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Digital Planet says goodbye
On Digital Planet’s final ever show we discuss the legacy of Gordon Moore, the father of transistors and creator of Moore’s law.
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3D printed food – what’s cooking?
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 from natural...
Jimmy Wales on bots and blockages
Digital Planet caught up with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. In the first of two interviews with Gareth, Jimmy explains why Wikipedia was restricted i...
Digital identity: Where are we now?
It may seem that in some countries surveillance cameras are everywhere – recording almost our every move. We are using fingerprints and facial recogni...
Ukraine’s drone spotting app
As Ukraine enters the second year of the full-scale Russian invasion, we hear about an app through which citizens can help alert defence authorities o...
Data in disaster zones
After the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Northern Syria, how do you collate data to aid those coordinating the disaster response? Cecilia Utas f...
Internet shutdowns around the world
Within hours of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake across Turkey and northern Syria, the internet in Turkey was partially shutdown. And it wasn’t just becau...
What’s the future of bots on Twitter?
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 Thursday, althou...
A smart glove to save babies
One of the main causes of maternal mortality during childbirth is that the baby cannot be delivered vaginally, most likely because it is not positione...
What happens when the Bitcoin miners leave?
In the summer of 2021 Kazakhstan was the second biggest producer of Bitcoin in the world, but what has happened since the crypto currency crash? Tech...
Self-driving cars could be a massive source of global carbon emissions
MIT researchers have concluded in a new study that computers that power self-driving cars could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as the total...
Getting online in Ukraine’s blackouts
One of our listeners in Ukraine contacted us to tell us how he stays online during power outages following bombing in Ukraine. Volodymyr Bielikov is...
Agritech Special Edition
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 keen to cle...
The Tech of 2022
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 discuss how...
Eight million SIMs blocked in Ghana
More than 8 million unregistered SIM cards have been blocked in Ghana. The Ministry of Communications and Digitisation set a final deadline for mobile...
Shopee in Thailand – is it safe?
One of the biggest platforms in South East Asia, which is as popular as Google, YouTube and Facebook, has stopped bank transfer payments. Users have r...
Predicting cyclones with mobiles
Due to climate change cyclones are increasing in frequency and intensity. Data available to study these weather phenomena though is quite scare, so a...
Robots that can assemble almost anything.
Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including thin...
Twitter – what next?
What is happening with Twitter and what can we expect? Bill Thompson give us his assessment while Angelica Mari discusses the how the new direction o...
The Open Internet for Africa
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 report “T...
Controlling protesters in Iran via phones
A new report shows how the authorities in Iran can track and control protestors phones. An investigation by The Intercept news organisation has found...
The Twitter takeover
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 digital ‘to...
Chip exports and US-China relations
The Biden administration announced a monumental policy shift earlier this month, set to limit and control the exportation of artificial intelligence a...
5bn mobile phones to become waste in 2022
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 packed with...
Internet under attack in Ukraine
Ukraine has faced internet outages since missile attacks restarted on Monday -a drop of more than 20% was recorded yesterday by The Internet Observato...
Pandemic pushes women online
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 global study in...
Tiny robots cure mice with deadly pneumonia
Microrobots have been created and used to treat the most common form of pneumonia that infects patients in ICU. In experiments, currently carried out...
Gamification – does making things fun work?
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 language...
Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected
The Digital Divide in Tribal Communities
Across the North American continent, there is a stark difference in the availability of the internet to...
Happy birthday Digital Planet!
In this special 21st birthday show we’re bringing our Digital Planet community together for the first time since 2019. The team has been asking World...
Inoculation videos against misinformation
Inoculation against misinformation
Could people be inoculated and protected against misinformation online? A new study published in Science Adv...
India’s cyber scam scourge
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 through redressa...
Misinformation on the midterms on social media
With the US midterm elections only a few months away Twitter has announced how it plans to “enable healthy civic conversation” on its platform i.e. ho...
How Nancy Pelosi’s flight was tracked
Were you one of the 2.92million people who was watching Nancy Pelosi fly into Taiwan on FlightRadar24 bypassing Chinese bases in the South China Sea a...
Is disability tech delivering?
Why does tech not understand my speech?
Physicist Dr Claire Malone is facing a problem: no speech-to-text software understands her. She is livin...
Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account
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 only ne...
Self-driving cars on the horizon?
A recent amendment to a regulation by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will extend automated driving technology to 130 km/h....
Are internet shutdowns evolving?
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. A new Unit...
Deepfake calls to European mayors?
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 head of t...