Security, Spoken
Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.
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Show overview
Security, Spoken has been publishing since 2017, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 2,086 episodes. That works out to roughly 260 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 6 min and 9 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.7 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2018, with 431 episodes published. Published by WIRED.
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Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.
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