Podcast appearances and mentions of stephen cass

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, this week's #Racehour Podcast is live now! Stephen Cass joins Diarmuid Nolan, Tony Keenan and special guest Andrew Blair White to break down and assess 16 Cheltenham Festival ante-post favourites. So what's the format? We run through 16 Festival fancies, and for each one ask the same simple question: “You're building a Festival acca – does this horse make the acca?” Each panellist gives a quick Yes or No with a brief reason. If three out of four vote Yes, the horse makes the final Festival Acca. The end result? A monster 462/1 bet. Can Old Park Star land the Supreme? Is Narciso Has really unbeatable? We dig into all of that in this week's episode. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365 00:00 #Racehour Review Show 03:14 Assessing The Festival Favourites 1:02:43 Chat With Pat

In partnership with bet365 and Gambling.com, this week's #Racehour Podcast is out now! Fresh back from Lapland (and hopefully thawed out), Stephen Cass joins Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan for a proper deep dive into the week in racing. There are 5 Cheltenham ante-post fancies on the table – including a juicy 33/1 poke for the Albert Bartlett – plus chat on Lulamba's Arkle plans, Act Of Innocence, Haiti Couleurs, and why Diarmuid reckons Sam Thomas is on the brink of becoming the UK's top trainer. Tony covers all the Irish angles too, from JP McManus handicap plots to the Charles Byrnes case with the IHRB.

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, it's time for the 2026 Dublin Racing Festival, and Stephen Cass teams up with our regular duo Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to dissect all of the headline races from Leopardstown. The lads are also joined by our old friend and Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Paddy Aspell, who drops in with his expert insight and strong opinions across the weekend. There's a 50/1 shot put up for the Irish Gold Cup, Tony is sweet on a serious bumper fancy on both days, Dermo thinks he's landed on a very well-handicapped runner in the JP McManus colours, and Paddy flags up one he likes for Charles Byrnes

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com. It's podcast time as Stephen Cass teams up with Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to break down the hottest topics in horse racing. On the agenda: assessing a talented crop of novice chasers ahead of Cheltenham, examining the Champion and Stayers Hurdle races, celebrating Old Park Star's recent brilliance, and hearing Tony's fancy for Thursday's card at Gowran Park. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by #Racehour regulars Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. This week, the panel reviews a seriously competitive bunch of Novice Hurdlers, focusing on what novices might win at the Cheltenham Festival! They also review the week that was, discuss Harry Cobden's new gig and answer some more listener questions. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

We're back! In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by #Racehour regulars Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. This week, the panel reviews a packed Christmas period of racing, focusing on the senior chasers over the festive period, answer some more listener questions and much, much more! Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by #Racehour regulars Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. This week, we do something different as we offer up a horse racing quiz! Share your results in the comments. The lads also discuss the previous week's best performers, the best odds over Christmas and some horses to follow over the festive period Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by #Racehour regulars Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. This week, the panel reviews a packed weekend of racing, discussing the 2 mile chase division where Diarmuid offers up a 33/1 tip, why they are all taking on Majborough, listener questions and much, much more. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by #Racehour regulars Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. This week, the panel reviews a packed weekend of racing, discussing a crazy Fighting Fifth, shambolic starts in the Coral Gold Cup and beyond, Gordon Elliott & much, much more. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by #Racehour regulars Diarmuid Nolan and racing Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. They are also joined by bet365's Pat Cooney, who shares insight on the key market movers from an outstanding week of racing. This week, the panel reviews a packed weekend of racing, discuss that brilliant John Durkan, Jango Baie and offer up a preview of the King George and Coral Gold Cup. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 and Gambling.com, Stephen Cass is joined by Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Paddy Aspell and racing analyst Tony Keenan to delve into all the latest action from the world of horse racing. They are also joined by bet365's Pat Cooney, who shares insight on the key market movers from an outstanding week of racing. This week, the panel reviews a packed weekend of racing, debates how to restore the prestige of the Paddy Power Chase, assesses the impact of testing ground conditions, discusses Kopek Des Bordes, and covers plenty more talking points from across the industry. Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 & Gambling.com, Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan are back once again to discuss everything going on in the world of horse racing! They are also joined by Bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss the market movers and how the big Chase races of the upcoming season are shaping up. This week the lads run through a busy weekend of racing, they rate the top 10 chasers in training, discuss boring racing pundits and much more! Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

