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Dec 28, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 7

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  • Dec 21, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 6

    Encryption

    Encryption
    Faye Orlove for Marketplace

    How encryption hides all around us, how it was used in 18th century Paris to separate merchants from their money and the difference between your brain and your fingertip.

  • Dec 14, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 5

    World Building

    World Building
    Faye Orlove for Marketplace

    A proposal to bioengineer shorter humans with cat eyes, a decades-old idea for a totally new kind of power, a battery made from trash and Bill Nye the Science Guy tries to get us in gear.

  • Dec 7, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 4

    Watching

    Watching
    Faye Orlove for Marketplace

    A small city known for its Amish population and surveillance cameras, an old lady in Northern Ireland who watches video feeds in Brazil and getting footage from the fin of a shark.

  • Nov 30, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 3

    The Augmented Self

    The Augmented Self
    Faye Orlove for Marketplace

    The man who collected too much data, cyborgs who want to make their body-hardware mainstream, robots that rebuild your hairline and a conversation with Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge aka LeVar Burton.

  • Nov 23, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 2

    Alternate Reality

    Alternate Reality
    Faye Orlove for Marketplace

    A therapist who creates virtual reality experiences for people with dangerous disorders, a grandmother who uses a headset to escape her surroundings and Ernest Cline on virtual reality in fact and fiction. Listen, decode, and decide: Can alternate realities save us?

  • Nov 16, 2016 · Season 2 · Episode 1

    Recognition

    Recognition
    Faye Orlove

    A toddler who saved her mother’s life with Siri, a man whose mysterious ailment opened up a world of voice recognition technology and a dating service that wants to scan the faces of all your exes. Listen, decode, and decide: Can recognition software save us?

  • Introducing Codebreaker Season 2

    Can it save us?

  • You have a message from Codebreaker

    The key starts with zero. Once you've cracked it head to codebreaker.codes.

  • Dec 23, 2015 · Season 1 · Episode 7

    Data Tracking

    Data Tracking
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    Marketplace Tech and Tech Insider on data tracking.

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