Dr. Niki takes a look at how unmanned aerial vehicles, and sometimes on land and sea too, have helped advance scientific research.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Dr Nicole Ackermans.

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And Google makes encrypted emails much easier to deal with.

Starring Tom Merritt and Huyen Tue Dao.

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Also, YouTube lets you make an avatar of yourself, and Andy Beach tells us about the first newsroom strike over AI.

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Andy Beach.

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And why so many competing tech companies cooperating is actually quite scary.

Starring Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane.

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Humans aboard Artemis II just flew farther from Earth than any human before, and Motorola launched the Moto G Stylus 2026 with an active, embedded stylus for $499.

Starring Jason Howell and Tom Merritt.

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And say hello to the Moon, and OpenAI lobbying.

Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.

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So why is Andy Beach still worried? Tom talks over the real things to worry about with US AI regulation.

Featuring Tom Merritt and Andy Beach.

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Reddit is officially done with the r/all feed for its users, and Google Gemma 4 is a massive and truly open model family that can run on a laptop and a Raspberry Pi.

Starring Jason Howell and Jenn Cutter.

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