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We look at some of the reasons you choose your mobile phone handset
Tech Life meets Spot the robot
How a robot named Spot is helping humans in radioactive places
Charging electric bikes and scooters
What can be done to make charging them safer ?
Predicting the future of tech
How will the internet, and other tech we use today, evolve in the future ?
Space junk
What is it, and what risk does it pose to the technologies we rely on in everyday life ?
Fixing undersea cables
Undersea fibre-optic cables help keep us online - but what happens when they break ?
Humanoid robots
Are they really that practical and useful ?
TikTok world
TikTok is a popular video sharing platform, but not so popular with some governments.
The mammoth ivory problem
Tech can play a role in combating the illegal trade in elephant ivory.
Help for cancer patients
The machine that allows patients to take their own blood samples for analysis from home.
Tackling online abuse of athletes
The Olympics turn to AI to try crack down on online abuse aimed at athletes
Being watched
Words of warning about facial recognition, biometrics and artificial intelligence.
Dating a chatbot
What is it like to have an AI boyfriend? The women in China who date chatbots.
Helping our animal friends
This edition of Tech Life is all about animals and tech.
Bionic arms and robotic thumbs
This week Tech Life has a special programme about the technology of artificial limbs.
Detecting cancer using artificial intelligence
The role machine learning can play in accurate blood tests for bowel cancer.
If we could talk to the animals
Music legend Peter Gabriel talks about AI technology and communicating with animals.
Tech that refuses to die
We look at old tech that's been around for decades and is still useful.
Tech at the Olympics
How do athletes use technology to improve their performance?
Turning the racetrack electric
We're at the Formula E season finale, exploring how the tech has advanced over 10 years.
When the power goes
The impact of internet outages in Bangladesh, and power cuts in South Africa and Cuba
Turning the tables on online romance scammers
We speak to the 91Èȱ¬ journalist who exposed an online con.
The Olympic esports games and Saudi Arabia
The IOC announced the inaugural games will be hosted by Saudi Arabia. Not all are happy
Artificial intelligence helps doctors detect lung cancer
AI is acting as a second pair of eyes for radiologists examining X-rays.
The voice cloning lawsuit
Two voice actors take legal action claiming their voices were stolen and cloned using AI.
When civil war breaks out
What happens to a country's tech scene when violent conflict erupts ?
X in Brazil
What do social media users do when their preferred platform is banned ?
Online maps
How live updating of online maps is helping humanitarian work around the world.
Will AI replace call centre workers?
We speak to the man who says AI will create call centre jobs – rather than replace them.
The big business of online charity donations
We speak to the CEO of charity fundraising company GoFundMe
Big data and femtech
We're talking about data and artificial intelligence - how it can help women's healthcare