Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance.
Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they would not normally have a chance to experience.
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Latest episodes
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The Xbox Nearly Destroyed Him - EP 87 Seamus Blackley
This episode is nerd catnip unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.
Ashlee sat down with Seamus Blackley, who you might know as the man who talked Microsoft into building
Sep 9 1 h 23 min
Gene Therapies That Work? - EP 86 Adrian Veres
We have been promised glorious gene therapies for decades. This is supposed to be the stuff of reprogramming the body to blunt or cure diseases with something approaching
Sep 2 1 h 34 min
The Realest Longevity Guru - EP 85 Alex Colville
Over the past five years, Alex Colville has become one of the most influential figures in the longevity and aging fields.
There’s a decent chance you have not heard of h
Aug 26 1 h 39 min
AI Will Cure Us All!! Or Not!! - EP 84 Abhi Mahajan
Every couple of days, a new AI-meets-biotech startup sends me a pitch, and the pitches all sound the same. AI is amazing, and it can now tame biology. We’re on the cusp o
Aug 20 1 h 58 min
The Google Engineer Who Set The Skydiving Record At 58 - EP 83 Alan Eustace
Most people think that the Red Bull guy Felix Baumgartner holds the skydiving record. But this is not the case.
The real record-holder is Alan Eustace. In 2014, at age 5
Jul 22 2 h 07 min
An Implant That Tracks And Treats Cancer Tumors - EP 82 Ben Woodington
Treating cancer remains a crude practice. We cut, burn and poison tumors, and we do all this with relatively little precision around both the initial treatment and our on
Jul 15 1 h 22 min
Inside The Media Marvel That Is TBPN
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.corememory.com
Running a media business is hard. You’re competing for people’s attention. You must prod
Jul 9 5 min
Quantum Everything Explained - EP 81 Prineha Narang
Prineha Narang is one of the rising stars of science and the field of quantum technology.
She earned her PhD in applied physics at Caltech, taught materials science at H
Jul 8 1 h 38 min
He Came From Oz To Save American Manufacturing - EP 80 Chris Power
A few years ago, I was lunching with a young Australian man who told me he hoped to modernize manufacturing in America. This man seemed enthusiastic and ambitious, but I
Jul 1 58 min
The Manufacturing Phenomenon That Is SendCutSend - EP 79 Jim Belosic
If you spend any time inside a company that actually makes things in the U.S., then you’ll hear about SendCutSend.
Started in 2018, SendCutSend has become an American ma
Jun 24 1 h 20 min
Body Scanners, Banned Models, and DeepMind's Space Game Obsession - EP 78 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
Did Kylie and I attend the Midjourney Scanner event? Yes, we did. Did Kylie compare notes on her skincare routine with Bryan Johnson at the event? Also, yes. Meanwhile, I
Jun 19 1 h 26 min
The Future Of Our Brains And Bodies - EP 77 Max Hodak Live Event
Max Hodak is back.
The co-founder and CEO of Science Corp. joined me for our first-ever live podcast recording, which took place at the Brex headquarters in San Francisc
Jun 17 1 h 09 min
The Space Race Is So Back — EP 76 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
The theme for this week’s episode is tick, tick, boom.
America is running out of time to catch up with China on manufacturing, and we’re physically incapable of spending
Jun 10 1 h 22 min
Redwood Materials Has Built A Recyling Empire
A couple of months ago, we went out to Nevada to hang with JB Straubel, the founder and CEO of Redwood Materials and the co-founder of Tesla. JB took us on a tour of Redw
Jun 9 1 h 07 min
Can You Reverse Decades of Drinking Damage? Perhaps. - EP 75 Jacob Kimmel Is Back
Jacob Kimmel returns to the show. And he might have cured the hangover and liver disease. NBD.
Kimmel is the co-founder and president of NewLimit and one of the deepest
Jun 2 2 h 00 min
The Startup Trying to Save Us From AI Bioweapons- EP 74 Hannu Rajaniemi
Our guest this week is the renowned science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi. And he has come to terrify and then perhaps comfort you.
Rajaniemi made an immediate name for
May 27 1 h 48 min
Schmidt Out of Luck — EP 73 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
We are back with another episode of Ashlee and Kylie gossiping about the latest in Silicon Valley.
First, a re-cap of our Alexandr Wang interview — his first real sit-do
May 22 54 min
The Freshman Who Took Down Stanford's President And Its Perfect Image - EP 72 Theo Baker
As a freshman, Theo Baker signed up to write for The Stanford Daily on a lark. He thought it might be a fun way to spend some time when he wasn’t busy studying and coding
May 20 1 h 27 min
Meta's AI Chief On AI Beef, New Models And Life With Zuck - EP 71 Alex Wang
Last June, Meta pried Alex Wang away from Scale AI, the company he co-founded and ran, in a deal valued at $14 billion. Zuck could feel Meta fading in the AI race and dec
May 13 1 h 23 min
Everything You Need To Know About The Nuclear Energy Boom - EP 70 James Krellenstein
We’re in the midst of a new nuclear energy boom. Start-ups – both fusion and fission – abound, and the U.S. government has cleared the way to build again. Meanwhile, Chin
May 6 2 h 34 min
Chart positions
Where Core Memory ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 11, 2026).
A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.
I stumbled across this podcast because, for about a year, I had been following a really good tech reporter, Kylie Robison, on Twitter.
I found her writing to be refreshingly authentic in a sea of hype.
She tweeted about a podcast she was part of, so I gave it a listen and discovered Ashlee Vance. Again, I found his approach to talking about technology to be genuinely authentic. There’s a real excitement in the way he shares what he’s learned.
It’s hard to find podcasts like this where you feel like you’re part of the conversation rather than just another person sitting in the audience.
ShaunMcDonnell · May 2026
This review is review is most relevant for indoor gardening enthusiasts, but hope others will find it helpful too.
I’d been struggling for about a year with low oxygen in my home office, and brought in some indoor plants to fix the problem.
As many do, I opted for peace lilies, but despite following every top voted recommendation on Reddit was barely keeping them alive, oxygen levels remained low.
While looking for new tech news content I stumbled across Core Memory. I tuned in while getting ready one morning, but in a rush out the door, I left the show playing.
When I returned home over 15 episodes had played through to my empty home office, but there was something else that stopped me cold… my peace lilies looked to have grown almost a full inch during the work day! I raced to pull up my oxygen meter, and for the first time ever oxygen levels were optimal!!
I can’t speak to the content of the show but I now believe that the frequencies of Ashlee Vance’s voice are ideal for peace lily growth.
Thank you both so much for what you do, I’m breathing easier now as a Core Memory subscriber.
Abbabba6555 · Apr 2026
Ashlee Vance has been writing interesting, well-sourced, fact-based, entertaining stories about tech for decades. His love of some of the misfits, mad geniuses and visionaries who inhabit the tech world is tempered with equally healthy doses of skepticism and humor.
If there’s a person making a flux capacitor in his basement, with the hope of building a time machine to go back to a simpler time when eggs were cheap and browser wars were leading the news, Ashlee has probably interviewed her and maybe even has taken a trip back to change his own 10th grade chemistry grade.
Best tech podcast by far.
RobMoliak · Jan 2025
Love the depth and personality Ashlee and Kylie bring to my favorite topics in technology and AI!
bfioca · May 2026
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