Esports at the Commonwealth Games
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We meet the gamers vying for unofficial medals that the Commonwealth Games
Amazon warehouse workers in the UK protest
And we attempt a conversation with Meta's new chatbot
Plus as WhatsApp ditches an irksome feature we look at the new do's and don'ts in instant messaging
(Picture: Clive Rose/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.6 | This week, gamers at the Games. |
| 0:35.2 | After a pilot event in Birmingham, 2022, will esports appear at the next |
| 0:39.7 | games in 26. And from games to a game-changing update from WhatsApp around social media etiquette |
| 0:46.9 | or netiquet. We look at how everyday communication has changed thanks to apps. Plus, big tech |
| 0:53.9 | learns to talk. |
| 0:55.1 | As Facebook releases its chat bot, |
| 0:57.1 | we ponder the pros and cons of artificial conversation lists. |
| 1:00.9 | With me this week is our reporter Chris Valence. |
| 1:03.4 | Chris, what have you been looking at? |
| 1:04.5 | Amazon. |
| 1:05.3 | Shopping? |
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