New Tech City
By WNYC, New York Public Radio
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Putting heart and the human experience into tech coverage, WNYC's New Tech City with Manoush Zomorodi investigates what all the data, constant connectivity, and perpetual "upgrades" really mean for daily life. Hear stories of discovery about how the digital age is altering our brains, relationships, and values. Follow the show @newtechcity.
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| 1 | VideoStop! Recharge Yourself with this One Minute Digital Detox Plan | Feeling taxed by 2014 already? Promised yourself you'd stop being a slave to your phone? Maybe it's time for a digital detox. New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi swears by these 5 steps to digital inner peace: 1. Limit yourself to charging your gadget ON | 1/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, But Does Airbnb? | Chris is a musician who makes $100 a night by renting out a room in his apartment on Manhattan's West Side through Airbnb, the short-term home rental service. In other part of town, Ken is a landlord whose former tenant in a Nolita building he owns broke | 1/21/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Be a Young Boss (Or Work for One) | There are a lot of baby-faced CEOs in the tech sector. But how can someone who's never had a job be a great boss? We bring you three (and a half) personal stories about running companies at extremely young ages, or working for a 24 year-old boss—includ | 1/14/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoLearning to Code In One Day and Losing My Mind | This blog post is by New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi. My New Year's resolution was to confront my fear of coding. Considering that I host a show about technology, my inability to do more than dabble in a smidgen of HTML seemed unacceptable. In fa | 1/7/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Smartest People on the Internet All Want to Solve This | For the last two years in January, an enigmatic message has appeared on the internet from an unknown source signed "3301," sending thousands in search of answers to increasingly complicated puzzles and mysteries. But for whom, and to what end? Welcome to | 12/31/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tipping Point: How Amazon Reached It and Why This Startup Hasn’t | For this Christmas edition of New Tech City, a look back at two of our favorite segments from 2013. If you're like millions of other shoppers, you probably ordered at least a few gifts on the online retailer Amazon this holiday season. And even if your p | 12/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dude, Where's My Bitcoin? Tales of Real People Dealing With a Virtual Currency | Bitcoins. Bitcoins. Bitcoins. These days, you can’t swing a digital cat without reading a story about the digital currency that’s got tech and financial reporters all in a froth. It’s complicated (though h/t to Quartz and its explanation about how | 12/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can You *Like* God? | The millenial generation has a reputation for selfies, oversharing and cat memes, but many faith leaders are flocking to platforms like Facebook and Twitter to attract more of these young people to the church. In this week's episode, reporter (and lapsed | 12/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Kick Digital Butt in a 21st-Century Workplace | Workers of every age have to keep their tech smarts up to date to stay relevant in today's workplace. This week on New Tech City, inside tips from three experts on how to upgrade and hone your skills in a constantly changing and increasingly tech-depe | 12/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Love You Mother Earth, But I Love My iPhone More | You love the planet and your gadgets, so how do you find a balance? With the holidays come tons of new gadgets from the iPad to the Xbox. But all of our old electronics have to go somewhere. This week we're sifting through solutions and uses for all our | 11/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn | This week on New Tech City, we're crossing the digital divide. First up, some residents New York City's Housing Authority who use free WiFi vans run by the city to apply for jobs, shop online, pay bills and take care of other odds and ends on the inter | 11/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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These Games Could Be Good for Young Brains | Games have power, so this week, we play a few that can motivate kids to learn more, whether they realize it or not. And we see how a test case of a new technology for football might help keep young heads safer (and smarter) from injury. We’re familiar | 11/12/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Civic Call for NYC Techies: Bring Digital Talent into Public School Classrooms | Andrew Rasiej, chairman of NY Tech Meetup, argues that tech talent can do more for kids and New York's tech sector, if talented programmers get more involved in the classroom. In this week's New Tech City Quickie, where host Manoush Zomorodi talks with o | 11/11/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Programming Families: How Kids are Like Software, and What the Government Could Learn From It | Coders have a very specific way of working, it’s called Agile. One family decided to apply it to their lives. What if healthcare.gov had too? Meet the Feiler-Rottenbergs. They’re like any parents raising two 8-year old daughters, except their f | 11/5/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tiny Estonia Beats the U.S. on E-Voting | The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia puts the United States to shame when it comes to electronic voting (not to mention marinated eel served cold and teaching little kids to code.) In 2005, Estonians became the first voters to cast ballots online thanks to | 11/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Safety Nets: Broadband & Wifi in a Post-Sandy World | This week New Tech City looks at New York's internet connectivity a year after Sandy knocked out communications for so many New Yorkers. WNYC's Ilya Marritz tells the story of how parts of Red Hook, Brooklyn, have its own Wi-Fi courtesy of the local star | 10/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who Is Jeff Bezos? And What is Amazon? | He wants to find in a cheaper way to get to outer space. He’s building a clock that ticks once a year, moves its "century hand" once every hundred years and