Chips with Everything
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Chips with Everything
Why are people designing video games in war zones? How do you catch a catfisher? Can we trust AI lie detectors? Each week, Jordan Erica Webber is joined by experts to answer these questions on our digital culture podcast, Chips with Everything
Recent Episodes
95 episodes
End of an era: Chips with Everything – podcast
In the final episode of Chips with Everything, Jordan Erica Webber and Alex Hern reminisce about their favourite episodes from the last couple of year...
Grieving in the digital era: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber looks at how Twitter’s plans to deactivate unused accounts raised a broader conversation around the intersection of technology and...
Cities vs big tech: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber looks into the recent setbacks for Uber and Airbnb in cities such as London and Toronto. Help support our independent journalism a...
Becoming a meme: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to the man behind the Hide the Pain Harold meme, and Elle Hunt explains why a person’s face might gain notoriety. Help suppo...
Treating mental health with an app: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber looks at the pros and cons of mental health apps. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/chipspod
Infiltrating a 'troll farm': Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to undercover reporter Katarzyna Pruszkiewicz, who spent six months working in a PR firm in Poland, where she was told to pr...
A tale of two platforms: Chips with Everything podcast
Kari Paul and Alex Hern join Jordan Erica Webber to discuss how the big social media platforms are tackling the sticky issue of political adverts. Dr...
All in a domain name: Chips with Everything podcast
The web domain democracy.com went up for auction last week with an asking price of at least $300,000 (£233,000). This week, Jordan Erica Webber looks...
The digital welfare state: Chips with Everything podcast
As part of the Guardian’s Automating Poverty series, Robert Booth looked at how and why the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK is increasing i...
Security vs privacy – who wins? Chips with Everything podcast
Ministers from several countries have written an open letter to the Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, asking him not to fully encrypt all of the company’...
The Lovelace effect: Chips with Everything podcast
Ada Lovelace Day is in its 10th year, and to mark it, Jordan Erica Webber is joined by the founder of the event, Suw Charman-Anderson, to talk about w...
Uber – a Silicon Valley drama: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to New York Times reporter Mike Isaac about Super Pumped, his new book on the rise and fall of Travis Kalanick. Help support...
Swiping left or right – politically: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber looks into the rise of identity politics in online dating. In this episode we hear from the journalist Rainesford Stauffer, dating...
YouTube summer camps: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Richard Sprenger, who recently went to Los Angeles to learn more about a new summer camp that aims to teach six to 10...
Siri, are you listening? Chips with Everything podcast
This week Jordan Erica Webber is joined by Alex Hern, as they look at the scandal that rocked the voice assistant world, and ask whether or not we can...
Turning off the internet: Chips with Everything podcast
Kashmiris have not had access to the internet for nearly a month. The blackout, from the start of August, is the 77th of the year so far in India. Jor...
The death of iTunes... kind of: Chips with Everything podcast
The Guardian’s UK tech editor, Alex Hern, joins Jordan Erica Webber to discuss the imminent end to the iTunes store as we know it. They also take a no...
Domestic abuse meets big tech: Chips with Everything podcast
This week, Jordan Erica Webber talks to Anna, whose ex-partner surveilled her every move by using ‘stalkerware’ apps. Jordan also talks to MIT Technol...
A week in the life of 8chan: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to Julia Carrie Wong about the extremist message board 8chan after the suspect in the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, used...
'The End of Forgetting': Chips with Everything podcast
This week, Jordan Erica Webber talks to Kate Eichhorn about her new book The End of Forgetting: Growing up with Social Media, which explores the dange...
The price of being a ransomware hero: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to Fabian Wosar, a renowned anti-ransomware expert, who has worked on thousands of cases during his career. The victims that...
Gaming for abortion rights: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to Laura Hudson, who wrote about video game producers making games that present players with situations where a character mi...
Finding dark patterns online: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber teams up with Science Weekly host Ian Sample to find out more about how companies use various techniques to trick us into buying s...
Blockchain as art: Chips with Everything podcast
With the launch of the Facebook cryptocurrency Libra, Jordan Erica Webber revisits an old Chips episode looking at how artists are using blockchain to...
Is YouTube proud? – Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber looks at why some people, such as Carlos Maza, say YouTube needs to do more to protect minorities from hate speech. The Guardian’s...
"Smart City of Surveillance": Chips with Everything
Leyland Cecco and Lilian Edwards join Jordan Erica Webber to talk about the latest delays in plans to build a smart neighbourhood in Toronto.. Help su...
Gotta catch 'em all … in your sleep: Chips with Everything podcast
The Pokémon Company has announced the 2020 launch of Pokémon Sleep, a mobile game that will reward users based on how well they slumber. Jordan Erica...
Cybersecurity and makeup tutorials: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to Addie Wagenknecht, who is using the YouTube algorithm to her advantage by teaching cybersecurity tips while reviewing bea...
Meeting your Islamophobic troll: Chips with Everything podcast
A couple of years ago, Hussein Kesvani started receiving anti-Islam messages from a Twitter account called True Brit. A few months later, he travelled...
Pocketful of data: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber and Graihagh Jackson team up for the latest instalment of Science with Everything to look at the history and potential future of w...
Technology is messing with our emotions: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to the authors of a new book which looks into why human emotions have changed so drastically in the last couple of centuries...
Becoming a modern-day cyborg: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to the co-host of Grindfest, a festival for which dozens of fans of a type of body modification called ‘grinding’ travelled...
Google's problem with AI and ethics: Chips With Everything podcast
After Google’s decision to scrap its new AI ethics council, Jordan Erica Webber revisits a Chips episode from last summer that looked at Google’s AI o...
Lost in a Good Game: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber talks to psychologist Pete Etchells about his new book, which explores both his personal relationship with video games and how soc...
The local crime story that went viral: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber looks at a local crime brief that defied Facebook’s 2018 algorithm change, one that promised to transform users’ news feeds.. Help...
Measuring your fashion footprint: Chips with Everything podcast
This week Jordan Erica Webber and Graihagh Jackson team up to examine the environmental price tag of the fast fashion phenomenon and explore how techn...
Porn legislation and MEPs' mistakes: Chips with Everything podcast
This week, Jordan Erica Webber catches up on recent internet-related laws that she fears are getting lost in the shadow of Brexit. Help support our in...
How to catch a catfisher: Chips with Everything podcast
Jordan Erica Webber chats to Max Benwell about how he managed to track down the person using his photos to deceive women, and what happened when he go...
Chips with Everything: bonus episode – podcast
Jordan Erica Webber is joined by the product manager for the Guardian Voice Lab about a new type of technology it has built. It’s called the Guardian...
The early days of the world wide web: Chips with Everything podcast
Alex Hern speaks to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 30 years after the computer engineer sent the proposal for what would become the world wide web. Jordan Erica...