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“Hard Fork” is a show about the future that’s already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

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Is Intel Cooked? + What's Your P(Dyson Sphere)? + Hard Fork Gift Guide

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Hard Fork's 100 Most Iconic Technologies

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Nov 29, 20241:27:21pending

Trump's Next Online Speech Cop + Doctors vs ChatGPT + Hard Fork Crimes Division

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Nov 22, 20241:09:52pending

Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?

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Nov 15, 20241:17:47pending

What Trump 2.0 Means for Tech + A.I. Made Me Basic + HatGPT!

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Nov 8, 20241:05:17pending

Billionaire Game Theory + We Are Not Ready for A.G.I. + Election Betting Markets...

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Nov 1, 20241:11:28pending

The Elon-ction + Can A.I. Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?

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Oct 25, 20241:10:26pending

Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber's C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey's TikTok T...

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Oct 18, 20241:55:24pending

A Flood of A.I. Slop + Searching for Satoshi + the Hot Mess Express Returns

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Oct 11, 20241:09:11pending

Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update!

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Oct 4, 20241:09:30pending

Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT

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Sep 27, 20241:12:57pending

OpenAI's Reasoning Machine + Instagram Teen Changes + Amazon RTO Drama

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Sep 20, 20241:06:22pending

Do You Need a New iPhone? + Yuval Noah Harari’s A.I. Fears + Hard Fork Crimes Di...

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Sep 13, 20241:12:22pending

X Gets a Brazilian Ax + Founder Mode + Listeners Respond on School Phone Bans

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Sep 6, 20241:08:07pending

The Telegram Problem + Gov. Kathy Hochul on School Phone Bans + Kevin's A.I. Re...

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Aug 30, 20241:14:10pending

What Happened to the A.I. Election? + ChatGPT for Mayor + The Productivity Tools...

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Aug 23, 20241:08:32pending

Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in...

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Aug 16, 20241:08:34pending

Google’s Monopoly Money + Is the A.I. Bubble Popping? + The Hot-Mess Express

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Aug 9, 20241:13:20pending

The Zoom Election + Google DeepMind's Math Olympiad + HatGPT! Olympics Edition

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Aug 2, 20241:01:34pending

Kamala Harris’s Bratty Coconut Memescape + What Does $1,000 a Month Do? + The Em...

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Jul 26, 20241:13:15pending

Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination + Tech Elites for Trump + TikT...

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Jul 19, 20241:10:16pending

Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions

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The Interview: The Netflix Chief’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More

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Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators + Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade + H...

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Jun 28, 20241:09:38pending

A Surgeon General Warning + Is Disinformation Winning? + The CryptoPACs Are Comi...

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Jun 21, 20241:18:28pending

Apple Joins the A.I. Party + Elon's Wild Week + HatGPT

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Jun 14, 20241:13:19pending

A Conversation With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada + An OpenAI Whistle...

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Jun 7, 20241:15:12pending

Google Eats Rocks + A Win for A.I. Interpretability + Safety Vibe Check

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May 31, 20241:19:20pending

ScarJo vs. ChatGPT + Neuralink’s First Patient Opens Up + Microsoft’s A.I. PCs

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May 24, 20241:17:00pending

OpenAI's Flirty New Assistant + Google Guts the Web + We Play HatGPT

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May 17, 20241:06:33pending

Meet Kevin’s A.I. Friends

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May 10, 20241:17:04pending

AI at Your Jobs + Hank Green Talks TikTok + Deepfake High School

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May 3, 20241:13:10pending

TikTok on the Clock + Tesla’s Flop Era + How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Comput...

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Apr 26, 20241:11:20pending

The Music Episode

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Apr 19, 20241:02:32pending

A.I.’s Data Wall + a Surprise Privacy Bill + What Happened to the TikTok Ban?

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Apr 12, 20241:06:24pending

Is AI Already Taking Jobs? + A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper

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Apr 5, 20241:03:22pending

A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus

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Mar 29, 20241:08:58pending

Justice Dept. Sues Apple + Smartphones and Children with Jonathan Haidt + Reddit...

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Mar 22, 20241:30:14pending

A Looming TikTok Ban + A Royal Photoshop Mystery + Your Car is Snitching

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Mar 15, 20241:16:02pending

Musk vs. OpenAI + Europe’s Tech Crackdown + A Month With the Vision Pro

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Mar 8, 20241:10:21pending

Gemini's Culture War + Kara Swisher Burns Us + SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderatio...

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Mar 1, 20241:29:18pending

Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on the Path From Chatbots to A.G.I.

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Feb 23, 202456:37pending

The State of A.I. + Will Perplexity Beat Google or Destroy the Web?

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Feb 16, 20241:13:29pending

Bluesky’s Big Bet + Are Deals Dead in Silicon Valley?

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Feb 9, 20241:08:26pending

We Tried the Apple Vision Pro + Can Congress Protect Kids Online? + Cruise’s Cra...

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Feb 2, 20241:13:34pending

Mediapocalypse Now + a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto + HatGPT

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Jan 26, 20241:15:39pending

The AI Election + Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut + TikTok’s Doodad Era

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Jan 19, 20241:15:15pending

Why Casey Left Substack + Elon’s Drug Use + A.I. Antibiotic Discovery

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Jan 12, 20241:27:46pending

The Times Sues OpenAI + A Debate Over iMessage + Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

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Jan 5, 20241:08:10pending

Our 2024 Predictions + Jenny Slate Answers Your Hard Questions!

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Dec 22, 20231:37:47pending