Podcasts about science technology

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Why perpetual motion machines fail - What might be driving the universe's expansion - How particles emerge from the structure of space - Entropy and the Big Bang theory - How temperature can become negative

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE03Z481PVg&list=PLxn-kpJHbPx3IO8b1yvkNyASj9i_Tw4n8&pp=0gcJCdAEOCosWNinTopics: Lessons from the history of science - Why scientific progress isn't linear - Ancient inefficiencies and bad inventions - AI, automation and human motivation - Why humans started doing math

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Proofs in the age of AI - Learning and communicating proofs - How AI handles errors and bugs

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Why brains matter in biology - Evolution beyond biology - Why evolution builds life the way it does

Muer den Owend gëtt et nees “tasty”: Den Espace_Cultures vun der Uni Lëtzebuerg invitéiert op säi Konferenzzyklus TASTE, an zwar déi Kéier an de Mudam. TASTE steet jo als Ofkierzung fir „Transforming through art, science, technology“. Als Riedner invitéiert si Kreativer a Fuerscher:innen, déi interdisziplinär, eben tëscht Konscht/ Wëssenschaft/ Technologie ënnerwee sinn, an hir Projeten an Erfarunge mat engem Public deele wëllen. Muer ënnert dem Motto “On data and (dis)information”. Organiséiert gëtt den TASTE vun der Anouk Wies vum Espace_Cultures an der fräier Chercheuse Nathalie Kerschen. D'Kerstin Thalau am Gespréich mat der Nathalie Kerschen.

Our interactions with generative AI tools start to affect our personal relationships, communication style, and mental health, as well as our own perception of each other's capabilities. They also leave a new trace of signals that privacy professionals never had to contend with in the past.As we approach the “personal agent” era, understanding where our individual freedoms and agency truly start and end becomes paramount. After a deeper offline conversation with Marina Taskova, we are today dipping our toes into a subject with profound implications for individual rights, freedom, data protection, commerce, advertising, and media. We will follow it up with other conversations on the topic, which falls right into our sweet spot. Mirena is a senior expert in data governance, privacy, cybersecurity & AI as well as a lawyer. She was Chief Privacy Officer at Aura until recently, and has over 18 years of experience driving high-growth initiatives in privacy & data governance, AI, and enterprise technology, having held executive roles, including CPO and Managing Director positions. Mirena is a graduate of Stanford University in Law, Science & Technology and has worked in Europe and the US.References:* Mirena Taskova on LinkedIn* Yngvi Karlson (Kin): the rise of the Personal AI Assistant (Masters of Privacy, August 2025)* Google Assistant puts an end to impolite queries with ‘Pretty Please' feature (The Next Web, 2018)* Seven Lawsuits Allege OpenAI Encouraged Suicide and Harmful Delusions (WSJ)* A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem (The New Yorker, July 14 2025)* The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Wikipedia)* Kin AI* New California ‘Companion Chatbot' Law Imposes Disclosure, Safety Protocol and Annual Reporting Requirements (JD Supra, Skadden)* Character.AI to Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots (New York Times, October 2025). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.mastersofprivacy.com/subscribe

AI isn't just a technology race, it's a trillion-dollar gamble that could reshape the global economy. On the Tech Field Day News Rundown, Alastair Cooke and guest host Gina Rosenthal discuss how OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing toward major IPOs while facing massive costs that could delay profitability for years. At the same time, IBM and Arm are helping enterprises adopt AI across mixed systems without replacing existing infrastructure, while Maine considers slowing new data center builds over energy concerns. Komprise is working to reduce rising storage costs, and Amazon is looking to expand its satellite network with a potential acquisition of Globalstar to better compete with SpaceX. Meanwhile, Microsoft is improving developer workflows with Project Nighthawk, and in Washington, Donald Trump has tapped leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Larry Ellison, and Sergey Brin to help guide AI policy, showing that the future of AI will be decided not just by innovation, but by who can manage the cost, infrastructure, and regulation behind it.In the end, the winners of the AI race won't just be the most innovative—but the ones who can afford to sustain it at scale.Time Stamps: 0:00 - Cold Open0:27 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown1:04 - The $100 Billion Gamble: OpenAI & Anthropic's High-Stakes Path to IPO4:57 - IBM & Arm Team Up to Unlock Hybrid Enterprise AI Architecture9:02 - Maine Considers Nation's First AI Data Center Freeze13:56 - Komprise Launches Flash Memory Tool to Cut AI Storage Costs17:06 - Amazon Eyes $9B Globalstar Deal to Boost Satellite Network Ambitions20:08 - Microsoft Builds Six-Agent AI in VS Code That Fact-Checks Itself24:57 - President Trump appoints Tech Leaders to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology32:39 - ⁠The Weeks Ahead: Upcoming Tech Field Day Events33:40 - Thanks for Watching the Tech Field Day News RundownGuest Host: Gina Rosenthal, Digital Sunshine SolutionsFollow our hosts ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tom Hollingsworth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alastair Cooke⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stephen Foskett⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Tech Field Day ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Bugs in software and whether the universe could have bugs - Why restarting a system can restore order - How wireless signals manage to coexist - How radio sound gets encoded onto a signal