In association with bet365 & Gambling.com, Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan are back once again to discuss everything going on in the world of horse racing! They are also joined by Bet365's Pat Cooney to discuss how the previous weekend's effected ante post prices etc. This week the lads run through a busy weekend of racing, they rate the top 10 hurdlers in training, offer up dark horses to follow and some tips! Visit bet365: https://bit.ly/racehour365

Consider yourself a shrewdie? Then have we the show for you.    PK is once again joined by Frank Hickey and Stephen Cass as they give us their tips ahead of this year's Eurovision finals.    Subscribe to the Paddy Power Racing YouTube: https://youtube.com/@paddypowerhorseracing?si=QDTHw-NHxCxhsLWP   18+ GambleAware

The lads are back for the last time of this season! The usual trio of Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan return once again, and this week they review the 2025 Cheltenham Festival and where they can improve on the punting front.. Thanks to all of our listeners for following us this season. We appreciate you all.

In association with Betfred & Gambling.com, the housewives' favourite trio of Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan are back once again to discuss everything in the world of national hunt racing on the road to Cheltenham. This week, they also have the brilliant Gary Connolly on board! This week we pick apart day 1 & 2 at the Cheltenham Festival.

The lads are back, with a Dub added in. The usual trio of Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan return once again, and this week are joined by special guest Declan Carroll from the Take A Pull Podcast. This week we pick apart the festival favourites and decide whether we would "back", "lay" or "leave" them. In association with Betfred and Gambling.com. Like the entrire racing world, we would like to offer our condolences to the friends and family of Michael O'Sullivan. RIP.

In association with Betfred & Gambling.com, the housewives' favourite trio of Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan are back once again to discuss everything in the world of national hunt racing on the road to Cheltenham, This week we pick apart the Cheltenham Festival Novice Chasers, Only By Night's Arkle bid, Copacabana & more!

In association with Betfred & Gambling.com, Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan join forces once again to run through a superb weekend of racing at Leopardstown! The lads pick apart all the big racing at the weekend, and they also discuss everything from Hugh Cahill to Backtonormal's Cheltenham Festival target.

The long month of January is nearly over and the Dublin Racing Festival is here - all is well with the world! In association with Betfred and Gambling.com, our usual trio of Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan are joined by Cheltenham Festival winning jockey Paddy Aspell as they run through a glorious weekend of racing at Leopardstown! There is even a 50/1 shot thrown in that Diarmuid and Tony agree on!

In association with Betfred & Gambling.com, Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan join forces once again to discuss everything going on in national hunt horse racing! The lads preview the Cheltenham Festival Gold Cup and the Ryanair, they discuss the strange form of Willie Mullins, they discuss the changes made to the Cheltenham Festival handicaps and much, much more.

In association with Betfred & Gambling.com, Stephen Cass, Diarmuid Nolan and Tony Keenan take a yet another peak into the world of National Hunt Racing This week the lads pick apart the 3 Mares races at the 2-25 Cheltenham Festival, why they are all taking on Salvator Mundi, answer some listener questions and even offer up a tip for the Grand Annual!

Gabriel Steinberg, co-founder of the nonprofit Demining Research Community and the startup Safe Pro AI talks with Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland  about using machine learning to speed up demining operations in former Ukranian battlefields. 

Founder and CEO of Exeger, Giovanni Fili, talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar cells for consumer electronics, which can recharge devices even in indoor light, and how Exeger convinced major companies to incorporate its tech into their products.

Did you know the Eurovision is one of the biggest events of the year for shrewdies?  You do now. Frank Hickey and Stephen Cass join PK to run through Saturday's extravaganza. 

The United Kingdom has created a new government agency, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, similar to the United States' DARPA. ARIA's first foray is into creating new enabling technologies to make AI faster and more energy efficient, and the program lead, Suraj Bramhavar spoke with Spectrum editor Dina Genkina about some of areas, such as new ways to use noise, that ARIA would be helping investigate.

Zipline originally established itself delivering medical supplies in rural Africa. Now, Zipline cofounder and CTO Keenan Wyrobek talks with senior editor Stephen Cass about recent milestones in bringing commercial drone delivery to the United States, including the development of Platform 2 and its tethered mini-droid that makes precision drop-offs possible in urban areas. 

