GPB News Podcast

GPB's Bradley George and Renay San Miguel talk about the holiday outlook for the industry, and some new twists that could tempt the video game fan in your household.

Star Wars would be a major theme of any year's DragonCon. But December brings the release of the first new Star Wars movie in 10 years, and that's providing more energy than usual to many of the 65,000 geek culture enthusiasts in Atlanta for DragonCon 2015. GPB sci-tech correspondent Renay San Miguel talks about that with Bethany Blanton, co-founder of The Star Wars Report website and Podcast.

Chris Rouland, who helped lay the foundation for Atlanta's cybersecurity community, talks with GPB about the Ashley Madison hack, the rise of "existential" data breaches designed to damage company brands, and his new Internet of Things-related security startup, Bastille.

This weekend the Macon Symphony Orchestra will welcome home its native son Roderick Cox, assistant conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra.  This under-30, African American man has been called one of America’s fastest rising conducting talents. Cox sat down with GPB Macon’s Leah Fleming on stage at The Grand Opera House in Macon to talk about the power of classical music.

AOL Founder and Revolution CEO, Steve Case, visited Atlanta recently to tour various tech start up companies and helped judge a pitch competition. Case spoke with GPB's Sci-Tech correspondent Renay San Miguel about the local entreprenurial scene.

An adjunct English instructor at Savannah State University is the winner of a prestigious national prize for emerging poets. Sjohnna McCray has won the $5,000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his manuscript, “Rapture.” As part of the award, it will be published as a book next year by Graywolf Press. McCray says he set out to write a story about his father’s life.