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Hello and welcome to a special end of year tech life with me, Shona McCallum. As 2023 draws to a

close, we'll look back at another whirlwind 12 months in global tech as covered here on our

programme. And I'm delighted to be joined in the studio by Tech Life's

Alistair Keane. Hi, Shona. What a year it's been. Absolutely. Here's a little taste of what we've got

coming up. There's no point all of us sitting here going to destroy the world. Well, it's happening.

The sacrifices I made, I

sacrificed my human side

for the strong. I don't think you can give any more than your soul.

When the mobile money payments were disrupted,

it left a lot of Kenyans like myself stuck.

That night, a badger came in the garden,

and I was able to trigger the device

and the badger suspiciously ran away.

Okay, so there's one obvious place

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