Tech Podcast: A Nobel for the Internet?

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The Internet, the late Senator Ted Stevens famously quipped, is “just a series of tubes.” Well, now this set of fat data pipes has its very own nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Will it win? We’ll talk about the chances on this month’s podcast round-up of great global technology stories.

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Tech Podcast: 300 episodes and going strong

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Yep, Episode 300 of The World’s Technology Podcast. For five and half years, we’ve tried to bring you the best in global technology. We’ve also tried to eschew gadgets and gizmos in favor of tech stories that have some meat on their bones. Join us for this Tech Roundup episode, with help from Jonathan Fildes of the BBC, and Cyrus Farivar from Deutsche Welle.

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Podcast: Monthly Tech Roundup 2.0

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In our monthly tech round-up, we talk about the latest developments in professor Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the Wall project (pictured). Find out what happens when you let kids in a Delhi slum figure out a computer all by themselves. We also talk about Facebook’s half-a-billion users, and about how you use technology to make sense of information during times of crisis. (Screengrab from the Hole in the Wall website)

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Tech Podcast: Our new monthly tech round-up

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While all eyes are trained on South Africa and the soccer World Cup, we should note that Singapore this month played host to RoboCup 2010. That’s only one of the great tech stories you’ll hear about in this, our newly minted monthly round-up of the best in global technology news. We’ll also talk about Wikileaks, the .xxx domain name, the One Laptop Per Child Project, and cyber-security. (Photo: FUmanoids)

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John Hughes RIP, sand dunes made of bacteria, and WE CARE’s solar suitcase

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This week’s podcast features a geek’s audio tribute to John Hughes, the late director of “Weird Science.” Also, we talk about a project to make thousand mile sand dunes with the help of bacteria. And we hear about the solar suitcase, a toolbox designed to greatly improve maternal care in the developing world.

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Apollo 11 computers, net cables for Africa, and bamboo bicycles

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Finally, Technology Podcast 251 is ready for your earbuds. We have a great line-up. First, we hear about the “beatniks and little old ladies” who, quite literally, wove together the Apollo 11 computer systems 40 years ago. We’ll also take an in-depth look at the undersea fiber-optic cables that went live in East Africa, and how it might affect Internet access on the continent. And we’ll end with bamboo bicycles from Zambia.

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Chinese Net Surveillance Gets Personal

Chinese officials will now require that every PC sold in the country have Internet filtering software installed on it. The software is called Green Dam Youth Escort, and cyber-security experts are already noting it may be open to hacking. Meanwhile, rights groups are calling foul. Listen