Tech Life Podcast
Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.
Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.
Episodes to download
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Fixing undersea cables
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Undersea fibre-optic cables help keep us online - but what happens when they break ?
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Space junk
Tue 9 Apr 2024
What is it, and what risk does it pose to the technologies we rely on in everyday life ?
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Predicting the future of tech
Tue 2 Apr 2024
How will the internet, and other tech we use today, evolve in the future ?
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Tech Life meets Spot the robot
Tue 19 Mar 2024
How a robot named Spot is helping humans in radioactive places
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Exploring space
Tue 5 Mar 2024
We visit two centres developing deep space communications and rocket launches.
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Detecting audio deepfakes
Tue 20 Feb 2024
We look at tech to fight deepfake AI-powered audio impersonators.
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Tracking giraffes
Tue 13 Feb 2024
What connects the Chinese government, giraffes in Namibia, and tech?
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Health Tech
Tue 6 Feb 2024
We look at two different areas of health tech, improving lives for women and children.
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The world of VPNs
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Who is downloading the cyber-security tool that can disguise where you are in the world ?
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Technology and mental health
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Can tech help our mental health ? We explore the issues.
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Tech Life in Las Vegas
Tue 9 Jan 2024
The latest innovations and devices at CES - one of the biggest consumer tech trade shows
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Tech predictions for 2024
Tue 2 Jan 2024
成人快手 reporters around the world predict the top tech trends for the year ahead.
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Tackling e-waste around the world
Tue 28 Nov 2023
We explore ways e-waste is being tackled in Kenya and Norway
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Searching for the Tech Factor
Tue 21 Nov 2023
We meet innovators from around the world hoping to bring you new technologies.
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Tech Life goes to Nairobi
Tue 14 Nov 2023
We meet the people and see the tech changing lives across Kenya and Africa
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Speaking out against teen sexual harassment on Instagram
Tue 7 Nov 2023
A former Meta security expert speaks out about teenagers and harassment on Instagram.
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Artificial intelligence in the classroom
Tue 31 Oct 2023
Should schools be teaching pupils about AI ? We take a look at the global picture.
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This episode could have been an email
Tue 24 Oct 2023
Tech Life previews Microsoft copilot, the AI capabilities coming to Office apps
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Spotting fake news online
Tue 17 Oct 2023
We look at disinformation online during times of conflict, and how you can spot it
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The carbon footprint of AI
Tue 10 Oct 2023
How much energy could the tech behind artificial intelligence use in the future?
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Where are we on the road to EV?
Tue 3 Oct 2023
Tech Life explores electric vehicles and where we are on the road to adoption