Outriders
Summary: Outriders is BBC Radio 5 live's programme dedicated to exploring the frontiers of the web. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night.
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Podcasts:
This week Jamillah finds out about Moore's Law and if it will become obsolete in 2014. She also checks back with some of her past guests of 2013 to find out what their hopes are for the new year.
Jamillah's gone festive! New gadgets? Here's some security and safety tips, maths at Christmas and hacking xmas songs.
Chris Vallance steps in for Jamillah, and takes a sideways look at whether government spies are trying to find terrorists in the virtual "World of Warcraft" .... whether websites like "They Work for You" or "fixmystreet" get things changed....and whether radio waves can stop cars.
This week Jamillah finds out about Food Phreaking and Christmas dinner, DIY cell phones and choreographing a ballet in a virtual space.
This week Chris Vallance chats with tech leaders outside a Chatham House meeting while Jamillah and Rhod learn about Bitcoin investment and hacking new radio to appear vintage.
This week Jamillah explores space with the FUNcube1, learns how Crypto Party has become Crypto Fest and learning lessons about strong passwords with a crossword puzzle.
Wireless ways to communicate with children, women in technology and...surprisingly perhaps....maths as a social activity.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about re-decentralizing the web and why it's important as well as exploring what tacos have to do with a code repository.
This week Jamillah and Rhod discuss time out from the web, how hyperlapse videos are made and the new visual news discussion from Global Voices.
This week Jamillah and Rhod learn about women in tech with Dr Martha Ladly and discuss TechMums with Dr Sue Black. Celebrate women in STEM!
This week Jamillah and Rhod explore computational synesthesia, open source robotic prostheses and a phenomenal archive of London sounds.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about mobile tech for emergencies in Kenya, the sound of tech knitting and how policing online has evolved.
This week Jamillah chats with Phil Lapsley, author of 'Exploding the Phone' which looks at the history of phone phreaking - or hacking the phone system. Though the technology may not work anymore, the stories are lively and still influence technology culture today.
Chris Vallance visits a new museum gallery celebrating the women pioneers of computing. We also hear about exploring the moon, mars and asteroids as Outriders visits the European Planetary Science Congress.
Jamillah explores beekeeping, algoraves and mathematical knitting.