Mark Pesce
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at how the increasing sophistication of computers is also resulting in them producing random, unpredictable errors. Audio
Goodbye Spot the digidog and 'disaster girl' sells her meme
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about how a software company offered employees a choice: stop complaining about the company's issues with diversity and inclusion - or take a… Audio
The new Code War, and Facebook's true interests
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about whether the Cold War has been replaced with The Code War as the number of exploits, subversions and thefts seems to increase. Audio
Bezos steps down, Apple vs Facebook and chastity belt trouble
Technology commentator Mark Pesce looks at the ramifications of Jeff Bezos stepping down as the CEO of Amazon, the anti-trust lawsuit Facebook has filed against Apple and why you should think twice… Audio
Facebook's Project Aria, home surveillance, snack snitches
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at how augmented reality promises a lot - but at a huge price. He'll detail Facebook's Project Aria and what it might mean for privacy. Mark will also look at… Audio
Facebook's Zhang memo, AI's fake election news
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the memo released by former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang that blows the whistle on the extent to which the tech giant ignored… Audio
Technology commentator Mark Pesce
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about some revelations out of this past weekend's DEF CON hacking conference, which took place online and where security researchers revealed… Audio
Chips down for Intel and Facebook boycott gathers pace
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to look at the situation for Intel. Its chips have been dropped by Apple, and the company is being crushed by TSMC, which is making the chips for the… Audio
Tech during Covid brings out the bad, the ugly...and the good
Technology Mark Pesce looks at the highly strained boundary between public health and privacy - citing the visual tracking of the mobile phones of people who attended a Spring Break party in Florida… Audio
The trouble with Clearview AI, how your website watches you
Tech commentator Mark Pesce looks at American tech company Clearview AI and the implication that its facial recognition technology has for everyone. Audio
We need to talk about Google
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about Google's labour woes after four workers fired from the tech giant last week plan a federal labour complaint against it. He'll also look at… Audio
Should we really trust big tech with our health data?
Technology commentator Mark Pesce looks at the purchase by Google of Fitbit and the case of a whistleblower who's raised the alarm on the secret transfer of medical data of 50 million Americans from a… Audio
Corruption and technology
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce believes we need to be having more of a conversation about corruption in technology. Today he touches on the relationship between the Massachusetts Institute of… Audio
The long wait for driver-less cars and deep fakes get deeper
Technology commentator Mark Pesce reports on why it's taking longer than expected to deliver on driver-less cars. Driving, as it turns out, is a very human problem. Audio
Cryptocurrency's tipping point: 12 days that changed the world
Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at three things that happened over 12 days that pretty much changed everything about cryptocurrencies: Facebook's Libra announcement, The Financial Activities… Audio
One year on - the GDPR's unexpected benefit
Tech correspondent Mark Pesce looks at how legislation to tighten data protection in the EU has had an unexpected benefit to everybody - and what that might mean for the success of the Christchurch… Audio
Is Google's "don't be evil" motto well and truly over?
Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Lynn to look at how Gmail - which has just turned 15 - now has 1.5 billion users. But there are other issues to take the shine off that Google milestone, like… Audio
Technology with Mark Pesce
Futurist, writer, educator and broadcaster, Mark Pesce on the Elon Musk-funded Open AI and the danger of the infinite fake news machine. Also, what happens when our chips can't get any smaller? Audio
Air Transistors, Moore's law and Rowhammer
Mark Pesce has the latest on new tech development that could signal major improvements for our hardware. He discusses a new kind of 'air' transistor that could evade the end of Moore's Law. (Moore's… Audio
Paul Allen & Quantum Computing
Tech commentator Mark Pesce looks back on them impact the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen had on modern computing and why so little is known about him. Mark also looks at quantum computing and… Audio