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Industrial Heat Pumps: Can Factories Stop Burning Gas?
· 19 min
CP/M: From Z80 to 8086
· 15 min
The Industrial Revolution: What Power Decided Then and Now
· 17 min
Railways: The Comeback Nobody Planned
· 17 min
Cement: Can We Build Without the Carbon?
· 19 min
After the ISS: Can Private Space Stations Take Over?
· 25 min
Business and company finance
· 23 min
Inflation: Why Prices Never Go Back Down
· 23 min
Grid Batteries: Can Storage Save the Power Grid?
· 18 min
3Com: How It Began, Its Ideas, Products and the People Who Ran It
· 18 min
Driverless Trucks: Is Autonomous Freight Finally Here?
· 14 min
Apple HomeKit
· 14 min
What flexible work really means for career progression
· 20 min
Universal Basic Income: Did the Pilots Work?
· 19 min
ASML: The One Machine China Can't Buy
· 23 min
The Driverless Tractor: Who's Really Farming Now
· 16 min
Age Verification Online: Can the Internet Prove Who You Are?
· 18 min
What Is AGI, and How Would We Know We Built It?
· 15 min
The Cameras That Know Your Face: Policing by Algorithm
· 17 min
Britain's Sewage Crisis: Why the Pipes Can't Cope
· 25 min
UK economy: GDP, jobs, taxes, the Budget and debt
· 29 min
CRISPR: When Gene Editing Became Medicine
· 18 min
Asteroid Mining: The Trillion-Dollar Gamble
· 14 min
Returning to work after maternity leave, caring or a career break
· 16 min
Career Change at 30, 40 or 50: How to Make a Realistic Plan
· 19 min
How to recover after redundancy
· 14 min
Green Steel: Can Hydrogen Replace the Blast Furnace?
· 18 min
North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal: How Big Is It Now?
· 21 min
Vertical Farming: Did It Fail?
· 19 min
The Female Codebreakers Who Helped Win WWII
· 20 min
Stablecoins: The Backbone of a New Payment System?
· 16 min
Deep-Sea Mining: A New Frontier or a New Mistake?
· 14 min
Can AI Out-Forecast the Weather?
· 16 min
Starship Reaches Orbit: What Changes Now?
· 15 min
UK Pension: How the Triple Lock Works
· 16 min
Autodesk: From the Beginning to Now
· 19 min
The Engine Shortage Grounding Aeroplane Orders
· 18 min
The Machines Digging the World's Biggest Tunnels
· 16 min
The Robot Warehouse: Who's Really Doing the Picking?
· 16 min
Humanoid Robots: Are They Actually Ready for Work?
· 17 min
WordPerfect Corporation: A Timeline
· 21 min
Your Phone Meets Satellites: The Race to Space Signal
· 21 min
Mega-Dams: Clean Power or a Dangerous Bet?
· 22 min
Scams and Social Engineering: Tricks and Manipulation
· 12 min
Copper: The Metal the Electric Age Is Running Out Of
· 23 min
Borland: A Timeline
· 23 min
Bridge Collapse: Is Infrastructure Falling Behind?
· 17 min
How Air Crash Investigators Made Flying Safe
· 23 min
Colorado River: Who Gets the Water After 2026?
· 14 min
Space Junk: Are We Filling Orbit Too Fast to Empty It?
· 16 min
Desalination: Can We Drink The Ocean?
· 18 min
Oil: Has Global Demand Already Peaked?
· 17 min
The Memory Shortage: Why RAM Prices Doubled
· 18 min
The Steel Box That Shrank the World
· 23 min
Robotaxis: Are Driverless Cars Finally Here?
