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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.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: 30 days

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    What you don鈥檛 see

    Tuesday

    One man describes his job as a moderator in Ghana. And we say goodbye to Skype.

  • Weighing the world's forests

    Tue 29 Apr 2025

    The space mission to better understand how forests affect climate change on Earth.

  • Talking dolphin

    Tue 22 Apr 2025

    Artificial intelligence is being used to unlock the mysteries of dolphin communication.

  • AI discrimination

    Tue 15 Apr 2025

    What is AI discrimination, and can it be fixed ?

  • Beyond the tip of the iceberg

    Tue 8 Apr 2025

    How do you get close enough to study a gigantic mass of ice floating in cold waters ?

  • Jamming and spoofing

    Tue 1 Apr 2025

    UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.

  • Living life with a mind-reading chip

    Tue 25 Mar 2025

    Noland Arbaugh has a chip in his brain to translate his thoughts into computer commands.

  • Archiving achievement

    Tue 18 Mar 2025

    How the US government鈥檚 crackdown on diversity deleted women鈥檚 military contributions.

  • Surviving digital banking outages

    Tue 11 Mar 2025

    Why do online banking systems sometimes go offline, leaving you with no access to cash ?

  • The doctor will see you now

    Tue 4 Mar 2025

    Find out how holoportation 3D telemedicine technology is helping patients in Ghana.

  • Could AI pick the next James Bond?

    Tue 25 Feb 2025

    With Amazon in charge of James Bond, could they use AI for scripts and casting?

  • Human life under the oceans

    Tue 18 Feb 2025

    Plans are underway for humans to live and work in underwater habitats for long durations

  • Decoding the brain

    Tue 11 Feb 2025

    Could AI help people with speech loss talk by interpreting signals in their brain ?

  • China's AI world

    Tue 4 Feb 2025

    As DeepSeek shocked the world, we speak to an AI expert who worked at a Chinese AI firm.

  • Not as dead as a dodo?

    Tue 28 Jan 2025

    How one company is trying to bring extinct animals like the dodo back to life

  • VPNs and India

    Tue 21 Jan 2025

    The mystery of the security and privacy apps disappearing from app stores in India.

  • Trust and verify

    Tue 14 Jan 2025

    This edition is all about facts, the future and finding our way.

  • A glimpse into the future of tech

    Tue 7 Jan 2025

    Tech Life is at CES in Las Vegas, one of the world鈥檚 biggest consumer tech shows.

  • Tech Life looks forward to 2025

    Tue 31 Dec 2024

    Want to know what鈥檚 in store for the tech world in 2025? Tech Life has got you covered.

  • Tech Life's look back at the year

    Christmas Eve 2024

    We look back at the high and lows of another fascinating twelve months in tech

  • Does the robotaxi have a future?

    Tue 17 Dec 2024

    How tech is transforming the way the world works, learns and plays

  • Cyber warfare

    Tue 10 Dec 2024

    Cyber warfare, aerodynamic tech in athletics and the new Indiana Jones.

  • How green is AI?

    Tue 3 Dec 2024

    Tech Life meets leading AI scientist Sasha Luccioni, one of the 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 100 Women 2024.

  • Tiger trackers used to spy on women

    Tue 26 Nov 2024

    Tiger tracking cameras have been misused to take videos of women in a forest in India.

  • Donald Trump鈥檚 robodogs

    Tue 19 Nov 2024

    Who's behind the robot dogs at Donald Trump's house? Plus: Wasting scammers' time.

  • The dangerous job of online moderating

    Tue 12 Nov 2024

    We hear from a former moderator in Kenya who was left traumatised by his previous job.

  • Is this show fake?

    Tue 5 Nov 2024

    Tech Life creates a fake podcast using an AI tool from Google. Plus, political deepfakes.

  • The fall of a global chip maker

    Tue 29 Oct 2024

    Intel was once unrivalled as the world's chip maker. Now it's fallen behind its rivals.

  • Do you use artificial intelligence at work ?

    Tue 22 Oct 2024

    A new survey looks at how AI is being adopted in the workplace.

  • The minerals tech can't do without

    Tue 15 Oct 2024

    A hurricane disrupted mining in a small US town, and the tech world looked on with alarm.

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