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Sagrada Família: Can tech complete the build of the basilica?

How technology will help complete the original design of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Família

• 26 mins

Fleeing Saudi women tracked by mobiles

Fleeing Saudi women are being tracked by unique codes on their mobiles

• 26 mins

Tax on connectivity in Africa

Online access down as some African countries impose connectivity tax

• 26 mins

Declaration of digital independence

Declaration of digital independence – a call to boycott social media for two days

• 26 mins

Chinese surveillance app analysed by researchers

Travellers to China forced to install a surveillance app. Researchers have broken into it

• 40 mins

Kenya Special: A decade on

Digital Planet re-visits Kenya 10 years after the submarine broadband cable was connected

• 26 mins

Chandrayaan-2: India’s moon landing

India has sent a rover and orbiter to the moon. We look at the tech driving it.

• 36 mins

Not-so anonymised data

Is anonymous data really anonymous enough?

• 26 mins

Jakarta power cut - millions without electricity

Jakarta power cut - millions without electricity but why could the grid not cope?

• 26 mins

Millions of Instagram users’ activity tracked

Millions of Instagram users’ activity tracked by marketing firm

• 39 mins

Harnessing tech during conflict

Harnessing tech during conflict; why accounts have been removed by Twitter and Facebook.

• 40 mins

Brazilian fire monitoring in real time

How Brazilian space scientists are monitoring the Amazonian fires in space in real time

• 38 mins

Digital Planet’s 18th birthday show

A special show from the BBC Radio Theatre to celebrate Digital Planet’s 18th birthday

• 57 mins

Brain implant regulation calls

The UK’s Royal Society on the future of the ethics and applications of brain implants

• 40 mins

The latest in disability tech

Technology is changing disabled people’s lives but is it being used as much as it could?

• 48 mins

Investigating marine accidents – sea tech latest

The latest on sea tech from the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch

• 37 mins

Mobile data costs falling globally

Mobile data costs are falling in low and middle income countries according to new data

• 42 mins

Iraq shuts down internet

The Iraq government continues its shutdown of the internet.

• 43 mins

First all African smartphone factory

The first smartphone factory opens in Rwanda building smartphones from scratch.

• 40 mins

Health of the Internet report

Mozilla’s solutions to improve the health of the internet.

• 39 mins

BBC News on the ‘dark web’

BBC’s international news is now available through the privacy-focused browser Tor

• 40 mins

Facebook Live on crime tech

We discuss digital forensics and facial recognition on our Facebook Live

• 36 mins

The digital gender divide

The UN's ITU reports a widening gap in the number of women and men who are online.

• 30 mins

Iran internet shutdown continues

The shutdown of the internet in Iran continues as do the protests against fuel price rises

• 38 mins

Google bug bounty hunters

Google is offering up to $1.5m to anyone who can identify bugs in its new chip

• 40 mins

Humanitarian drone corridor in Africa

The first humanitarian drone corridor has opened in West Arica.

• 46 mins

New Phone in China? Scan your face…

China makes face recognition compulsory for cell phone users

• 42 mins

Improving crop yields with mobile phones

Mobile phones are improving lives and yields for millions of farmers around the world.

• 26 mins

Digital Planet’s 18th Birthday Show

We return to our special 18th birthday show from the BBC Radio Theatre.

• 26 mins

Why is AI so far from perfect?

Why is AI so far from perfect and what can be done to improve it?

• 38 mins