· 17 min
Lotus Development: A Timeline
· 23 min
Nuclear Fuel: The Bottleneck Behind the Comeback
· 15 min
Novell, a Timeline
· 26 min
Intel, a Timeline
· 29 min
Who Builds the World's Ships, and Why It Matters
· 21 min
CPU, Nanometres and How Chips Are Actually Made
· 26 min
Nvidia a Timeline From Graphics Cards to AI
· 10 min
AMD a Timeline
· 29 min
OpenText A Timeline
· 24 min
Adobe A Timeline
· 24 min
Geothermal Can Fracking Tech Power the Grid
· 15 min
Nantucket Corporation A Timeline
· 23 min
Supersonic Flight Is Concordes Comeback Real
· 16 min
Digital Research a Timeline
· 24 min
Compaq A Timeline
· 20 min
AshtonTate a Timeline
· 25 min
High-Speed Rail: Why Britain Can't Build What Japan Did
· 20 min
Small Nuclear Reactors: Can Fission Make a Comeback?
· 28 min
Vignette, a Timeline
· 20 min
The Invention That Turned Air Into Food
· 22 min
The Technology That Made Food Travel
· 12 min
The Barcode That Changed Everything
· 9 min
How Cities Made Drinking Water Safe
· 11 min
IBM NorthPole — Inference on a 12nm Chip
· 20 min
IBM a history of the company and its technology
· 1 h 16 min
Why the World Still Runs on COBOL
· 9 min
How a Quantum Computer Works
· 12 min
Air Traffic Control The System That Never Stops
· 10 min
The Panama Canal Drought and World Trade
· 12 min
How Batteries Work and Why Lithium Matters
· 19 min
TSMC The Company Every Chip Depends On
· 15 min
Microsoft DOS and Windows a Timeline
· 31 min
Nvidia and "4nm" — Blackwell, Rubin and the Node That Isn't
· 22 min
The Request to Slow Down AI Development
· 24 min
Learning Photography Course - 10. Digital, from Sensor to Finished Picture
· 20 min
AI Agents and Humans Working Together
· 30 min
Apple, a Timeline
· 24 min
Learning Photography Course - 9. Film
· 20 min
How Large Language Models Actually Work
· 27 min
Learning Photography Course — 8. Photographing the World
· 16 min
Learning Photography Course — 7. Composition and Seeing
· 19 min
The Strait of Hormuz: How It Works, and What Depends On It
· 31 min
Learning Photography Course — 6. Lighting
· 27 min
Learning Photography Course — 5. Lenses, and How Focus Works
· 50 min
Learning Photography Course — 4. Every Control on the Camera
· 1 h 6 min
Learning Photography Course — 3. Every Kind of Camera
· 39 min
Learning Photography Course — 2. The Exposure Triangle
· 37 min
Learning Photography Course — 1. What a Photograph Is
· 56 min
The Suez Canal: The Ditch That Moves the World
· 34 min
The Undersea Cables: The Web's 99% Vulnerability
· 33 min
The Shadow Banking System: The Trillions You Cannot See
· 38 min
The AI Investment Bubble: Who Is Funding the Trillion-Dollar Bet?
· 43 min
Private Equity Who Owns Everything
· 47 min
Financial Markets and Investments
40 films
CP/M: From Z80 to 8086
· 15 min
Railways: The Comeback Nobody Planned
· 17 min
After the ISS: Can Private Space Stations Take Over?
· 25 min
Business and company finance
· 23 min
Inflation: Why Prices Never Go Back Down
· 23 min
3Com: How It Began, Its Ideas, Products and the People Who Ran It
· 18 min
Driverless Trucks: Is Autonomous Freight Finally Here?
· 14 min
What Is AGI, and How Would We Know We Built It?
· 15 min
Computers and the Internet
31 films
CP/M: From Z80 to 8086
· 15 min
3Com: How It Began, Its Ideas, Products and the People Who Ran It
· 18 min
Apple HomeKit
· 14 min
ASML: The One Machine China Can't Buy
· 23 min
The Driverless Tractor: Who's Really Farming Now
· 16 min
Age Verification Online: Can the Internet Prove Who You Are?
· 18 min
Autodesk: From the Beginning to Now
· 19 min
The Robot Warehouse: Who's Really Doing the Picking?
· 16 min
History
14 films
The Industrial Revolution: What Power Decided Then and Now
· 17 min
Railways: The Comeback Nobody Planned
· 17 min
Britain's Sewage Crisis: Why the Pipes Can't Cope
· 25 min
North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal: How Big Is It Now?
