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Hello. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello and welcome to TechTent. Zoe's off. Everyone's off. So you got me, Spencer Kelly from Click

Off the Tele, but nobody panicked. We'll get through it together. I'm also breaking in our brand

new studio. TechTent now has a permanent new home in Glasgow.

So nobody spill anything, whatever you do.

And this week, I've been getting stuck into some proper comedy just down the road in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh,

where I've been finding out how tech is reshaping its world-famous fringe festival.

Also this week, China has demanded its biggest tech firms hand over their most closely guarded data.

We'll ask why.

And it's the most unusual Q&A session we've heard for a while.

A British woman has been able to answer questions from her family at her own funeral.

So, a bit of comedy, bit of tragedy.

But first, many big cultural events are back on after a couple of years of being off,

or at least online only, thanks to the pandemic.

Just down the road from us, the Edinburgh Fringe has thrown open its doors to the public

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