Week in Tech: Should Tech Bros Dim the Sun?
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Is unplugging from your phone the ultimate luxury? This week, Oz introduces us to the businesses that specialize in “dimming the sun” and Karah introduces us to “LinkedIn Face.” Polymarket’s bets lead to disinformation about Russia’s war with Ukraine. 23andMe reveals secret families — and secret inheritances. And Oz and Karah almost cry over the latest invention from Japan: a human washing machine. Finally, we celebrate ChatGPT’s 3rd birthday (and possible decline) with Axios technology reporter, Megan Morrone.
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Additional Reading:
- Being hot is now a job requirement - Business Insider
- Climate Geoengineering: Dimming the Sun Is a Terrifying New Industry COP30 - Bloomberg
- What Really Happened in the Storm Clouds Over Dubai? - Bloomberg
- How Unplugging Became Luxury’s Most Valuable Currency - Vogue Business
- 'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting - 404 Media
- Japan Launches Human Washing Machine For Public Use After Expo Success -NDTV
- They Found Relatives on 23andMe and Asked For A Cut of the Inheritance - WSJ
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.0 | From Collidoscope and IHartart podcasts, this is Tech Stuff. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Osvaloshian. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm Kara Price. |
| 0:23.5 | Today we've got two big stories to break down for you. |
| 0:26.8 | First, content creators, brands and Genzi alike are all turning towards the latest luxury, unplugging. |
| 0:34.7 | Then tech companies blasting particles into the atmosphere to dim the sun in response to |
| 0:41.1 | climate change. Then we'll tell you about a few other stories that caught our eye this week, like |
| 0:45.5 | how polymarkets bets led to disinformation about the Ukraine-Russian war, a human washing machine |
| 0:52.3 | that promises to wash both your body and your soul. |
| 0:56.9 | And then we'll dive into how 23 and me is giving some users a piece of their new family's |
| 1:01.2 | inheritances. |
| 1:02.7 | Then on Chat and Me, ChatGPT celebrates its third birthday, while Sam Altman declares Code |
| 1:09.2 | Red at OpenAI, with Google's Gemini making rapid progress. |
| 1:13.7 | Join us to talk about this is Megan Marone from Axios, who's just published a piece with the headline, |
| 1:19.0 | The Three Things Keeping Sam Altman Up at Night. |
| 1:22.3 | All of that on the Week in Tech. It's Friday, December 5th. |
| 1:27.1 | Hello, Kara. Hello, Oz. I was reflecting this week about |
| 1:33.8 | this thing that we used to say when I think we first did podcasting, which was that you and I had a |
| 1:39.4 | face for radio. Yes. I mean, funny enough, I've made that joke for all these years, but now podcasting is pivoting to video. |
| 1:46.0 | Like, what are we? Nobody is immune. Nobody is immune anymore. And there was an article that I recently read in Business Insider called Being Hot is a New Job Requirement. |
| 1:59.4 | Dare I ask why this caught your eye? |
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