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From catapults to ballista, we explore the world of siege engines. Which ones were real? Which are fantasy? And how did they work? See omnystudio.com/listener [Read more]

Last April, National Public Radio (NPR) closed out its Twitter accounts. Six months later, NPR leadership says that the impact to NPR has been negligible. [Read more]

Intelligence researchers lament that X has become so rife with disinformation that there’s no good way to use it while tracking tumultuous events like the [Read more]

Back in 2020, we did a three-part series on the history of Ubisoft. What’s been going on since then? And what’s the story behind the [Read more]

From humble beginnings to massive success, we follow the rest of the id Software story. When did the founders leave and why? And what’s going [Read more]

In an episode with perhaps the most SEO-friendly title in TechStuff history, we learn about how someone used an AI-generated version of YouTuber MrBeast to [Read more]

A slightly sick Jonathan is back to talk about some past winners of the Ig Nobel Prize. Learn about how a wasabi-spraying alarm could save [Read more]

Open-source innovation is the future of AI. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford discuss the open-source AI community with Jeff [Read more]

It’s hard to hold onto information. Paradoxically, it can also be hard to get rid of it. In this episode, we look at why long-term [Read more]

They made games like Doom and Quake, but where did id Software come from? In this episode, we explore the origins of a major name [Read more]