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FT Tech Tonic
Financial Times
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 technological age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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72%Rewiring sport: Hi-tech cheating
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60%Rewiring sport: Is tech ruining sports fandom?
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57%Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers
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74%AI Labs: Zuckerberg’s $100bn gamble
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69%AI Labs: Elon Musk wants AI in space
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59%AI Labs: Sam Altman may make or break OpenAI
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54%AI Labs: Google DeepMind plans its comeback
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73%AI Labs: Are Anthropic really the good guys?
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68%Artificial intimacy: The day your chatbot dies
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58%Artificial intimacy: Prescribing robots to combat loneliness
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70%Artificial intimacy: The AI therapist that ended a marriage
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72%Artificial intimacy: A teenager’s last conversation
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65%Artificial intimacy: The delusion machine
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69%Artificial intimacy: How to fall in love with AI
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65%Tech in 2026: Silicon Valley’s power plays and players
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63%Tech in 2026: Inside the AI bubble
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65%Untold: Toxic Legacy, Ep. 1
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70%Defying death: The future of forever
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64%Defying death: The longevity lab
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62%Defying death: The origins of ageing
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63%Mission to Mars: Bad science fiction
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59%Mission to Mars: The new space race
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66%Mission to Mars: Elon Musk's 'Starship' enterprise
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56%AI Music: ‘Theft machines’?
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71%AI Music: The Infinite Jukebox
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72%Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel
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68%Trump’s Tech Bros: Is ‘Maga Mark’ the real Mark Zuckerberg?
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67%Trump’s Tech Bros: Has Jeff Bezos sold out?
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76%Trump's Tech Bros: The tragedy of Elon Musk
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72%Trump’s Tech Bros: Can Tim Cook save Apple from the trade war?
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57%Future weapons: Tomorrow’s technology
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68%Future weapons: Rearming Europe
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63%Future weapons: Battlefield AI
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62%Future weapons: The defence tech bros
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62%Future weapons: Ukraine’s army of drones
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70%Making money from AI: After DeepSeek
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70%Making money from AI: Searching for a ‘killer app’
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69%Tech in 2025: The EU vs Big Tech
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65%Tech in 2025: China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment’
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70%Tech in 2025: All hail the AI revolution
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69%Tech in 2025: Trump and the tech bros
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70%Tech in 2025: Hi, I’m your AI-powered assistant
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63%The geopolitics of chips: Nvidia and the AI boom
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62%The geopolitics of chips: Taiwan’s ‘Silicon Shield’
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73%The geopolitics of chips: A manufacturing miracle
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76%The geopolitics of chips: Chips in the USA
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72%The Telegram case: Privacy vs security
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73%The Telegram case: Pavel Durov
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58%The trouble with deepfakes: Beyond control?
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67%The trouble with deepfakes: Liar’s dividend
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66%China's race to tech supremacy: New frontiers
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70%China's race to tech supremacy: Chatbots & chips
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63%China’s race to tech supremacy: Robot generation
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67%China's race to tech supremacy: Embracing Africa
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63%China's race to tech supremacy: Driving into Europe
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76%China's race to tech supremacy: Shenzhen speed
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61%Superintelligent AI: Conscious Machines
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61%Superintelligent AI: Transhumanism etc.
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69%Superintelligent AI: can chatbots think?
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54%Superintelligent AI: The Utopians
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63%Superintelligent AI: The Doomers
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74%Coming soon: Superintelligent AI
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69%Can AI help us speak to animals? Part two
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67%Can AI help us speak to animals? Part one
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76%Can AI help us speak to animals? Karen Bakker interview
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71%The quantum revolution: Live at Founders Forum
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65%Peak social media: The future
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70%Peak social media: Building better platforms
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70%Peak social media: The power of influencers
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68%Peak social media: The debate over young users’ mental health
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69%Peak social media: The ads machine
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66%Peak social media: Trouble at Twitter
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57%The quantum revolution: The way the world is
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58%The quantum revolution: Brain waves
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55%The quantum revolution: First port of call
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77%The quantum revolution: ‘Spooky action’
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64%The quantum revolution: The race to build a quantum computer
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71%The quantum revolution: Q-Day
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70%Climate tech to save the planet: Techno-optimism or greenwashing?
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68%Climate tech to save the planet: Star power
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59%Climate tech to save the planet: Hype and hydrogen
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71%Climate tech to save the planet: How to keep flying
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57%Climate tech to save the planet: Out of thin air
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62%A sceptic’s guide to crypto: the crypto Wild West
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71%A sceptic’s guide to crypto: the church of bitcoin
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64%A sceptic’s guide to crypto: NFT mania
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72%A sceptic’s guide to crypto: bonus interview with a16z’s Chris Dixon
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76%A sceptic’s guide to crypto: the ‘smart’ money
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65%A sceptic’s guide to crypto: boom and bust
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65%Introducing: Hot Money
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54%US-China Tech Race: The great decoupling
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71%US-China Tech Race: Brave new world
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55%US-China Tech Race: Shock and Awe
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65%US-China Tech Race: Chips with everything
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68%US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part Two)
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72%US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)
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72%AI with military characteristics
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73%Brainstorm
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65%You Can’t Always Get What you Quant
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65%Trust me, I’m a robot
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76%Gamechanger
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66%Levelling the playing field
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64%The digital graduate
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60%Chasing digital footprints
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67%Disrupting the hospital
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68%The future is here now
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65%AI research and big tech
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69%Niklas Zennström and Tom Wehmeier on the state of European tech
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61%Dave Ferrucci on teaching computers to think
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63%Google's Kate Brandt on sustainable tech
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58%Digital technologies and the developing world
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71%ENCORE: Jeni Tennison on open data
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71%Scott Kupor on VC funding
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77%Rana Foroohar on taming big tech
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71%Stuart Russell on losing control of AI
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60%Jaan Tallinn on AI safety
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62%Wanted: work for humans
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71%What kind of art can AI produce?
