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FT Tech Tonic

We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new technolo... Read more

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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

27mins

Ranked #2

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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

25mins

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Ranked #3

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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

26mins

Ranked #4

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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

22mins

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Ranked #5

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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

29mins

Ranked #6

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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

27mins

Ranked #7

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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

31mins

Ranked #8

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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

22mins

Ranked #9

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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

26mins

Ranked #10

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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

27mins

Ranked #11

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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

21mins

Ranked #12

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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

25mins

Ranked #13

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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

24mins

Ranked #14

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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

21mins

Ranked #15

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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

35mins

Ranked #16

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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

26mins

Ranked #17

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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

23mins

Ranked #18

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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

34mins

Ranked #19

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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

24mins

Ranked #20

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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

30mins

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