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: The beginning of science and physics - How people in the past understood nature - Celebrity status of scientists - Forces that drive scientific progress - History of logic

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Early science communication - Accuracy vs. accessibility in science communication - Science communication with modern tools - Writing and recording science before modern tools - Scientific disagreement and challenges to authority - Economic status of scientists

How do people become addicted to social media and what are the implications of such an addiction? [ dur: 30mins. ] Ofir Turel is Professor of Information Systems (IS) Management, IS group co-lead, University of Melbourne. He has published over 250 journal papers, two of those titles include The Benefits and Dangers of Enjoyment with Social Networking Websites and Followers Problematic Engagement with Influencers on Social Media and Attachment Theory Perspective. Most of our activity on the internet interacts with posts, memes and videos that are driven by algorithms. How might algorithms be biased, racist, or sexist, and how might they amplify those biases in us? [ dur: 28mins. ]  Full length of this interview can be found here. Tina Eliassi-Rad is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University. She is also a core faculty member at Northeastern’s Network Science Institute and the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Measuring Algorithmically Infused Societies and What Science Can Do for Democracy: A Complexity Science Approach. Damien Patrick Williams is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Why AI Research Needs Disabled and Marginalized Perspectives, Fitting the description: historical and sociotechnical elements of facial recognition and anti-black surveillance, and Constructing Situated and Social Knowledge: Ethical, Sociological, and Phenomenological Factors in Technological Design. Damien is a member of the Project Advisory Committee for the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Project on Disability Rights and Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, and Discrimination, and the Disability Inclusion Fund’s Tech & Disability Stream Advisory Committee. Henning Schulzrinne is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Colombia University. He is the co-author of Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application, Bridging communications and the physical world and Future internets escape the simulator. He was nominated as Internet Hall of Fame Innovator in 2013. He was Chief Technology Officer for the FCC under the Obama Administration. This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian, Anna Lapin and Sudd Dongre. Politics and Activism, Science / Technology, Computers and Internet, Racism 

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: How light is generated and structured - What it means to see color - Constraints of human vision - How the brain interprets visual signals - Designing visual effects with AI

Den Espace_Cultures vun der Uni Lëtzebuerg huet deen neie Konferenzzyklus TASTE lancéiert: jo, et geet souzesoen ëm schmaachen, mee TASTE steet och als Ofkierzung fir “Transforming through art, science, technology“. Invitéiert si Kreativer a Fuerscher:innen, déi interdisziplinär, eeben tëschent Konscht/Wëssenschaft/Technologie ënnerwee sinn, an hir Projeten an Erfarunge mat engem Public deele wëllen. Am éischten Tour mat dobäi war d‘Christl Baur, d‘Directrice vum renomméierten Ars Electronica Festival zu Linz. An d‘Kerstin Thalau hat Geleeënheet der Christl Baur e puer Froen ze stellen.

Den Espace_Cultures vun der Uni Lëtzebuerg lancéiert en neie Konferenzzyklus ënnert dem Titel TASTE, als Ofkierzung fir “Transforming through art, science, technology”. Di éischt dräi Diskussiounssujete sti fest: den néngte Februar ass mat “On art, nature and technology” iwwerschriwwen; de 25. Februar mat “On bodies and practices”; de véierte Mee mat “On data and (dis)information”. Responsabel fir d'Programmatioun sinn déi ausgebilt Architektin plus Philosophin, aktuell Chercheuse, Nathalie Kerschen plus d'Kulturmanagerin Anouk Wies, déi zanter knapps véier Joer als strategesch Beroderin fir kulturell Affairen op der Uni um Belval aktiv ass. D'Kerstin Thalau wollt mat der Anouk Wies schonn emol e bësse pre-TASTEN.

