Brain implant regulation calls
iHuman: Blurring lines between mind and machine One of the UK’s top scientific institutions is calling for investigations into brain implants as brain-reading technology advances. Tech entrepreneurs ...
10 Syys 201940min
Digital Planet’s 18th birthday show
An hour long Digital Planet from the BBC Radio Theatre in London to celebrate the programmes 18th birthday. The team look back on the first show and look forward to the tech that is now also coming o...
3 Syys 201957min
Brazilian fire monitoring in real time
Brazilian fires in real time monitored from space The Head of Remote Sensing at the National Institute of Space Research Brazil Dr. Luiz Aragao joins us on the programme. He explains how optical and ...
27 Elo 201938min
Harnessing tech during conflict
Harnessing tech during conflict Twitter and Facebook have removed accounts that originated in mainland China that it says undermines the “legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement”. ...
20 Elo 201940min
Millions of Instagram users’ activity tracked
Instagram has removed US marketing company Hyp3r from its service after it was accused of grabbing users' data. Hyp3r was scraping profiles, copying photos and siphoning off data supposed to be delete...
13 Elo 201939min
Jakarta power cut - millions without electricity
Jakarta power cut The lights are finally back on for most of Jakarta’s ten million people, who suffered a nine-hour outage over the weekend. Taking into account surrounding regions, the power cut coul...
6 Elo 201943min
Chandrayaan-2: India’s moon landing
The Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, succeeded this week in getting its latest lunar lander into earth orbit. A new mobile money platform mGurush launches in South Sudan. In London young deve...
23 Heinä 201936min
Chinese surveillance app analysed by researchers
Travellers to China through Kyrgyzstan are being forced to install a surveillance app on their phones. Professor Thorsten Holt is on the programme to explain, with the help of investigative journalist...
9 Heinä 201940min