Governments in America and Europe are pushing the deployment of heat pumps to reduce the energy demands of home heating and cooling. Spectrum's power and energy editor Emily Waltz talks with Stephen Cass about her reporting on new advances that will let heat pumps work in colder climates than before, expanding their range considerably.

IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor expert, Samuel K. Moore, talks with Stephen Cass about his visit to one of the key conferences in emerging integrated circuit technology, ISSCC. We talk about Meta's new 3D chip-stacking tech for faster AR, faster AI through in-memory computation, and security technology that can cause a chip to self-destruct if anyone tries to hack it.

In this March roundup, IEEE Spectrum's editor-in-chief Harry Goldstein and senior editor Stephen Cass talk about some of the highlights of Spectrum's recent coverage, including a plea for programmers to stop producing bloated programs, a new transistor that could help make how we handle electrical power smarter, and the potential return of optical discs as a high-density date storage medium. 

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently released the open-source ARES_OS, a key software component of their Autonomous Research System. ARES_OS allows relatively simple robots to perform experiments, and develop new experiments based on the results. The AFRL's Benji Maruyama talks with IEEE Spectrum associate editor Dina Genkina about how he hopes the system becomes not just an invaluable helper for grad students, but opens up research to many more people outside traditional labs and enables progress in tackling hard problems like climate change. 

The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a major expansion driven by the seemingly insatiable demands of AI, the addition of more intelligence in transportation, and national security concerns, among many other things. What this expansion might mean for chip-making's carbon footprint? Can we make everything in our world smarter without worsening climate change? Lizzie Boakes is a lifecycle analyst at IMEC, the Belgium-based nanotech research organisation, and she speaks with senior editor Samuel K. Moore about her work on this problem.

We've all seen impressive demos of prototype brain implants being used by paralyzed patients to interface with computers, but none of those implants have entered general clinical use. Biomedical device company Synchron is close to actually coming to market with its stentrode technology, promising less spectacular results than some of its competitors, but making up for that with ease of use and implant longevity. Synchron's co-founder Tom Oxley talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about the new tech, and you can read more in our January issue article by Emily Waltz.

The EU Sustronics program aims to make creating, maintaining, and recycling electronics more sustainable. Liisa Hakola is a senior scientist and project manager at the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland. She talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about VTT's role in the EU's program, helping manufacturers to develop flexible, printed—and even compostable—electronics. 

Security researchers Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan believe it's time to stop trusting our data to the cloud, where it can be exposed by greed, accident, or crime. In the December issue of IEEE Spectrum, they proposed a plan for "data decoupling" that would protect our data without sacrificing ease of use, and in this episode Raghavan talks through the highlights of the plan with Spectrum editor Stephen Cass.

Co-CEO's of Silmach, Pierre-Francois Louvigne and Jean-Baptiste Carnet, talk about their new MEMS technology with IEEE Spectrum editor Glenn Zorpette. The tech has been used to create the first major upgrade to the movement of quartz watches in decades, a power efficient motor that is 50 percent smaller, allows fluid forward-and-back motion of the hand, and requires so little power a watch can run for over a decade before it needs a new battery. Louvigne talk about their new hybrid watch, which combine smartwatch electronics with analog faces, and partnerships with manufacturers such as Timex.

Alan Clark of SUSE talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about the disruption in the enterprise Linux community caused by recent announcements by Red Hat over open source access to its codebase, and the formation of the Open Enterprise Linux Alliance (Open ELA) by SUSE, Oracle and CIQ in response.

Justine Bateman is an author and filmmaker. She also holds a degree in computer science from UCLA and is the AI advisor to SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union currently striking against movie and television studios. In this episode, Bateman talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about actors' demands for control and compensation over digital avatars created in their likeness, and the destructive potential of generative AI in Hollywood.

Wendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and author of the just released book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. An excerpt from the book regarding the emerging prospect of digitally reanimating the departed is available on IEEE Spectrum's website. In this episode of Fixing The Future, Wong talks with senior editor Eliza Strickland about how the increasing datification of our lives could make this prospect possible—with or without our consent. 

