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Can AI Make Us Healthier and Happier?

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AI Toys: Why Experts Say Don’t Buy Them

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Russian Disinformation, AI & Elections: New Evidence of How Fake News Spreads & The Hidden Workers Training AI

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AI, Visas and Border Control: Can Artificial Intelligence Decide Who Gets Through

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We’re Throwing Away the Technology Keeping Us Healthy: The Hidden Crisis of Healthcare E-Waste

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When Your Data Becomes a Weapon: Myanmar and Customer Privacy

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AI Is Getting More Powerful. Can We Regulate It Before It’s Too Late?

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Internet Shutdowns: 10 Years of Fighting to Keep the World Connected

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AI Medical Devices: Are We Using Them Before We Know They Work?

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Could Your Electric Car Power Your Home? Everything-to-Grid Energy, AI & the Future of Electricity

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AI for Domestic Violence Support & Cybersecurity: Why We Need to Pause Before We Act

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Flying Boat Could Revolutionise Amazon Transport + AI to Tackle Endometriosis

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Could This Affordable Bionic Arm Change Healthcare Forever? AI & Autism, & Green Fuel Innovation

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Lighting Up the Amazon with Recycled Bottles | Recorded Live at Web Summit Rio

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AI Predicts Tunnel Collapses & WhatsApp Brings a Pediatrician to Your Phone

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Robots Inspired by Birds, and the Future of Clean Energy: How Technology Is Transforming Our Planet

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Is AI Rewriting Our Opinions? And Can inDrive Build the Next Global Super App?

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The Hidden Algorithms of Gig Work: Who Really Profits from Uber and the Platform Economy?

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The Hidden Algorithms of Gig Work: Who Really Profits from Uber and the Platform Economy?

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AI Is About to Spend Your Money: Pix Payments and the Tech Behind Amazon's Superberry

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AI Is About to Spend Your Money: Pix Payments and the Tech Behind Amazon's Superberry

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AI, Trust and the Future of Money: Plus the Brazilian Drones Replanting Forests

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AI, Trust and the Future of Money: Plus the Brazilian Drones Replanting Forests

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How AI Is catching Marine Wildlife Traffickers and Also Making Tax Easi

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How AI Is catching Marine Wildlife Traffickers and Also Making Tax Easy

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The Future Is Soft: Tiny Robots, Smart Prosthetics and the Rise of Neurodiversity Tech

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The Future Is Soft: Tiny Robots, Smart Prosthetics and the Rise of Neurodiversity Tech

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From Jet Engines to Hydrogen: Why the Midlands Still Invents the Future

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From Jet Engines to Hydrogen: Why the Midlands Still Invents the Future

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The Cooling Revolution: How Technology Could Cut Refrigeration Emissions by 50%

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The Cooling Revolution: How Technology Could Cut Refrigeration Emissions by 50%

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

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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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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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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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Driverless Taxis Are Here 🚕 No Humans, No Steering Wheel. And the Hidden Fiber 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