 The World is a one-hour, international news program co-produced by the BBC World Service in London, and WGBH public radio in Boston. We podcast our technology coverage twice a week. Clark Boyd is The World's technology correspondent and resident podcastPrimary Format :
Language :
Also Listed as:
City :
State/Province :
Country :
Region :
User Tags:
User Votes:
 RSS Feed
Website
People found this Podcast
Searching for:
View this Podcast on a Google Map. 
 Text Only listing of BBC/WGBH -- The World's Technology Podcast Podcasts
 Methings.com listings of BBC/WGBH -- The World's Technology Podcast Podcasts
If you like this podcast, you might also like:
|
View the full archive of BBC/WGBH -- The World's Technology Podcast
WTP 266: World's Smallest FM Transmitter, Hossein Derakhshan and Persian Blogs, and Digital Memory Redux This week, we hear about what's billed as the world's smallest FM transmitter. Also, we ask you to weigh in on our discussion about appropriate technologies for the developing world. Then, the strange case of Hossein Derakhshan, and the wider world of Persian language blogs. Then, we revisit digital memory. Give to the podcast at www.pri.org/give.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 265: "Internet's" Birthday: 40 Years of Modulated Anarchy It's all about Internet this week. Our raison d'etre turned 40, and we're here to celebrate in style with half an hour of stories about how it came to be, what it is today, and where it's going tomorrow. Enjoy.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 264: EpiCollect, Electric Cars, and Political Tweets in the US and UKThis week's tech podcast comes to you not from Boston, but from London. We speak to a researcher who is trying to bring the power of smartphones to field data collection in the fight against infectious diseases. Also, as more car makers come out with electric cars, how far does the technology still have to go? And we end with a transatlantic comparison of political Tweets.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 263: Cuba Cable Capers, Finns Get Right to Broadband, Twitter Trumps Newspapers, and The Value of Forgetting Cuba gets word that not one, but possibly two, fiber optic cables are headed its way. Also, the Tsunami Early Warning System gets a test run in the Pacific, and Finns get the right to have broadband Internet access. Twitter gets a big jump on a big story in Britain. And we have an extended conversation with Viktor Mayer Shoenberger, author of Delete: The Value of Forgetting in a Digital Age.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 262: Moon Crash, Peruvian Fog Nets, Nobel Prize in Physics, and Trongs! Oh, what a show! NASA crashes two spacecraft into the moon. Don't worry, they meant to do that. Also, in Peru, some ingenious folks are harvesting water with huge fog nets. We give an audio nod to the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics. And we end with a nod to one of the interesting folks who listens to The World's Technology Podcast. Eric Zimmerman tells us about Trongs!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 261: Europe takes on Iran Net Filtering, Smart Electricity Meters, Nanotechnology Update, and the Ignobels Cyrus Farivar reports on an attempt by the EU to ban the sale of Internet filtering hardware to Iran. Also, French and British takes on the idea of smart electricity meters. We also hear an in-depth report on the future of nanotechnology. And we end with a short preview of the World Science Podcast with Rhitu Chatterjee.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 260: Potential AIDS Vaccine, Embrace Thermoregulator, Scottish Earthworms, and Mumbai Cell Phone Symphony Scottish accordionist leads us off with a tune called Exhausted. Then, on to big news about an AIDS vaccine that researchers contend can prevent infections. Also, the Embrace thermoregulator, designed to save low birth weight babies in the developing world. We chat about Scottish earthworms, and we hear a cell phone symphony in Mumbai.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 259: Iraq Internet Regs, Africa Connected, NComputing, and Autism Detection Software It's Friday, I'm in Love. With technology, I mean. We've got a look at a new measure that may curtail Internet access in Iraq. Also, Africa's broadband fibre-optic cable goes live, and we'll get reactions. Stephen Dukker from NComputing talks about how to turn one PC into 10 or more. And we end with some software designed to detect autism in infants and children.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 258: High-Speed Rail, Bamboo Trains, Bio-Truck Expedition, Coltan/Congo Redux and Winston the High-Speed Pigeon We take a look at global models for America's proposed high-speed rail system, and then keep it real by dipping into the podcast archive for a piece on Cambodia's Bamboo Railway. We talk about a unique bio-truck that will attempt to go around the world, and hear about the downside of hybrid vehicle technology. We go to Congo to hear about how mining for the materials that make your cell phone work is making life miserable for the locals. And we end with Winston, the high-speed data pigeon.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 257: Recreating Pre-War Nagasaki in 3D, Ars Electronica 2009, and A Brief History of GPS Drawing Great show this week. Find out how students in Japan are using 3D technology and people's memories to recreate pre-war Nagasaki. Also, we take you to Linz, Austria for the Ars Electronica 2009 festival. We hear about a wind-up vibrator. Yes, you read that correctly. And we'll explore a way to turn your urine into fertilizer. We end with a tech podcast listener who imparts some serious knowledge about GPS drawing on your host.