Heads Up: Technology and Freedom – technology sovereignty, socialmedia addiction and robots This week Tech TV Live hosts Pete Warren and Bill Mew discuss: 1) France rolls out Visio, and shuns Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other US tech 2) TikTok settles in a landmark social media addiction trial, but Meta and YouTube don’t 3) Robots […]
PassW0rd on Space: The Final Frontier This edition of PassW0rd (originally broadcast on radio via Resonance FM, but now also available on video here on Tech TV) explores the rapidly changing and increasingly contested nature of outer space, moving far beyond its traditional image as a realm of science and exploration. While a recent UK […]
Heads Up: Musk and UK Govt both back down, Iranians cut off Starlink and UK Police hallucinate Heads up on Tech News: Bill and Pete cover the latest Tech news, including: 1) The UK makes it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot, 2) Google emails 13 […]
PassW0rd on ID: Your country wants to know you The programme examines the UK government’s proposed introduction of digital identity cards, a policy that has triggered widespread public opposition and debate. Framed initially as a response to illegal immigration and welfare abuse, the proposal has been criticised as politically reactive, poorly defined, and potentially authoritarian. […]
