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BBC Tech Tent

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

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23:24

Uber At A Crossroads

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/06/23

Does the resignation of Uber's boss signal a radical change in the company's culture? We ask US journalist Sarah Lacy who was among the first to report on Uber's attitudes to women. Plus the BBC's Sameer Hashmi travels to Bangalore to discover how India's IT sector is shedding tens of thousands of jobs. And presenter Zoe Kleinman visits the International Space Station from the comfort of an English country house. With BBC technology reporter Chris Foxx and special guest Lucy Marcus, business and

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22:58

The Future for Games Consoles

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/06/16

Xbox launches the most powerful games console ever at the E3 expo in Los Angeles, but where's the VR? We ask Keza MacDonald, editor at Kotaku UK, why games consoles still pull in the punters. Plus we hear from the voice of Mario - Nintendo's famous plumber. Also on the programme, after another bad week for Uber and its founder Travis Kalanick, what does the future hold for one of silicon valley's biggest names? Author and journalist Adam Lashinsky discusses. Rory Cellan Jones meets a real-life

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23:25

Cheltenham Science Festival 2017

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/06/09

Ellen Stofan, former chief scientist at NASA, talks about whether opinion has overtaken established scientific facts. Plus, Jeni Tennison from the Open Data Institute and Hetan Shah from the Royal Statistical Society discuss whether algorithms know best. And signal processing expert Mark Plumbley and cyber-security specialist Jason Nurse assess to what extent our mobile devices are listening in on us, and whether we should worry about it. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones. (Image: Maker tent at the

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23:25

Flyers Grounded By Tech Glitch

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/06/02

Why did British Airways passengers suffer cancelled flights and days of travel disruption because of a fault at a data centre? We ask airline IT expert Bert Craven of consultants T2RL why large companies are still vulnerable to computing failures. Plus, everyone knows about harassment and abuse on social media. But is the problem even worse in online games? We hear the experience of one young gamer and the view of Jo Twist from Ukie, which represents the UK games industry. And why is the hacking

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23:25

A Crisis in Moderation?

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/05/26

Facebook's moderation guidelines on what kind of content should be removed from the site were leaked into the public domain this week. For the social media industry as a whole, moderation is a headache that's not going away. We hear from Professor Sarah Roberts of UCLA in California, who has carried out extensive research into this process of moderation. Plus, you can stop worrying about robots taking your job - imagine a different world of work. Future gazer Reil Miller, head of foresight at

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23:31

French Tech Looks to Robots

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/05/19

France is aiming to be a leader in robotics and other high-tech businesses. We visit the Innorobo expo in Paris to see the latest robots and talk to the show's director Catherine Simon. Startup founder Pierre Lebeau of Keecker shows us his home entertainment robot due out later this year. And venture capitalist Marie-Hortense Varin of Partech Ventures tells us why French tech companies are worth investing in. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC Online technology correspondent Mark

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23:29

The Net Effect

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/05/12

Picture messaging firm Snap once snubbed a buyout offer from Facebook. Is it now losing to its Facebook-owned rival Instagram? Plus, we chat to Kathryn Brown, CEO of the Internet Society, and Professor Philip Howard from the Oxford Internet Institute, about how the Net is changing societies around the world. And 20 years ago, chess world champion Garry Kasparov was beaten by IBM's Deep Blue computer. We hear what he makes of artificial intelligence today. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC

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23:26

Can Machines Beat the Pollsters?

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/05/05

Can learning machines that gauge public opinion using Tweets or smartphone adverts perform better than traditional polling? We talk to Rob Lancashire of Essencient, and Chris Kahler of Qriously, who believe they can. And we meet the latest robot from Japan's Hitachi that might soon be greeting you in shops. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Chris Baraniuk, and special guest Sarah Golding, chief executive of advertising agency CHI & Partners and incoming president of the ad

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23:26

Fake News And Flying Cars

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/04/28

Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia tells us how he thinks he can combat fake news online. Plus, Joshua Benton from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University gives his take on Google's attempt to present more truthful answers to search queries. As the concept of flying cars seems to be all the rage, we talk to Doug MacAndrew of Aeromobil, the creators of one such vehicle. And Jane Wakefield visits the TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, where she meets Richard Browning, the inventor of a

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23:18

Automation Rapidly Changing Work

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/04/21

Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT professor and best-selling author who heralded the 'Second Machine Age', says automation is changing work faster than even he thought it would. Plus, why China's tech giant Baidu is opening its driverless car platform to outside developers. And how Facebook is placing messaging and virtual reality centre-stage at its annual F8 gathering. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Zoe Kleinman, and special guest Tom Standage, deputy editor of The