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Three-body problem and computational irreducibility - Climate and radiation on planets with multiple suns - Cherenkov radiation and why it doesn't break relativity Proton decay, particle physics and "how bad would it be?"

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: How 2025 fits into the history of science and technology - Theory vs. experiment in science and education - Panics in the history of technology

The nature-based carbon removals industry is undergoing a scientific and technological transformation to restore credibility in the voluntary carbon market. In this episode, host Eklavya Gupte speaks with Santiago Canel Soria, senior price reporter at S&P Global Energy Platts, about how project developers are deploying advanced monitoring systems and rigorous methodologies to address past market challenges as corporate buyers demand higher integrity offsets. Santiago speaks with Saif Bhatti, CEO of Renoster, and Christopher Kilner, head of biosphere science at Isometric, who explain how scientific advances and risk-management strategies are establishing nature-based removals as a credible, scalable, and cost-effective pillar of the VCM. The discussion covers the role of insurance in carbon markets, the challenge of operationalizing rigorous science at scale, and why nature-based solutions remain essential for corporates with net-zero targets. Related content: Platts Carbon Credit Price Assessments Carbon Markets Specifications Guide  Voluntary carbon markets: how they work, how they're priced and who's involved Price Assessments (Subscriber content): Platts CRC ACRCA00 Platts Biochar, US ATCCA00 Platts  Biochar, India INBCY00 Platts Blue Carbon AJLUB00

The nature-based carbon removals industry is undergoing a scientific and technological transformation to restore credibility in the voluntary carbon market. In this episode, host Eklavya Gupte speaks with Santiago Canel Soria, senior price reporter at S&P Global Energy Platts, about how project developers are deploying advanced monitoring systems and rigorous methodologies to address past market challenges as corporate buyers demand higher integrity offsets. Santiago speaks with Saif Bhatti, CEO of Renoster, and Christopher Kilner, head of biosphere science at Isometric, who explain how scientific advances and risk-management strategies are establishing nature-based removals as a credible, scalable, and cost-effective pillar of the VCM. The discussion covers the role of insurance in carbon markets, the challenge of operationalizing rigorous science at scale, and why nature-based solutions remain essential for corporates with net-zero targets. Related content: Platts Carbon Credit Price Assessments Carbon Markets Specifications Guide  Voluntary carbon markets: how they work, how they're priced and who's involved Price Assessments (Subscriber content): Platts CRC ACRCA00 Platts Biochar, US ATCCA00 Platts  Biochar, India INBCY00 Platts Blue Carbon AJLUB00

Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford Law student Archit Lohani about his work on digital rights, transparency in technology governance, and the ramifications of Artificial intelligence.

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Information, data and bits - Computation, energy and Infrastructure - How clones and machines might perceive humans - Mass, the Higgs field and the speed of light

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: How languages (and Wolfram Language) evolved - Leibniz, Babbage and early "computer science" ideas - Ancient civilizations and computational thinking

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Historical insights from Stephen's UK trip - Roger Penrose and the Wolfram Physics Project - Elliott 903 computer

Meredith Hayes Gordon, HGA's Science + Technology Market Sector leader, talks to F&C reporter Brian Johnson. Hayes Gordon talks about her role in the Science + Technology Market Sector, the outlook for the science and technology sector, and what inspired her to become an architect.

