Spark from CBC Radio
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Description
Spark on CBC Radio One Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.
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Clean357: audio tattoos, the malware scare and more | The future of ransomware. Ads that target your painful past. Tattoos you can listen to. And, has America become anti-innovation? | 5/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean356: "Can you please unlock your phone, sir?" | Why border officials can scour your smartphone. Should robots interview abused children? "Dashing" off donations. Behaviour and digital nudging. Portrayals of motherhood in video games. | 5/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean355: Down and out in the digital economy | The perils of job hunting in a digital age. Why kids should learn to hack. The dangers of "pre-crime" algorithms. Kim Dotcom: the man behind the myth. | 5/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean354: Social media, social ills | Facebook, violence and responsibility. An app to bridge the political divide. Designing government data to be engaging. Locked out of your own YouTube account. And, why we need a nature fix. | 4/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean353: Addiction, failure, psychopaths | How to identify and curb tech addiction and overuse. Why we should stop scrolling and start connecting. A tour through the Museum of Failure. A tax on robots. And, is Silicon Valley full of psychopaths? | 4/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean352: Baby boxes, internet health and more | Internet health. Baby boxes. 808 heartbreak. Frank Lloyd Wright's 3D revival. And, is tech becoming conceptual art? | 4/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean351: Search history for sale, bot talk and more | Search history for sale. Bots that develop their own language. Vision for the legally blind. And, what innovation means in Canada. | 3/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean350: Disappearing trades, automation and more | Vanishing skills in our digital society. Why there's still a lively market for feature phones in developing economies. And how the threat of automation and job destruction is overblown. | 3/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean349: Down with self-improvement, sexism and more | Resisting the self-improvement craze. Data analytics and the restaurant industry. Diplomatic digital relations. Sexism and Silicon Valley. | 3/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean348: Everyone's a musician, no one is the boss | Google's hatred-fighting AI. How assistive tech can sometimes reinforce inequalities. No musical ability, no problem, there's an app for that. A personal assistant that answers exclusively in GIFs. And saying goodbye to the CEO for good. | 3/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean348: Rando reactions, creative data and more | The future of streaming, sharing, stealing and entertainment. A record-pressing robot helps bring back vinyl. An argument against Virtual Reality as an empathy tool. And, going random with Facebook reactions. | 3/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean313: Virtual reality, actual loneliness and more | Technology that connects and isolates, the intricacies and unexpected outcomes of robot law, finding high art and compassion in virtual reality, and the "Godmother of VR" on the state of her industry. | 2/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean346: biometrics, audio intelligence and more | Privacy implications of data-gathering medical technologies. Crypto parties get a new push thanks to rising data-mining fears. A new car service that connects drivers to riders directly. And, teaching AI to recognize sounds. | 2/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean345: love, hate, sex, apocalypse | Apocalypse Now the interactive horror game. Conflict resolution through video games. A dating app for mutual hate. Women CEOs work to decrease the stigma of female sexuality. And, the veggie burger that tastes and bleeds like beef. | 2/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean344: Tech workers, the travel ban and more | A Facebook employee's story of how he's affected by the U.S. travel ban. Canadian tech companies respond to the ban. Baby clothes that record what parents say. Diagnosing PTSD with speech analysis. Making comedy by reading the internet verbatim. | 2/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean343: Smart bridges, the end of FM and more | Smart bridges, the end of FM radio, protecting climate change data under Trump, and listening to problem machines. | 1/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean342: Sex robots, anonymity and more | Sex robots, anonymity and harassment, and the rise of the physicist. | 1/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean341: Winter cities, voicemail is dead and more | Postmortem communication, the death of voicemail, better winter cities, and an apple that never browns. | 1/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean340: Mindfulness, frugality, and the future | How to use tech to bring calm to your life, why being frugal is at odds with our taste for luxury, and forecasting the future of futurism. | 1/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean318: digital hoarding, storing data in DNA and more | Digital hoarding. Storing data in DNA. Quantum computing. Dark Web literary magazine. How to be bored. | 12/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean311-304: 3D archeology, yearbook smiles and more | 3D Archaeology. Printing 3D artifacts. Sound mapping. Yearbook smiles. Cloud storage your stuff. Algorithmic fairness. | 12/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean339: Fake news, synthetic ears and more | How fake news spreads. Making ears from apples. Texting with household cleaners. The impact of tech on families. Transgender on Tinder. | 12/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean338: Quantified babies, botnet boutiques and more | How to hack your baby's sleep. An app built by, and for, Labrador Inuit. Inside the botnet black market. And why the 14-hour workday is B.S. | 12/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great show, but more sociological than technological
Love the show. Great host. Good structure. My only criticism is that this is categorized as a technological podcast. It's actually more geared into looking at the social effects of technology in our current age. It's more about society and our social relationships that it is about the technology itself. It should really be re-categorized on iTunes so more people interested in this kind of topic could find it easier.
Favourite Podcast
As an I.T. professional, I listen to this podcast more regularily than any other podcast.
I would describe it as:
A quirky radio personality puts a unique twist on the discusion of technology.
The show doesn't simply bark news and numbers. After all, the invention of the technology is just the beginning. It's how we use the technology that really affects us as a culture. So, instead of focusing on what we will do to technology, this show often asks; "What will technology do to us?"
Great show
I really enjoy listening to your show. It helps an otherwise computer and technology challenged person like me understand these things a little better.