chimes once a millennium. Oh, and he’s also the CEO of the world’s largest online reta | 10/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coffee and E-Cigarettes | No heavy subject matter this week. Instead, we're diving into two subcultures that have been transformed by tech: Coffee and cigarettes. If you've never heard of a burr grinder or cartomizer, this podcast is for you. What's disruptive in the world of c | 10/22/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freelance Nation: “The Greatest Economic Transformation in Human History”? | More and more micro-entrepreneurs are using online services like Etsy, Kickstarter, Uber and Lyft to create their own jobs. Welcome to the new DIY economy. This week, New Tech City introduces you to the drivers, the Airbnb hosts and the other entrepreneu | 10/15/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the FBI Knocks: A Techie’s Moment of Truth | The recent revelation that companies like Google and Facebook routinely hand over data about users' digital communications to the National Security Agency has many Americans wondering whether everything they do online is being tracked by the government. | 10/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart | As Twitter's lawyers prepare to take the company public, they aired some of the company's financial dirty laundry in a regulatory filing this week, confirming that the social media service continues to lose money. For dirty laundry of a more personal na | 10/4/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mutated Code and the Amish Algorithm | Two groups of people that shy away from many technologies — Amish and Mennonites — are actually on the cutting edge when it comes to genetics. In this week's New Tech City, host Manoush Zomorodi visits a testing facility that caters to the childre | 10/1/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoWhen the Amish Go High Tech | Amish and Mennonite communities are often perceived as being "anti-technology," but their relationship with technology is more nuanced than that. They examine what the technology is, what it offers and then decide whether to accept it in their lives. | 9/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Obamacare and the Biometric Bracelet Experiment | It’s Obamacare-time! On October 1, states launch their online exchanges where people can choose their health care plans. But Eric Molinsky discovered it's a last minute scramble at the tech companies trying get the sites up and running in time. Al | 9/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | Apple Releases New iPhone, NYPD Ramps Up 'Operation ID' | As the theft of digital devices continues to increase in New York City, the city's police department has been ramping up Operation ID, its program where New Yorkers can register their smartphones and other electronics in case they are lost or stolen. T | 9/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NYC Tech: Who’s Your Daddy? | Mayor Bloomberg likes to take credit for transforming New York City into the second biggest technology economy in the country. Does he deserve it? Silicon Alley power players are certainly willing to give the mayor some major kudos: They respect the ma | 9/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Phones + Mischief: From Muggers to Dennis Crowley | This week New Tech City takes you into the bodegas, laundromats and back alleys of New York's black market for stolen cell phones. More than 15,000 handsets were snatched in the city last year alone. AT&T's chief security officer says theft is just o | 9/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Google Map of Our Brains: The Next Chapter in Neuroscience | Scientists in New York City are at the center of President Obama's brain research initiative, a $100 million effort to better understand the inner workings of the human noggin. "For a lot of the way that different brain regions work together to generat | 9/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Real Estate, Rackets, Risk: When Rules Get Rewritten | When it comes to finding just the right sized office space, New York City's tech companies are turning to subleases because they are not ready to sign five to 10 year leases favored by the city's landlords. This week on New Tech City, WNYC's Dan Tucker r | 8/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Know Thy @Neighbor: The End of Urban Anonymity and Rural Solitude | Simple experiences, like borrowing a ladder from a neighbor or just taking a long solitary hike, are being altered by tech. This week on New Tech City, host Manoush Zomorodi examines a service called Nextdoor, a social network that aims to form a kind of | 8/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoSmartphones at Summer Camp, Revisited | Will a bold experiment in Pennsylvania create good habits for kids, or ruin a summer ritual? This blog post is by New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi. I would totally send my kids to Longacre Leadership, a camp in rural Pennsylvania New Tech City first p | 8/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Grossology, Tolerant Taxis + Smart Bikes | Experiments in the life sciences, taxi technology and bike sharing are helping regular people do DIY scientific research and transform the way they get around. This week on New Tech City, reporter Jessica Gould visits Genspace, a community biotech lab | 8/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Computerized Confessions: Biographies and Wedding Toasts in the Digital Age | Biographers have relied on handwritten letters for centuries, but more and more, they're using emails, texts and online chats to tell the story of a person's life. This week on New Tech City, WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports on how writers like Walter Isaacson | 8/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your So-Called Future Life: Homes and To-Do Lists Get 'Smart' | In the smart home of the future, your milk jug will tell you when your milk has gone sour, your plants will text you when they need watering and with solar panels on your roof, you may not even need to be connected to the power grid. This week on WNYC' | 7/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Online Shopping Gets Real | Some e-retailers are shifting their strategies and deciding to open brick-and-mortar stores, hoping to lure customers who might not be comfortable purchasing a pair of shorts or eyeglasses without first trying them on. This week on New Tech City, WNYC' | 7/23/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | Can