The prologue to our new series about Artificial Intelligence, Black Box

In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris Johnson, Edward Helmore charts the rise of Joe Rogan, Laura Snapes goes deep with singer George Ezra, and Alex Moshakis asks, “Are you a jerk at work?”

In the first episode of our new series, Reverberate, we hear from Kashy Keegan – the unlikely voice of Hong Kong’s nascent pro-democracy movement

Two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences

In our first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals with an emotionally distant brother help James and Jess think about their families in new and unexpected ways.

In the final episode of Chips with Everything, Jordan Erica Webber and Alex reminisce about their favourite episodes and discuss their favourite tech stories of the decade

Jordan Erica Webber looks at how Twitter’s plans to deactivate unused accounts raised a broader conversation around the intersection of technology and death

Jordan Erica Webber looks into the recent setbacks for Uber and Airbnb in cities such as London and Toronto

Jordan Erica Webber chats to the man behind the Hide the Pain Harold meme, and Elle Hunt explains why a person’s face might gain notoriety

Jordan Erica Webber looks at the pros and cons of mental health apps

Katarzyna Pruszkiewicz spent six months working in a PR firm in Poland, where she was told to promote controversial content that would influence people through a fake, rightwing Twitter account

Kari Paul and Alex Hern join Jordan Erica Webber to discuss how the big social media platforms are tackling the sticky issue of political adverts. Dr Kate Dommett also talks about how UK political parties could use or misuse social media as they launch their general election campaigns.

The web domain democracy.com went up for auction last week with an asking price of at least $300,000 (£233,000). This week, Jordan Erica Webber looks at what makes a few words in a web browser worth thousands, if not millions of dollars. She’s joined by Edward Helmore, Talmage Cooley and Brad Karp of UCL

How and why the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK is increasing investment in testing artificial intelligence to assess benefits claims

Ministers from several countries have written an open letter to the Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, asking him not to fully encrypt all of the company’s messaging services. This week, Jordan Erica Webber talks to The Guardian’s tech reporter Julia Carrie Wong and security expert Alan Woodward about the implications of restricting end-to-end encryption

To mark the 10th year of Ada Lovelace Day, Jordan Erica Webber talks to the founder of the event, Suw Charman-Anderson, about supporting women working in STEM. She also speaks to Dr Tilly Blyth of the Science Museum in London about why Lovelace was a mathematician ahead of her time

Jordan Erica Webber chats to New York Times reporter Mike Isaac about Super Pumped, his new book on the rise and fall of Travis Kalanick

Jordan Erica Webber looks into the rise of identity politics in online dating. In this episode we hear from journalist Rainesford Stauffer, dating expert Dr Jess Carbino, and Tinder election bot creator, Yara Rodrigues Fowler