A major chip deal collapses
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Chip maker Arm won't be bought by Nvidia after all. Jane Wakefield speaks to the new Arm CEO Rene Haas about the future for the UK firm. Plus the BBC's James Clayton in Silicon Valley tells us about the sexual content evading the moderators on children's gaming platform Roblox, and the challenges of policing the nascent metaverse. And Pete Snyder from the privacy-focused web browser Brave discusses the prospect of an internet without cookies.
(Photo: Arm logo, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello, this is TechTent from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Jane Wakefield, and on today's show, we're talking about the |
| 0:38.8 | collapse of a major deal in the computer chip world, abuse and harassment in the metaverse and the |
| 0:44.4 | trouble with cookies. Shona McCallum is with me. Shona, what else are we going to be talking about |
| 0:49.5 | today? Yeah, lots of other stories this week, including age verification of pornography sites in the UK |
| 0:55.8 | and Samsung phones with parts made from fishing nets. |
| 1:00.0 | Sounds good. Here's a taste of what's coming up. |
| 1:03.2 | You can take your clothes off in these rooms. You can swear, you can talk about sex. |
| 1:07.6 | Privacy is a human right that's morally reprehensible that people collect all this |
| 1:11.3 | information about them without their consent. The most vulnerable users are maybe going to have to |
| 1:15.8 | bear the brunt of the learning curve of these companies. First, it was supposed to be the biggest |
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