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Babbage: Opening up

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The Economist

News & Politics, News

4.44.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tech firm Microsoft has announced plans to embrace open data. Jeni Tennison, from Britain’s Open Data Institute, says it marks a milestone in the way big companies share data. Also, could mass testing for covid-19 provide a way out of the global lockdown? And, what is causing the worst drought in over 1,000 years in the south-west of the United States? Kenneth Cukier hosts 

 

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0:00.0

But lots of parents having helpful discussions with kids about online safety can be tricky.

0:06.0

To help, Google and digital parenting experts, parents on,

0:10.0

have put together a list of simple topics you can chat about with your child to kick start the conversation.

0:16.0

Questions like, what shouldn't you share online?

0:19.0

Or how much screen time is too much?

0:21.0

It can be a great way to find a healthier balance for your family online, together.

0:26.0

Head to families.google today.

0:31.0

Microsoft has joined the campaign for Open Data.

0:34.0

But will it make a difference?

0:36.0

Hello and welcome to Babbage from Economist Radio, our weekly podcast on technology and science.

0:41.0

I'm Kenneth Cuckier, a senior editor at the Economist.

0:44.0

Also coming up on today's show,

0:47.0

we'll mass testing allow countries to open up.

0:51.0

If you get the testing and tracing right, then you don't have to bounce in and out of lockdown every few months,

0:57.0

and you don't have to have people die.

1:00.0

And why America's Southwest is prone to droughts on a mega scale?

1:05.0

You have the conditions set up right now for a natural drought.

1:10.0

And you have to have people die.

1:12.0

And why America's Southwest is prone to droughts on a mega scale?

1:17.0

The conditions set up right now for a natural drought.

1:21.0

But it's made much, much worse.

1:23.0

It's sort of tipped over into this mega drought scale by greenhouse gas emissions.

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