Babbage from The Economist (subscriber edition)
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Episodes
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Jul 15, 2015 • 11min
Babbage: Atomic vision
Hackers threaten the "internet of things", and scientists use atomic microscopes to observe and control chemical reactions in real time
Jul 8, 2015 • 9min
Babbage: Hacking the hackers
The Hacking Team gets hacked, exposing alleged illegal activities, and NASA's New Horizons probe flickers back to life as it approaches the planetoid Pluto
Jul 1, 2015 • 12min
Babbage: Break-ups
Embryos frozen during relationships lead to legal troubles down the road, and SpaceX loses a cargo carrier in the risky business ofrocketry
Jun 24, 2015 • 10min
Babbage: Mapping crises with mobiles
How mobile phone data can help aid workers duringhumanitarian crises and start-ups which tweak your phone’s connectivity take onthe big mobile network companies
Jun 17, 2015 • 9min
Babbage: Quantum leaps and bee-conomics
Computer companies are harnessing the power of quantum mechanics and why the majority of bees have no economic value
Jun 10, 2015 • 7min
Babbage: Up in e-smoke
Organs on chips allow researchers to mimic complicated human systems and Wales plans to ban e-cigarettes
Jun 3, 2015 • 9min
Babbage: AI and IA
Ad-blocking software has reached the mainstream and is going mobile, and handheld robots begin to marry what both man and machine do well
May 27, 2015 • 8min
Babbage: Thin-skinned
Nokia attracts bids for its HERE mapping service and tests of a few brave mice suggest space travel could be terrible for the skin
May 20, 2015 • 8min
Babbage: Home-brewed heroin
How lab experiments got a step closer to yeast that can make morphine, and how app experiments by developers such as Facebook happen in New Zealand
May 13, 2015 • 7min
Babbage: LEDtime
This week our correspondents discuss the effects gadget-use can have on teenagers’ sleep, and Silicon Valley's billion-dollar "unicorns".