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 256: Cell Phones in the Classroom, Steam Car Redux, New Wikipedia Guidelines, and Artificial Trees No More Whining, that's our motto. This week: we meet a history teacher who is letting his students fully embrace the tech that they are carrying around. Also, we revisit the British steam car team trying to break a 100 plus year old record. We have an interview with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on new editing guidelines, and we hear about the trade in conflict minerals in Congo. We end, of course, with artificial trees.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 255: Botnets, Russia v. Georgia, Steam-Powered Car, Creative Commons Flamenco, and Zombies! No one's listening anyway, so let's have some fun. We talk about attempts to get international law to catch up with botnets. Also, a study details last year's cyberspat between Russia and Georgia. We hear about a seriously fast steam-powered car, and also about a flamenco and hip-hop mash-up that's got a real creative commons feel about it. We end with zombies. How much more do you want? Oh yeah, Dan Deacon and Quincy Jones provide light entertainment.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 254: Castle Building Gets Medeival, Solar Impulse, Driverless Cars, and GPS Atari Art! We start with a tribute to the pioneer of that outstanding piece of technology, the single body electric guitar. RIP Les Paul. Then, some builders in France use 13th century tools and technology to build a castle from scratch. Also, Bertrand Piccard and his quest to fly a solar powered plane around the world. Then, driverless cars may be coming to Heathrow Airport. And we end by featuring podcast stalwart Vicente Montelongo, who makes, well, some very Atari-like art out of his San Francisc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 253: Sand Dunes Made from Bacteria, Electronically Enhanced Borders, and WE CARE Solar We start with a geek's audio tribute to the late John Hughes, director of Weird Science. Then, architect Magnus Larsson wants to build sand dunes out of bacteria. Not just any sand dunes. We're talking thousands of miles long in the Sahara. Whoah. Also, countries try to enhance their borders with, wait for it, technology. And we end with an interview with Dr. Laura Stachel of WE CARE Solar.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 252: Gary McKinnon Update, New Military Tech in Afghanistan, and Pirate Parties Go Global Briton Gary McKinnon stands accused by the US government of committing the biggest military computer hack of all time. McKinnon's been fighting extradition to the US for three years. Today, we have an update on the case. Also, the US Army tries out some new military technology in Afghanistan. We explore the rise of Pirate Parties worldwide, and we hear about how outdated Japanese political campaign laws are hampering Obama style elections.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 250: Tech in China and Iran, Air France 447, Codex Sinaiticus, and Hal and the Big 5 The Chinese government's trying to control information, especially online information, coming from the city of Urumqi, which has been the scene of violence this week. Also, global geeks try to help Iranians keep the flow of information coming. We check in on the search for the black boxes for Air France flight 447. Next, an ancient Bible finds a new home on the Internet, which also happens to be the ONLY place the band Hal and the Big 5 have ever jammed together.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 251: Apollo Mission Computers, Undersea Net Cables in Africa, and Bamboo Bikes from Zambia Vertigo is now gone, so back to your regularly scheduled technology podcast. We've got a great story on the computers used 40 years ago on the Apollo 11 mission. Also, a series of fiber-optic cables go live in Africa, bringing hope that affordable high-speed Internet access will be coming soon. And also, a Zambian company starts to export its bamboo bicycles.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 248: Eco-cooker, Generation Google, Kiva in the US Three stories today: the first is a look at an impressive piece of engineering – a cooker that its makers claim reduces carbon emissions by a staggering degree.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 249: Updates on Internet Filtering in Iran and China, One-on-One with Ken Banks, and an Intercontinental Wedding via Skype Updates on two stories we've been following in recent weeks. First, the Iranian government continues to try to control the flow of on-line information out of the country. We try to sort out Twitter fact from fiction with regard to Iran. Also, China's new Internet filtering plan gets delayed. Then, we have an extended conversation with Ken Banks, founder of FrontlineSMS. We end with a Skype-enabled wedding ceremony between someone in China, and someone in Denver. Cool.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WTP 246: China Net Surveillance Gets Personal, Video Technology in Sports, and Google Earth in Mozambique China announced new rules regarding PCs this week. Starting July 1, all PCs sold in China must contain a government mandated piece of software designed to "protect Chinese youth" from pornography and violent content. Rights groups are calling foul, and Internet experts say it's ripe for exploitation by hackers and criminals. Also, we answer your calls for a segment on the use of video technology in sports. And we end with a look at how a discovery on Google Earth may help save a rain fores ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
|
