Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast
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Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast is a weekly podcast that looks at technology and how it impacts our daily lives. We tell the untold tech stories from Somewhere on Earth. We don’t do new toys and gadgets, but look at new trends, new tech and new ways we use that tech in our everyday lives.
We discuss how the ever evolving digital world is changing our culture and our societies, but we don’t shy away from the news of the day, looking at the tech behind the top stories affecting our world.
Find a story + Make it News = Change the World.
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AI, Curiosity, and the Future of Humanity: Digitally Curious & Somewhere on Earth Unite for a Groundbreaking Tech Podcast Crossover
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Your Guide to the Future: "Somewhere on Earth" x "Digitally Curious" Podcast Episode
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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AI on the Battlefield: How Machine Learning Is Saving Lives in Ukraine’s War Zone
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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How AI Saves Lives in Ukraine & the Tech Behind Fighting Environmental Crime
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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16m X users in EU unmonitored and How Sudan’s WhatsApp Ban Is Cutting Off Survival
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Why Connectivity and Moderation Matter More Than Ever
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Digital Ceasefires & DeepSeek’s Breakthrough: How Peace and Science Are Redefining Our Digital Future
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Digital Ceasefire & How DeepSeek Did It!
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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AI in the Workplace, Africa’s Digital Future & the Global Supremacy Race
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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🚨 AI isn’t coming – it’s already here.
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Does AI speak your Language? African voices and Explosive Braille technology
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Does AI Speak Your Language? African Voices & Explosive Braille Tech
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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When the Internet turns against you – Online abuse and AI privacy risks
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Your digital life is under threat. And the dangers are not always who you think.
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Brazil’s Bold Crackdown on Mobile Phone Theft: Lessons for the UK
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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GigU app boosts driver earnings as Danilo Luiz champions positive media in Brazil
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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From selfie health checks in Mexico to a tech platform empowering black mothers in Brazil
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Blockchain Water Revolution in Ghana & AI Rainforest Guardians in the Amazon
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Digital Blackouts & Climate Data: The fight for connectivity and transparency
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Weddings Reimagined: VR vows, smart rings & the rise of intimacy tech | Bridechilla x Somewhere on Earth
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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AI Weddings & Digital ‘I Do’s’: How tech is transforming your big day | Bridechilla x Somewhere on Earth
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Meta’s Record-Breaking Undersea Cable, AI That Saves Diabetic Feet & Tinder’s Double Dating
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The rising energy cost of AI & how tech impacts sustainability
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Aviation Safety & Agri-Tech: Smarter Black Boxes and Frost Protection
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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WhatsApp English lessons, EdTech in Cabo Verde & the Cartier Women's intitative - supporting women in #tech #science business
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Chat with Da Vinci & Ada Lovelace in 3D and Digital Twins in Fashion & Football
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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How one university went from outdated to world-class in just 18 months
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Solar Power & CO₂ Removal: Brazil’s Bold Bet on Clean Energy Innovation
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May 27, 2025 |
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35,000 AI Deepfake Models Found Online – The Shocking Rise of Non-Consensual Porn
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May 20, 2025 |
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From Smart Lipstick to Healthy Groceries: The Brazilian Tech Revolution
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May 13, 2025 |
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#ownyourdata with Brittany Kaiser and RoostEdge our new sponsor
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May 06, 2025 |
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From Algorithm to Action: How AI & Automation are Redefining Business
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Love, Lies & Digital Crime: The Global Web of Romance Scams
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Lifestyle and mental health - Nigerian startups empowering choice through tech
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Can tech reduce Kenya’s blood desert?
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Nanoparticles that keep our food fresh and our looks lovely
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Restoring US Government websites since Trump came to power
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Agritech in Uzbekistan: helping small scale farmers recover from communist farming methods
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Myanmar tops the charts for the most internet shutdowns in 2024
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The first African-born Arab woman to go into Space
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Are teachers keeping up with their pupils when it comes to AI in the classroom?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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AI can now sell your intentions – marketing your decisions before you make them
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Is Arabic another language that goes unchecked online?
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Is AI going to replace your job?
