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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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.
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Is Silicon Valley still top for tech?
Fri 7 Feb 2020
Rory Cellan-Jones asks whether California is still the best home for tech startups.
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UK gives Huawei the OK
Fri 31 Jan 2020
The Chinese tech giant will be allowed a limited role in Britain's 5G telecoms network.
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Tech's battle for the classroom
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Jane Wakefield checks out the latest educational tech at the Bett 2020 show in London.
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Microsoft vows to go 'carbon negative'
Fri 17 Jan 2020
The tech giant promises to remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded.
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CES 2020
Fri 10 Jan 2020
We check out the latest tech that you might soon be buying at the CES event in Las Vegas.
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Taking stock of tech
Fri 27 Dec 2019
Rory Cellan-Jones and the 大象传媒 Online tech team look at smart cities, AI, gaming and more.
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Tech quiz of the year 2019
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Test your knowledge of tech in our annual quiz of the year.
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YouTube's plan to stop harassment
Fri 13 Dec 2019
The video-sharing giant will block clips that "maliciously insult someone".
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China pushes facial recognition
Fri 6 Dec 2019
Mobile phone buyers made to provide facial recognition data when they get a new plan.
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TikTok restores teen's viral video
Fri 29 Nov 2019
The firm apologises after removing a US teenager's video on China's treatment of Uighurs
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Ford Mustang goes electric
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Does an electric model of the iconic muscle-car signal the future for the motor industry?
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Facebook battles harmful posts
Fri 15 Nov 2019
New figures suggest the tech giant is removing a growing amount of banned content.
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Can Ireland reshape big tech?
Fri 8 Nov 2019
How Ireland鈥檚 Data Protection Commissioner could change the way big tech firms operate.
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The power of online political ads
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Why is Twitter banning political ads when Facebook insists it will keep carrying them?
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Indian call centre scam shut down
Fri 25 Oct 2019
We follow Indian police as they raid a suspected scamming call centre.
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Google Pixel 4 boasts radar
Fri 18 Oct 2019
The latest handset from Google introduces a new way to control a phone.
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US and China battle over tech
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Rory Cellan-Jones on the latest stories in the tech world
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The rise and rise of TikTok
Fri 4 Oct 2019
Why the Chinese video-sharing app seems to have Facebook worried.
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Amazon reveals Alexa glasses
Fri 27 Sep 2019
The tech giant takes its Alexa smart assistant out of the home.
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Has gig-working had its day?
Fri 13 Sep 2019
California drafts a law that would give "gig-economy" workers employment benefits.
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Who cares about facial recognition?
Fri 6 Sep 2019
Two new surveys suggest cautious public attitudes in the US and UK towards the tech.
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Tech's trade war
Fri 30 Aug 2019
How tensions between China and the US are hurting the tech industry in both nations.
Get in touch with Tech Life
Email us at techlife@bbc.co.uk or contact us via WhatsApp on +443301230320
