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What's Your Problem?

Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

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Traditional 2D maps fail to provide the precision required for modern robotics and augmented reality, necessitating a shift toward dynamic, 3D semantic mapping. Brian McClendon, CTO of Niantic Spatial, explains that while early mapping efforts like Google Street View relied on massive logistical operations to verify da...

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Episodes

Can a Robot Build Better, Cheaper Houses?

Did AI Write This?

Blockers | A Preview of Michael Lewis's New Audiobook

Can We Defeat Deepfakes?

The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin… from Business History

Should We Pause AI?

Bonus: Planning for Your Financial Future

Can a Robot Kill Fish Humanely?

Using Satellites to Prevent Famines

The Quantum Shift in Biomedical Discovery from Smart Talks with IBM

Can We Slow Down Aging?

Why Doctors Use Evidence but Managers (Mostly) Don’t

The Job AI Was Supposed to Kill

How China Won the Car Industry

Using Viruses to Fight Disease

How AI Could Reduce Inequality

Racing Wildfires to Warn the Public

How AI Could Actually Make the World Better

Finding Meaning (and Money) in the AI Age

Using Pokémon Go to Map the World