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Tech Life — 355 episodes

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The AI pothole hunter

2

Could this tech help millions of us sleep better?

3

The workers in the engine room of big tech

4

A hologram to remember: Pam and Bill’s love story

5

Sharing the road with driverless cars

6

The problem with AI

7

Putting polluters in court

8

How will AI help my doctor?

9

Screen time ‘rewiring our brains’

10

I pretend to be OnlyFans models online

11

Quantum computers are coming - do we need ethical guidelines?

12

Hearing my voice again totally blew my mind

13

Engaging chatbots

14

Would you wear smart glasses?

15

Driverless cars in the fast lane

16

China's AI progress

17

What's new in health tech?

18

When will a robot do my laundry?

19

What to expect from tech in 2026

20

Tech Life's look back at 2025

21

Launching a commercial space station

22

Chatbots changing minds

23

The darker side of streaming

24

The secret ways AI is used to write hit songs

25

Should we allow AI into the classroom?

26

Living the digital nomad life

27

The King and AI

28

Digital parenting

29

Web-scraping bots

30

Red lines for AI

31

Drones with Tasers

32

Class action

33

Pinterest boss on online safety

34

Can we trust AI in health?

35

Keeping connected

36

Sailing into stormy seas

37

Talking translation

38

What happens when you lose your social media?

39

Tech and performance at the Edinburgh Festivals

40

Dealing with cyber attacks

41

What happened to DeepSeek?

42

Your AI servant

43

Can sewage make tech cleaner ?

44

Quantum question time

45

AIs on the road

46

The future of the internet is up for debate

47

Digital twin cities

48

Tackling illegal mining with tech

49

China's booming EV industry

50

Data and me

51

The digital afterlife business

52

Protecting your invention

53

The impact of online abuse

54

What you don’t see

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55

Weighing the world's forests

56

Talking dolphin

57

AI discrimination

58

Beyond the tip of the iceberg

59

Jamming and spoofing

60

Living life with a mind-reading chip

61

Archiving achievement

62

Surviving digital banking outages

63

The doctor will see you now

64

Could AI pick the next James Bond?

65

Human life under the oceans

66

Decoding the brain

67

China's AI world

68

Not as dead as a dodo?

69

VPNs and India

70

Trust and verify

71

A glimpse into the future of tech

72

Tech Life looks forward to 2025

73

Tech Life's look back at the year

74

Does the robotaxi have a future?

75

Cyber warfare

76

How green is AI?

77

Tiger trackers used to spy on women

78

Donald Trump’s robodogs

79

The dangerous job of online moderating

80

Is this show fake?

81

The fall of a global chip maker

82

Do you use artificial intelligence at work ?

83

The minerals tech can't do without

84

Big data and femtech

85

The big business of online charity donations

86

Will AI replace call centre workers?

87

Online maps

88

X in Brazil

89

When civil war breaks out

90

The voice cloning lawsuit

91

Artificial intelligence helps doctors detect lung cancer

92

The Olympic esports games and Saudi Arabia

93

Turning the tables on online romance scammers

94

When the power goes

95

Turning the racetrack electric

96

Tech at the Olympics

97

Tech that refuses to die

98

If we could talk to the animals

99

Detecting cancer using artificial intelligence

100

Bionic arms and robotic thumbs

101

Helping our animal friends

102

Dating a chatbot

103

Being watched

104

Tackling online abuse of athletes

105

Help for cancer patients

106

The mammoth ivory problem

107

TikTok world

108

Humanoid robots

109

Fixing undersea cables

110

Space junk

111

Predicting the future of tech

112

Charging electric bikes and scooters

113

Tech Life meets Spot the robot

114

Mobile phones

115

Exploring space

116

Tech Life in Barcelona

117

Detecting audio deepfakes

118

Tracking giraffes

119

Health Tech

120

Rescue Tech

121

The world of VPNs

122

Technology and mental health

123

Tech Life in Las Vegas

124

Tech predictions for 2024

125

The year that was in tech

126

Our surfing habits

127

Connecting people

128

From farm to fork with tech

129

Tackling e-waste around the world

130

Searching for the Tech Factor

131

Tech Life goes to Nairobi

132

Speaking out against teen sexual harassment on Instagram

133

Artificial intelligence in the classroom

134

This episode could have been an email

135

Spotting fake news online

136

The carbon footprint of AI

137

Where are we on the road to EV?