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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How to have more of Somewhere on Earth - The PodExtra Edition
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Robobees – could they help solve world hunger?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Can Kiswahili online content be moderated?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Capturing shooting stars with your doorbell cam
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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How to keep your data safe when protesting
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Your favourite SOEP shows from 2024
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Biometrics – do we have a choice in who has this data and how they use it?
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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How technology led to the rise of HTS and the fall of Assad in Syria
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Protecting submarine cables, how the big players are now involved
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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A new feeding robot could return people’s independence at mealtimes
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Kyiv – a smart city adapting to war
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Tech and the rise of autocracies around the world - a Web Summit Special
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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How reliable are French language AI Chatbots?
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Internet shutdowns in Mozambique following election
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Why aren’t women embracing AI?
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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What happens when GPS is jammed?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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What’s next for agritech? How lawyers are getting food from farm to table
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Could making Wikidata 'human' readable lead to better AI?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Could AI chatbots counter conspiracy theories?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The first ever DNA computer engine and storage device
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Electric Vehicles going offline as companies go bust
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Is Kamala Harris the AI Tsar?
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Tiny batteries for tiny robots that could deliver drugs inside our bodies
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Is the internet in Pakistan behind a firewall?
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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AI submissions are avoiding detection at a well-respected university in the UK
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Internet blackout in Equatorial Guinea and social media bans in Venezuela
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Can a booming tech economy help Ukraine in the war against Russia?
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Would you like more SOEP and also help keep the show going?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Getting online in Russia – which tech companies are standing up to Putin?
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Duchenne UK pushes tech to its limits to help those with the condition
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Do we need new laws to control AI? Also the Prix Ars Electronica 2024 winner speaks to SOEP
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Using AI to identify threats to human rights and political activists
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Gen Z, Millennials, technology and the Nairobi protests
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Detecting cancer at the DNA level with AI
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Podextra - how you can get a bit more of Somewhere on Earth...
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Who is behind the big hack attacks?
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Rare earth element boom poisoning Myanmar
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Millions of gallons of water needed for new data centres in Chile during 30 year drought
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Technology is not the problem (we are)…
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May 28, 2024 |
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Indian Elections; deep fakes, false memes, and misinformation galore
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May 21, 2024 |
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How AI is saving lives and languages in Ghana
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May 14, 2024 |
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Can ‘small’ AI have a huge impact in sub Saharan Africa?
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May 07, 2024 |
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AI for peace – using artificial intelligence to manage conflict and maintain peace
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Shout out for our PodExtra Edition
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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World Cybercrime Index – Where are the cybercriminals hiding?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Is crypto currency supporting terrorism?
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Tech stories that matter – what should we be reporting on?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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YouTube approves disinformation ads in India in run up to election
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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SOEP meets Dame Steve Shirley – a coding female pioneer
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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West Africa Internet – when will it be fixed?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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AI for Africa – one young female scientist’s drive to develop solutions
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Anti-poaching tech – does it work?
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Making America e-smart - Digitising public life in the US
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Jimmy Wales - The Wiki Guy - answers your questions
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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A gentle ask for your (financial) support
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Tech in Ukraine after two years of war
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Diagnosing TB using AI and a mobile phone
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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A special guest on Somewhere on Earth, your help needed
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The British Post Office Technology Scandal
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Global AI Arms Race
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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A Bitcoin transaction ‘uses a swimming pool of water’
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Internet shutdowns cost more than $9 billion in 2023
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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3D printed skin – huge advances could revolutionise wound healing
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Tech trends to watch in 2024 – the good and the bad
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The most hacked place in the world…and many more tech stories of 2023
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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The risk of ransomware attacks - are governments taking them seriously?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Tackling huge youth unemployment in Africa through Jobtech opportunities
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Saving lives at sea with an autonomous lifeboat
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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AI could consume as much energy as a small country
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Tech increases access to contraceptives in Cameroon
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Connecting every school in the world to the Internet
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Internet shutdowns - where are we now?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Deepfakes undermine trust in real news
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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3D print your new home in a week from recycled plastic bottles
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Invisible e-waste - 7.3 billion e-toys add to e-waste mountain
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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A robot that can detect breast cancer?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #4
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #3
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #2
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Somewhere on Earth - Trailer #1
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast...coming soon!
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Oct 24, 2023 |