Is the cryptocurrency bubble bursting?
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week Tech Tent takes the temperature of the crypto market with the BBC's cyber reporter Joe Tidy and the Financial Times' Markets Editor, Katie Martin. Dr Johnny Ryan from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties on how our personal data is sold hundreds of times a day; and Rebecca Romo Teague, a radio host from Cape Cod, on how social media is helping with the US baby formula milk crisis.
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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. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, it's time for TechTents, the show where we chew over the week's top tech news. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Zoe Kleinman. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm the BBC's tech editor. |
| 0:36.8 | And joining me this week to try to make |
| 0:38.6 | sense of it all is the BBC's cyber reporter Joe Tydy. Hi Joe. This week we're tackling crypto, |
| 0:44.3 | digital ads, the US baby formula milk shortage and I have a little quiz for you, Joe, at the end, |
| 0:50.3 | to see if you've been paying enough attention to a certain soap opera involving a multi-billionaire |
| 0:55.2 | and a social network. |
| 0:56.6 | I'll get revising. |
| 0:57.5 | You better had. |
| 1:01.8 | But first, yes, we're going to go there. |
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