Digital Planet
BBC World ServiceTechnological and digital news from around the world.
Tech Life
May 5, 2023 • 34s
Tech Life: Is AI racing ahead too fast?
Apr 18, 2023 • 27m
Tech Life: Kidfluencers, do we share too much about kids online?
Apr 11, 2023 • 27m
Tech Life: How to make sure the whole world benefits from AI
Apr 6, 2023 • 27m
Digital Planet says goodbye
Mar 28, 2023 • 52m
3D printed food – what’s cooking?
Mar 21, 2023 • 52m
Jimmy Wales on bots and blockages
Mar 14, 2023 • 51m
Digital identity: Where are we now?
Mar 7, 2023 • 38m
Ukraine’s drone spotting app
Feb 28, 2023 • 42m
Data in disaster zones
Feb 21, 2023 • 46m
Internet shutdowns around the world
Feb 14, 2023 • 35m
What’s the future of bots on Twitter?
Feb 7, 2023 • 44m
A smart glove to save babies
Jan 31, 2023 • 43m
What happens when the Bitcoin miners leave?
Jan 24, 2023 • 40m
Self-driving cars could be a massive source of global carbon emissions
Jan 17, 2023 • 49m
Getting online in Ukraine’s blackouts
Jan 10, 2023 • 41m
Agritech Special Edition
Jan 3, 2023 • 42m
The Tech of 2022
Dec 27, 2022 • 41m
Eight million SIMs blocked in Ghana
Dec 20, 2022 • 43m
Shopee in Thailand – is it safe?
Dec 13, 2022 • 45m
Predicting cyclones with mobiles
Dec 6, 2022 • 41m
Robots that can assemble almost anything.
Dec 1, 2022 • 42m
Twitter – what next?
Nov 22, 2022 • 36m
The Open Internet for Africa
Nov 15, 2022 • 36m
Controlling protesters in Iran via phones
Nov 8, 2022 • 41m
The Twitter takeover
Nov 1, 2022 • 40m
Chip exports and US-China relations
Oct 25, 2022 • 44m
5bn mobile phones to become waste in 2022
Oct 18, 2022 • 40m
Internet under attack in Ukraine
Oct 11, 2022 • 42m
Pandemic pushes women online
Oct 4, 2022 • 39m
Tiny robots cure mice with deadly pneumonia
Sep 27, 2022 • 46m
Gamification – does making things fun work?
Sep 20, 2022 • 30m
Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected
Sep 13, 2022 • 31m
Happy birthday Digital Planet!
Sep 6, 2022 • 58m
Inoculation videos against misinformation
Aug 30, 2022 • 43m
India’s cyber scam scourge
Aug 23, 2022 • 45m
Misinformation on the midterms on social media
Aug 16, 2022 • 36m
How Nancy Pelosi’s flight was tracked
Aug 9, 2022 • 37m
Is disability tech delivering?
Aug 2, 2022 • 36m
Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account
Jul 26, 2022 • 41m
Self-driving cars on the horizon?
Jul 19, 2022 • 40m
Are internet shutdowns evolving?
Jul 12, 2022 • 35m
Deepfake calls to European mayors?
Jul 5, 2022 • 37m
What’s the deal with the metaverse?
Jun 28, 2022 • 37m
Japan tackles online insults
Jun 21, 2022 • 43m
Archiving music in glass
Jun 14, 2022 • 39m
Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected
Jun 7, 2022 • 34m
Data-driven football
May 31, 2022 • 35m
Detecting earthquakes with seafloor internet cables
May 24, 2022 • 43m
Reclaiming African art in digital form
May 18, 2022 • 40m
North Korean digital control
May 10, 2022 • 45m
Electric road trip on Jersey
May 3, 2022 • 34m
Can we predict Twitter’s future?
Apr 26, 2022 • 47m
Audio beats - the new digital drugs?
Apr 19, 2022 • 46m
Africa’s first cyber-security declaration
Apr 12, 2022 • 44m
Robot boat to survey Tonga volcano
Apr 5, 2022 • 53m
Facial recognition identifies dead Russian soldiers
Mar 29, 2022 • 47m
Splinternet Risks
Mar 22, 2022 • 37m
Calls for facial recognition tech ban on Brazilian metro
Mar 15, 2022 • 44m
Tracking Russian disinformation and propaganda sites
Mar 8, 2022 • 38m
Ukraine’s massive global tech presence
Mar 1, 2022 • 44m
The bionic eye that’s obsolete
Feb 22, 2022 • 44m
India to launch digital rupee
Feb 15, 2022 • 48m
Tonga internet satellite kit deployed
Feb 8, 2022 • 52m
First-ever unassisted robotic surgery
Feb 1, 2022 • 43m
Internet connectivity still patchy in Tonga
Jan 25, 2022 • 43m
Twitter returns to Nigeria
Jan 18, 2022 • 46m
Robots under the Thwaites Glacier
Jan 12, 2022 • 44m
Afrofuturism and tech innovation
Jan 4, 2022 • 44m
A tech review of 2021
Dec 28, 2021 • 49m
The Internet Archive is 25!
