Smarter workplaces after lockdown ends
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
How tech will help to get people back to work safely. Plus, the UK’s Covid-19 contact tracking app begins trials. And how to get started making hardware projects at home including an automated cocktail mixer. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Man in a suit looking at his smartphone in front of a modern building. Credit: 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. |
| 0:28.4 | Thanks for downloading TechTent from the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:38.9 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your weekly guide to all the hottest news and trends from |
| 0:43.4 | the technology industry. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Rory Kathleen Jones, and this week is one of the biggest exercises in using a smartphone |
| 0:49.5 | app to trace people with the coronavirus gets underway in the UK. |
| 0:53.9 | We ask whether anyone has yet shown they have the technology to make this work. |
| 0:58.3 | As countries begin to think about a cautious return to work, we find out how offices may have to be transformed with technology to protect people and encourage social distancing. |
| 1:08.4 | And a voice-operated cocktail mixer. Just one of the tech hardware projects people |
| 1:13.7 | have been building at home. With me to help in this heady mix of stories is BBC technology |
| 1:19.1 | reporter Jane Wakefield. Hi Jane. Hello, Rory. I see you're in your kitchen again. How's that going? |
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