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On Digital Planet’s final ever show we discuss the legacy of Gordon Moore, the father of transistors and creator of Moore’s law. Special gue...
Could 3D-printing be serving us up a tasty food revolution, or is it the ultimate in gimmicky processed foods taking us yet further away fro...
Digital Planet caught up with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In the first of two interviews with Gareth, Jimmy explains why Wikipedia was re...
It may seem that in some countries surveillance cameras are everywhere – recording almost our every move. We are using fingerprints and faci...
As Ukraine enters the second year of the full-scale Russian invasion, we hear about an app through which citizens can help alert defence aut...
After the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Northern Syria, how do you collate data to aid those coordinating the disaster response? Ceci...
Within hours of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake across Turkey and northern Syria, the internet in Turkey was partially shutdown. And it wasn’t...
What is happening with API’s, more commonly known as bots, on Twitter? The platform is set to eliminate free access to its APIs this Thursda...
One of the main causes of maternal mortality during childbirth is that the baby cannot be delivered vaginally, most likely because it is not...
In the summer of 2021 Kazakhstan was the second biggest producer of Bitcoin in the world, but what has happened since the crypto currency cr...
MIT researchers have concluded in a new study that computers that power self-driving cars could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as...
One of our listeners in Ukraine contacted us to tell us how he stays online during power outages following bombing in Ukraine. Volodymyr Bie...
This week and to start the New Year we take a look at the use of technology in agriculture around the world. Agriculture as an industry is k...
We’re looking back on the technology year that was 2022. We go firstly to Ukraine to look at the booming tech industry before the war and di...
More than 8 million unregistered SIM cards have been blocked in Ghana. The Ministry of Communications and Digitisation set a final deadline...
One of the biggest platforms in South East Asia, which is as popular as Google, YouTube and Facebook, has stopped bank transfer payments. Us...
Due to climate change cyclones are increasing in frequency and intensity. Data available to study these weather phenomena though is quite sc...
Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, incl...
What is happening with Twitter and what can we expect? Bill Thompson give us his assessment while Angelica Mari discusses the how the new di...
We hear about a new plan to drive economies and improve lives across Africa – the Open Internet project between the continent and the EU. A...
A new report shows how the authorities in Iran can track and control protestors phones. An investigation by The Intercept news organisation...
Elon Musk completed on a 44-billion-dollar takeover of Twitter last week. He’s expressed the want to restructure the platform and create a d...
The Biden administration announced a monumental policy shift earlier this month, set to limit and control the exportation of artificial inte...
The WEEE forum estimates that of the 16 billion mobile phones in the world about 5.3bn will no longer be in use this year. Despite being pac...
Ukraine has faced internet outages since missile attacks restarted on Monday -a drop of more than 20% was recorded yesterday by The Internet...
In 2020 more than 40% of the world’s population was not using the internet, with many more women being unable to get online. Now a new globa...
Microrobots have been created and used to treat the most common form of pneumonia that infects patients in ICU. In experiments, currently ca...
Do you track your physical activity on your phone, count your daily steps, or how many calories you’ve burnt? Perhaps you are learning a new...
The Digital Divide in Tribal Communities Across the North American continent, there is a stark difference in the availability of the interne...
In this special 21st birthday show we’re bringing our Digital Planet community together for the first time since 2019. The team has been ask...
Inoculation against misinformation Could people be inoculated and protected against misinformation online? A new study published in Science...
Nearly a third of people in India lost money through online fraud in 2020 alone. Of them, it is thought that only 17% saw any returns throug...
With the US midterm elections only a few months away Twitter has announced how it plans to “enable healthy civic conversation” on its platfo...
Were you one of the 2.92million people who was watching Nancy Pelosi fly into Taiwan on FlightRadar24 bypassing Chinese bases in the South C...
Why does tech not understand my speech? Physicist Dr Claire Malone is facing a problem: no speech-to-text software understands her. She is l...
Open source investigators We live in an age where there is data on almost everything, and a large chunk of it is publicly available. You onl...
A recent amendment to a regulation by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will extend automated driving technology to...
Internet shutdowns have been a global issue for many years, and Digital Planet has reported on many of them, from Cuba and Myanmar to Iran....
On June 24th, the mayor of Berlin thought she was on a video call with the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko. The call, however, was fake. The...
So what is the metaverse really? Following a montage of BBC World Service listeners’ responses and opinions, contributing expert Ghislaine B...
Increased punishment for online insults in Japan Japan has taken the first steps to make online insults punishable by up to one year in pris...
‘Project Silica’ uses ultrafast laser optics and machine learning to utilise glass as a storage device. The fused silica glass is fully resi...
Across the North American continent, there is a stark difference in the availability of internet to different communities. Tribal lands are...
Data-Driven football With the end of this year’s Premier League season and the Champion’s League final in the last two weekends, viewers aro...
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have released research that utilises existing subsea telecommunications cables as environment...
A Nigerian project called Looty is seeking to take back African art in digital form. Members go into museums, take LiDAR scans using their p...
North Korea is known as one of the most isolated countries in the world. Yet, there are North Koreans who have access to some of the same ki...
This week you can listen again to our electric vehicle Jersey road trip. Gareth and Bill are on the small English speaking island off the co...
What’s in store for twitter, now that Elon Musk’s offer has been accepted by the Twitter board? Bill and Gareth discuss. Is video chat tech...