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Behind every innovation is a new kind of power. TechStuff unpacks how technology reshapes influence, creativity, and control, from Silicon Valley’s rising moguls to the cultural forces they create. Because tech is the new religion, economy, and entertainment, all at once.
Each week, Oz Woloshyn and the brightest minds covering tech dig into the weird, funny, and sometimes unsettling ways technology, AI, and the internet shape our daily lives. From AI and social media to privacy, digital burnout, and the creator economy, they ask how all this innovation is changing who we are, how we work, love, and make meaning.
Smart talk, strange stories, and the questions everyone’s Googling: whether AI will replace us, how social media is affecting our kids, and what it all says about us.
Get in touch here: techstuffpodcast@gmail.com
Each week, Oz Woloshyn and the brightest minds covering tech dig into the weird, funny, and sometimes unsettling ways technology, AI, and the internet shape our daily lives. From AI and social media to privacy, digital burnout, and the creator economy, they ask how all this innovation is changing who we are, how we work, love, and make meaning.
Smart talk, strange stories, and the questions everyone’s Googling: whether AI will replace us, how social media is affecting our kids, and what it all says about us.
Get in touch here: techstuffpodcast@gmail.com
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Mar 4, 2026 • 52min
No Such Thing: Why Do Tesla Door Handles Suck?
Ariane Marshall, transportation and tech writer at Wired, breaks down Tesla door-handle design, safety tradeoffs, and regulatory pressure. She explains why hidden handles existed, how interior mechanics like trimless windows behave, and what legal and engineering changes are pushing Tesla to add combined mechanical and electronic releases.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 25min
Hollywood’s Afraid of Tilly Norwood. Should They Be? - The Story
Eline Van der Velden, actor-producer and founder of Particle 6 who created AI performer Tilly Norwood. She explains crafting Tilly’s look and teaching her to act. They discuss motion capture, surprising AI behavior, Hollywood backlash and labeling issues. Plans for a Tilly-centric TV show and a larger AI character universe are also explored.
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Feb 25, 2026 • 35min
How Soon Until AI Out-Diagnoses Your Doctor? - The Story
Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a physician-journalist who writes on medicine and AI, explores how chatbots can both catch elusive diagnoses and make dangerous errors. He contrasts dramatic diagnostic wins with routine, long-term care challenges. The conversation covers hallucination risks, clinician-AI workflows, equity of access, and how doctors can shape AI’s role in healthcare.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 36min
More AI in Space Than on Earth? Really!?
Ariel Ekblaw, space architect and founder of the Aurelia Institute who builds self-assembling orbital infrastructure, discusses self-assembling tiles, orbital data centers, and robotic swarms. She covers cooling and launch-cost shifts that make space-based AI infrastructure plausible. Conversations touch on orbital biolabs, debris remediation, human-centered habitat design, and policy for democratizing access.
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Feb 18, 2026 • 36min
The Next 8 Months in AI Video Will Change Film Forever - The Story
Cristóbal Valenzuela, co-founder and CEO of Runway who helped bring AI video tools to Hollywood. He talks about how AI media advanced rapidly, why the next eight months could be transformative, how studios and artists are adapting, and how video and world models could train robots and become personal simulators for many industries.
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Feb 13, 2026 • 24min
Theatre Explores the Moral Quandaries of Tech - The Story
Jordan Harrison, playwright of Marjorie Prime, explores grief and AI through theatrical memory tech. Matthew Libby, playwright of Data, probes Silicon Valley ethics and a Palantir‑like company. They discuss the plays' origins, moral responsibility in tech, chatbot experiments, missed internships shaping fiction, and how theatre frames technology and humanity.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 31min
America Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media, So Now What? - The Story
Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer at The New Yorker who covers culture and tech, discusses why a U.S. ban on kids and social media is unlikely due to legal and political hurdles. He explores school phone bans, cultural pressure as a powerful force, comparisons to public-health issues, and rising youth efforts to unplug. Short, clear takes on policy, parenting, and shifting norms around screens.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 31min
Tech Skepticism, AI and Why China's Innovations Matter - w/ Wired’s Katie Drummond
Katie Drummond, Global Editorial Director at Wired and veteran tech journalist, reflects on covering AI, big tech, and geopolitics. She discusses how AI tools like Claude Code shifted engineering practices. Conversation highlights China and regional innovation shaping tech’s future. They also cover skepticism in tech reporting, robotics progress, and how young founders use AI to launch startups.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 31min
The Future is Battery-Powered - The Story
Nicolas Niarchos, journalist and author of The Elements of Power, reports on critical metals and the human and geopolitical costs of battery supply chains. He traces how cobalt and other metals reshape global power. He explains China’s refining and manufacturing edge, U.S. strategic moves in the DRC, and whether trade deals and new chemistries can clean up the system.
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Jan 30, 2026 • 31min
Gamers Fight AI Art, For Now - Week in Tech
Dexter Thomas, journalist and Killswitch podcast host, talks about AI in art, music, and video games. He covers SwitchBot's AI Art Frame and whether consumers will buy AI-generated art. He explores gamer backlash against AI assets in indie and big studio games, and the wider debate over labeling and industry responses.