138

Be My AI: When innovation and privacy clash

139

The world focusses on facial recognition

140

The health tech changing lives in Africa

141

Battery tech goes super miniature - and tear powered

142

Charting the true cost of AI

143

Why do smart speakers get facts wrong?

144

Tech taught me

145

Fighting forest fires with technology

146

The cost of data

147

X marks the spot

148

The new world AI is making

149

The changing social media landscape

150

Elon Musk's Twitter: More changes and more competition

151

Can artificial intelligence be a force for good?

152

Have we had enough of podcasts?

153

The EU takes action on AI

154

Apple's big bet on virtual reality

155

The drama about AI in Hollywood

156

What's the deal with chips?

157

Is Elon Musk's Twitter harming global political free speech?

158

A warning about AI from a founding father of the IT age

159

Is digital life booming in Rio?

160

'I sacrificed my soul': A Facebook moderator's story

161

Is AI racing ahead too fast?

162

Kidfluencers: Do we share too much about kids online?

163

How to make sure the whole world benefits from AI

164

Putting Google's AI chatbot Bard to the test

165

ChatGPT: Where will we use AI chatbots next?

166

WhatsApp: We speak to boss, Will Cathcart

167

Why are some governments worried about TikTok?

168

Big Tech's big legal headache

169

Apple workers accuse firm of 'union busting'

170

The AI search race is on

171

Sacked Twitter staff take on Elon Musk

172

Can Ticketmaster 'shake off' the bots?

173

MRNA: The tech that transforms cancer treatment?

174

Tech Tent goes to CES

175

Tech predictions for 2023

176

The Tech Tent Christmas quiz

177

The law catches up with Sam Bankman-Fried

178

ChatGPT: The AI chatbot everyone is talking to

179

China's Great Firewall fails

180

Is there a future for smart speakers?

181

FTX: A crypto crisis

182

Big Tech's big job losses

183

Twitter's tumultuous first week under Elon Musk

184

'This is junk science': The UK takes aim at biometric tech

185

This number has been disconnected

186

How TikTok syphons off money from some of those most in need

187

Elon Musk's Twitter take over rises from the ashes

188

Why are there still so few women in tech?

189

The protests sending Iran offline

190

The Merge: A cryptocurrency revolution

191

Apple tries to build back the buzz

192

India's high speed broadband revolution

193

More trouble at Twitter

194

Can TikTok stars make it on the real stage?

195

Esports at the Commonwealth Games

196

The future of medical virtual reality

197

The battle over encrypted messaging

198

Is Tesla in trouble?

199

Twitter and Elon Musk: The deal goes sour

200

How Wimbledon has gone high tech

201

The profound tech consequences of Roe v Wade

202

The graphic content missed by Meta's moderators

203

Is El Salvador's bitcoin revolution failing?

204

Is the work from home revolution unstoppable?

205

Why is the internet still a hostile place for women?

206

Another setback for facial recognition technology

207

Is the cryptocurrency bubble bursting?

208

Learning the lessons of Wannacry, five years on

209

Are we on the cusp of a VR revolution?

210

Twitter: The Elon Musk takeover

211

A setback for Netflix

212

Facial recognition technology and the war in Ukraine

213

What next for Twitter now Elon Musk is on board?

214

A huge, new crypto heist

215

The tech of war crime investigation

216

Tech goes to the aid of Ukrainian refugees

217

The cyber conflict in Ukraine

218

The return of Trump?

219

A major chip deal collapses

220

Facebook's metaverse gamble

221

Making microchips in the US

222

The largest gaming deal in history

223

Theranos and Silicon Valley

224

The return of CES

225

Tech predictions for 2022

226

Tech Tent quiz of the year 2021

227

The UK's plan to rein in big tech

228

When crypto met football

229

@jack exits Twitter

230

A volcano-powered Bitcoin city?

231

The global rise of ransomware

232

Ransomware gangs face a crackdown

233

The Squid Game coin scam

234

Whistleblower piles pressure on Facebook

235

Tech for future living

236

Bezos' rocket blasts Star Trek actor into space

237

Facebook’s punishing week

238

A ‘practical’ quantum computer

239

A turning point for Facebook?

