Tracking giraffes
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What connects the Chinese government, giraffes in Namibia, and tech ? We bring you the strange tale of how one social media message went viral. Also in this edition of Tech Life, Shiona McCallum meets a smart robotic guide dog. And bringing cyber-security to girls in Africa - meet the woman making it happen.
(Photo: A giraffe eating leaves from high branches. Credit: Michael B. Brown/Giraffe Conservation Foundation)
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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. |
| 0:28.0 | In 1969, a plan to show support for an anti-racism protest |
| 0:32.3 | turned the lives of 14 promising black student athletes upside down. |
| 0:38.0 | Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service tells their story. |
| 0:42.4 | Search for amazing sports stories wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:46.8 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about technology making an impact on your life. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm Shona McCallum and this week we're looking at the social media post that caused a stir in China |
| 0:58.6 | and led us to Namibia to learn about technology's role in protecting giraffes. |
| 1:04.3 | You can hear about that in a moment. |
| 1:06.4 | I meet a smart robotic guide dog which could help blind and partially sighted people |
| 1:10.7 | and how to bring cyber security |
| 1:12.7 | to girls in Africa with music. |
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