IEEE Spectrum's resident semiconductor expert Samuel K. Moore talks with host Stephen Cass about ASML's enormous machine that's at the heart of chip manufacturing and explain the latest tricks with extreme ultraviolet that will keep Moore's Law going. In addition, new technologies from Edwards and Nvidia should make manufacturing chips greener and faster respectively. 

Reducing our global carbon footprint by switching to electric vehicles means we need a lot more batteries. And that means we need a lot more copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium to make those batteries. Josh Goldman of KoBold Metals talks to senior editor Eliza Strickland about using AI to decipher geological formations and find new deposits of these minerals, and you can read more in his recent feature for IEEE Spectrum.    

IEEE Spectrum's Stephen Cass talks with Arun Gupta, vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel and chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, about Intel's contributions to open source software projects and efforts to make open source greener and more secure.

Around the world, legislators are grappling with generative AI's potential for both innovation and destruction. Russell Wald is the Director of Policy for Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, he talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about creating humane regulations that are able to cope with a rapidly evolving technology.

As large language models like GPT4 and Bard continue to take the world by storm, one of their most high-profile applications is their most unexpected: writing code. AI programming systems like Github Copilot are primarily used by software developers as a writing partner, but no-code programming tools can also help non-programmers find new ways to use data. AI-watcher Craig Smith talks to Gina Genkina and explains how this programming ability caught researchers by surprise and how anyone can start leveraging these tools. 

Sally Adee's new book, We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome, exams the centuries-long quest to understand how the body uses electricity. Beyond just how neurons send electrical signals, new research is showing how ancient biological mechanisms use electricity to heal our bodies and dictate how cells behave. Adee, a former editor at IEEE Spectrum, talks with host Stephen Cass about this research and how it may even open the door to regenerative technologies that are currently science fiction.

Samuel K. Moore, IEEE Spectrum's senior editor and semiconductor beat reporter, talks about the competing technologies that hope to dramatically speed up computing, especially for machine learning. 

Charles Scalfini, the CTO of Panoramic Software, makes the case for why programmers should make the leap to functional programming, which promises more maintainable code, and eliminates some of the problems inherent to conventional languages. 

One potential path to tackling climate change due to rising carbon dioxide levels is to lock the carbon dioxide away in geological reservoirs deep underground. Deep learning AI technologies can produce better models of these reservoirs, essential if they are to be used at a big enough scale to make a difference.

Britt S. Young talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about her investigation into high-tech prosthetic hand design: "We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race. But are we making real progress? It's time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish. Each new multigrasping bionic hand tends to be more sophisticated but also more expensive than the last and less likely to be covered (even in part) by insurance. And as recent research concludes, much simpler and far less expensive prosthetic devices can perform many tasks equally well."

Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by the IRL Podcast from Mozilla Michael #1: Careful with that PyPI email via John Hagen There is a widespread Phishing attack going on against PyPI users. The PyPA is currently tweeting about it: https://twitter.com/pypi/status/1562442188285308929 Brian #2: IEEE Top Programming Languages 2022 : Python's still No. 1, but employers love to see SQL skills by Stephen Cass Related: The Rise of SQL It's become the second programming language everyone needs to know by Rina Diane Caballar Good to see Python on top for Spectrum and Trending But interesting to see growth and strength in SQL SQL is actually top for Jobs SQL is a skill you can't ignore. Not only are relational databases just as important for large systems, they're increasingly more important for small and even local systems, and are ever growing the responsibility of developers, not left to database specialists. Will #3: Using Mypy in production at Spring by Charlie Marsh Michael #4: Django 4.1 Yes, I'm a bit slow to notice this, from August 3, 2022. Big deal for us async folks! Asynchronous ORM interface: QuerySet now provides an asynchronous interface for all data access operations. Asynchronous handlers for class-based views: View subclasses may now define async HTTP method handlers: Also: Validation of Constraints: Check, unique, and exclusion constraints defined in the Meta.constraints option are now checked during model validation. Check out Chris' Django: Getting Started course at Talk Python. Brian #5: You Should Be Using Python's Walrus Operator - Here's Why by Martin Heinz A fun look at some places where I've never considered using := Examples reusing a value while building a list regular expression match results cleaning up while loops (ok, that I'm using already, but it's great) accumulating data in place named values in f-strings for multiple formatting. wow, super cool. … Will #6: Humre By Al Sweigart Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" Human readable regular expressions§ Joke: Password PR