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69%John Maeda on designing the future
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64%Sarah Chan on neural interfaces
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57%Alice Bentinck on harnessing tech talent
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59%Improving decision making through AI
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67%Priya Lakhani on AI's power to transform education
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68%Nicolas Berggruen on democracy in the digital age
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75%Ben Goertzel on benevolent robots
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68%Frances Arnold on directed evolution of enzymes
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66%Digital printing for the fourth industrial revolution
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76%Directing innovation towards sustainable growth
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76%Paul Clarke on robotics and digital twins
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69%Jennifer Doudna on gene editing
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63%John Browne on engineering the future
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58%Nathan Jurgenson on social media and the selfie
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69%Eric Topol on making healthcare more human
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57%Andrew Ng on building an AI workforce
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64%Rana Yared on investing in fintech
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71%Marcus du Sautoy on creative AI
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72%James Vlahos on voice technology
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55%Peter Schwartz on automating the brain
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60%Tim Berners-Lee on reshaping the web
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72%Jack Conte on crowdfunding for creators
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66%Jeni Tennison on data ethics
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63%James Williams on the attention economy
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63%Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
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63%Will Marshall on mapping the earth
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73%Taavet Hinrikus on disrupting the banks
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70%AI and software's 'singular moment'
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59%The risks and rewards of gene-editing
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68%Vivienne Ming on solving human problems
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71%Diego Piacentini on GovTech
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70%Trust in the digital age
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72%Graphcore's next generation chip technology
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78%What robots can teach humans
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68%Making the most of work chat
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71%Artificial intelligence that learns on the fly
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65%The business of cybercrime
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71%Technology and the human brain
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66%Investing in deep tech
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73%Puncturing the AI hype
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64%Who sets the internet standards?
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65%David Sanger on cyber warfare
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68%Adrian Lovett on fighting for a better web
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73%Jocelyn Bell Burnell on new frontiers in astronomy
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64%Tristan Harris on digital Frankensteins
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64%Liberty and morality in the AI era
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71%Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data
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56%What's next for Dropbox?
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65%How can we make governments smarter?
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71%The new AI battleground
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71%Terah Lyons on fashioning the AI future
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62%What we can learn from ancient DNA
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64%Julia Shaw on a bot you can trust
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66%The consumer awakening
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65%Facebook and Google: platforms or publishers?
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78%Removing bias from AI
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58%Rethinking the way we earn money
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68%Erel Margalit on investing in peace
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67%Is there anyone out there?
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60%ENCORE: When data rules the world
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72%Road testing self-drive cars
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64%Jacqueline Poh on digital government
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64%Martin Rees on saving the planet
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64%Silicon Valley's coming of age
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66%Calum Chace on a world without work
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75%Social media in the classroom
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55%Garry Kasparov on the risks and rewards of AI
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72%Guarding against the next cyber attack
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70%Why AI is the future
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76%Using tech to fight poverty
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59%What has gone wrong with the internet revolution?
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71%Human friendly robotics
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62%The social media effect
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68%Reclaiming Europe's digital sovereignty
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73%Seth Stephens Davidowitz on data mining
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70%Mary Lou Jepsen on the wearable MRI
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63%What lies ahead for AR
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61%Tim Wu on addictive apps
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72%The graphics chip powering AI technology
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66%Silicon Valley's newest recruits
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63%The limits of artificial intelligence
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66%Using blockchain to fight fraud
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65%Uber's plans for aviation on demand
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63%How US companies find the right talent
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64%What's next for Stripe and online payments
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68%What self-driving cars could do for robotics
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72%How DeepMind vanquished Go
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59%Engineering your own chatbot
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68%Political disruption and the internet
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74%The virtue of cash
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61%A look inside Uber
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59%Science and security
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68%Cracking the ed-tech market
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71%Coding for everyone
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65%Sharing the cost of driving
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72%The future of work
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63%When machines outsmart their human designers
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66%Living in a modern surveillance state
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71%Disrupting the banking industry
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59%The changing face of Russian cyber espionage
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72%Blazing a trail for women in tech
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58%Re-empowering the consumer
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64%Hacking foreign policy
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68%Fighting back against the throwaway culture
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73%Inside Google's innovation factory
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61%When data rules the world
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67%The driverless car revolution
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70%Keeping the cyber hackers at bay
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60%Truth, lies and how to separate fact from fiction
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64%Harnessing the technological revolution
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