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Brains Byte Back — 199 episodes

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The Ostrich Effect: Why Some of the Smartest Founders Ignore Bad News

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How H-1B Uncertainty Is Fueling Tech Hiring in Latin America

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Agent Washing: How to Spot If You're Being Sold an AI Agent That Isn't

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Why Every Company Is About to Hire an AI Manager (No Coding Required)

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You Made the Song. Now What? How Neural Frames Is Giving Independent Musicians a Visual Voice

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What Sitting All Day Is Doing to Your Body (And Why You Don’t Notice It)

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The Push and Pull: How and Why the EU Forced Apple to Open iPhone App Distribution

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The Question Isn’t Whether AI Will Replace Creativity, It’s How It Will Expand It

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AI Business Scams Are Surging: Here Are the Top 3 Threats Your Team Is Likely to Face in 2026

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From Building Startups Before High School to Scaling Sales with AI: How a Young Founder is Modernizing Outreach

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AI and 3D in Construction: Building Smarter, Faster, On Track

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Why Latin America’s Tech Future Depends on Women in Leadership

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Shift Left, Ship Fast: How Software Teams Can Offer Speed Without Sacrificing Quality

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Teaching with Tech: What’s Changing and Why It Matters

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Will AI Take Your Job or Just Rewrite It?

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Meet Agentic AI: Your AI Agent Just Leveled Up to Teammate

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May 1, 2025

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The Science of What We Eat: The NYU Math Grad Bringing Sustainable Olive Oil to Your Kitchen

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Building Smarter: AI, the Ultimate Tool Transforming an Old-Age Industry

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The Unintended Consequences of AI: Are Marketers Relying Too Much on It?

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Relief Through Innovation: The Young Inventor Changing Lives

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Over-Tourism Reimagined: How Regenerative Travel Can Address Today’s Environmental Challenges

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Prioritizing Time to Grieve Over Paperwork: How Ribbon is Streamlining the Inheritance Process

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The Vacation He Couldn’t Return Home From: A Venezuelan CEO’s Inspiring Journey to Growth Hacking Success

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Wearable Tech That Measures Product Effects: The AI Neurotech Company Revolutionizing Product Testing

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"A Lowercase 'C' Cost Me £550K”: CEO Shares Lessons Learned from a Private Equity Earn-Out

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The Future of Pet Care: The New App Built for Today’s Modern Pet Owner

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The AI Level-Up: A CEO’s Take on How AI is Transforming Real-time Communication

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A Company Leveraging Technology to Reduce Turnover Rates in Hourly Jobs

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Why Traditional Learning Doesn't Cut it in a World of Rapidly Changing Technology

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“The Secret Sauce” To Great Business Communications: A CEO Shares His Recipe 

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How One Company is Looking to Reshape the Maintenance Industry and Serve Businesses of All Sizes 

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Not Your Typical CPA Firm: A CEO on a Mission to Guide Companies Through the Ever-Changing World of Tech Compliance

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From Smart Factories to 3D Model Homes: An Entrepreneur Looking to Evolve the Manufacturing Industry 

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How one platform is revolutionizing the creator economy for the better

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From Ridesharing to Fractional Investing: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Latin America to the US

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Podcast Hosting CEO on How Podcasting Will Expand into Everyday Communications

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From Landlines to Smart Cities: Consumer Electronics President Shares the Evolution of Tech Demand Over 40 Years

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AI Entrepreneur on Putting Clones of Real World People into Virtual Environments

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The Art of Wooing Developers in Latam and How to Hire in an Untraditional Way

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Understanding the Keys to Successful Cross-Team Collaboration for Those in the Creative Space

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Why Data-backed Lending and Data-As-Collateral Stand to Change How Startups Value Their Data

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The Psychology of Loyalty Apps: How Positive Reinforcement, Goal Anticipation, and the Power of Habit Influence Behavior

