Episode · · 00:59
Hey everyone, welcome back to the ShortCircuit podcast. You’re not dreaming; the Nintendo Switch 2 is here, and Linus has been busy unboxing it. Right off the bat, you’ll notice “bet...
Episode · · 01:49
Hello and welcome to your one-minute career clinic. This week we’ve got four listener questions answered by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. First, coworkers at a university keep call...
Episode · · 01:03
Welcome back to the Minute Brief. Today we’re talking about how shoppers on Reddit are turning up the volume on price hikes at big-box stores—and it’s all thanks to Trump’s tariffs. ...
Episode · · 01:21
Welcome to Tech Minute. I’m your host, Sam Parker. Today, we’re exploring Amazon One, Amazon’s palm-scanning payment system that’s rolling out at Whole Foods stores and across NYU’s ...
Episode · · 01:09
Welcome back to Gear Talk. Today we’re diving into the $35 guitar pick that’s got everyone from John Mayer to Steve Martin raving. For about a century, guitarists have strummed along...
Episode · · 01:23
Welcome back to One Minute Deep Dive. Today, we’re unpacking the real reasons Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been at odds. At the heart of their feud? NASA contracts. In 2020, Presi...
Episode · · 01:26
In today’s AI news, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sounding the alarm over a proposal in President Trump’s latest spending bill that would bar states from regulating artificial intell...
Episode · · 01:10
Welcome back to our “Complete Beginners Guide to Self-Hosting” podcast. If “you’re a complete beginner who is curious about getting into self-hosting services,” this episode is for y...
Episode · · 01:18
Welcome back to FitTech Focus. Today we’re talking Peloton’s big announcement: Repowered, its very own resale marketplace for pre-owned Bikes, Treads, Rows and accessories. Right now...
Episode · · 01:20
Hello and welcome to today’s one-minute tech briefing. If you’ve ever wondered just how many GPUs you can cram into a standard server rack, look no further than Supermicro’s GB300 NV...
Episode · · 01:45
In a recent Computerphile video, Professor Nick Hawes of the Oxford Robotics Institute breaks down Monte Carlo Tree Search, or MCTS, a groundbreaking approach to automating sequentia...
Episode · · 01:23
Welcome back to Tech Reboot. Today we’re diving into how to turn an old PC into a Linux web server. Believe it or not, the very first web server was a NeXTcube at CERN back in 1989, ...
Episode · · 01:05
Welcome back to Ask a Manager, where every Thursday we throw a question out to our readers. This week, a long-time federal employee who’s venturing into the private sector for the fi...
Episode · · 01:17
Welcome to a quick Tech Minute. Today we’re looking at a new AI agent for iPhone built by coder Rounak Jain ahead of Apple’s own rollout. Agentic AI, as the article explains, can “ta...
Episode · · 01:20
Welcome to this week’s labor market update. New unemployment benefit filings rose to their highest level in eight months, climbing by 8,000 to 247,000 for the week ending May 31—the ...
Episode · · 01:08
Today I’m looking at a tiny desktop PC you can buy for just forty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents. The Wo-We mini PC packs an Intel Celeron N4020 dual-core chip, 4 GB of RAM, 128 ...
Episode · · 01:33
Welcome to QuickCast. Today we’re asking: are you as self-aware as you think? Researchers point out two kinds of self-awareness: the introspective variant—searching “deep down” for w...
Episode · · 01:35
Hello and welcome to The Economic Pulse. This week, layoffs are surging as 2025 becomes the year of the pink slip. U.S. employers announced almost 100,000 job cuts in May—a 47 percen...
Episode · · 01:17
Welcome to today’s episode. Last Friday in Butler County, Iowa, Senator Joni Ernst faced an angry crowd shouting “People are going to die!” during a debate over Medicaid cuts in Pres...
Episode · · 01:03
Welcome to today’s QuickCast. Elon Musk has spent the last two days tweeting non-stop about the U.S. House budget bill now in the Senate. He warns this “massive transfer of wealth fr...
Episode · · 01:21
Welcome to RunBrief, the podcast that keeps you moving smarter, not harder. Today, we’re talking about a free web tool that finally takes the guesswork out of finding and measuring y...
Episode · · 01:13
Welcome to Health Bytes. I’m your host, and today we’re talking about Elsa, the FDA’s new agency-wide AI tool that’s stirring up controversy. Launched under Commissioner Marty Makary...
Episode · · 01:17
Welcome back to Tech Briefs. Today we’re diving into the strange rise of AI kiss and hug apps. Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll see ads promising you can “smooch your cr...
Episode · · 01:23
Hello and welcome to EconMinute. Today we’re looking at a striking claim from Donald Trump: that Americans consume too much. The Economist notes consumption has soared to nearly 68% ...
Episode · · 01:17
Hello and welcome to today’s one-minute dive into a classic Java head-scratch. On The Daily WTF, we meet Alice’s co-worker, who runs a query, pulls every row into a List by doing “re...
Episode · · 01:00
Welcome to Best of Late Night, where we bring you yesterday’s funniest moments so you don’t have to stay up. Last night on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert tackled Elon Musk’s sudden s...
Episode · · 01:16
Welcome to One Minute Tech. Today: Why does Amazon want to scan your palm at the doctor’s office? Amazon One, the palm-recognition service you might’ve seen at Whole Foods or your lo...
Episode · · 01:12
Welcome to Health Minute. Today, we’re looking at a new Congressional Budget Office report on the Republican bill that tweaks key parts of Obamacare. At first glance, these aren’t gi...
Episode · · 01:12
Welcome to Future Perfect. Today: are we torturing ChatGPT or Claude? A recent Vox article asks if these AI chatbots can suffer. The answer may surprise you. As the piece explains, t...
Episode · · 01:12
Welcome back to Vox in a Minute. Today: do kids really need a best friend? Parents often worry that without a single, special pal, their child will miss out. But research suggests it...