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Cette émission est une rediffusion du 11 septembre 2025. Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Cette émission est une rediffusion du 11 septembre 2025. Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

To listen to the full episode and support the podcast, please subscribe today! Oren Harman is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and teaches at the Graduate Program in Science Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University. His latest book is Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Oren Harman explore the evolutionary benefits of altruism, metamorphosis in the world around us, and how it impacts our perception of human growth. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠⁠this link on your phone⁠⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Google⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠Yascha Mounk⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Persuasion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Computation in antiquity to early machines - Computation and physical reality - Historical attitudes toward computing and AI - Cantor, continuum and computability - Automata in history & fiction - How scientists are remembered - Exploring science's landmarks

Send us a textOver the weekend I had my second discussion this year with Professor Subhash Kak on his new book published this year June 12, 2025 Eternal Bharat: Truth, Meaning, and Beauty specifically on its symbolism and insights on India's grand legacy and tradition of artistic creativity and how it relates to the central focus of the Indian sages (rishis) on consciousness especially as it pertains to the literary genius of the Upanishads and why this focus is becoming increasingly relevant for today's society. His reputation precedes himself; Dr. Kak is an Indian American Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He has written over 30 books on a variety of topics from history, linguistics, computation, quantum theory, physics, and for his contributions in so many areas he has received the prestigious Padma Shri award in 2019. He is also a member of the India Prime Minister's Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council.I am an active history and politics content creator. Check out:1.     My podcast "India Insight with Sunny Sharma" 2.     My YouTube channel is Sunny Sharma@IndiaInsightMovement3.     My blog: https://theenlightenmentdotblog.wordpress.com/?_gl=1*1waj1xz*_gcl_au*ODc0ODQ0OTY2LjE3NTk2MTM0NzI. Stay tuned in for a future discussion with Dr. Kak on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations including its many parallels with ancient Indian philosophy like the Upanishads and other intellectual traditions as well. 

Topics: Academic vs non-academic jobs; Work-life balance; gender; transition out of academia. Speaker: Arwen Mohun is Professor in history at the University of Delaware, United States. Mohun has coordinated a working group on career diversity at the Consortium for History of Science Technology and Medicine. Recorded on April 10, 2025 For more information visit: https://www.chstm.org/node/79325

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) ne se contente pas de bousculer les technologies. Pour beaucoup d'États africains, cette technologie devrait redessiner le futur du continent africain. L'IA pourrait permettre de répondre efficacement à certains des maux les plus pressants, en compensant les lacunes des systèmes éducatifs et de santé, en améliorant les rendements agricoles ou en facilitant l'accès aux services financiers pour une population encore largement exclue du système bancaire. Pour autant, plusieurs questions demeurent, le continent peut-il prendre part à la révolution en cours, tout en partant avec un certain temps de retard ? L'IA peut-elle devenir un facteur de développement pour l'Afrique ou, au contraire, représente-t-elle un obstacle à son indépendance économique ?  Avec : • Thomas Melonio, chef économiste, directeur exécutif de l'Innovation, de la stratégie et de la recherche, Agence française de développement (AFD) • Paulin Melatagia Yonta, enseignant-chercheur en Informatique à l'Université de Yaoundé 1 • Ismaïla Seck, ingénieur et docteur en informatique. Enseignant chercheur en Intelligence artificielle à Dakar American University of Science & Technology et entrepreneur. En fin d'émission, la chronique IA débat, de Thibault Matha, un nouveau rendez-vous bimensuel chez 8 milliards de voisins. Alors que l'intelligence artificielle devient omniprésente dans notre quotidien et que son utilisation se démocratise, Thibault Matha interrogera les outils, et analysera la pertinence de leurs réponses. Aujourd'hui, Thibault tâchera de comprendre comment l'IA peut nous aider à bien nous organiser ?   Programmation musicale :  ► No.1 - Tyla Ft. Tems ► Katam - Diamond Platnumz.

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Shifts in scientific roles and fields - Personal journey into computation and research - Challenges in publishing and tracing physics work - Feynman and string theory

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Historical perspectives on knowledge sharing, collaboration and AI - Scientific creativity across time - Art, science and the evolution of modern expression.

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: The Big Bang and expansion of space - Mathematics and physical reality - Computational foundations of biology - The role of kids in science and technology

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Historical scientific problems and modern computation - Historical contingency in technology - Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) - Visits to scientific historical sites - History of museums and ancient artifacts - Virtual particles in physics - Einstein's Unified Field Theory - Scientists as movie subjects

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Alternate histories and missed scientific paths - How science is remembered and talked about - Scientific breakthroughs - How science gets done and who gets involved

In 2004, the Science Technology & Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) was developed to attract semiconductor manufacturing and other industries to Western New York. The site remains largely empty more than two decades later. This week, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Sierra Club filed suit, seeking to halt the development of massive data centers at the tech park. We explore the complaint, the hold-up, and the history of the site. Our guests: Gino Fanelli, investigations and City Hall reporter for WXXI News Chris Abrams, Beaver Clan, office administrator for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation  Grandell "Bird" Logan, Snipe Clan, media spokesperson for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation  *Note: We reached out to representatives from the Genesee County Economic Development Center (GCEDC), but they did not respond to multiple invitations to join the conversation.Take our audience survey to help us learn more about you, and make a better show for you.

