Tech Life

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the w

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The voice cloning lawsuit

2024/8/27

We hear from two voice over artists, based in New York City, who have filed a lawsuit against an AI

An artificial intelligence tool is helping to detect chest issues, which could indicate lung cancer,

We take a look at a recent announcement from the International Olympic Committee that the inaugural

It's called Pig Butchering - a cruel romance scam which has victims around the world. The BBC's Cybe

When the power goes

2024/7/30

How do we cope when the tech we rely on stops working? This week we look at different types of black

Alasdair Keane is at the season finale of the Formula E, taking a look at how the tech has advanced

Tech at the Olympics

2024/7/16

Ahead of the Olympics in Paris, we look at tech in sport. How is it used by athletes to improve thei

Tech that refuses to die

2024/7/9

As Japan axes the use of floppy discs for official government business, presenter Chris Vallance loo

We hear from Peter Gabriel, who is endorsing a competition to find a way of decoding animal communic

Experts develop a new blood test that could change the way suspected cases of bowel cancer are manag

Presenter Shiona McCallum is joined by technology reporter Paul Carter to look at some of the latest

Lab testing of animals is often used to study diseases, or assess the safety of new drugs or substan

Dating a chatbot

2024/6/4

What is it like to have an AI boyfriend? We hear about women in China who prefer to date a chatbot o

Being watched

2024/5/28

There are words of warning about facial recognition, biometrics and artificial intelligence - techno

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, Alasdair Keane hears how the organisation behind the event is enlisting

Help for cancer patients

2024/5/14

Blood tests are part of the process of receiving cancer treatment. But they can be time-consuming an

Customs officers looking for illegally traded elephant ivory face a challenge, because ivory taken f

TikTok world

2024/4/30

This week we're taking a global look at TikTok, and some of the problems the video sharing platform

Humanoid robots

2024/4/23

We're looking at humanoid robots - the ones that look like us. They have arms and legs. But are they

Fixing undersea cables

2024/4/16

We dive the ocean depths to find out how you fix undersea cables that keep us online. Also this week