97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
We look at the use of digital tools that have imposed an authoritarian version of morality on the masses, and the creative, inspiring way ordinary people have learned to respond. Learn about your ad ...
12 Dec 202349min
96. The art of decoding dictators
Dictators use bombast and bullying as a kind of malevolent calling card. Meet the people who have found surprising and creative ways around that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choi...
5 Dec 202351min
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
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
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
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.
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
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
