Codebreaker, by Marketplace and Tech Insider Podcast
1) Technology Crossing Borders
The gadget that saved a refugee in the middle of the Aegean Sea, how an agent uses technology to patrol the U.S. border with Mexico, and how a journalist in exile broadcasts the news with WhatsApp. Li...Show More
2) Encryption
3) Five ways a bioethicist wants to change our bodies to fight climate change
Dr. S. Matthew Liao, a bioethicist at New York University, believes that solving climate change starts with the individual. That’s why he suggests we turn humans into cat-eyed, meat-allergic, semi-gen...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Smile! You're on camera, and the person watching could be a world away
This story is from Codebreaker, our tech podcast that asks "Can it save us?" Every morning Barbara Morrow, an 80-year-old woman in rural Northern Ireland, wakes up at 6 a.m. and puts on a kettle of wa...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) World Building
A proposal to bioengineer shorter humans with cat eyes, a decades-old idea for a totally new kind of power, a battery made from trash and Bill Nye the Science Guy tries to get us in gear. Listen, deco...Show More
6) Watching
7) The Augmented Self
The man who collected too much data, cyborgs who want to make their body-hardware mainstream, robots that rebuild your hairline and a conversation with Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge aka LeVar B...Show More
8) Alternate Reality
A therapist who creates virtual reality experiences for people with dangerous disorders, a grandmother who uses a headset to escape her surroundings and Ernest Cline on virtual reality in fact and fic...Show More
9) Recognition
A toddler who saved her mother’s life with Siri, a man whose mysterious ailment opened up a world of voice recognition technology and a dating service that wants to scan the faces of all your ex...Show More
10) Introducing Codebreaker Season 2