Berlin’s tech bounceback
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Rory Cellan-Jones visits the German capital Berlin to see how the tech sector is faring post-lockdown. Plus how TikTok has been struggling to remove a disturbing suicide video. And we discover the games tech being used to create virtual art galleries. With BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: An employee wearing a face mask sets up smartphones at the IFA tech fair in Berlin, Sept 2020. Credit: Michele Tantussi/ Reuters).
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| 0:43.6 | business. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week a special report from the German capital |
| 0:48.6 | Berlin, which staged the first major tech event, albeit on a small scale, since the global pandemic began. |
| 0:56.8 | And tech startups are returning to their offices. So what can we learn from them about a return |
| 1:02.3 | to normality? We're getting sadly accustomed to horrific events being streamed on social media. |
| 1:08.2 | One mother tells us how her daughter was traumatised by a video |
| 1:11.4 | and calls for faster action from the companies. And art as a game, the app that lets you build |
| 1:17.8 | your own art gallery. Joining me to chew over all of those stories and more is BBC technology |
| 1:23.8 | reporter Jane Wilkfield. Janeer, what you've been up to this week? So it's been another |
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