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The latest technology and business news, presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

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22:58

Live from London's Science Museum

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/12/11

Rory Cellan-Jones presents the 100th edition of Tech Tent, live from London's Science Museum, where he takes in the history of communications technology with curator John Liffen. We also discuss terrorism with our man in Silicon Valley Dave Lee, how tech is being used for good in developing countries, and how taking a selfie could replace passwords. With the BBC's Jane Wakefield and special guest Eileen Burbidge from Passion Capital. (Photo: Eileen Burbidge and John Liffen with Rory Cellan-Jones

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22:58

High Noon for Smartwatches?

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/12/04

The latest on the VTech toy company hack with Ken Munro of Pentest Partners. Is the fad for smartwatches already over? We ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, one of the earliest devices of this kind. Paul Cameron talks to us about Booktrack, his idea to give e-books a soundtrack. And Mark Lawson-Statham of Intelligent Energy tells us about plans for a hydrogen fuel-cell phone battery. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Holly Brockwell of Gadgette.com, and Jane Wakefield from the

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23:07

Media Storm

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/11/27

How media companies are fighting back against online ad-blocking by making "brand content" for advertisers. Alexander Klöpping of the Dutch startup Blendle is convinced that charging readers just a few cents for each article they see is the answer to the publishing industry's funding worries. Herman Narula of the British company Improbable reveals a means to simulate an entire city in software. And Erica Young of Hong-Kong based firm Insight Robotics gives her take on the debate about robots

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23:06

Tech for Health and Wealth

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/11/20

A new app called Bitwalking aims to generate a virtual currency by tracking how far you walk. We speak to the company's co-founder, Nissan Bahar. Plus, why should we trust our data to the "Cloud"? We ask the head of Amazon's Web Services business Andy Jassy. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones with special guest tech broadcaster Georgie Barrat. (Picture: Three people fitness training. Credit: Thinkstock)

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23:05

Data and Drones

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/11/13

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella seeks to reassure European customers over security and privacy with local data centres. Facebook's top engineer Jay Parikh on why he thinks laser-equipped drones are the way to bring the Net to remote places. And physicist Professor Brian Cox on the tantalising promise of quantum computers. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones with special guest tech writer Kate Bevan. (Picture: Facebook's Jay Parikh),

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22:59

Spotting Unicorns in Dublin

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/11/06

Rory Cellan-Jones talks to Nicolas Brusson of BlaBlaCar, and Ambarish Mitra of Blippar, founders of two European "Unicorns" - companies valued at over a billion dollars. Plus Kickstarter's CEO Yancey Strickler tells why he thinks crowdfunding is only just getting going, and Nell Watson, Futurist at California's Singularity University predicts the power of Augmented Reality. Recorded at the Web Summit in Ireland's capital, Dublin. (Photo: Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter being photographed by Rory

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23:06

Deleting Email

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/10/30

Stewart Butterfield of Slack tells us why he thinks email at work is on the way out. Eben Upton, creator of the Raspberry Pi educational computer reveals a new direction for the project into industry. And Mike Cassidy, Vice President of Google's Project Loon, a plan to provide the internet to remote places using balloons in the stratosphere, tells us how the company is edging towards creating a ring of such balloons around the world. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Blathnaid

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23:07

Your Money or Your Data

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/10/23

Hackers breach the systems of one of the UK's biggest broadband and mobile phone providers TalkTalk. The company says it has received a demand for money from the purported hacker. Is this a worrying new turn in how hackers target companies? YouTube launches an ad-free subscription service, but other tech giants are also circling around digital video. The internet goes crazy with "Back to the Future Day" - but how true to the film trilogy was October 21st 2015? And how an Israel-based DIY website

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22:58

Game On!

