India's high speed broadband revolution
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On Tech Tent this week, we hear about India's ambitions to build the world's fastest 5G network - and why WhatsApp is launching a grocery shopping service there. British regulators take a dim view of Microsoft's plan to buy Activision Blizzard. We ask young people what the appeal of BeReal is. And we meet the talking, humanoid robot helping children open up about how they really feel.
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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. the new series of the |
| 0:22.7 | infinite monkey cage listen on radio four and BBC sounds welcome to tech tent with me |
| 0:33.8 | shona mccallum in a moment we'll be talking about plans for the world's biggest |
| 0:38.7 | 5G network. Also in this edition of the program, we'll hear while UK regulators are concerned |
| 0:45.3 | about the most expensive gaming deal in history. Might robots be the key to getting children |
| 0:50.8 | to open up about how they're feeling and we'll be finding out why |
| 0:54.5 | they established social media platforms are trying to copy the new kid on the block, Be Real. |
| 1:00.6 | The curated, aspirational, performative elements that in a lot of ways have been mocked in popular |
| 1:06.4 | culture are what Be Real is distancing itself from. |
| 1:13.8 | But we start this week in India, |
| 1:16.6 | talking about the largest company in the country, |
| 1:19.8 | Reliance Industries. |
| 1:21.8 | The businesses in the conglomerate include energy, |
| 1:24.4 | petrochemicals, natural gas, retail, communications, media and textiles. |
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