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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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Tech Life looks at icebergs. Climate change means there are more of them in our oceans, breaking away and slowly melting. Scientists need to study them - but how ? We speak to an expert about robotic gliders, which are opening up new research opportunities.
Also in this edition, can we trust artificial intelligence ? One of its problems is that it hallucinates, so we find out more about it.
How can tech help people who are blind or partially sighted watch TV ?
And our reporter gets his hands dirty examining rhino poo!
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Presenter: Imran Rahman-Jones Producer: Tom Quinn Editor: Monica Soriano
(Image: A photograph of a robotic glider suspended above the water. Credit: Doctor Natasha Lucas)
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0:34.9 | check out BBC Sounds. Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the program about technology and how it affects the world all around us. |
0:44.9 | I'm Imran Rahman Jones and this week we're looking at icebergs. |
0:49.5 | Climate change means there are more of them in our oceans, breaking away and slowly melting. Scientists need |
0:56.6 | to study them, but how? We speak to an expert about a piece of kit opening up new research |
1:02.2 | opportunities. Can we trust artificial intelligence? One of its problems is that it hallucinates. |
1:10.1 | I'll be explaining what that's all about. |
1:12.7 | We find out about the tech that's helping blind and partially sighted people |
1:17.0 | follow what's going on on TV shows, |
1:19.7 | and our reporter Alistair Keane gets his hands dirty, examining Rhino poo. |
1:43.2 | Music examining Rhino Poo. Last month, the world's largest iceberg ran aground in shallow waters off the remote island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. |
1:51.4 | And it's huge, about twice the size of London and weighing almost a trillion tonnes. |
1:57.5 | Scientists say it's packed full of nutrients which could create an explosion of life as it melts, |
2:02.6 | but at the same time smaller chunks might break off becoming hazards to passing ships. |
2:08.6 | As global warming affects the polar caps, how do you study a gigantic mass of ice floating in cold waters? |
2:15.6 | Well, experts have just published details of a research mission |
2:19.3 | that used underwater robotic gliders. They're torpedo-shaped devices with small wings and fitted |
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