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A look inside Uber
A look inside Uber
Uber investor and adviser Bradley Tusk talks to the FT's Leslie Hook about the highs and lows of the ride-sharing compan... Read more
15 Mar 2017
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27mins
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Tim Wu on addictive apps
Tim Wu on addictive apps
The author of "The Attention Merchants" talks to John Thornhill about his concerns about the way some web apps are eatin... Read more
14 Jun 2017
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25mins
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ENCORE: When data rules the world
ENCORE: When data rules the world
In this encore episode, John Thornhill talks to author and historian Yuval Noah Harari about his vision of a future when... Read more
21 Feb 2018
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26mins
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The new AI battleground
The new AI battleground
Nicole Eagan, chief executive of Darktrace, tells John Thornhill corporate networks have become the new battleground in ... Read more
2 May 2018
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22mins
Ranked #5
Using tech to fight poverty
Using tech to fight poverty
Elisabeth Mason, founding director of the Stanford Poverty & Technology Lab, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about ... Read more
22 Nov 2017
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29mins
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Terah Lyons on fashioning the AI future
Terah Lyons on fashioning the AI future
John Thornhill talks to Terah Lyons, founding executive director of the Partnership on AI, a US initiative that brings c... Read more
25 Apr 2018
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27mins
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AI research and big tech
AI research and big tech
John Thornhill talks to David Barber, director of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence in London, about how academ... Read more
16 Dec 2019
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31mins
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Niklas Zennström and Tom Wehmeier on the state of European tech
Niklas Zennström and Tom Wehmeier on the state of European tech
Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype and Atomico and Tom Wehmeier, Atomico partner and author of The State of European Tec... Read more
9 Dec 2019
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22mins
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Dave Ferrucci on teaching computers to think
Dave Ferrucci on teaching computers to think
Dave Ferrucci, CEO, founder and chief scientist of Elemental Cognition, talks to Richard Waters, the FT's West Coast edi... Read more
2 Dec 2019
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26mins
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Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
John Thornhill talks to the social scientist Shoshana Zuboff about her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and wha... Read more
13 Feb 2019
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27mins
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Seth Stephens Davidowitz on data mining
Seth Stephens Davidowitz on data mining
John Thornhill talks to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former Google data scientist, about what our internet searches revea... Read more
18 Oct 2017
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21mins
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Tim Berners-Lee on reshaping the web
Tim Berners-Lee on reshaping the web
John Thornhill talks to Tim Berners-Lee about the achievements of the world wide web which he invented 30 years ago, wha... Read more
12 Mar 2019
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25mins
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Andrew Ng on building an AI workforce
Andrew Ng on building an AI workforce
Artificial intelligence expert Andrew Ng talks to John Thornhill about his concern that AI technology is concentrating w... Read more
17 Apr 2019
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24mins
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What we can learn from ancient DNA
What we can learn from ancient DNA
David Reich, professor of genetics at Harvard, talks to Clive Cookson, the FT's science editor, about how the genomic re... Read more
18 Apr 2018
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21mins
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What robots can teach humans
What robots can teach humans
John Thornhill talks to Maja Pantic, Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing at Imperial College in London, abo... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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35mins
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The limits of artificial intelligence
The limits of artificial intelligence
Despite billions being spent on research, even our best deep learning neural networks look pitiful when compared to the ... Read more
24 May 2017
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26mins
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Science and security
Science and security
Entrepreneur Tom Ilube talks about his work with scientists to deploy their research in the battle against cybercrime, t... Read more
8 Mar 2017
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23mins
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Cracking the ed-tech market
Cracking the ed-tech market
Duolingo cofounder and chief executive Luis von Ahn talks to the FT's Tim Bradshaw about creating the snackable language... Read more
1 Mar 2017
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34mins
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Silicon Valley's newest recruits
Silicon Valley's newest recruits
Jeremy Johnson, chief executive of Andela, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about how his company recruits and trains so... Read more
31 May 2017
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24mins
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The social media effect
The social media effect
Microsoft researcher and Data & Society president danah boyd talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about the effect of ev... Read more
1 Nov 2017
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30mins