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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Room-temperature superconductors are here! Maybe! Look, science is a liar sometimes, especially in the internet age. Motherboard science reporter Becky Ferreira is here to help us parse the truth from fiction of LK-99. It’s either one of the biggest science stories of our entire lives or … just another science hoax.
Later in the show, Joseph Cox is stopping by to tell us about another group of researchers who’ve uncovered a backdoor in police radios.
Stories discussed in this episode:
DIY Scientists and Institutions Are Racing to Replicate the Room-Temperature Superconductor
Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios
Defense Lawyers Push Judge to Reveal Secret Country that Helped FBI Wiretap the World
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0:00.0 | It's got the code it's going to launch |
0:07.6 | It's a unit system |
0:11.9 | I know this |
0:13.5 | It's how all the files of the whole park |
0:16.3 | It tells you everything |
0:17.7 | Sir he's uploading the virus |
0:20.4 | Eagle one the package is being delivered Hello It tells you everything. Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:23.2 | Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
0:26.1 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:28.0 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber. |
0:30.1 | Room temperature superconductors. |
0:31.4 | They're here, maybe. |
0:35.2 | Look, science is a liar sometimes, especially in the age of the internet. |
0:40.7 | Motherboard science reporter Becky Ferreira is here to help us parse the truth from fiction of LK99. |
0:47.3 | It's either one of the biggest science stories of our entire lives or just another one of those science hoaxes that goes viral on the internet. |
0:53.9 | And then later in the show, Joseph Cox is stopping by to tell us about another group of researchers who've uncovered a backdoor in police radios. |
0:56.2 | But first, Becky, how are you doing today? |
1:00.0 | I'm great. I'm great. You're cat lover, right? |
1:03.1 | Yes, absolutely. They may wander in at some point. |
1:07.9 | Yeah, likewise. We just had a stray cat have babies in our closet yesterday. |
1:08.8 | Oh, my goodness. So I'm doing really great because I can look at really cute little kittens at any point. |
1:13.2 | We had quite the saga that I may not recount on stream, maybe like six months ago. |
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