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Instant Messaging API Startup Founder on How AI Will Change the Way we Digitally Communicate

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Former NSA Engineer on Best Cybersecurity Advice & Considering the Human Element in Cyber Breaches

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Adobe's Strategic Development Manager on Why the Metaverse isn't About Monetizing Consumer Time & Attention But Rewarding it

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“Streaming Money as if it Were Data:” How the DeWi Ecosystem Stands to Dramatically Change the Telecommunications Industry

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Breaking Geographical Barriers and Improving Social Mobility in Latin America with Remote Work

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MIT Instructor on How to Absorb and Retain Information to Use When You Need it Most

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Unlocking the Benefits of Supplements Based on Your Body's Unique Genetic Code

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Solving Misinformation and Building The Future of Intelligent Online Conversations with Social Annotation

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How VR Tech can Help Patients with PTSD Relive and Overcome their Trauma in a Safe Environment

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Data Consulting Firm CTO Shares Insight on the Future of Cloud and Data Services

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How Learning a New Language can Significantly Delay the Onset of Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia

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Cyber-Security Startup Founder Shares Tips and Insights to Defend Your Business from Hackers

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How Having an Impact-Driven Purpose Gives Your Startup an Edge in Attracting & Retaining Talent

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How this Digital Marketplace for Used Heavy Equipment Helps Business Save Money & Improve Sustainability

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Why Innovation in the Construction Industry is Key to Tackling the Affordable Housing

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How Predictive Data Mining Can Help Forecast the Online Behavior of Consumers

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Customer Engagement Tech Startup’s VP of Sales Shares Secrets to Omnichannel Sales Success

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From 20 Billion Now to “29 billion by the End of the Year:” API Startup CEO on the Rise of Connected Devices

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Database CEO on Why Moving to a "State Transition Database" is like Taking the Red Pill in the Matrix

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How this Entrepreneur Turned Misfortune into Opportunity When a Move Across the World Didn’t Work Out

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What is Banking as a Service and How You Might be Using it Already Without Knowing

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How Educating Clients by Creating Games in the Metaverse Can Help You Gain a Business Edge

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How the Cannabis Industry Mirrors the Tech Startup Ecosystem & the Hurdles this Budding Industry Faces

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Marketing Author Discusses “Banner Blindness” and the Future of Privacy & Tracking on the Internet

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Using Digital Tools to Enhance Real-Life Connections Among Travelers, Explorers, & Digital Nomads

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From Sustainable Timber to Conflict Free Diamonds, How Blockchain Technology is Positively Impacting Supply Chains

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Why Creating an Emotional Connection is More Effective than Flaunting Success in Video Marketing

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AI-Driven News Aggregator Examens Language and "Ghost Revisions" to Identify Propaganda

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How AI Can Improve the 25% Outcome of an Operation that Depends on a Surgeon’s Skill

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Why a Remote Work Candidate’s Passions Are as Important as Their Skills

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Serial Entrepreneur Shares 3 Key Ingredients for a Great Startup Name

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What's a Latam 'VCable' Startup and Why are Mexico and Brazil Key to Creating One?

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Cybersecurity Founder Praises Positive Messaging Over Fear-Based Tactics as Key to Growth

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Cloud Solutions Founder on Why an Ideal Engineering Team is Like an Army Battalion

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Biotech CEO Reviews the Efficacy of Ketamine, MDMA & Psychedelic Therapy for Mental Health

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How Opening a Burger Shop Brand Inspired This Entrepreneur to Create an Immersive Training Startup

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How the XaaS Economy Stands to Increase Sustainability and Eradicate Planned Obsolescence

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The Cleaning Solutions Startup Killing Viruses & Bacteria with Only Salt, Water, and Electricity

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Wellness Startup Co-founder on Music as a Primary Modality to Treat Mental Health Issues

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NatGeo Brain Games Creator Shares the 3 Key Ingredients for Making an Impact with Audiences