· 21 min
The Female Codebreakers Who Helped Win WWII
· 20 min
The Machines Digging the World's Biggest Tunnels
· 16 min
Mega-Dams: Clean Power or a Dangerous Bet?
· 22 min
How Air Crash Investigators Made Flying Safe
· 23 min
Oil, Gas and Energy
11 films
The Industrial Revolution: What Power Decided Then and Now
· 17 min
Cement: Can We Build Without the Carbon?
· 19 min
Green Steel: Can Hydrogen Replace the Blast Furnace?
· 18 min
Deep-Sea Mining: A New Frontier or a New Mistake?
· 14 min
Mega-Dams: Clean Power or a Dangerous Bet?
· 22 min
Copper: The Metal the Electric Age Is Running Out Of
· 23 min
Oil: Has Global Demand Already Peaked?
· 17 min
Nuclear Fuel: The Bottleneck Behind the Comeback
· 15 min
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
10 films
Universal Basic Income: Did the Pilots Work?
· 19 min
The Driverless Tractor: Who's Really Farming Now
· 16 min
What Is AGI, and How Would We Know We Built It?
· 15 min
The Cameras That Know Your Face: Policing by Algorithm
· 17 min
Can AI Out-Forecast the Weather?
· 16 min
The Memory Shortage: Why RAM Prices Doubled
· 18 min
IBM NorthPole — Inference on a 12nm Chip
· 20 min
Nvidia and "4nm" — Blackwell, Rubin and the Node That Isn't
· 22 min
Learning Photography
10 films
Learning Photography Course - 10. Digital, from Sensor to Finished Picture
· 20 min
Learning Photography Course - 9. Film
· 20 min
Learning Photography Course — 8. Photographing the World
· 16 min
Learning Photography Course — 7. Composition and Seeing
· 19 min
Learning Photography Course — 6. Lighting
· 27 min
Learning Photography Course — 5. Lenses, and How Focus Works
· 50 min
Learning Photography Course — 4. Every Control on the Camera
· 1 h 6 min
Learning Photography Course — 3. Every Kind of Camera
· 39 min
Travel and Transportation
9 films
Railways: The Comeback Nobody Planned
· 17 min
The Engine Shortage Grounding Aeroplane Orders
· 18 min
The Machines Digging the World's Biggest Tunnels
· 16 min
The Robot Warehouse: Who's Really Doing the Picking?
· 16 min
High-Speed Rail: Why Britain Can't Build What Japan Did
· 20 min
The Technology That Made Food Travel
· 12 min
Air Traffic Control The System That Never Stops
· 10 min
The Panama Canal Drought and World Trade
· 12 min
Geopolitics and Power
9 films
ASML: The One Machine China Can't Buy
· 23 min
Britain's Sewage Crisis: Why the Pipes Can't Cope
· 25 min
North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal: How Big Is It Now?
· 21 min
Deep-Sea Mining: A New Frontier or a New Mistake?
· 14 min
The Panama Canal Drought and World Trade
· 12 min
The Strait of Hormuz: How It Works, and What Depends On It
· 31 min
The Suez Canal: The Ditch That Moves the World
· 34 min
The Undersea Cables: The Web's 99% Vulnerability
· 33 min
Space and Satellites
5 films
Information Security
4 films
War and Conflict
4 films
Science and the Future
4 films
Apple
2 films
More films
22 films · not in a topic
Industrial Heat Pumps: Can Factories Stop Burning Gas?
· 19 min
Grid Batteries: Can Storage Save the Power Grid?
· 18 min
What flexible work really means for career progression
· 20 min
CRISPR: When Gene Editing Became Medicine
· 18 min
Humanoid Robots: Are They Actually Ready for Work?
· 17 min
Borland: A Timeline
· 23 min
Bridge Collapse: Is Infrastructure Falling Behind?
· 17 min
Desalination: Can We Drink The Ocean?
· 18 min