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/10/16

Brandon Beck, founder of Riot Games, the company behind the massive title League of Legends talks to us about the growth of e-sports. Plus, League of Legends team manager Mike O'Dell, and top player xPeke, give their take on the business and career possibilities in gaming tournaments. In celebration of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace, we hear from three women scientists and engineers how they would close the gender gap in technology. And, we catch up with indie games developer Arran Langmead, who is

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23:07

Microsoft Wows with Windows

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/10/09

Microsoft wows its critics with new Windows 10 devices - is it now the cool kid on the block? Facebook details plans to give 14 African countries satellite internet. We ask Michel de Rosen of Eutelsat, Facebook's partner, whether the tech is up to the job. Europe's highest court says a transatlantic agreement on transferring European internet users' data to America is invalid. Plus, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, authors of a new book "The Red Web" tell us how the Russian state sees the Net as

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23:05

Driving into the Future

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/10/02

The diesel emissions scandal at Volkswagen has thrown electric cars into the spotlight. But is electric technology ready to replace fuel-burning vehicles? Dave Lee reports from California where Tesla launched a new electric car this week. Google's head of search Amit Singhal tells us why the company has not released a Siri or Cortana-style chatbot. And, we discover Freevolt, a technology that claims to harvest energy from the radio waves around us. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest

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22:57

Silicon Valley Special

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/09/25

Is California's Silicon Valley still the draw for would-be tech entrepreneurs that it was, and what does the future hold? Broadcast from the landmark Computer History Museum in Mountain View, with special guests John Hollar, president of the museum, and tech journalist Kristen Brown. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones. (Picture: Rory Cellan-Jones in Palo Alto, California).

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22:59

#Intelligent Machines

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/09/18

A special show from Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime code-breaking centre where some of the earliest work on artificial intelligence was done. We hear what the “godfather of deep learning” - Google’s Geoff Hinton, and Facebook’s director of AI research Yann LeCun think about the threats and opportunities of learning machines, as well as the view of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. And, machine learning and robotics experts Professors Murray Shanahan of Imperial College, London and Kerstin Dautenhahn

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23:06

Apple, Apps and Ads

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/09/11

As Apple unveils its latest shiny offerings - we ask if the famously consumer-focused company can appeal to serious business users. And is the company's boss, Tim Cook, right to predict that the "future of TV is apps"? Plus - are we becoming increasingly intolerant of advertising on mobile? We examine what the rise of ad-blocking means for the future of the web, and who pays for it. Rory Cellan-Jones is joined by Mel Exon, managing director of advertising agency BBH, and Chris Foxx from the

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23:30

Berlin Unboxed

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/09/04

As the latest gadgets are unveiled at the IFA technology show in Berlin, we find out just how smart the newest phones and watches really are. We hear from San Francisco on the latest controversy about the way the taxi app Uber treats its drivers. Plus - are people getting paid to write promotional articles on Wikipedia? The co-founder, Jimmy Wales, tells us how the site's volunteers are cracking down on so-called sockpuppet accounts. Rory Cellan-Jones is joined in the Tech Tent by Will Dunn,

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23:07

Broken China

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/08/28

As the boss of the hacked Ashley Madison dating site quits, we speak to one woman who says her fiance cheated on her using its service. How will China's economic worries affect its tech giants, and how concerned should technology companies elsewhere be about falling Chinese demand? "Let's play” videos made by gamers can make or break a title, and until now, Amazon-owned Twitch has been the go-to platform for the genre. But will Google's new dedicated YouTube gaming platform lure Twitch broadcasters

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23:07

Work to Live or Live to Work?

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/08/21

Newspaper claims of a brutal working culture at Amazon have prompted wider debate about what's reasonably expected of staff by the tech industry's elite firms. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Lucy Marcus, business consultant and CEO. (Photo: Man working late from home. Credit: Thinkstock)

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22:58

Playtime in Dundee

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/08/14

Broadcast from the Dare ProtoPlay 2015 videogames festival in the Scottish city of Dundee. Plus, Rory Cellan-Jones assesses whether Europe can still compete with the United States and China in building world-beating technology companies. Presented by Zoe Kleinman. (Photo: Videogame characters. Credit: Thinkstock)

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23:07

Black Hat and Def Con

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/08/07

Security researchers at the Def Con hackers' gathering in Las Vegas tell us how they took over a Tesla car. Plus, a look at the software used by some governments to monitor people. And, what might the destruction of HitchBOT, a hitch-hiking robot, say about our willingness to accept mechanised companions at home and work? Presented by Zoe Kleinman, with special guest security expert Graham Cluley. Photo: Tesla dashboard, Credit: AFP/ Getty Images

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23:06

Microsoft Cleans its Windows

BBC Tech Tent ·

2015/07/31

Does Microsoft's Windows 10 really herald a "new era" in computing? And will Rovio's Angry Birds 2 fly with gamers? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest, the technology journalist Kate Bevan. (Picture: Windows 10 launch in South Korea, Credit: AFP/ Getty Images).

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