Summary
Zoe Kleinman and Shiona McCallum talk about X, the new name for Twitter, as Elon Musk continues making changes at the firm. What will the rebrand mean and where does the platform go next? We also try the eye scanning ‘orb’ that's been created to verify crypto payments. And we’re behind the scenes at CERN in Switzerland and talk to the creator of the AI League game that is accompanying the FIFA Women’s World Cup
(Image: A worker begins removing the sign at Twitter HQ (Justin Sullivan / Getty)
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| 0:37.9 | World Football at the Women's World Cup is the podcast bringing you all the action from the |
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| 0:54.6 | Welcome to TechLife from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Zoe Kleinman and in this programme we're talking once again about Twitter. |
| 1:02.8 | Or should that now be X? |
| 1:04.7 | The platform's billionaire owner Elon Musk has implemented a rebrand with the Little Bluebird |
| 1:09.3 | disappearing from the social network's website. |
| 1:12.8 | Also, in this episode, we're looking into the orb, a new project from OpenAI's Sam Altman |
| 1:18.3 | to verify crypto users that some have described as dystopian. And we're going behind the scenes |
| 1:24.8 | at the huge CERN laboratory in Switzerland. |
| 1:34.2 | When you are dealing with high-energy beams, you are going to end up with radioactive stuff and environments that you really don't want humans hanging around in for too long. |
| 1:39.1 | So how do you keep your equipment serviced and nice and clean in places like that? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, you use robots and |
| 1:46.8 | cern has robots So X marks the spot, or at least the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. |
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