Tech Life

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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Recent Episodes
  • The impact of online abuse
    May 13, 2025 – 26:29
  • What you don’t see
    May 6, 2025 – 26:29
  • Weighing the world's forests
    Apr 29, 2025 – 26:29
  • Talking dolphin
    Apr 22, 2025 – 26:29
  • AI discrimination
    Apr 15, 2025 – 26:29
  • Beyond the tip of the iceberg
    Apr 8, 2025 – 26:29
  • Jamming and spoofing
    Apr 1, 2025 – 26:29
  • Living life with a mind-reading chip
    Mar 25, 2025 – 26:29
  • Archiving achievement
    Mar 18, 2025 – 26:29
  • Surviving digital banking outages
    Mar 11, 2025 – 26:29
  • The doctor will see you now
    Mar 4, 2025 – 26:29
  • Could AI pick the next James Bond?
    Feb 25, 2025 – 26:29
  • Human life under the oceans
    Feb 18, 2025 – 26:29
  • Decoding the brain
    Feb 11, 2025 – 26:29
  • China's AI world
    Feb 4, 2025 – 26:29
  • Not as dead as a dodo?
    Jan 28, 2025 – 26:28
  • VPNs and India
    Jan 21, 2025 – 26:29
  • Trust and verify
    Jan 14, 2025 – 26:29
  • A glimpse into the future of tech
    Jan 7, 2025 – 26:29
  • Tech Life looks forward to 2025
    Dec 31, 2024 – 26:29
  • Tech Life's look back at the year
    Dec 24, 2024 – 26:29
  • Does the robotaxi have a future?
    Dec 17, 2024 – 26:29
  • Cyber warfare
    Dec 10, 2024 – 26:29
  • How green is AI?
    Dec 3, 2024 – 26:29
  • Tiger trackers used to spy on women
    Nov 26, 2024 – 26:28
  • Donald Trump’s robodogs
    Nov 19, 2024 – 26:28
  • The dangerous job of online moderating
    Nov 12, 2024 – 26:29
  • Is this show fake?
    Nov 5, 2024 – 26:28
  • The fall of a global chip maker
    Oct 29, 2024 – 26:29
  • Do you use artificial intelligence at work ?
    Oct 22, 2024 – 26:29
  • The minerals tech can't do without
    Oct 15, 2024 – 26:29
  • Big data and femtech
    Oct 8, 2024 – 26:29
  • The big business of online charity donations
    Oct 1, 2024 – 26:29
  • Will AI replace call centre workers?
    Sep 24, 2024 – 26:29
  • Online maps
    Sep 17, 2024 – 26:29
  • X in Brazil
    Sep 10, 2024 – 26:28
  • When civil war breaks out
    Sep 3, 2024 – 26:28
  • The voice cloning lawsuit
    Aug 27, 2024 – 26:29
  • Artificial intelligence helps doctors detect lung cancer
    Aug 20, 2024 – 26:29
  • The Olympic esports games and Saudi Arabia
    Aug 13, 2024 – 26:29
  • Turning the tables on online romance scammers
    Aug 6, 2024 – 26:29
  • When the power goes
    Jul 30, 2024 – 26:29
  • Turning the racetrack electric
    Jul 23, 2024 – 26:29
  • Tech at the Olympics
    Jul 16, 2024 – 26:28
  • Tech that refuses to die
    Jul 9, 2024 – 26:28
  • If we could talk to the animals
    Jul 2, 2024 – 26:28
  • Detecting cancer using artificial intelligence
    Jun 25, 2024 – 26:29
  • Bionic arms and robotic thumbs
    Jun 18, 2024 – 26:28
  • Helping our animal friends
    Jun 11, 2024 – 26:29
  • Dating a chatbot
    Jun 4, 2024 – 26:28
Recent Reviews
  • (Mario500)
    A Review of "Tech Tent"
    I had found what I had believed to had been certain recordings and certain broadcasts of what I had believed to had been this "Tech Tent" to had been interesting, informative, enjoyable, and pleasant (for example, they did not have language I would describe as vulgar or profane).
  • SAARKÉSH
    Twitter matters
    Too much hype over a messaging platform which has been primarily used for manipulation of markets & market players including Mr Musk! He needs it as a main “communication” conduit but is it worth as much as the offered price? Nah! Twitter, in it’s current state is a teenage “playground” at best. The offer needs to shrink by 48% to make it a viable basis for more interesting possibilities… but money is not everything! Time and vision is! Mr musk is too busy to be able to take it there 💎
  • Mantis79
    Good, but another biased BBC podcast
    I enjoy listening, but you have to try to not pay attention to the obvious bias against anything conservative, the spin is real.
  • armanbn
    Not better than a superficial chit chat
    Since years I’ve been listening to the Tech Tent podcast from the BBC. I have just unsubscribed from this podcast after the last episode, because for me it was the last drop seeing the decline of the quality of the podcast. The lack of quality in the information provided is unbelievable and the guests on the show together with the moderator are just having a very superficial chit chat about important topics in the tech industry. The level of this chat and information provided would not hold scrutiny in journalism of the standards BBC usually sets in politics and economy. The last episode with a discussion about passwords provided no proper information about how to be safe online - suggesting that even the moderators are not using safe password is extraordinarily careless. The moderator asks if there are better solutions to password managers, but instead of listing a number of alternatives such as FIDO2 or others, the moderators conclude that there are none and let’s just continue happily as before. This is gross negligence for me. Good bye Tech Tent!
  • Solitaire Gal
    Five Star Tech News
    The BBC’s Tech Tent never ceases to amaze me! Regular corners and unfamiliar nooks and crannies are discussed each week! Excellent diversity, covering tech happenings worldwide!! I am positive you’ll live this podcast all about technology!
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