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Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast — 161 episodes

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The AI Contact Lens That Could Prevent Blindness and The Women Rewriting Silicon Valley

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RightsCon 2026 Cancelled Last Minute: Global Tech Summit Shock + The New Gateway to Doing Business in Africa

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AI Voice Clones Are Clearer Than Humans, and Satellites Are Transforming Fishing

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Driverless Taxis Are Here 🚕 No Humans, No Steering Wheel. And the Hidden Fibre Network Powering It All

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AI, Music & Accessibility: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Creativity and Communication

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AI Beyond Business: Digital Rights, NGOs, and the Fight Against Food Waste

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The Dark Side of the Kill Switch: Inside 2025's Record-Breaking Internet Shutdowns

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🤖 AI Is Raising Your Kids, Rebuilding Regions and Even Sorting Your Rubbish

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AI, Surveillance & Migration: Inside Europe’s Tech-Driven Border Policies + The Rise of Renting Apps

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Great Tech Idea. Now What? Inside a Deep-Tech Pitch Night

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AI’s Hidden E-Waste Crisis and the Rise of CyberParent: The Growing Cost of Our Digital Lives

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🚀 AI Deepfakes From Space & The African Language Tech Revolution | Web Summit Qatar 2026

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🚀 AI Is Rewriting Marketing - And Nigerian Women Are Rewriting the Job Market - Live from Web Summit Qatar 2026

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From Regional Power to Global Impact: AI Business Strategy & Women Led Health Tech in Africa

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Banking the Unbanked & Electrifying Ethiopia: How Tech Is Leapfrogging the Future

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Why the US Is Withdrawing From Internet Freedom Groups and What It Means for Your Digital Rights.

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AI’s Hidden Environmental Cost and the Rise of the Smart Pill That Knows When You Take It

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The Communications Blackout in Iran: Network Data Show Near-Total Comms Shutdown

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Will AI Sway Your Vote? And How to Make Sure Your Digital Legacy Goes to the Right People

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Who Controls the Future of Technology? The Hidden Power War Over AI, Chips, and Global Standards

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Drones vs. Mosquitoes, Swabs vs. TB, and a Cyber App India Doesn’t Want

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🌍 Taking Back Control of the Internet & Turning Textile Waste Into Profit

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🌍 How to Make Your Data and Nature Profitable: The New Green Gold Rush

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The AI That Runs on Green Energy — And Doesn’t Steal Your Data

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Poland’s Tech Boom: AI Greenhouses, Mobile IDs & Virtual Fertility Clinics

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Poland: Central Europe's Tech Powerhouse

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Stop the AI Fearmongering: How to Build a Resilient, Borderless Workforce

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🎧Building Borderless, Agent-Ready Teams

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Belarus 2.0: Rebuilding a Nation with Tech – Exclusive with President in Exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

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Inside Web Summit 2025: The Hidden Tech Stories Changing the World

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🚀 Viral Truths & Virtual Walls: What 10 Million Posts Reveal About Us

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The Misinformation Machine: Why We Click on Lies

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🎧 We’re Letting the Machines Take Over: AI, Gig Work, AgriTech, and the Future of Learning

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We’re Letting the Machines Take Over (Seriously, This One’s Made by AI)

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Cyberattacks Are Everywhere – How Businesses, Countries and Individuals Are Protecting Themselves Online

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Cyberattacks Are Everywhere – Here’s How to Protect Yourself Online

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AI, Curiosity, and the Future of Humanity: Digitally Curious & Somewhere on Earth Unite for a Groundbreaking Tech Podcast Crossover

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Your Guide to the Future: "Somewhere on Earth" x "Digitally Curious" Podcast Episode

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AI on the Battlefield: How Machine Learning Is Saving Lives in Ukraine’s War Zone

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How AI Saves Lives in Ukraine & the Tech Behind Fighting Environmental Crime

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16m X users in EU unmonitored and How Sudan’s WhatsApp Ban Is Cutting Off Survival

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Why Connectivity and Moderation Matter More Than Ever

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Digital Ceasefires & DeepSeek’s Breakthrough: How Peace and Science Are Redefining Our Digital Future

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Digital Ceasefire & How DeepSeek Did It!

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AI in the Workplace, Africa’s Digital Future & the Global Supremacy Race

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🚨 AI isn’t coming – it’s already here.

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Does AI speak your Language? African voices and Explosive Braille technology

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Does AI Speak Your Language? African Voices & Explosive Braille Tech

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When the Internet turns against you – Online abuse and AI privacy risks

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Your digital life is under threat. And the dangers are not always who you think.

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Brazil’s Bold Crackdown on Mobile Phone Theft: Lessons for the UK

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GigU app boosts driver earnings as Danilo Luiz champions positive media in Brazil

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From selfie health checks in Mexico to a tech platform empowering black mothers in Brazil

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Blockchain Water Revolution in Ghana & AI Rainforest Guardians in the Amazon

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Digital Blackouts & Climate Data: The fight for connectivity and transparency

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Weddings Reimagined: VR vows, smart rings & the rise of intimacy tech | Bridechilla x Somewhere on Earth

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AI Weddings & Digital ‘I Do’s’: How tech is transforming your big day | Bridechilla x Somewhere on Earth

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Meta’s Record-Breaking Undersea Cable, AI That Saves Diabetic Feet & Tinder’s Double Dating

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The rising energy cost of AI & how tech impacts sustainability

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Aviation Safety & Agri-Tech: Smarter Black Boxes and Frost Protection