240

Wikipedia’s editing war

241

El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment

242

China's video games ban

243

AI: Reality and hype

244

Fears over Afghan biometric data

245

Removing carbon from the air

246

China cracks down on online games

247

Intel’s road ahead

248

Fresh questions over Pegasus spyware

249

Football and online hate

250

Have apps helped tackle the pandemic?

251

Should robots look like humans?

252

Antivirus pioneer John McAfee found dead

253

Web creator to sell source code as an NFT

254

Tech victories for law enforcement

255

Huawei pins hopes on HarmonyOS

256

Can bitcoin mining ever be green?

257

Estonia’s digital society and the pandemic

258

Ransomware hackers disable key oil pipeline

259

Trump question comes back to Facebook

260

Is Apple iOS 14.5 hurting advertisers?

261

The big noise in social media

262

The global workforce

263

Ad cookies facing the crunch

264

The future of computing

265

Why Intel will make chips for its rivals

266

Uber’s u-turn on drivers

267

The $69m digital artwork

268

The new “space race” for chips

269

Who blinked - Facebook or Australia?

270

Facebook blocks Australia’s news

271

Bitcoin’s energy cost

272

A tale of two ecommerce giants

273

Robert Downey Jr. on backing green tech

274

Biden’s plan for big tech

275

Amazon gives Parler the boot

276

Facebook and Twitter block Trump

277

Tech Trends for 2021

278

Tech Quiz of the Year 2020

279

Hackers breach US government

280

Will Facebook be broken up?

281

Life after Covid

282

Tesla’s $500bn valuation

283

Electric cars in the fast lane

284

Will Biden go after Facebook?

285

Social giants label Trump’s posts

286

Senators accuse big tech of bias

287

Election stakes for US tech

288

iPhone 12 goes 5G

289

US Congress slams big tech

290

A Pixel for the times

291

How misinformation spreads

292

The TikTok saga hots up

293

Berlin’s tech bounceback

294

Tech and working life

295

Facebook News gets bigger

296

Students marked down by algorithm

297

Legal victory over facial recognition

298

The future for TikTok in the United States

299

Big tech facing a break-up?

300

The new AI tool creating a buzz

301

The great Twitter hack

302

TikTok caught in US-China tussle

303

Big advertisers boycott Facebook

304

Apple ditches Intel chips

305

Developers take on Apple over app store rules

306

Facial recognition pulled from police

307

Zuckerberg faces staff revolt

308

Twitter tweaks Trump’s tweets

309

Facebook’s remote working shift

310

Fighting Covid-19 with data

311

Smarter workplaces after lockdown ends

312

Tech firms boosted by Covid-19

313

Influencers feel the pinch

314

Tech skills for the lockdown

315

WhatsApp and YouTube act on Covid conspiracies

316

Privacy in a pandemic

317

Hand over your virus data

318

Coronavirus: Can the internet cope?

319

Apps helping to track coronavirus

320

YouTube and conspiracy theories

321

Conspiracy theories rage online over coronavirus

322

US tells the UK to think again on Huawei 5G

323

Coronavirus stops MWC tech show

324

Is Silicon Valley still top for tech?

325

UK gives Huawei the OK

326

Tech's battle for the classroom

327

Microsoft vows to go 'carbon negative'

328

CES 2020

329

Tech to watch in 2020

330

Taking stock of tech

331

Tech quiz of the year 2019

332

YouTube's plan to stop harassment

333

China pushes facial recognition

334

TikTok restores teen's viral video

335

Ford Mustang goes electric

336

Facebook battles harmful posts

337

Can Ireland reshape big tech?

338

The power of online political ads

339

Indian call centre scam shut down

340

Google Pixel 4 boasts radar

341

US and China battle over tech

342

The rise and rise of TikTok

343

Amazon reveals Alexa glasses

344

Has gig-working had its day?

345

Who cares about facial recognition?

346

Tech's trade war

347

What Facebook knows about you

348

Are you being watched?

349

8chan searches for new home

350

New rules for robots

351

Facebook's five billion dollar bill

352

Celebrating games

353

Alexa dispenses medical advice

354

Jony Ive quits Apple

355

Deepfake or art: who decides?