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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Tech and working life
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Rory Cellan-Jones explores how tech firms are influencing the way people work.
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Facebook News gets bigger
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Should publishers welcome or fear the tech giant鈥檚 plan to expand its news feature?
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Students marked down by algorithm
Fri 21 Aug 2020
How students in England took to the streets to challenge their exam grades.
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Legal victory over facial recognition
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Use of facial recognition by a UK police force was unlawful, says the Court of Appeal.
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The future for TikTok in the United States
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Why the popular video app faces being bought out or banned
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Big tech facing a break-up?
Fri 31 Jul 2020
The biggest tech firms are grilled by US lawmakers over abuse of market power.
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The new AI tool creating a buzz
Fri 24 Jul 2020
GPT-3 is a tool whose predecessor was dubbed 鈥渢oo dangerous to release鈥�.
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The great Twitter hack
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Hackers take over accounts belonging to famous names after breaching Twitter鈥檚 security.
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TikTok caught in US-China tussle
Fri 10 Jul 2020
The hit video sharing platform quits operating in Hong Kong as the US considers a ban.
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Big advertisers boycott Facebook
Fri 3 Jul 2020
Marketers express unease about Facebook鈥檚 handling of hate speech.
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Apple ditches Intel chips
Fri 26 Jun 2020
The tech giant tells developers future Macs will use Apple-designed chips.
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Developers take on Apple over app store rules
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Apple comes under fire for what some see as anti-competitive practices
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Facial recognition pulled from police
Fri 12 Jun 2020
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft stop providing police forces with facial recognition tools.
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Zuckerberg faces staff revolt
Fri 5 Jun 2020
Facebook staff strike out at decision not to moderate Donald Trump鈥檚 postings.
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Twitter tweaks Trump鈥檚 tweets
Fri 29 May 2020
US President signs an order that could strip social media firms of legal protections.
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Facebook鈥檚 remote working shift
Fri 22 May 2020
Will the tech giant鈥檚 new policy change how people at other firms work?
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Fighting Covid-19 with data
Fri 15 May 2020
Is South Korea鈥檚 success so far in fighting the coronavirus down to data and tech?
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Smarter workplaces after lockdown ends
Fri 8 May 2020
How tech will help to get people back to work safely.
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Tech firms boosted by Covid-19
Fri 1 May 2020
In contrast to many businesses, will the tech giants emerge stronger from the crisis?
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Influencers feel the pinch
Fri 24 Apr 2020
How social media influencers are earning less in lockdown and rethinking what they do.
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Tech skills for the lockdown
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Are you using the lockdown to pick up new tech skills? We meet a family learning coding.
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WhatsApp and YouTube act on Covid conspiracies
Fri 10 Apr 2020
The social giants take steps to remove falsehoods linking Covid-19 to 5G.
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Privacy in a pandemic
Fri 3 Apr 2020
Should we trade some privacy to end a lock-down earlier with the help of technology?
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Hand over your virus data
Fri 27 Mar 2020
How much data are we all prepared to share in the battle to beat the coronavirus?
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Coronavirus: Can the internet cope?
Fri 20 Mar 2020
What impact will the coronavirus pandemic have on the infrastructure of the internet?
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Apps helping to track coronavirus
Fri 13 Mar 2020
How governments are using apps and citizens' phone data to try to contain the pandemic.
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YouTube and conspiracy theories
Fri 6 Mar 2020
Users seeing fewer conspiracy theories in their YouTube recommendations, study suggests.
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Conspiracy theories rage online over coronavirus
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Is social media likely to help or hinder efforts to contain the outbreak?
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US tells the UK to think again on Huawei 5G
Fri 21 Feb 2020
America urges Britain to change its mind and drop Huawei from its 5G networks.
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Coronavirus stops MWC tech show
Fri 14 Feb 2020
The mobile industry鈥檚 biggest event is called off over fears of spreading the infection.
Get in touch with Tech Life
Email us at techlife@bbc.co.uk or contact us via WhatsApp on +443301230320
