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What’s the deal with the #Metaverse? This week we have @CathyHackl Colin Harvey & our very own Ghislaine Boddington in the #studio to discuss what it is and where it’s going. Plus Chris Berrow 💙 𝕏 is in the #Metaverse & reports from AltspaceVR. #VirtualWorlds bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

This week: Can #grassroots #data hold the powerful to account? Crimes #UkraineWar Charlotte Godart Bellingcat The Intel Crab COUPSURE Evergreen Intel. #GUNviolence in #Brazil Cecília Olliveira Instituto Fogo Cruzado Angelica Mari. #Eco activism in #China Ma Jun & blue map app. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

What to do about #misinformation on the #US #Midterms2022 online? Emma Woollacott Forbes on #Twitter Tiffany Hsu The New York Times on #TikTok. Bill Thompson on #Facebook handing over messages as evidence and the unintended impact of #satellites with Jane Chambers bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

This week: Mimansa talks #digital #scams in #India, Ghislaine Boddington on ultrasound stickers that monitor your body 24/7, and Mark McCaughrean European Space Agency shares what to expect from his upcoming NASA Webb Telescope observations bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Can you #inoculate people against #misinfomation? Research in Science Advances suggests it's possible @roozenbot Cambridge University Beth Goldberg Jigsaw explain. Also major #databreaches in #Indonesia with astudestra ajeng and #robotic dogs: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Microrobots cure deadly pneumonia in mice Joe Wang UC San Diego Nature Materials. When + why can #internetshutdowns occur in #India? SFLC.in MishiChoudhary Emma Woollacott and Hannah Fisher visits the UK's first @NRobotarium bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

This week; #Ukraine #missile strikes destroying #power infrastructure cause internet #blackouts Alp Toker NetBlocks. Boom in #mobilemoney #Somalia, getting aid to rural drought hit areas Tom Collins Abdinur Ali Mohamed, PhD and Bill Thompson conjuring up the #metaverse bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

A web programme that allows #Iran authorities to track protestors by changing #network coverage Sam Biddle The Intercept. Also Europol on policing the #Metaverse with Emma Woollacott + artist Holly Herndon explains the tech behind Holly+ new single bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

What might happen with #twitter? Bill Thompson + what you should do now + Angelica Mari on the impact in #Brazil. Dave "Someone you trust is one of us" Birch analysing #Pixpayments 2 years from launch. What's new in WhatsApp + could #gaming be good for the #brain? Chris Berrow 💙 𝕏 bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

This week #robots that can build themselves Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Bits & Atoms, war on words on #Wikipedia Shiroma Silva reports and #AI used in predicting #suicide - does it work and could it do more harm than good? bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Customers of Shopee Thailand say money missing from bank accounts wo authorisation, company stops bank transfer payments, but say #phishing #scams to blame. #facialrecognition plans dropped in Sao Paulo + #3Dprinted violins for $7USD with Mary-Elizabeth Brown. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

More than 8m unregistered SIM cards are blocked in Ghana Thomas Naadi explains. USC Laboratory for Living Systems Engineering Megan Rexius-Hall USC BME USC Viterbi School create a #heart attack on a chip to better treat patients + could it be the end of hard copy games? Chris Berrow 💙 𝕏 reports. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Listener Volodymyr Bielikov tells us how he gets #online in #Ukraine during #poweroutages. Also #AI created #avatars undressed + #virtual employees Ghislaine Boddington Evelyn Cheng CNBC + age verification with #AI, reporter Shiroma Silva checks out Yoti bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

Computers in self-driving cars could produce similar amounts of greenhouse gases to data centres Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) IEEE Xplore @soumya_sudhakar. How to fix Brazil’s antisocial media Bruna Martins dos Santos Angelica Mari and getting South Africa connected Rani Singh reports: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

The app that’s helping spot enemy drones in #Ukriane. Landslides + floods in #Brazil - could the country’s #supercomputers have provided better weather predictions w. Angelica Mari? And citizen tech in #Taiwan tackling illegal factories Shiroma Silva bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

We look at #biometrics this week. We are using fingerprints and #facialrecognition to access our banking, work emails and healthcare systems. But who is in control of our digital identity? With Dr Stephanie Hare BBC’s Howard Zhang and @alicelthwaite bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

.Jimmy Wales on bots and #Wikipedia slowdowns. 6G – what we can expect and when, and #computer labs for schoolchildren in rural #Kenya w. Wairimu Gitahi In the #pod: what really happened to Gareth_Mitchell’s keyfob under that #TV transmitter: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

From BBC Radio 3, Matthew Sweet hits you in the gut with a disgusting edition of BBC Free Thinking with Elsa Richardson,Brendan McGeever and Michael Marshall @mrmmarsh.bsk.social - but why the bottle of wine? listen to find out bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

AI - could it be our digital friend? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…