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AI and everything it means in this current context with Kate Crawford

On this final episode of Byte Into IT for the year, the whole crew is in and they're joined by Kate Crawford, an internationally-leading scholar of artificial intelligence and its impacts. Her most…

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What does Quilting have to do with Data?

Eric Jong and Dan Salmon have a chat with with multidisciplinary artist and educator, Sandy Ma, to discuss her installation work Touching Wires which invites softness into our technological relationships and articulates what…

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Climate Salad, Yummy Yummy

Vanessa, Dan, Eric, and Mike are joined by Alison Bird, program manager at Climate Salad. Bird is an advocate and connector in Australia’s growing climate tech scene, working with a range of innovative…

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How human error is cybersecurity's weakest link and what happened at auIGF & SXSW 2024

You’re due for an update, luckily Lily, Vanessa and Eric are here to upgrade your tech knowledge software!

Jongkil Jay Jeong knows human error is the weakest link in the cyber security chain…

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Indie Games at the PAX Convention and AI tools used to improve train travel for Deaf People

This week Rowena Murrey, Dan Salmon and Eric Jong chat with games composer and freelance reviewer Meghann O’Neill about all the indie games and they saw at PAX during Melbourne International Games Week.

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Digital Poverty, and can AI tools help clean toxic online spaces?

Vanessa and Eric are joined by CEO of WorkVentures, Caroline McDaid, to discuss 'digital poverty' during Anti-Poverty Week. They are also joined by Eduardo Araujo Oliveira, Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing…

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Impacts of AI on the Australian Audio Production and Music Industry

Vanessa Toholka and Dan Salmon are joined by Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT, Dr Sam Whiting, to discuss his four-year project on crisis in the Australian music industries, with a focus…

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Categorizing Live Music Data with 'Live Music Locator'

Lilly Ryan chats with Nick Thorpe and Karen Stewart on 'Live Music Locator', the platform that compiles the where, when, and what for all the live gigs in City of Yarra.

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Children's streaming service usage and AI standards

This week, Hosts Vanessa Toholka and Lilly Ryan are joined by Alexar Pendashteh to discuss AI standards. They're also joined by Dr. Jessica Balanzategui discuss Childrens use of streaming services and content discoverabilty.

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Melbourne International Games Week 2024

This week, Vanessa Toholka and guest co-host Jack Knight take us through their Games Week ep!

First up is Amy McNickle, one of High Score's co-curators, on High Score and Melbourne International Games…

About this program

Computer news, reviews and clues. Tech talk and opinionated chat with feature interviews and regular guests covering games, Linux and Open Source, legal, new and social media, gadgets, Apple and more.


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The podcast intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.

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