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Moonshot
Explore the world's biggest ideas and the people making them happen. Are you ready for self-driving cars, jetpacks, 3D printed food, or a trip to Mars? Moonshot talks to the people who are at the forefront of all this rapid change to find out what the future of humanity might actually look like. Hos...
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99 epizódIntroducing The Unicorn Launcher
The Unicorn Launcher is a podcast that follows the lives of two Australian tech founders who started the company Vygo. The series takes you behind the...
The Defrag: Microsoft's Big Buy
We're launching a daily news podcast called The Defrag. Every weekday we'll cover the latest news at the intersection of technology, business, politic...
Preserving Our Digital Past
Physical media like floppy disks and optical discs have a limited lifespan, and their time is running out. Because of this, a whole generation of game...
Jaunt Motors
There are all kinds of new electric cars making their way onto the market. Whether it's a passenger car, or even a truck, you can probably find an EV...
What Happened with Dogecoin?
Dogecoin's price has been increasingly dramatically in recent weeks, and it now has a market cap of more than $40 Billion USD. So why is a joke crypto...
How Apple Changed Mobile Gaming
In the span of around 12 months, the release of the very first iPhone and the launch of the App Store created a whole new appetite for mobile games, e...
Sky Lanes
Autonomous drone delivery has the potential to change the way businesses operate. While drones will have a significant impact on consumer delivery, it...
They Go Up So Fast
The commercial space race is heating up. Whether it's big rockets, or small, there's been significant progress achieved by many companies across the s...
Red Ring of Death
When the Xbox 360 was launched in December 2005, Microsoft had accomplished a significant objective that would give it the edge in the console war - b...
Humanising AI
AI systems are improving in their reliability all the time - but when it comes to chatbots they're often still clunky. Soul Machines is a New Zealand...
Space Law
The race to build a permanent base on the Moon is happening right now, but it raises a bunch of questions about how space is governed. So how do we ba...
Finding Water on the Moon
NASA recently announced that they found water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. In this episode we find out what they actually discovered, and explor...
Can we preserve humans?
The idea of cryonic preservation has been around for more than 50 years. But what do we actually know about freezing humans? Will we ever be able to f...
Teamistry: AI Saving Endangered Species
Wildbook blends structured wildlife research with artificial intelligence, citizen science, and computer vision to speed population analysis and devel...
Introducing Gameplay
Gameplay is a podcast about video games and the virtual worlds that power culture and community. It's a documentary show, using long form storytelling...
The Next Generation of Firefighting
Firefighters are facing scenarios they’ve never seen before. And as these extreme events become more frequent, learning how to battle them, safely, is...
Scooter Town
Scooters and e-bikes are all the rage in the tech world as companies push to provide easy-to-use options for last-mile transportation. We've seen hund...
Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income is an idea that many people have thought about for centuries, but are we any closer to seeing people receive a base level of fi...
No Goal!
One of the most visible examples of technology in sports is its increasing use in officiating. American sports were the first to experiment with insta...
Alphafly
Technology and sports have always been closely intertwined. From advancements in equipment, like tennis racquets and golf clubs, to the evolution of s...
Why Boosted Failed
Electric skateboard manufacturer Boosted has sacked the majority of their staff. So what led to their demise? In this episode we revisit our interview...
Deepfakes
Who are the real victims of the Deepfake trend? And how can we tell when the media we consume is deliberately trying to mislead us?
Face Match
Facial recognition technology is becoming widespread as technology companies look to use biometrics to secure information. However when used by law en...
Supercharged: Mission Critical
Elon Musk’s vision of a sustainable future is an inspiring one, and it’s not unachievable. But if they’re going to help get us there, Tesla must becom...
Supercharged: Insane Mode
Elon Musk has been compared to Ironman’s Tony Stark, and he’s perhaps the most prominent leader and public figure of all car companies today. But how...
Supercharged: Autopilot
The rise of electric vehicles is set to go hand in hand with the introduction of autonomous technology. Whilst most manufacturers are holding off on r...
Supercharged: Production Hell
Since the original Roadster, Tesla has struggled to produce enough cars to meet the demand from customers. Building a car manufacturer from scratch is...
Supercharged: Tesla's Vision
Nikola Tesla invented everything from the AC induction motor to the Tesla coil. He is one of the most underrated geniuses from history. Tesla's invent...
Supercharged: The Apple of Cars
Tesla inspires brand loyalty that other vehicle manufacturers can only dream of. Some are inspired by their performance, others are touting the green...
Introducing Supercharged
Supercharged is a new podcast from Lawson Media that explores power, conflict, and the people who are driving change. Season one dives into the electr...
NASA is going back to the Moon (Part 3)
As NASA prepares to send astronauts into deep space for extended missions there is a growing concern over how we'll be able to provide enough food for...
NASA is going back to the Moon (Part 2)
NASA is going back to the Moon, and preparations are well underway for the Artemis missions. The Artemis missions will see a new generation of rocket...
🚀 NASA is going back to the Moon (Part 1) 🌙
50 years ago, NASA landed humans on the Moon, and that moment in history inspired generations. But in 1972, just a couple years later, the Apollo prog...
The Future of Ageing
Nobody can escape getting old. In fact, generations of people are living to a much older age thanks to modern healthcare. But how will technology make...
⛑Helmets of the Future
For generations the humble helmet has looked basically the same. However as technology and materials improve we're starting to see an evolution in the...
We started a Patreon!
Moonshot started as a passion project between myself and my co-host Andrew Moon back in 2017, and since then we've published around 50 episodes of con...
Building immersive stories with Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic
Virtual and mixed reality headsets are now hitting a critical point where the technology is good enough at a price point that's affordable to see mass...
Trading Coins with Carylyne Chan, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinMarketCap
What does the future of cryptocurrencies look like? Carylyne Chan is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Marketing at CoinMarketCap - one of the mo...
Storing Data in DNA 🧬
As our access to information continues to increase, so does the amount of data humanity is generating. Our current storage systems have a shelf-life,...
Nick Halla, SVP of International at Impossible Foods
Nick Halla was the first employee at plant-based meat startup Impossible Foods. Now as SVP of International he's in charge of their global rollout and...