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Black hole mergers, event horizons and why nothing gets out - Time dilation and computing near black holes - Ions

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: AI milestones and conceptual shifts - Encounters with physicists - Attributes and personalities of influential thinkers - Naming conventions in science and technology

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Conscious experience and perception - Brain structure and sensory extension - Brain manipulation and individuality - Consciousness and artificial systems - Computational theory and the brain

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaQuestions include: Books have been relatively unchanged—would you say that's a "technology" that has been mastered? - My son asks: Given there's a max amount of information you can store in a given region of space, how can we simulate complex systems (like brains or universes) without exceeding physical limits? - We're taught science discovers truth through observation and experiment. But in practice, I see science building mathematical models that work—sometimes treated as exact reality. How do you, as a scientist, separate calculation tools from physical truth in your actual work? Where does experience draw that line? - What lessons can we learn from the evolution of flight? Beyond the mechanics, Dawkins reflects In the book Flights of Fancy on the broader implications of flight evolution, considering what it reveals about natural selection, adaptation and the interconnectedness of life.

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaQuestions include: Do you know anything about the history of vaccines? When was the first vaccine developed and for what? - Isn't some important part of how vaccines were discovered completely lost to history? - When was the crucial importance of epigenetics discovered or realized? - What have been your interactions with early-day or notable biotech people & companies (Genentech etc.) and interplay between your own projects/techs and their development if any? - I had no idea Alan Turing was the progenitor of morphogenesis!

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaTopics: Studying the history of science - Contradictions and accuracy in historical research - History of memory research - Planck's constant

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaQuestions include: Is there much history on scientists (well known or not) starting companies? - If Leibniz was around today, where do you think he would be working, what would he be doing if he was not in academia? - Any interesting suggestions for history to research? - What's the history of walking meetings? Were there notable practitioners before you? - Was the first GUI+mouse+keyboard predictable beforehand or was it a surprise at the time?

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaQuestions include: How would you, Stephen Wolfram, think about replacing textbooks in education? What are some better tools for the classroom? - Can you teach us how to be scientists? What's the first step? - Intellectual curiosity is required to be a good scientist. And moral character, to stand by what you find, even if controversial. - ​​If you can explain it in simple terms, you understand it. - ​​I wanted to be a scientist as a kid, but I was actively discouraged from doing that. What would you tell to a kid to encourage them? - How will new technology and especially GenAI change our education, and what role should parents play during this crucial transition? - Do you think it would be [good] to make some infrastructures to think more creatively, e.g. logging your thoughts and trying to dissect your mental models, etc.? - ​​In my experience, the kids that should become scientists start asking, "How do we know that?" early on. And for most adults (especially teachers!), that is the hardest question. - I heard that physicists still don't understand how friction works. Is that true? - How would you answer where this universe gets its "expanding substance" from? - Would you be open to the possibility of other mathematics than the one we use now? Would be happy to hear your thoughts on this subject. - Do you think that the emergence of AI in our lives marks the end of curiosity, or the beginning of an era where curiosity will grow even greater because it will be satisfied? - What effect do you think wide-scale adoption of LLMs will have on the boundary of the knowable? - How do you feel about integrating 3D models, animations, AI... overall media, to learning science? For example, having as output a 3D model and animation of flight path instead of just numbers and plain text on paper? - How would you think about encryption in the age of AI and LLMs? It seems like they would be able to pick up the patterns with ease once exposed. -  ​​Is it possible to build a compact mechanical SHA256 encryption device that will be resistant to solar flares?

