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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When the power goes
Tuesday
The impact of internet outages in Bangladesh, and power cuts in South Africa and Cuba
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Turning the racetrack electric
Tue 23 Jul 2024
We're at the Formula E season finale, exploring how the tech has advanced over 10 years.
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Tech that refuses to die
Tue 9 Jul 2024
We look at old tech that's been around for decades and is still useful.
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If we could talk to the animals
Tue 2 Jul 2024
Music legend Peter Gabriel talks about AI technology and communicating with animals.
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Detecting cancer using artificial intelligence
Tue 25 Jun 2024
The role machine learning can play in accurate blood tests for bowel cancer.
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Bionic arms and robotic thumbs
Tue 18 Jun 2024
This week Tech Life has a special programme about the technology of artificial limbs.
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Dating a chatbot
Tue 4 Jun 2024
What is it like to have an AI boyfriend? The women in China who date chatbots.
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Being watched
Tue 28 May 2024
Words of warning about facial recognition, biometrics and artificial intelligence.
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Tackling online abuse of athletes
Tue 21 May 2024
The Olympics turn to AI to try crack down on online abuse aimed at athletes
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Help for cancer patients
Tue 14 May 2024
The machine that allows patients to take their own blood samples for analysis from home.
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The mammoth ivory problem
Tue 7 May 2024
Tech can play a role in combating the illegal trade in elephant ivory.
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TikTok world
Tue 30 Apr 2024
TikTok is a popular video sharing platform, but not so popular with some governments.
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Fixing undersea cables
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Undersea fibre-optic cables help keep us online - but what happens when they break ?
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Space junk
Tue 9 Apr 2024
What is it, and what risk does it pose to the technologies we rely on in everyday life ?
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Predicting the future of tech
Tue 2 Apr 2024
How will the internet, and other tech we use today, evolve in the future ?
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Tech Life meets Spot the robot
Tue 19 Mar 2024
How a robot named Spot is helping humans in radioactive places
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Exploring space
Tue 5 Mar 2024
We visit two centres developing deep space communications and rocket launches.
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Detecting audio deepfakes
Tue 20 Feb 2024
We look at tech to fight deepfake AI-powered audio impersonators.
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Tracking giraffes
Tue 13 Feb 2024
What connects the Chinese government, giraffes in Namibia, and tech?
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Health Tech
Tue 6 Feb 2024
We look at two different areas of health tech, improving lives for women and children.
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The world of VPNs
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Who is downloading the cyber-security tool that can disguise where you are in the world ?
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Technology and mental health
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Can tech help our mental health ? We explore the issues.
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Tech Life in Las Vegas
Tue 9 Jan 2024
The latest innovations and devices at CES - one of the biggest consumer tech trade shows
Get in touch with Tech Life
Email us at techlife@bbc.co.uk or contact us via WhatsApp on +443301230320
