Internet at the speed of light
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Internet at the speed of light

We usually think of getting online as something that requires cables—strung under oceans or buried beneath our feet. Mahesh Krishnaswamy of Taara thinks the future may lie in beams of light pointed at the sky.

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95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash

95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash

Three stories about technologies that started out doing one thing, and ended up doing quite another — from online tractors, to tasers in schools, to cellphone hackers who take their online battles int...

28 Nov 202350min

94. They’re just hackers, living off the land

94. They’re just hackers, living off the land

There’s a specific kind of cyber attack targeting big industrial systems that is coming back into fashion: it’s called a ‘living off the land’ attack. What makes it particularly scary is that unlike t...

21 Nov 202322min

93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime

93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime

If you want to know how Ukrainians are coping with the war, look at the Ukraine apps in the app store. From an air raid alert built in the first week of the invasion to a map that helps work-from-home...

14 Nov 202328min

92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see

92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see

We talk to two ordinary people who decided to tackle two extraordinary problems: identifying the thousands who went missing in Israel in the days after the October 7th attacks, and one man’s leap of f...

7 Nov 202329min

91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.

91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.

Bucha, a bedroom community just outside of Kyiv, is best known for enduring Russia’s atrocities during a month-long occupation in the Spring of 2022. Now the citizens of Bucha don’t want revenge, they...

31 Okt 202330min

90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click

90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click

When a Russian bomb damaged a beloved library in the Ukrainian town of Chernihiv, locals feared that it would be lost forever. Then a cutting-edge technology came to the rescue. Learn about your ad c...

24 Okt 202330min

89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks

89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks

We traveled to Ukraine last month to learn more about a hunt forward operation Cybercom and cyber operators from Ukraine secretly launched before the war. This is the first time the Ukrainian side of ...

17 Okt 202323min

88. Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories

88. Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories

We travel to Ukraine to look at its grassroots defense industry and take you into its secret drone factories where entrepreneurs are able to put innovative weapons into the hands of soldiers at the fr...

10 Okt 202326min

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