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How to Incorporate & Operate a US-based Company Remotely as an International Founder

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How a Near-Death Attack Inspired This Founder to Create a Personal Safety Tech Startup

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Air Quality Startup Founder on Modern Tech Fighting Germs & Viruses in Buildings

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A Recovering Porn Addict's Advice for Struggling Couples, Friends & Family

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The YCombinator Startup Using Community-Based Competitions to Encourage Weight Loss

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Dissecting the Psychological Dynamics Behind Persuasive Tech & Business Ethics

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Ex-cult member details life inside Netflix's 'Wild, Wild Country' documentary

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How VCs Are Creating the “Uberfication of Therapy” That is Purely Profit Focused

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How Virtual, Algorithmic ADHD Diagnosis Tech Can Keep People From Falling Through The Cracks

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How AI Influenced Habits and Behavioral Changes Lead to Financial Freedom

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A Platform to See Politicians' Voting Histories & Stats Like a Fantasy Football Spread

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Brain Stimulation Startup Founder Talks Tackling the Opioid Crisis While Navigating Y-Combinator

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Stepping into the metaverse: A look at NFTs and all things blockchain in our digital future

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Who Has Access to Your NFTs and Crypto When You Die?

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Why Going Cold Turkey with a Digital Detox is Unlikely to be Successful

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Brains Byte Back: Best of 2021

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Augmentation or Full Takeover? Exploring AI’s Growing Presence in the Workplace

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Finding Solutions to the Challenges of the New Decentralized Workforce

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On Today's Menu, Meat Alternatives, the Modern Philosophy of Food, and How our Diets Reflect Different Beliefs

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Mapping the Avenues of Addiction in our Brains

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AI-Assisted Recruiting Will Help Put Education Alongside Career Path

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The Cerebro, The Provocateur, and The Cryer: Inside the Archetypal Minds of Online Trolls

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Brains Byte Back is Back!

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The Final Chapter? (The Best Of Brains Byte Back)

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Flash Drives for Freedom: The Organization Smuggling Forbidden Information Into North Korea

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How Not To Become A Prize Catch From Phishing Attacks

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True Crime Stories From The World Of Crypto Hacks And Ransomware

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Self-Aware AI On The Battlefield: Should We Fear A Terminator Scenario?

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The Rise of TikTok: What Are The Components Of A Successful Social Media Platform?

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How AI-Driven Crisis Recovery Tackles The 'Second Disaster' Of Disorganization

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Connecting Everything To The Internet: Our Future With IoT Technology

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Are Fully Autonomous Vehicles Fast Approaching?

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The Silk Road (Psychology After Dark)

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How To Unlock Your Creativity With Fun-Based Neuroscience Techniques

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How To Retain More Information, Improve Recall & Learn A New Language

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Bitcoin FOMO: How Our Psychology Drives The Price Of Bitcoin

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Changing The 'Chatter' Of Our Inner Voice From Destructive To Productive

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Social Media and our Psychology (Don't Worry, We'll Talk It Out)

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Brain Plasticity: How Technology, Environments, and Language Change Our Brains

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Software That Predicts Employee Burnout Through Language

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Brains Byte Back: The Best of 2020

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Increasing Happiness With Evidence-Based Techniques

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Heuristics: How Our Mental Short Cuts Can Mislead Us

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The gift-giving AI for businesses that increases sales by 40x

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Building A More Efficient, Privacy-Focused Future With Smart Cities

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Understanding the Dangers of Social Media

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How to Become an Effective Critical Thinker

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Sex Neuroscientist On Technology And The "Sexual recession" Of Young Generations

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Analyzing Blackout Drinking Culture During Quarantine Using Tweets

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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

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Cancel Culture: A Digital Witch Hunt

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UFO Technology, Ancient Civilizations and Unexplained Mysteries

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Neuroplasticity: Why Learning Shouldn't Always Be a Linear Process

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The Past & Present of CBD with Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Cannabis Formulator

