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Invention

Strike the Match, Part 1

Invention

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Natural Sciences, History

4.6634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Mastery of fire was one of humanity’s greatest technological leaps forward, but even the ability to create fire only gets you so far if the flame is not easily generated and/or transferred. Thus, the millennia-spanning quest to create the subtle technology we so easily take for granted: the modern matchstick. Join Robert and Joe for a multi-episode Invention exploration on fire-generation technology.

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0:00.0

from iHeart podcast before social media before cable news there was alan berg he was the first

0:06.8

and the original shock shock that scratchy irreverent kind of way talking to people and telling

0:13.2

them that you're an idiot and i'm going to hang up on you this is live wire the loud life and

0:17.9

shocking murder of alan berg and he pointed to the denver book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects.

0:24.9

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.1

Are there any pictures of you online?

0:31.8

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

0:35.8

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

0:41.4

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting

0:46.1

us right now.

0:47.1

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right

0:52.2

suspect.

0:52.8

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

1:00.8

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.

1:09.3

Listen to Kill Switch on the i heart radio app

1:12.1

apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast a body a suspect and a hundred years of silence

1:19.5

buried bones is a podcast about the forgotten crimes history tried to leave behind a common

1:26.3

misperception about serial predators is that every single time they commit a crime,

1:33.6

they commit it the same way.

1:35.6

The past is a way of talking if you know what to listen for.

1:39.4

New episodes every Wednesday on the Exactly Right Network.

1:42.4

Listen to Barry phones on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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