Apple wins privacy row, and microbes dictate chocolate taste
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All engine running. |
| 0:03.1 | Absolutely genius. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:05.9 | This is the show where we bring you science. |
| 0:07.7 | What that essentially means is. |
| 0:09.3 | Discovery is advances. |
| 0:10.2 | Research. |
| 0:11.5 | Technology. |
| 0:12.4 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:13.4 | Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientist podcast, the program where we bring you the biggest |
| 0:21.8 | breakthroughs and talk to the major movers and shakers in the worlds of science, technology, and medicine. |
| 0:27.1 | With me, Chris Smith. |
| 0:28.9 | Coming up, Apple locked horns with the UK government who were demanding a security backdoor |
| 0:33.8 | through the company's encryption. |
| 0:35.7 | So what was the outcome? |
| 0:37.3 | Also, scientists discover the secret of the tastiest chocolate. |
| 0:41.5 | It is all down to microbes, and we'll hear how. |
| 0:44.9 | And archaeologists uncover the earliest evidence yet of our ancestors using stone tools. |
| 1:05.2 | Up first this week, the UK government has backed down on its controversial demands to be allowed access to the most secure customer data on Apple's ICloud service. |
| 1:10.0 | So says US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard. Apple offers users |
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