, we look at his years working for LucasArts games and the early days of his own Double Fine Productions.

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28min
May 30, 2018 Demystifying WiFi
Where did the WiFi standard come from? What are the differences of the various flavors of WiFi? And why should you care?

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32min
May 29, 2018 Instagram Gets Big
Shortly after Instagram launched, Facebook moved to acquire the company for a billion dollars. What made the photo sharing service so valuable and what's happened to it since?

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31min
May 28, 2018 The Birth of Instagram
Listener Nelly asked me to look into the story of Instagram. In this episode, we learn about the co-founders and the abandoned app that ended up spawning the popular photo-sharing service.

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31min
May 25, 2018 Techstuff Classic: The Max Headroom Incident
How did hackers take over a television signal in the late 1980s? Stuff You Should Know's Chuck Bryant joins the show to talk about the Max Headroom Incident.

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55min
May 24, 2018 TechStuff Profile: Robert N. Hall
Dr. Robert N. Hall died in 2016 at the age of 96. The New York Times published an obituary two years later. What were Dr. Hall's contributions to technology?

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30min
May 23, 2018 Engage the Cloaking Device
A popular gadget in science fiction is the cloaking device, a technology capable of rendering entire vehicles invisible. Recently, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania created what some call a cloaking device. What's going on?

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35min
May 22, 2018 What is Project Maven?
A project dedicated to bringing artificial intelligence into military operations in a real combat theater has prompted more than a dozen Google employees to resign and 4,000 more to sign a petition urging the company to get out of the project. What's going on?

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30min
May 21, 2018 How LORAN Worked
Alfred Loomis created the long range navigation system called LORAN. How did it work?

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34min
May 18, 2018 Techstuff Classic: TechStuff Gets Flushed
How do toilets work? What's the secret behind using a Japanese toilet? And can you enter a toilet race? Josh Clark joins the show.

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54min

FAQs about TechStuff:

How many episodes does TechStuff have?

The podcast currently has 2,596 episodes available.