Dec 21, 2021 • 43m
Brazil: Where is all the Covid data?
Dec 14, 2021 • 37m
Mobile phones not always beneficial to displaced people
Dec 7, 2021 • 47m
PIX instant payment limits to reduce kidnappings
Nov 30, 2021 • 42m
Smart speakers used in gaslighting
Nov 23, 2021 • 45m
Distress of TikTok fake school accounts
Nov 16, 2021 • 45m
Blockchain’s e-waste a growing problem
Nov 9, 2021 • 43m
How green is our data?
Nov 2, 2021 • 47m
Online safety laws
Oct 26, 2021 • 38m
Women's safety online
Oct 19, 2021 • 44m
Economic cost of the digital gender gap
Oct 12, 2021 • 45m
Census goes digital in India
Oct 5, 2021 • 45m
Spyware threatening independent media
Sep 28, 2021 • 42m
Can AI predict Arctic ice loss?
Sep 21, 2021 • 43m
Tech on the island of Jersey
Sep 14, 2021 • 44m
The Children’s Code protecting kids online
Sep 7, 2021 • 42m
Digital us
Aug 31, 2021 • 47m
Why the Taliban love social media
Aug 24, 2021 • 46m
Uganda, too much surveillance?
Aug 17, 2021 • 43m
Brazil’s Data Protection Law comes into force
Aug 10, 2021 • 42m
How Jersey is leading tech development
Aug 3, 2021 • 46m
IoT saves driver after kidnapping in Mexico
Jul 27, 2021 • 36m
Internet shutdowns in Latin America
Jul 20, 2021 • 47m
Fighting for the right to repair
Jul 13, 2021 • 42m
Big tech platforms to protect women online
Jul 6, 2021 • 45m
YouTube’s rules silencing human rights activists
Jun 29, 2021 • 42m
Bias in AI – what next?
Jun 22, 2021 • 41m
Bitcoin’s environmental cost
Jun 15, 2021 • 46m
NFT? That’ll do nicely
Jun 8, 2021 • 37m
WhatsApp v Indian government
Jun 1, 2021 • 39m
The first African voice assistant
May 25, 2021 • 38m
WhatsAppening with pandemic misinformation?
May 18, 2021 • 42m
Urgent calls for mandatory recycling of e-waste
May 11, 2021 • 48m
Tech does not impact teenage mental health
May 4, 2021 • 35m
Indians tweeting for oxygen
Apr 27, 2021 • 46m
Malware on mobiles
Apr 20, 2021 • 47m
Overcoming internet shutdowns in Myanmar
Apr 13, 2021 • 42m
Phones sending data every 4.5 minutes
Apr 6, 2021 • 49m
China’s online restrictions increase
Mar 30, 2021 • 53m
AI chatbot takes witness statements
Mar 23, 2021 • 44m
Is Bitcoin energy use unsustainable?
Mar 16, 2021 • 43m
The cost of bias in AI fintech
Mar 9, 2021 • 39m
Will algorithms always be biased?
Mar 2, 2021 • 41m
Facebook reverses ban on news in Australia
Feb 23, 2021 • 50m
Comparing the landscape of Mars to Earth
Feb 16, 2021 • 43m
Wikipedia’s new universal code of conduct
Feb 9, 2021 • 42m
Internet shutdowns in Myanmar and India
Feb 2, 2021 • 44m
Loon Balloon internet deflated
Jan 26, 2021 • 48m
Online manipulation on a global scale
Jan 19, 2021 • 43m
Has tech been compromised in the US Capitol?
Jan 12, 2021 • 41m
Blindness in the digital age
Jan 5, 2021 • 40m
The best tech stories of 2020
Dec 29, 2020 • 43m
Solar grid brings power to Yemen
Dec 22, 2020 • 42m
Dispelling COVID-19 vaccine myths online
Dec 15, 2020 • 43m
Is the internet affordable where you live?
Dec 8, 2020 • 41m
Almost two-thirds of the world’s population now online
Dec 1, 2020 • 49m
Increase in stalkerware installations
Nov 24, 2020 • 43m
Video games can be good for you
Nov 17, 2020 • 45m
Voyager 2 contacted after seven months
Nov 10, 2020 • 45m
Who is most susceptible to fake news?
Nov 3, 2020 • 43m
Why do we vote with paper in the age of the smart phone?
