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Tech Podcast 271: Drones, tech in crisis, and the Copenhagen Wheel

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 271: It's a nice line-up for the last podcast of 2009. We've got an item on the MIT SENSEable City Lab's Copenhagen Wheel project. Turn your ordinary bike into an e-bike. Cool. Also, we revisit drones, and we hear all about the pluses and minuses of technologies in times of crisis, political and otherwise. PHOTO: Max Tomasinelli more »

Tech Podcast 270: Drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 270: On this week's podcast, we kick off with an extended version of an interview with Noah Shachtman of Wired.com. Noah's just back from checking out the drones that are currently flying over Pakistan and Afghanistan, and he's got a lot of interesting things to talk about. We'll also take a trip into space to hear about... more »

Tech Podcast: Tackling Cybercrime and Spam

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 269: This man is Shane Atkinson, allegedly part of global spamming team that at its peak may have been responsible for one-third of all the world's junk email. Two years ago, the BBC's Simon Cox tracked him down. Then, Cox became part of the story of bringing Atkinson to justice. We have that story in this week's... more »

Tech Podcast 268: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Returns!

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 268: Tons of fun in this week's podcast. The highlight is the return of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Eoin Colfer, who you may know as author of the Artemis Fowl series, has taken on the task of writing Book Six of Three in the H2G2 universe. It's called And Another Thing... and we've got an interview... more »

Tech Podcast 267: Churchill, Comets, Samasource, and Ventilators

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 267: Our Friday the 13th podcast features a segment on Samasource, a San Francisco based non-profit that's helping people in the developing world make a little luck for themselves by helping them get employment. Also, we hear about how Sir Winston Churchill's speeches flunk a new computerized essay marking program. We'll hitch a ride on a comet,... more »

Tech Podcast 265: “Internet’s” birthday, 40 years of modulated anarchy

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 265: This week, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet. We hear from UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock (pictured), and others who worked to send that first message between two computers, hundreds of miles apart. We get the international perspective from Chinese blogger and activist Isaac Mao. And we also hear about the 'Net's next... more »

Technology Podcast: Smart phones for scientists

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 264: In this week's technology podcast, you can hear how some scientists in Britain are working to develop an open source application for smartphones that will allow field researchers to do some pretty sophisticated data collection and mapping. It's all in an effort to fight the spread of infectious diseases across the globe. Also, we have a... more »

Iraqi Internet Bill, Africa Connected, NComputing, and Autism Detection Software

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 259: Fibre-optic broadband Internet access has come to East Africa by way of an undersea cable. We explore "Connected Africa," and hear a number of viewpoints. Also, the Iraqi parliament mulls a measure that might restrict what citizens can and can't see online. We have an interview with Stephen Dukker of NComputing, a company that wants to... more »

Trains, a Bio-Truck, and Winston the High-Speed Pigeon

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 258: Meet Winston, the 11 month old carrier pigeon who is faster than broadband Internet in South Africa. At least, that's what one company in South Africa set out to prove. You can hear more about that in this week's podcast. You can also take a ride on the Battambang Bamboo Railway in Cambodia, and follow along... more »

Castle Building Gets Medieval, Bertrand Piccard, and GPS Atari Art

By Clark Boyd

[Technology Podcast 254: On this week's show, castle builders in France use medieval technologies and techniques to build a castle...from scratch. Also, we have an interview with Bertrand Piccard, who wants to one day fly a solar-powered plane, non-stop, around the world. And we end with one podcast listener's amazing art project. He and his buddies use GPS and... more »