The First Computer War - The Electronic Brain...

With all the hype around portable and smart speakers, it’s easy to forget that they didn’t always exist. In fact, it took one fateful meeting with Monster Cables and Interscope Records to really kick the industry off. In this one-episode Business Battle, we explore the time wh ...

It's the mid 1800s and two very different young men set out in the world to make their fortunes. A young boy from Nantucket spends four years at sea on a whaling ship, the other becomes an itinerant peddler in the wilds of Indiana. These two adventurers, R.H. Macy and Adam Gim ...

In Folge 1 hat der UNIVAC-Großrechner erfolgreich vorhergesagt, dass Eisenhower die Wahlen im Jahr 1952 gewinnen wird. Zur Feier des Erfolgs kommt es in der Zentrale von Remington Rand in Philadelphia zu einem wahren Champagner-Besäufnis. Bei IBM, dessen Geschäftsleitung Alkohol ...  Show more

Laptops have become the latest commodity hurt by COVID and the trade war with China. Jefferson Graham explains on Talking TechSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

Big tech platforms are preparing for the first big election of the AI era. Why even Microsoft is so desperate to get its hands on AI chips. Some incredibly bearish signs from crypto. But could we actually see a crypto IPO happen soon? Don’t sleep on Amazon’s healthcare ambitions. ...  Show more

In 1976, at the height of the Cold War, Robert Hanssen joins the FBI to work in their counterintelligence division. Hanssen is valued for his technical skills, and put in charge of databases containing some of the country’s most valuable secrets. But he’s socially awkward, and ...