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New developments in Internet of Things technology promise sustainable networked homes and buildings that are easy and practical, but can we have them without sacrificing privacy? 🔊cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… W/ Stacey Higginbotham, Jenn McArthur (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 + Patrick Lecomte


In the 6th episode of our special series, The Butterfly Effect, we look at the lasting influence of the compass, and the evolution and future of navigation technology. 🔊cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… W/ Gary Arndt, UNB Engineering's Richard Langley + Schulich Engineering's Kyle O'Keefe



The data we generate, as individuals and as a society, offer powerful tools to better understand our own behaviour, but this may come at the cost of data privacy. 🔊cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… W/ Meredith Broussard, @sheryl_spithoff + Caitjan Gainty

"The biases that we see in machine learning systems are the biases that exist out in the real world," says data scientist Meredith Broussard. Broussard's new book, More Than a Glitch, explores the biases of data-driven tech and the real harms they can inflict. cbc.ca/radio/spark/th…


ChatGPT has been dominating headlines since it was released publicly late last year, but is it really the future of AI? 🔊cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… W/ Gary Marcus + Jill Fellows

"On the one hand, we do treat it like a tool that we can offload labour [onto]. But on the other hand, because of this ontological ambiguity, we also kind of treat it like an autonomous agent," said Jill Fellows, a philosophy instructor at Douglas College. cbc.ca/radio/spark/bo…

This time in our series, The Butterfly Effect, we look at the complicated, and controversial, history and long reach of the birth control pill: its impacts on sex, reproduction, and culture. 🔊cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… W/ Jonathan Eig, Krystale Littlejohn + NICHD News's Diana Blithe


A look at the pervasive age-related stereotypes that have seeped into the technologies we use and the implications of that on aging populations. 🔊cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… W/ Gilbrea Centre's dr. nicole dalmer + Bloomberg Nursing's Charlene Chu RN PhD




