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12 April 2024

Podcasts

BBC journalist Marianna Spring. X/Steve Bright

I Believed Conspiracies About the Shooting I Survived
In Why Do You Hate Me, the BBC’s Marianna Spring delves into the extraordinary world of online hate, and why some people behave the way they do on social media. This episode features a survivor of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 recounting how online misinformation made him question what he’d witnessed with his own eyes. 28m.

The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks 
On The Rest is History, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Hollywood superstar and lunar expert Tom Hanks to discuss the epic saga of the Apollo missions, from the tragedy of Apollo 1 to Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. 70m.

The Connectionists 
The first episode of The Guardian’s new Black Box series about artificial intelligence tells the story of British computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton. Known as “the godfather of AI”, he set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. 40m.

Gourmet gangster: Could Kinahan be caught by his Google reviews?
Christopher Kinahan, the head of a billion-dollar crime cartel and one of the world’s most wanted men, has been sharing his location and opinions on everything from restaurants to fishing boat tours through Google reviews. In this episode of The Times podcast The Story, Calum Macdonald asks: could the information ultimately lead to the Irishman’s capture? 27m.

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