Summary
Will a digital means of showing you’ve been immunised be the passport to living normal everyday life? Plus, what does China’s new law banning the export of goods deemed important for national security mean for Western tech giants? And we attend Web Summit - virtually - to consider whether the future of giant conferences is online. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: A health worker processes a sample for a Covid test in New Delhi, India. Credit: EPA/ RAJAT GUPTA).
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| 0:49.8 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly essential guide to all the biggest news from the technology business. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Rory Kethlyn Jones, and this week, as the first coronavirus vaccine gets approved, |
| 1:01.7 | we may all soon be carrying digital records to prove that we have been vaccinated, or will we? |
| 1:07.9 | We hear why immunity passports raise all sorts of concerns. China fires back in |
| 1:14.1 | its trade war with the US. Will it mean Western tech firms struggle to get the components they need? |
| 1:19.8 | And we virtually visit one of the biggest tech conferences of the year, the Web Summit. It's happening |
| 1:25.1 | online and we'll assess how that compares with a real world event. Joining me this week is BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Hi Jane. I think you've |
| 1:33.4 | had a pretty busy week, haven't you? I have. I've been mingling. And I know that sounds |
| 1:37.7 | terribly irresponsible in the middle of a global pandemic, but I'll explain how it wasn't |
| 1:42.6 | at all later on. |
| 1:47.7 | We'll look forward to that. Here's a taste of what's coming up. |
| 1:53.7 | Russia, Estonia, Japan, France, they're getting into the rare earth space, but so far it's only China that can actually manufacture and process these rare earths. |
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