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Welcome to the Ars Technicast, the official podcast from Ars Technica, where we bring you you the latest in the worlds of computing, technology, science, and everything else in between. Duri...
In the second part of this two-part special edition of the Ars Technicast, we talk to Northrop Grumman's Richard Sullivan about the role of...
For at least a couple of decades, the US Department of Defense has been trying to make the tools we use to fight battles more like the tools...
Join Ars Technica editors Sean Gallagher and Lee Hutchinson in this special AI-focused edition of the Ars Technicast, produced in cooperatio...
Join Ars Technica editors Sean Gallagher and Lee Hutchinson in this special AI-focused edition of the Ars Technicast, produced in cooperatio...
Join Ars Technica editors Sean Gallagher and Lee Hutchinson in this special AI-focused edition of the Ars Technicast, produced in cooperatio...
Today we’re presenting the fourth and final installment of my conversation with Naval Ravikant about existential risks. The theme of today’s...
Today we’re presenting the third installment of my conversation with Naval Ravikant about existential risks. In this segment, Naval and I mo...
Today we’re presenting the second installment of my conversation with Naval Ravikant about existential risks. Today, we focus on that time-h...
This week’s guest is Naval Ravikant. Naval is a renowned angel investor and entrepreneur. But our topic this week is something quite a bit d...
Today we present the third and final installment of my interview with Sarah Parcak, a prominent founding figuring the emerging field of astr...
Today we’re presenting the second installment of my interview with Sarah Parcak, a prominent founding figuring the emerging field of astroar...
This week my guest is Sarah Parcak, a co-founder of the emerging field of astroarchaeology, which enlists satellite imagery to identify anci...
Today we present the third and final installment of my interview with Chris Anderson. Today’s episode starts in the greener pastures that Ch...
Today we’re presenting the second installment of my wide-ranging interview with Chris Anderson. He was Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief for...
Our guest is Chris Anderson, who was the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine for twelve years—until he did something quite unusual for an edit...
We open today’s conversation talking about bioterrorism. Because that’s not uplifting enough, we then move on the dangers a super AI could p...
Today, we start off discussing Sam’s first bestselling book, The End of Faith. It was inspired by September 11th attacks. Having recently sp...
In today’s installment, we discuss some of the experiences that shaped Sam's perspectives. As a freshman at Stanford (where he and I happene...
This week my guest is Sam Harris: a neuroscientist turned bestselling author turned podcasting colossus. Sam has described his job as “think...
The main topic today is consciousness. Adam has his own rather eclectic take on this mysterious force and presence. The final chunk of the p...
Adam and I open today’s installment discussing techniques that mad scientists like him can use thwack the brain (legally, and safely, of cou...
This week, we’re serializing another episode of the After On Podcast here on Ars. Our guest is UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, who runs o...
UC Irvine quantitative psychologist Don Hoffman presents his wildly counterintuitive theory on the nature of reality. We kick off today talk...
Don and I open this episode by discussing his take on space-time. He refutes that the notion that space itself existed at all before conscio...
Today’s guest is UC Irvine quantitative psychologist Don Hoffman. In today’s installment, he lays the foundation of this wildly contrarian w...
In today’s installment, Tim rejects the fashionable forecast that automation will eradicate all human jobs next week. Being closer than most...
Tim and I start off today talking about "The Whole Internet User’s Guide & Catalog," which he published in 1992. And yup—that’s a two at the...
Our guest is tech’s preeminent publisher and top prognosticator Tim O’Reilly. O’Reilly Media has published a huge share of our world’s top b...
Today, we build on the amazing results Google attained with its experimental eye scan study, and consider the unlikely things that might one...
Our guest is pediatric oncologist and medical futurist Daniel Kraft. We begin today discussing Daniel’s background and Singularity Universit...
Today we open with an heartening story about an infant who went through one of Robert’s studies, and may have picked up fifteen IQ points as...
Today we present the second installment of my interview with medical geneticist Robert Green, about the promise and pitfalls that could lie...
My guest this week is a medical geneticist Robert Green, and our topic is the promise and peril that could come from reading your full genom...
Today we present the third and final installment of my interview British astronomer Stephen Webb on the subject of Fermi’s paradox. we open...
Today we present the second installment of my interview British astronomer Stephen Webb on the subject of Fermi’s paradox. We open by talkin...
This week we ponder Fermi's Paradox with British astronomer Stephen Webb. This is the question of why can’t we detect any signs of intellige...
Today we open by talking about some astounding work of UC Berkeley neuroscientist Jack Gallant—in which he trained an AI system to infer wha...
This week my guest is a holographer, a one-time academic, a former CTO of Oculus, and a present-day entrepreneur named Mary Lou Jepsen. We o...
We start today’s installment with the very cliffhanger sentence yesterday’s installment ended with: Rodney saying “Yeah, let’s talk about de...
We start with the new robotic era that dawned when Rethink Robotics launched its Baxter robot. Baxter and its successor, Sawyer, shifted the...
Today’s segment introduces guest Rodney Brooke and includes a discussion of the rigid segregation between human workers and robots that reig...
We start today’s installment by discussing an audacious project to resurrect the wooly mammoth—or at least certain of its genes, which allow...
We begin today’s installment with a discussion of the strengths and shortcomings of the CRISPR gene-editing technique, which George co-inven...
Genomicist George Church talks about his disappointment with the Human Genome Project. He argues that his field’s true golden age began righ...
Right now the U.S. tech economy is booming, but what will be the long-term effects of automation and AI? Are robots about to steal our jobs?...
Ars Technica's Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar talk to Catherine Bracy, founder of the TechEquity Collaborative, about Silicon Valley's equ...
Ars Technica's Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar talk to Lisa Ling, former military drone tech and whistleblower about the dilemmas of drone...
Ars Technica's Annalee Newitz and Joe Mullin talk to Lindsey Dillon, UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies Professor and chair of the EDGI (En...
What's it like to poke, prod, and blow up stuff for a living? Ars Technica's Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar talked with Norman Chan, the e...
Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar and David Kravetz talk with criminal defense attorney Mark Jaffe about his cases with Aurenheimer, Lostutter, a...