In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute. Today I'm joined by Dr. Caitlin Killian, the editor of and one of the contributors to a new book from Bloomsbury Academic, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts: A Reader. I'm also pleased to host two of the chapter authors, Drs. Nancy Hiemstra and Jaya Keaney. Using a reproductive justice framework, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts walks students through the social landscape around reproduction through the life course. Chapters by cutting-edge reproductive scholars, practitioners, and advocates address the social control of fertility and pregnancy, the promises and perils of assisted reproductive technologies, experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth, and how individuals make sense of and respond to the cultural, social, and political forces that condition their reproductive lives. The book takes an intersectional approach and considers how gender, sexuality, fatness, disability, class, race, and immigration status impact both an individual's health and the healthcare they receive. The reader includes timely topics such as increased legal limitations on abortion, transpeople and reproduction, and new developments in assisted reproduction and family formation. The book can support undergraduate and graduate courses on families, gender, public health, reproduction, and sexuality – and I'm pleased to have contributed a chapter. Dr. Caitlin Killian is a Professor of Sociology at Drew University specializing in gender, families, reproduction, and immigration. We featured her book, Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity 2023) previously on New Books Network. Her articles have appeared in Contexts magazine and The Conversation, as well as numerous academic journals, and she has done work for the United Nations on sexual and reproductive health and rights and on Syrian refugee women Dr. Nancy Hiemstra is a political, cultural, and feminist geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her scholarship focuses on how border and immigration policies shape patterns and consequences of human mobility. Her 2019 book Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime examined the U.S. detention and deportation system, and her forthcoming book (with Deirdre Conlon) Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants scrutinizes how profit making goals drive the expanding use of detention. Dr Jaya Keaney is Lecturer in Gender Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She writes, researches, and teaches in the fields of feminist technoscience, queer and feminist theory, and cultural studies. Her research across these fields explores reproduction, racism, and queer feminist practices of embodiment and inheritance. Jaya is the author of Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling (Duke University Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Rachel Carson Prize. Her writing has also appeared in journals such as Body and Society, Science Technology & Human Values, and the Duke University Press edited collection Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment (2021). Mentioned: Susan's interview with Caitlin on Failing Moms: The Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity, 2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute. Today I'm joined by Dr. Caitlin Killian, the editor of and one of the contributors to a new book from Bloomsbury Academic, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts: A Reader. I'm also pleased to host two of the chapter authors, Drs. Nancy Hiemstra and Jaya Keaney. Using a reproductive justice framework, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts walks students through the social landscape around reproduction through the life course. Chapters by cutting-edge reproductive scholars, practitioners, and advocates address the social control of fertility and pregnancy, the promises and perils of assisted reproductive technologies, experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth, and how individuals make sense of and respond to the cultural, social, and political forces that condition their reproductive lives. The book takes an intersectional approach and considers how gender, sexuality, fatness, disability, class, race, and immigration status impact both an individual's health and the healthcare they receive. The reader includes timely topics such as increased legal limitations on abortion, transpeople and reproduction, and new developments in assisted reproduction and family formation. The book can support undergraduate and graduate courses on families, gender, public health, reproduction, and sexuality – and I'm pleased to have contributed a chapter. Dr. Caitlin Killian is a Professor of Sociology at Drew University specializing in gender, families, reproduction, and immigration. We featured her book, Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity 2023) previously on New Books Network. Her articles have appeared in Contexts magazine and The Conversation, as well as numerous academic journals, and she has done work for the United Nations on sexual and reproductive health and rights and on Syrian refugee women Dr. Nancy Hiemstra is a political, cultural, and feminist geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her scholarship focuses on how border and immigration policies shape patterns and consequences of human mobility. Her 2019 book Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime examined the U.S. detention and deportation system, and her forthcoming book (with Deirdre Conlon) Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants scrutinizes how profit making goals drive the expanding use of detention. Dr Jaya Keaney is Lecturer in Gender Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She writes, researches, and teaches in the fields of feminist technoscience, queer and feminist theory, and cultural studies. Her research across these fields explores reproduction, racism, and queer feminist practices of embodiment and inheritance. Jaya is the author of Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling (Duke University Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Rachel Carson Prize. Her writing has also