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Outriders
by BBC Radio 5 Live
Outriders is BBC Radio 5 live's programme dedicated to exploring the frontiers of the web. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night.
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The Final Edition
Jamillah, Chris and Rhod look back on 9 years of the segment that looked at how people innovate with technology. Look out for the next incarnation online!
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The Internet's influence on art
This week Jamillah chats with author and curator Omar Kholeif about his new book collating essays by artists about the impact the Internet has had on the art world.
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Heartbleed, the Radiophonic Workshop and word preserving robots
This week Outriders looks at the Heartbleed bug, veterans of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop talk about the prospect of performing live at Glastonbury and how robots are helping to preserve a trillion words.
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Worlds of Sound
This week Jamillah Knowles finds out about the worlds of sound when we are online or immersed in gaming.
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On the Map
Jamillah finds out more about mapping - as an artistic pursuit, in the way of neocartography and in Minecraft.
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Dancing with machines
This week Jamillah and Rhod discover the ballet about Anonymous, how dancers can conduct music and how to knit your brainwaves.
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Outriders and the Arts
This week Jamillah has been learning about how art has been inspired by Alan Turing, how we might be able to explore the Tate with robots and why arts organisations can do well with a digital presence.
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Symbols and signs
This week Jamillah explores a new addition to Unicode, how emoticons show up in the brain and what it takes to create a clear symbol :)
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Selfies, music and Venezuela
This week Jamillah finds out about self-monitoring citizen media in Venezuela, how 'Selfies' reflect our culture and why social media might not be the cure for the music business.
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Outriders & the animals
This week Jamillah finds out how a fish can drive, what cats like to do with an iPad and how our environments could be changed to help working animals use technology.
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New networking
This week Jamillah discusses open source hardware and software for lowering the costs of mobile networks with guests in Oaxaca, Moscow and West Yorkshire and then learns about a new browser looking to use peer to peer sharing as an alternative to the Web.
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Tech that fits like a second skin
This week Jamillah explores the requirements of open data for culture hacking, how 3D printing is changing nail fashion and the metallic false eyelashes that can control your TV with a wink.
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Comic books
This week Chris Vallance finds out about the Comic book expo at the British Library and chats with curator John Harris Dunning and comic legend Dave Gibbons. Meanwhile Jamillah explores digital comics with artist PJ Holden and the guys from Geek Syndicate.
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New ways to read
This week Jamillah gets nosey around bookshelves, finds out about reading apps for kids and learns how to browse an Empathy Library.
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Chaos in Hamburg
This week Chis Vallance has a chat with folks at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg and Jamillah learns more about wearable technology
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Into 2014
This week Jamillah finds out about Moore's Law and if it will become obsolete in 2014. She also checks back with some of her past guests of 2013 to find out what their hopes are for the new year.
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Security and safety
Jamillah's gone festive! New gadgets? Here's some security and safety tips, maths at Christmas and hacking xmas songs.
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World of Warcraft terrorists
Chris Vallance steps in for Jamillah, and takes a sideways look at whether government spies are trying to find terrorists in the virtual "World of Warcraft" .... whether websites like "They Work for You" or "fixmystreet" get things changed....and whether radio waves can stop cars.
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Food, Dinner & Ballet.
Jamillah finds out about Food Phreaking and Christmas dinner, DIY cell phones and choreographing a ballet in a virtual space.
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Surveillance, Bitcoins and Raspberry Pi Radio
Chris Vallance chats with tech leaders outside a Chatham House meeting while Jamillah and Rhod learn about Bitcoin investment and hacking new radio to appear vintage.
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Crypto, crosswords and tiny satellites
Jamillah explores space with the FUNcube1, learns how Crypto Party has become Crypto Fest and learning lessons about strong passwords with a crossword puzzle.
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Toys, maths and digital women
Wireless ways to communicate with children, women in technology and...surprisingly perhaps....maths as a social activity.
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Re-decentralization and tacos
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about re-decentralizing the web and why it's important as well as exploring what tacos have to do with a code repository.
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Youth and emotional states
Jamillah and Rhod find out about engineering for teens, logic for the under tens and how you can change music with your emotions
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Sound, vision and time out
This week Jamillah and Rhod discuss time out from the web, how hyperlapse videos are made and the new visual news discussion from Global Voices.
