Tech Talk
MSP348. What Have We Learned? More Weird Science From 2025
Injectable pacemakers, PAC-MANN munching protease tests for pancreatic cancer, de-extinction events and bottling the power of the sun. And, because Matt insisted, synthetic worms made of active matter. As we move into the era of multi gene editing, non-invasive targeted treatments for diseases, …
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Digital Afterlife: Who Owns Your Data After You're Gone?
We are more connected than any generation before us. Our messages, photos, searches, location data, subscriptions, and even our voices now live online, often long after we stop thinking about them. But here’s a question most of us avoid. When we die, what actually happens to that digital version…
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MSP347. What Have We Learned? The Science Stories Of 2025
From the war on science, to vaccines for cancer to contact lenses that allow you to see in the spectrum of light invisible to our eyes, we’re looking back at some of the incredible and amazing breakthroughs in science we’ve seen in 2025.
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The Rise Of "It Wasn't Me, My AI Did It" in APAC
As AI agents begin making decisions and transactions across borders, the line between human intent and machine action is blurring fast. In this episode, Jumio’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Bala Kumar, explores what happens when “It wasn’t me, my AI did it” becomes a real defence. From the…
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MSP346. Weird Science: Filthy Brains, Frontier Agents And IRC
The robots are running amok again. This week Amazon announced Frontier Agents, bots that hopefully will not hallucinate their way through tasks lasting days at a time. Waymo’s auto taxis appear to be rebelling against their human overlords, speeding away from traffic lights and randomly performing …
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How Automation is Changing What We Read (and Believe)
Artificial intelligence has made its way into nearly every corner of our online lives, from search results to social media feeds. But what happens when AI starts rewriting the news itself? Google is now testing AI-generated headlines in its Discover feed, replacing original titles with automated re…
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MSP345 Good Enough. For You.
In a world of cost-cutting and minimal headcounts, AI doesn’t need to better than the people it replaces. It doesn’t need to be as good. Heck, it doesn’t even need to be competent. Matt and Rich explore a world where technology is good enough. Good enough to stop you switching service providers…
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Cut the Hype: Where AI Really Delivers for Business
Most companies still struggle to turn AI hype into real enterprise value. Despite years of excitement, many organisations remain stuck in pilots while boards demand measurable ROI and employees worry about displacement. Legacy systems, messy data, and leadership hesitation continue to hold back mea…
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MSP344. The Other Dark Web
Imagine waking up one morning and the Internet isn’t there anymore. You can’t order a car, groceries, log into your remote working portal, or any of the dozens of other digital apps and platforms we use on the daily. Usually when this happens it’s one or two apps for one or two hours. A tempora…
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When The Web Stopped Working
When Cloudflare stumbled, so did thousands of websites, apps, and digital services around the globe. It affected everything from banking transactions to social media feeds and even some AI platforms. For most users it felt like the internet itself had paused. We want to understand what happened,…
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