appeared in journals such as Body and Society, Science Technology & Human Values, and the Duke University Press edited collection Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment (2021). Mentioned: Susan's interview with Caitlin on Failing Moms: The Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity, 2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute. Today I'm joined by Dr. Caitlin Killian, the editor of and one of the contributors to a new book from Bloomsbury Academic, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts: A Reader. I'm also pleased to host two of the chapter authors, Drs. Nancy Hiemstra and Jaya Keaney. Using a reproductive justice framework, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts walks students through the social landscape around reproduction through the life course. Chapters by cutting-edge reproductive scholars, practitioners, and advocates address the social control of fertility and pregnancy, the promises and perils of assisted reproductive technologies, experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth, and how individuals make sense of and respond to the cultural, social, and political forces that condition their reproductive lives. The book takes an intersectional approach and considers how gender, sexuality, fatness, disability, class, race, and immigration status impact both an individual's health and the healthcare they receive. The reader includes timely topics such as increased legal limitations on abortion, transpeople and reproduction, and new developments in assisted reproduction and family formation. The book can support undergraduate and graduate courses on families, gender, public health, reproduction, and sexuality – and I'm pleased to have contributed a chapter. Dr. Caitlin Killian is a Professor of Sociology at Drew University specializing in gender, families, reproduction, and immigration. We featured her book, Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity 2023) previously on New Books Network. Her articles have appeared in Contexts magazine and The Conversation, as well as numerous academic journals, and she has done work for the United Nations on sexual and reproductive health and rights and on Syrian refugee women Dr. Nancy Hiemstra is a political, cultural, and feminist geographer and Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her scholarship focuses on how border and immigration policies shape patterns and consequences of human mobility. Her 2019 book Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime examined the U.S. detention and deportation system, and her forthcoming book (with Deirdre Conlon) Immigration Detention Inc: The Big Business of Locking Up Migrants scrutinizes how profit making goals drive the expanding use of detention. Dr Jaya Keaney is Lecturer in Gender Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She writes, researches, and teaches in the fields of feminist technoscience, queer and feminist theory, and cultural studies. Her research across these fields explores reproduction, racism, and queer feminist practices of embodiment and inheritance. Jaya is the author of Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling (Duke University Press, 2023), which was a finalist for the 2024 Rachel Carson Prize. Her writing has also appeared in journals such as Body and Society, Science Technology & Human Values, and the Duke University Press edited collection Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment (2021). Mentioned: Susan's interview with Caitlin on Failing Moms: The Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers (Polity, 2024). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaQuestions include: ​​Can you talk about lambda calculus? - Any thoughts on numerology? - My current favorite approximation to a constant (e, in this case) is (1 + 9^-4^(7*6))^3^2^85, which uses each of the digits 1–9 only once and is accurate to 18 septillion digits. - Atmospheric noise is about as random as we can get, I think. - How does IBM Watson AI stand against modern LLMs? - Would the LLM have the same reaction time to compete and press the buzzer as humans? - Is it possible someday we may predict the weather years in advance? - Well then, is weather a good random sequence? - How do you calculate wind speed if wind is just a pressure difference? - If the Earth started rotating in reverse, would that have an effect on weather? - What would it take to stabilize the weather (like using wind farms in reverse or controlling ground albedo or atmosphere composition) so that we know it exactly? - Can the Earth's tilt ever be affected? What kind of changes would this cause? - There is a rather large difference between what the ideal climate would be and what changes will mean trouble for us, given our current infrastructure. - Even the weather can't agree on what the weather should be.

To slow a warming climate, Minnesota is changing where it gets electricity — shrinking the state's reliance on fossil fuels and expanding the use of renewable energy. Today, more than half of Minnesota's electricity comes from solar, wind and hydropower. But challenges remain.For the state to reach its ambitious goal of being carbon neutral by 2050, Minnesotans would need to embrace new ways of heating homes, traveling, powering the state's factories and much more. And now there are questions about how President Donald Trump's tariffs and opposition to wind and solar energy might affect an energy transition. MPR News has been exploring a transition to a carbon-free economy in the series Getting to Green. MPR News correspondents Dan Kraker and Kirsti Marohn talk about the progress toward green energy and what the future holds. Guests: Allen Gleckner is the executive lead for policy and programs at Fresh Energy, a St. Paul-based clean energy nonprofit that develops decarbonization strategies to advance the clean energy economy. He focuses on technical innovation and policies that will lead to clean energy in the electric system.  Gabriel Chan is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs where he focuses on science, technology and environmental policy. He co-directs the Center for Science Technology, and Environmental Policy and the Electric Cooperative Innovation Center.