The Times Tech Podcast
From Silicon Valley to The City, tech journalists Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott bring you the inside track on the new industrial revolution.
Co-hosted from San Francisco and London, this weekly podcast delivers the latest news and freshest interviews with the people creating the future.
As West Coast Correspondent for The Sunday Times, Danny is on the ground to witness the technological whirlwind that first roared out Silicon Valley. From London, working as The Times' Technology Business Editor, Katie has seen the waves of boom and bust rolling through one of the world's financial capitals. Together they explore this strange new world of high finance and tech giants, explaining how we got here and what is just around the corner.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 416
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Blue Zones’ Dan Buettner: “The longevity All-Stars”
The Sunday Times’ west coast correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Buettner, founder of Blue Zones, to talk about longevity in the era of Covid, finding the oldest people on earth (4:10), the com…
00:42:52 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Algorithmic Justice League’s Joy Buolamwini: “Pale male data”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson bring on Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, to talk about pole vaulting (3:50), meandering from Ghana to Mississippi to Oxfo…
00:42:15 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
1QBit's Andrew Fursman: "We’ve explored zero percent of what’s possible”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Andrew Fursman, co-founder of 1Qbit, to talk about quantum computing (4:00), how close we are to useful applications (7:00), simulating wo…
00:31:44 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
Johns Hopkins University’s Dr Amesh Adalja: “We failed miserably”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Dr Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security, to talk about what we’ve learned about coronavirus (2:55), why …
00:43:00 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Zyper’s Amber Atherton: “From ‘Made in Chelsea’ to a garage in Palo Alto”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Amber Atherton, founder of Zyper, to talk about brand “super-fans” (4:45), finding them (6:55), starting as an intern at Vogue (7:35), starting her firs…
00:35:15 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Trint’s Jeff Kofman: “Rise of the voice economy"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jeff Kofman, founder of Trint, to talk about creating a transcription startup (4:30), solving the problem (7:30), what to do when others s…
00:41:24 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
AI Now's Rashida Richardson: "Free-range facial recognition"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rashida Richardson, head of policy research at AI Now, to talk about tech’s pang of conscience about facial recognition technology (3:40),…
00:36:16 |
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrave: “We’re in the hands of the gods”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Paddy Cosgrove, founder of tech conference Web Summit, to talk about doing a virtual event in a pandemic (6:00), the hit to cities and ven…
00:47:16 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
A moment to honor George Floyd
A moment to honor George Floyd
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00:03:05 |
Fri 05 Jun 2020
Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun: “A watershed moment for online education”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity and chief executive of Kitty Hawk, on the turning point for online education (6:40), the slow evolution of universit…
00:54:00 |
Fri 29 May 2020
NFX’s James Currier: “The end of the social media ice age”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson, managing partner at venture capital firm NFX, to talk about the golden age of social media (3:00), the early social network he founded (5:10), the i…
00:36:59 |
Fri 22 May 2020
Inrupt’s John Bruce “The web we could have”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on John Bruce, co-founder with Sir Tim Berners-Lee of Inrupt, to talk about remaking the web (3:40), putting data back in users’ control (5:3…
00:40:18 |
Fri 15 May 2020
Curative’s Fred Turner: “A million tests a week”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Fred Turner, founder of Curative, to talk about creating a new coronavirus test (3:55), hiring 200 people in 7 weeks (5:35), what’s differ…
00:44:35 |
Fri 08 May 2020
Mojo Vision's Steve Sinclair: “Tech in your eye”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Sinclair, product head at Mojo Vision, to talk about "smart" contact lenses (2:00), why glasses are harder (4:00), working on this fo…
00:40:28 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Moneyball's Michael Lewis: “The Trump Death Clock”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short, to talk about government as a manager of risk (3:35), the fifth risk (5:0), how Trum…
00:28:20 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
Lean Startup's Eric Ries: "The cavalry is not coming"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eric Ries, author of Lean Startup and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, to talk about trying to build a PPE procurement website (2:…
00:35:42 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Special Episode: Stories of our times - could tech giants get us out of lockdown?
Today an edition of our new daily podcast - Stories of our times. Our new free daily news podcast takes you to the heart of the stories that matter, with exclusive access and reporting. Published for…
00:27:02 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
AI Now's Meredith Whitaker: "Exploitation by design"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Meredith Whitaker, founder of AI Now and organiser of the Google walk-out, to talk about how she arrived at the search giant 13 years ago …
00:42:02 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton: “Legs over wheels”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings Damion Shelton, founder of Agility Robotics, to talk about what he did before robots (3:00), making a humanoid robot (5:20), legs v wheels (1…
00:44:55 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
10x Genomics’ Serge Saxonov: "Never has so much brainpower been focussed on one problem"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Serge Saxonov, founder of 10x Genomics, to talk about the end of normalcy (3:00), his high-end espresso machine for biology (4:20), delive…
00:35:36 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
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