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Ada Lovelace Day
This week Jamillah and Rhod learn about women in tech with Dr Martha Ladly and discuss TechMums with Dr Sue Black. Celebrate women in STEM!
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Eyes, ears and robotic limbs
This week Jamillah and Rhod explore computational synesthesia, open source robotic prostheses and a phenomenal archive of London sounds.
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Sounds like tech.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about mobile tech for emergencies in Kenya, the sound of tech knitting and how policing online has evolved.
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American phone phreaking
Jamillah chats with Phil Lapsley, author of 'Exploding the Phone' which looks at the history of phone phreaking - or hacking the phone system. Though the technology may not work anymore, the stories are lively and still influence technology culture today.
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Women Pioneers of Computing
Chris Vallance visits a new museum gallery celebrating the women pioneers of computing. We also hear about exploring the moon, mars and asteroids as Outriders visits the European Planetary Science Congress.
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Beekeeping and knitting
Jamillah explores beekeeping, algoraves and mathematical knitting.
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Mixed treats
Jamillah and Rhod find out about an autonomous boat crossing the Atlantic, a shocking solution for social media indulgence and the Teletext Art Festival. Meanwhile, Chris Vallance tries Jeremy Bentham's pie.
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Eye-Tech
This week Jamillah and Rhod explore technology for your face, asking why augmented and virtual reality are not already on everyone's nose, and if glasses can help us with digital privacy.
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Code, science, terms and film
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about long terms and conditions, scientific code review and the DEFCON hacker conference documentary.
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Young Rewired State
This week Jamillah has been in Birmingham at the Young Rewired State Festival of Code where children under 16 probably have better coding skills than adults.
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Outdoors
This week Jamillah finds out about the "Observe, Hack, Make camp" and how Slovenia's networks are spreading via mesh and optical means.
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Biohacking and citizen science
Biohacking and citizen science are the focus this week. Jamillah explores biohacking as a hobby, skill and business. It's growing and there are many ideas about what biohacking means, whether it is for scientific discovery or artistic exploration.
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No Internet?
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about how to break the Internet and what could be provided as an alternative.
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Creativity
Jamillah talks to the creator of electronics for people with disabilities so they can use games consoles, a guy who tells stories in 3d online, a couple of chaps who created music using camera sounds and the creator of Dr Puppet - a web based animation linked to the 50th anniversary of Dr Who.
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Changes in news
Jamillah is joined by Emily Bell, Mathew Ingram, Kevin Anderson and Chris Vallance to discuss the latest changes in digital news.
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Listening and more listening
This week Jamillah finds out more about the issues raised by Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks as well as learning about what a city can sound like.
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Kids' activities in science and code
This week Jamillah finds out about kids' activities in science and code for after school and through the summer with Code Club, Young Rewired State and Night Science.
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News, satire and mathematics.
This week Jamillah finds about news and satire site UsVsTh3m and then gets mathemagical with some maths in museums, film and literature. Algebraic!
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Sources, Digital Publishing & Social Media
This week, Jamillah discusses The importance of protecting sources in journalism, the state of digital publishing and how established authors are using twitter.
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The Open Data Institute, Warp Records and the problems with LGBQT gaming.
This week Jamillah and Rhod learn about how the Open Data Institute is working, how Warp Records is planning an incubator and the problems with LGBQT gaming.
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Heists, worms and cryptoparties
This week Jamillah finds out how to make a worm with computers, what happened in the latest ATM hack and why there ain't no party like a cryptoparty.
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Alan Turing: the musical
Jamillah sees a musical about the life of Alan Turing.
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Hacker movies and phones for the blind
A chat with one of the eclectic method producers who put together a mix about hackers in movies. And talking with the designer of a phone app for blind people.
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Brain Mapping
This week Jamillah Knowles looks into research about brain mapping and finds out about electrical engineering and some of its hazards.
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Douglas Rushkoff
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out what 'Present Shock' is from author and commentator Douglas Rushkoff.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Outriders is BBC Radio 5 live's programme dedicated to exploring the frontiers of the web. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night.
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