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WhatsApp English lessons, EdTech in Cabo Verde & the Cartier Women's intitative - supporting women in #tech #science business

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Chat with Da Vinci & Ada Lovelace in 3D and Digital Twins in Fashion & Football

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How one university went from outdated to world-class in just 18 months

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Solar Power & CO₂ Removal: Brazil’s Bold Bet on Clean Energy Innovation

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35,000 AI Deepfake Models Found Online – The Shocking Rise of Non-Consensual Porn

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From Smart Lipstick to Healthy Groceries: The Brazilian Tech Revolution

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#ownyourdata with Brittany Kaiser and RoostEdge our new sponsor

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From Algorithm to Action: How AI & Automation are Redefining Business

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Love, Lies & Digital Crime: The Global Web of Romance Scams

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Lifestyle and mental health - Nigerian startups empowering choice through tech

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Can tech reduce Kenya’s blood desert?

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Nanoparticles that keep our food fresh and our looks lovely

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Restoring US Government websites since Trump came to power

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Agritech in Uzbekistan: helping small scale farmers recover from communist farming methods

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Myanmar tops the charts for the most internet shutdowns in 2024

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The first African-born Arab woman to go into Space

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Are teachers keeping up with their pupils when it comes to AI in the classroom?

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AI can now sell your intentions – marketing your decisions before you make them

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Is Arabic another language that goes unchecked online?

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Is AI going to replace your job?

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How to have more of Somewhere on Earth - The PodExtra Edition

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Robobees – could they help solve world hunger?

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Can Kiswahili online content be moderated?

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Capturing shooting stars with your doorbell cam

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How to keep your data safe when protesting

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Your favourite SOEP shows from 2024

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Biometrics – do we have a choice in who has this data and how they use it?

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How technology led to the rise of HTS and the fall of Assad in Syria

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Protecting submarine cables, how the big players are now involved

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A new feeding robot could return people’s independence at mealtimes

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Kyiv – a smart city adapting to war

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Tech and the rise of autocracies around the world - a Web Summit Special

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How reliable are French language AI Chatbots?

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Internet shutdowns in Mozambique following election

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Why aren’t women embracing AI?

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What happens when GPS is jammed?

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What’s next for agritech? How lawyers are getting food from farm to table

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Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?

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Could AI chatbots counter conspiracy theories?

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The first ever DNA computer engine and storage device

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Electric Vehicles going offline as companies go bust

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Is Kamala Harris the AI Tsar?

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Tiny batteries for tiny robots that could deliver drugs inside our bodies

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Is the internet in Pakistan behind a firewall?

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AI submissions are avoiding detection at a well-respected university in the UK

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Internet blackout in Equatorial Guinea and social media bans in Venezuela

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Can a booming tech economy help Ukraine in the war against Russia?

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Would you like more SOEP and also help keep the show going?

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Getting online in Russia – which tech companies are standing up to Putin?

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Duchenne UK pushes tech to its limits to help those with the condition

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Do we need new laws to control AI? Also the Prix Ars Electronica 2024 winner speaks to SOEP

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Using AI to identify threats to human rights and political activists

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Gen Z, Millennials, technology and the Nairobi protests

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Detecting cancer at the DNA level with AI

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Podextra - how you can get a bit more of Somewhere on Earth...

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Who is behind the big hack attacks?

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Rare earth element boom poisoning Myanmar

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Millions of gallons of water needed for new data centres in Chile during 30 year drought

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Technology is not the problem (we are)…

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Indian Elections; deep fakes, false memes, and misinformation galore

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How AI is saving lives and languages in Ghana

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Can ‘small’ AI have a huge impact in sub Saharan Africa?

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AI for peace – using artificial intelligence to manage conflict and maintain peace

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World Cybercrime Index – Where are the cybercriminals hiding?

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Shout out for our PodExtra Edition

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Is crypto currency supporting terrorism?

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Tech stories that matter – what should we be reporting on?

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YouTube approves disinformation ads in India in run up to election

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SOEP meets Dame Steve Shirley – a coding female pioneer

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West Africa Internet – when will it be fixed?

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AI for Africa – one young female scientist’s drive to develop solutions

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Anti-poaching tech – does it work?

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Making America e-smart - Digitising public life in the US

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Jimmy Wales - The Wiki Guy - answers your questions

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A gentle ask for your (financial) support

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Tech in Ukraine after two years of war

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Diagnosing TB using AI and a mobile phone

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A special guest on Somewhere on Earth, your help needed

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The British Post Office Technology Scandal

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The Global AI Arms Race

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A Bitcoin transaction ‘uses a swimming pool of water’

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Internet shutdowns cost more than $9 billion in 2023

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3D printed skin – huge advances could revolutionise wound healing

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Tech trends to watch in 2024 – the good and the bad

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The most hacked place in the world…and many more tech stories of 2023

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The risk of ransomware attacks - are governments taking them seriously?

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Tackling huge youth unemployment in Africa through Jobtech opportunities

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Saving lives at sea with an autonomous lifeboat

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AI could consume as much energy as a small country

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Tech increases access to contraceptives in Cameroon

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Connecting every school in the world to the Internet

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Internet shutdowns - where are we now?

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Deepfakes undermine trust in real news

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3D print your new home in a week from recycled plastic bottles

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Invisible e-waste - 7.3 billion e-toys add to e-waste mountain

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A robot that can detect breast cancer?

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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #4

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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #3

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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #2

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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #1

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