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23:22

Focus On Fintech

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/04/14

Can London maintain a leading position in the buzzing financial tech sector after Britain leaves the European Union? We get the view of Taavet Hinrikus, founder of TransferWise, and Eileen Burbidge, the UK government special envoy to the fintech industry. Plus we find out why free public WiFi is still quite hard to find in Germany, and we meet the first graduates of the Code Your Future programming course for refugees. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Leo Kelion from BBC Online, and special

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23:25

Fines For Fake News

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/04/07

Germany approves plans to fine social media companies up to 50 million Euros ($53m) if they fail to remove illegal content and fake news posts. We hear how Facebook wants to tackle the problem and what the creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, thinks is the approach to take. Plus Tolga Kurtoglu, the head of Silicon Valley's famous Parc research labs whose 1970s work on the computer mouse and graphical desktop determined how we used computers for decades, tells us what they're working

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23:26

'Re-usable Rocket' Success for SpaceX

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/03/31

Elon Musk's SpaceX venture has just made history by re-launching part of a rocket - but that's not all. This week he's also launched a mission to integrate computers directly with the human brain and his car company Tesla attracted significant Chinese investment. It's stock market value is edging up to around that of Ford. To find out why, we ask electric car analyst and Elon Musk watcher, Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield. After a spate of exploding phones and in the midst of a high level corruption

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23:06

‘Spear phishing’ scammer demanded sex show

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/03/24

We hear about a devastatingly personal 'spear phishing' attack, where the victim was asked to perform a sex show in order to regain control of her online accounts. Professor Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert at Surrey University, tells us whether attacks like this are becoming more common. BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones travels to Edinburgh to meet the robots that want to be friends with you - but are we ready to let them into every area of our lives? And we find out about

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23:06

Advertisers Fear Rising Fraud

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/03/17

Rory Cellan-Jones hears a call from leading ad industry executive Johnny Hornby, founder of The&Partnership, for Facebook and Google to help tackle fraud or risk facing a spending boycott. Plus he talks to Jeff Jarvis, journalism professor at the City University of New York about how advertising fuels fake news and how the media business needs to change to thrive alongside the big platforms. And Dan Faulkner, from voice recognition firm Nuance, chats about the day when your phone will not only

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23:07

The Spy in Your TV

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/03/10

Leaked documents reveal US spy agencies might be able to listen in on you via your television. We ask Dave Palmer of Darktrace whether everyone's internet security is compromised. Plus, Danny Sullivan of the Search Engine Land website talks to us about whether Google Search has a "fake news" problem. And will autonomous machines be able to get along with each other? Dr Taha Yasseri from the Oxford Internet Institute tells us. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Mark Ward from the BBC Online tech

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23:06

Mobile World Congress 2017

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/03/03

Rory Cellan-Jones sees the latest smartphones from Nokia and the return of the iconic 3310 featurephone. We ask the man behind Pokemon Go whether augmented reality will have more mass appeal than virtual reality. And we ask Intel whether 5G technology is overhyped. With independent analysis from Ben Wood of CCS Insight and Carolina Milanesi of Creative Strategies. Plus Jane Wakefield from the BBC Online tech desk rounds up the week's other tech news. (Image: Arto Nummela of HMD Global, owner of

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23:05

Disability Works Special

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/02/24

We find out how technology is helping people with disabilities, and how the same tech can be useful to everyone. BBC producer Johny Cassidy tries Orcam, a wearable camera that reads out text to its user and recognises faces. We ask Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie what the company is doing to increase accessibility to key workplace software. And IBM's chief science officer for cognitive computing Dr Guru Banavar tells us how advances in artificial intelligence will soon

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23:07

India's Rocketing Space Ambition

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/02/17

How India's record-breaking launch of 104 satellites in a single mission shows its ambition to be a world power in the space business. Plus, we keep being told to change our passwords regularly and choose ever more complex ones. But could there be a better way to stay safe online? Dr Shujun Li from the University of Surrey thinks he has an answer. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Zoe Kleinman from the BBC Online tech desk, and special guest Michelle Kennedy, co-founder of the Peanut social app

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23:06

Reprise Of The Robots

BBC Tech Tent ·

2017/02/10

We visit London's Science Museum to see a new exhibition on robotics and discover what past mechanisation might teach tomorrow's workers about adapting to automation at work. Plus we try out a radio that claims to know your mood and play you music to suit how you're feeling, And we find out how a free data plan is shaking up India's mobile phone market and causing controversy for its rivals. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Chris Foxx from the BBC Online tech desk, and special guest Valerie

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