Mic Drop: Frank McCourt wants TikTok to help him reinvent the Internet
Billionaire Frank McCourt wants to buy TikTok. Not to go viral—but to rewire the web. He says 170 million users could help him turn the Internet into something less addictive… and more democratic. Is ...
18 Juli 202510min
Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and i...
15 Juli 202537min
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
In Russia, military families are cashing in on a wartime housing surge. Defense budgets are ballooning, property values are rising… and beneath it all, a troubling question: what happens when the war ...
11 Juli 202512min
Return to Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
Before the war, Serhii Zenin played Metallica and joked with listeners on Ukraine’s Radio ROKS. Now he wears fatigues. And the station? It's still playing heavy metal—but now it’s also broadcasting ne...
8 Juli 202522min
Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
While most of us were staring at the auroras lighting up our Instagram feeds last year, a small group of analysts at the Space ISAC were focused on something a little less… pretty. Think solar flares....
4 Juli 202511min
The space debris strikes back
In this week’s CyberMonday crossover with WAMU’s 1A, we revisit a Click Here episode and take your calls—this time, about the cluttered chaos orbiting above us. Space debris isn’t just a cleanup probl...
1 Juli 202540min
Mic Drop: Predator mode
Drones promised progress — as lifesavers in floods, storytellers in newsrooms, even assistants to archaeologists. But somewhere along the way, they took a darker turn. Now they hover over protests, sh...
27 Juni 202513min
ICE leans on high tech monitoring to make quotas
Today: A story about a technology that began in the fields — tracking cattle — and is now on the ankles of immigrants. It’s part of a program called “alternatives to detention.” And these ankle monito...
24 Juni 202524min
