Microsoft vows to go 'carbon negative'
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The tech giant behind Windows and Office promises to remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975. Plus, is tracking for digital ads out of control? And we hear about a new BBC podcast in which teenagers interview technology pioneers. Presented by Jane Wakefield, with BBC tech reporter Chris Fox, and special guest Catherine Stihler, chief executive of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation. Produced by Jat Gill.
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| 0:49.6 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly update on the hottest technology stories. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Jane Wakefield, standing in for Rory Keflin Jones, and he's missing a big day, because today it's our sixth birthday. |
| 1:02.9 | And joining me on this auspicious day is my colleague, Chris Fox. |
| 1:06.4 | What are you going to be talking about today, Chris? |
| 1:08.4 | We're here to talk about Microsoft's efforts to become carbon negative. |
| 1:12.9 | And with us from Edinburgh is Catherine Stiler, a former member of the European Parliament |
| 1:18.0 | and now Chief Executive of the Open Knowledge Foundation. |
| 1:21.5 | Hi, Catherine. |
| 1:22.3 | Hello, happy birthday. |
| 1:23.6 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:25.5 | Now, we've got a packed programme today, and here's a little taste of what's coming up. |
| 1:30.0 | Our investigation show that many companies that we've never heard of are directly embedded into the apps and receive quite a lot of sensitive information. |
| 1:38.3 | One generation is the one who came up with the idea, didn't know if it was going to work, it was a risk and then the other one, |
| 1:45.0 | they haven't known life without this invention. |
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