Apple tries to build back the buzz
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On Tech Tent this week Silicon Valley reporter James Clayton joins us from Apple's new product launch in Cupertino, California. We hear from the British firm which is ahead of the pack when it comes to making satellite phones mainstream. We interview a senior figure at Cloudflare about the Kiwi Farms controversy. The co founder of an anti crypto conference tells us why he thinks the event was necessary. And art, made in the studio - with the help of some AI.
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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. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to TechTent with me, Zoe Kleinman. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm back and settled in now under our new virtual canvas here in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 0:39.1 | Mine isn't the only big comeback, of course. I'm in good company because this week Apple also threw open its doors for the first time in three years for its far-out event, held at its legendary round Building HQ in California. |
| 0:53.5 | It showed off some shiny new gadgets in that uniquely |
| 0:56.2 | Apple way and the BBC was there. Also this week, a notorious forum for hate speech, Kiwi Farms, |
| 1:03.2 | has been taken offline. We asked the company that protected it from cyber attacks whether it |
| 1:08.6 | should ever have been one of their clients. |
| 1:17.6 | The first ever anti-crypto conference and a first for us too. We make art on air with a little bit of help from AI. After being online only for the last three years because of the pandemic, |
| 1:26.4 | this week Apple's September event was back |
| 1:29.1 | with an audience invited into the hallowed Cappatino campus. |
| 1:33.3 | The entire presentation was still pre-recorded, though. |
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