Digital Planet Podcast
Technological and digital news from around the world.
Episodes to download
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Facebook reverses ban on news in Australia
Last Tuesday
Facebook announces that it will restore and pay for news content in Australia
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Comparing the landscape of Mars to Earth
Tue 16 Feb 2021
A new perspective: comparing corresponding locations on Earth and the Red Planet
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Wikipedia’s new universal code of conduct
Tue 9 Feb 2021
Will Wikipedia’s new universal code of conduct undermine the site’s grassroots?
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Internet shutdowns in Myanmar and India
Tue 2 Feb 2021
Myanmar internet connectivity returning but shutdown continues in India.
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Loon Balloon internet deflated
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Google’s Loon Balloon internet connectivity project has been dropped.
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Online manipulation on a global scale
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Social media manipulation is now an industrial scale problem worldwide, says a new report.
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Has tech been compromised in the US Capitol?
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Has tech been compromised during the storming of the US Capitol?
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The best tech stories of 2020
Tue 29 Dec 2020
The best tech of 2020 including Kivuwatt, internet shutdowns and digital death.
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Dispelling COVID-19 vaccine myths online
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Dispelling COVID-19 vaccine myths online – should social media platforms be doing more?
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Is the internet affordable where you live?
Tue 8 Dec 2020
Is the internet affordable where you live – prices fall by half in 5 years, says report.
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Almost two-thirds of the world’s population now online
Tue 1 Dec 2020
Almost two-thirds of the world’s population is online according to a new report.
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Increase in stalkerware installations
Tue 24 Nov 2020
Stalkerware use - software that tracks a user’s device without their consent - is rising.
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Video games can be good for you
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Playing video games is positively linked with wellbeing according to new research.
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Voyager 2 contacted after seven months
Tue 10 Nov 2020
The Voyager 2 spacecraft has been contacted after seven months of radio silence.
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Who is most susceptible to fake news?
Tue 3 Nov 2020
Study into fake Covid-19 news shows Twitter is a fertile platform for conspiracy believers
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Why do we vote with paper in the age of the smart phone?
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Most voting in elections worldwide is done with paper ballots, and for good reason.
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Predicting US elections results every hour
Tue 13 Oct 2020
A new model predicts the US election result every hour using betting data
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Can AI predict criminal behaviour?
Tue 6 Oct 2020
Could AI algorithms really identify offenders? A number of schemes are scrapped in the US
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Mapping Covid-19 to your phone
Tue 29 Sep 2020
Google Maps has launched a new Covid-19 layer – but is it as accurate as it could be?
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Keeping the structure of the internet safe
Tue 22 Sep 2020
How do lockdowns and restrictions on the internet impact it’s stability globally?
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AI captain to sail the Atlantic
Tue 15 Sep 2020
A crewless ship is due to set sail across the Atlantic with an AI captain on board
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Scammers scamming the scammers
Tue 8 Sep 2020
How leaked conversations from online forums show credit card thieves conning each other.
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Algorithm apocalypse
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Analysing the UK government’s flawed formula used to predict children’s exam grades
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A year without internet in Kashmir
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Government restrictions mean a year of web restrictions for 15 million people in Kashmir
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Why India can’t work from home
Tue 4 Aug 2020
What the challenges of home-working mean during and after the pandemic in India.
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Tracking the trolls
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Machine learning can now spot online trolls, and help defend voters in future elections.
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Covid 19: Mapping changing sentiment in tweets
Tue 21 Jul 2020
From fear to anger and hope, millions of tweets reveal changing views on the pandemic
