The great Twitter hack
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Hackers take over accounts belonging to famous names including Joe Biden and Barack Obama after breaching Twitter’s security. Plus, the UK bans telecoms firms from buying new equipment from the Chinese giant Huawei. And we find out about robots with a sensitive touch. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporters Jane Wakefield and Joe Tidy. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: A night shot of the Twitter HQ in San Francisco, Credit: JOSH EDELSON/ AFP/ Getty Images).
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| 0:43.7 | technology business. I'm Rory Kathleen Jones and this week the great Twitter hack. Just how |
| 0:49.1 | worrying is it that the platform used by world leaders to make major policy announcements can be hijacked so easily. |
| 0:56.5 | As the UK bans Huawei from any involvement in its 5G network, we ask who in the telecoms market |
| 1:02.4 | stands to benefit if the Chinese firm is forced out elsewhere too. And we find out what a |
| 1:08.7 | neuromorphic chip is and how it can help a robot to get all touchy-feely. |
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