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Teaching Emotional Regulation Through Children's Videos Games

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Neuromarketing: Psychology That Influences Consumer Behavior

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Chatbots at the front line of online therapy

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Neurofeedback: A Software Upgrade for the Brain

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How Smart Mattresses Analyze Your Sleep to Improve Your Slumber

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Inclusive UX: How Design Delivers Impact

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Dark patterns: How UX design tricks deceive us

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How Online Casinos Bet on Addicts Through Psychological Ploys

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Libido in Lockdown: Exploring Copulation in Isolation

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Who owns the rights to AI's new artistic talents?

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Ex-Cybercrime Police Officer on the Evolution of Fighting Cyber Threats

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Ex-CERN Scientist on Leveraging AI to Accelerate Language Learning

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Securing and Simplifying Digital Identity

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Modern Warfare Technology with Ex-Military Sergeant Turned Tech CEO

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The New Era of Psychedelics: Learning and Integrating

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The Transformative Power of Psilocybin

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The Therapeutic Power of Ayahuasca

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What is Microdosing? - Insights From a Clinical Biologist

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‘The Psychedelic Renaissance’ with the former VP of content at High Times

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The Most Dangerous Countries on the Internet: Russia

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The Most Dangerous Countries on the Internet: North Korea

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The Most Dangerous Countries on the Internet: Iran

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The Most Dangerous Countries on the Internet: Brazil

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The impact of gold and crypto on global currencies

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How to bio-hack your body (Part 2)

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How to bio-hack your body (Part 1)

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The best AI questions and answers from Brains Byte Back

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How accurate is Mr.Robot?: The Technology + The Psychology

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The Brains Byte Back Trailer

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How anyone can turn an idea into a startup

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Sex Robots, INCELs and Porn Addiction with a Neuroscientist Researching Human Sexual Behavior

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How AI is advancing surgery

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The science behind learning soft skills and hard skills, with Neuroscience specialist Todd Maddox, Ph.D.

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From surviving a plane crash to starting up in Colombia

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Suicide prevention using predictive AI

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Smartphones and Mindfulness: Understanding the new wave of meditation apps

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From desert village to multi-million dollar tech startup

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Why data scientists and social scientists need each other

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Pixm: The guardian angel fighting phishing scams and poor judgement

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The murky legality of doxxing in the USA

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Call of Duty Co-founder, Chance Glasco, discusses the franchise and his new VR project

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UFC star, Urijah Faber, talks motivation and success

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The Psychology of SEO

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Why "Skip Ad" must die: The future of advertising

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Living everywhere and nowhere: What it's really like to be a digital nomad

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A lighter, better, stronger, faster VR experience is just around the corner

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Tech behind bars: Reducing recidivism with technology

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Technology and the loneliness of young generations

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Sleeping with technology: How modern tech can help or hinder your sleep

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Deepfakes: When seeing is no longer believing

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MIT prof on institute's new course “Safeguarding Our Humanity in the Age of AI"

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A world with no jobs: AI and UBI discussed by ex-NASA engineer and political economist

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Virtual healthcare: Doctors the new digital nomads

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Professional ransomware negotiator and CEO discusses hackers' sly tactics and how to defend yourself

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Exploring the dark web with an ethical hacker and a former Israeli Police Cyber-crime operative

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The real price of porn? With Sexual Addiction Counselor Michael Dinneen and Professor Lynn Comella

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How Blockchain is Taking on the Opioid Epidemic with Victoria Adams from ConsenSys

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The World's Scariest Drug And The Social Media Group Spreading Awareness - Interview With A Victim

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The New York Times' Nick Casey Discusses The Energy Blackout And Crypto In Venezuela

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Getting Started With Bitcoin With Jack Dossman, the founder of Crypto Beginners

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McAfee Vice President Candace Worley Talks Preparing for an AI Future

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The Cannabis Industry With HighNY Founder Michael Zaytsev