You Read My Mind Now? | President Obama has allocated $100 million to map the human brain. As a leading center for neuroscience research, New York may be poised to benefit. But there’s a catch: until now the city hasn’t had much success at growing science-based businesses. | 7/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brain Drain: New York City Losing Out in Brain Biz | New York City is a leading center for neuroscience research, so you'd think it would stand to benefit from President Obama's new $100 million initiative to map the human brain. Well, not so fast. This week on New Tech City, WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports | 7/16/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hacking for Good | Hacking groups like Anonymous have gained notoriety for breaking into the websites and databases of corporations and governments. Chinese hackers have been accused of stealing intellectual property from the U.S. government and businesses. But not all hac | 7/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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At Camp, Swimming, Sports and Smartphones | More reporting from Manoush Zomorodi and the New Tech City team about summer camp and smartphones. Subscribe to the podcast, click here. | 7/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bringing Wall Street's Speed and Algorithms To Any Investor | In the early nineties Wall Street started to automate the trading process. Today, many Wall Street firms make thousands of trades a second from computer terminals, not the floor of the stock exchange. In recent years, glitches in software programs used t | 6/24/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Backlash to NSA's PRISM Program Spawns a Movement | In the wake of news that the National Security Agency is collecting vast amounts of digital data about the online activity of U.S. citizens, the federal government has said the program — known as PRISM — is crucial for homeland security. Of course, | 6/17/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Disappear from the Internet | The specifics of a secret government surveillance program called Prism are still being uncovered, but last week it was revealed that for the past six years, the National Security Agency has been collecting people’s emails, photos and videos from compan | 6/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Technology Helping Kids with Special Needs | For many students with special needs in New York City, this school year marks the fist time they joined others in a regular classroom setting. With this integration comes the need for assistive technologies to help level the playing field. This week on N | 6/3/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tech Studies at NYC Universities | Three New York universities are launching new tech-based programs designed to study, analyze and find solutions to real-world problems. Tucked away in Google’s huge office building in Chelsea, the inaugural class of applied science graduate students | 5/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From Future Coders to Your Grandma, STEM Education for Everyone | Whether you're 18 or 85, keeping up with new technology is increasingly important for success and even well-being. This week on New Tech City, WNYC's Yasmeen Khan visits the Academy for Software Engineering near Union Square to meet the students at the | 5/13/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Visualizing Big Data in the "Reality Deck" | The Reality Deck at Stony Brook University was created to help those working in STEM fields visualize big data — data sets so large and complex that a simple computer monitor cannot do them justice. The facility's 416 Samsung LCD monitors pack an ast | 5/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Planning For Your Digital Life After Death | When we die, we leave behind more than friends and family, homes and possessions. These days, we leave behind Facebook profiles and Twitter accounts and thousands of emails. For Dr. Stephen Kelly, tapping into that digital footprint is a way to stay conn | 4/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New "Made In America" | A New York City-based website is using new technology to help sustain and even grow America’s industrial base. This week on New Tech City, reporter Eric Molinsky meets the founders of Maker’s Row, a New York City-based tech firm that combines the Yel | 4/22/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will Personal Finance Apps Replace the Financial Planner? | With Tax Day come and gone again, New Tech City’s Manoush Zomorodi looks at the online services that might help you get on top of your finances for the this year. MONEY Magazine staff writer Ismat Mangla has been testing some of the newest tools for ma | 4/15/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | Climbing TheLadders: CEO Alex Douzet Explains the Online Job Search | TheLadders is a New York-based job site that charges subscribers, mostly professionals from the white-collar world, $25 dollars a month to search its database. CEO Alex Douzet says the goal is to pair people with appropriate jobs. It even tells job candi | 4/9/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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High-Tech Tools for the 21st Century Job Search | In response to New York City's 9.1 percent unemployment rate, many New Yorkers are exploring new tech-based strategies to find jobs on their tablets, smartphones and even "dumb" phones. This week on New Tech City, WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports on new se | 4/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Despite Problems After Sandy, Wireless Providers Resist Change | Cell phones are as much a necessity as electricity or water in the digital era, just ask anyone who lost service when Sandy knocked out a quarter of the cell towers across ten states in the storm's path. "I realized, oh, if there’s actually an emergenc | 4/1/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great show!
Love the summer camp video.
Best NYC Tech News, Hands Down
Manoush does an outstanding job at getting the inside scoop on how New York City is truly embracing becoming Silicon Alley. Her fun and inquisitive interviews give us a fresh look at up-n-coming companies, ideas, and events to do with technology and city living. I'm a loyal listener and can't wait to hear what she'll feature for us next!
nice
fun to be reminded that tech is still just another tool…
and Manoush is cute!