Oct 27, 2020 • 41m
Go Viral! online game
Oct 20, 2020 • 42m
Predicting US elections results every hour
Oct 13, 2020 • 48m
Can AI predict criminal behaviour?
Oct 6, 2020 • 50m
Mapping Covid-19 to your phone
Sep 29, 2020 • 45m
Keeping the structure of the internet safe
Sep 22, 2020 • 50m
AI captain to sail the Atlantic
Sep 15, 2020 • 44m
Scammers scamming the scammers
Sep 8, 2020 • 38m
The fastest ever internet connection
Sep 1, 2020 • 44m
Hacking help for US Elections
Aug 25, 2020 • 45m
Algorithm apocalypse
Aug 18, 2020 • 43m
A year without internet in Kashmir
Aug 11, 2020 • 43m
Why India can’t work from home
Aug 4, 2020 • 46m
Tracking the trolls
Jul 28, 2020 • 42m
Covid 19: Mapping changing sentiment in tweets
Jul 21, 2020 • 42m
Ethiopia’s continuing online censorship
Jul 14, 2020 • 47m
Can we make the web a better space?
Jul 7, 2020 • 43m
Exploring digital death
Jun 30, 2020 • 47m
Nigerian internet land rights costs fall
Jun 23, 2020 • 50m
Is this the end of facial recognition tech?
Jun 16, 2020 • 47m
Algorithm activism – a new type of protest
Jun 9, 2020 • 48m
Digital exclusion in Brazil
Jun 2, 2020 • 45m
Hacking internet-enabled cars
May 26, 2020 • 42m
Testing EdTech
May 19, 2020 • 43m
Spain’s many COVID-19 apps
May 12, 2020 • 40m
Chinese mobile data predicts Covid-19 Spread
May 5, 2020 • 44m
Privacy concerns over contact tracing apps
Apr 28, 2020 • 44m
Could fitness trackers track COVID-19?
Apr 21, 2020 • 52m
Supercomputers seeking solutions for Covid-19
Apr 14, 2020 • 44m
Internet and journalist reporting freedom curtailed
Apr 7, 2020 • 42m
Covid-19 cyber attacks rise
Mar 31, 2020 • 40m
A digital tracker that monitors new surveillance
Mar 24, 2020 • 35m
Coronovirus tech handbook online
Mar 17, 2020 • 36m
Covid-19 makes tech events go virtual
Mar 10, 2020 • 43m
Will digital sobriety help reduce energy use?
Mar 3, 2020 • 35m
Ethiopia’s new law banning online hate speech
Feb 25, 2020 • 38m
Feminist chatbots
Feb 18, 2020 • 46m
Repairing Voyager 2
Feb 11, 2020 • 44m
Drones dealing with locust swarms
Feb 4, 2020 • 43m
Internet partially restored in Kashmir
Jan 28, 2020 • 33m
Internet shutdowns cost $8bn in 2019
Jan 21, 2020 • 45m
Tech tracking Australian fires
Jan 14, 2020 • 43m
South Africa power cuts
Jan 7, 2020 • 43m
Why is AI so far from perfect?
Dec 31, 2019 • 38m
Digital Planet’s 18th Birthday Show
Dec 24, 2019 • 29m
Improving crop yields with mobile phones
Dec 17, 2019 • 46m
New Phone in China? Scan your face…
Dec 10, 2019 • 42m
Humanitarian drone corridor in Africa
Dec 3, 2019 • 46m
Google bug bounty hunters
Nov 26, 2019 • 40m
Iran internet shutdown continues
Nov 19, 2019 • 38m
The digital gender divide
Nov 12, 2019 • 30m
Facebook Live on crime tech
Nov 5, 2019 • 36m
BBC News on the ‘dark web’
Oct 29, 2019 • 40m
Health of the Internet report
Oct 22, 2019 • 39m
First all African smartphone factory
Oct 15, 2019 • 40m
Iraq shuts down internet
Oct 8, 2019 • 43m
Mobile data costs falling globally
Oct 1, 2019 • 42m
Investigating marine accidents – sea tech latest
Sep 24, 2019 • 37m
The latest in disability tech
Sep 17, 2019 • 48m
Brain implant regulation calls
Sep 10, 2019 • 40m
Digital Planet’s 18th birthday show
Sep 3, 2019 • 57m
Brazilian fire monitoring in real time
Aug 27, 2019 • 38m
Harnessing tech during conflict
Aug 20, 2019 • 40m
Millions of Instagram users’ activity tracked
Aug 13, 2019 • 39m
Jakarta power cut - millions without electricity
Aug 6, 2019 • 43m
Chandrayaan-2: India’s moon landing
Jul 23, 2019 • 36m
Chinese surveillance app analysed by researchers
Jul 9, 2019 • 40m
Tax on connectivity in Africa
Jun 25, 2019 • 41m
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