US and China battle over tech
Tech Life
BBC
4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In a week of rising tension between US and China over trade we hear how some of China's biggest tech firms are caught in the cross-fire. And Rory Cellan-Jones asks why Apple has decided to take down a Hong Kong mapping app? As Ada Lovelace Day spreads around the world to celebrate women in science and tech, the BBC's Zoe Kleinman asks its founder whether conditions have actually improved since the movement was first launched a decade ago? And Rory asks UNICEF why it is getting into the controversial world of cryptocurrency?
Rory is joined by technology writer Jamillah Knowles and by Mark Ward from the BBC tech desk
(Picture:A woman holds her mobile phone as a group of masked protesters run past in the Diamond Hill station in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong on October 7, 2019. CREDIT: PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)
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| 0:45.8 | I'm Rory Katlin Jones, and this week we'll be looking at how tensions between the US and China are affecting tech firms, |
| 0:53.0 | with Apple bowing to pressure to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters, |
| 0:57.6 | and a number of Chinese AI firms added to a United States bandlist. |
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| 1:07.1 | and should UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, really be investing in cryptocurrencies? |
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