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Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about technology that's making an impact on your

life. I'm Chris Valence and this week we dive kilometres deep to look at the vast network of

undersea internet cables keeping you connected and find out how to fix them. Also today, we check out a

film that, with the help of some clever computer software, has an almost infinite number of

alternative versions. The way to think of it is kind of like a collaborator. I give it some

direction, but then it's like, actually I've done this and I go, wow, let's go down

that path and that route. And I speak to a researcher, seeing if lemurs and parrots can benefit from

a bit of tech in their lives. Last week on Tech Life, we tried to find out what causes internet outages.

We heard that sometimes the problem lies beneath the waves.

It was only a month ago that at least five countries in Africa

were hit by a major internet outage.

At the time, the BBC contacted internet users who had been affected.

This is Charm, speaking from the Ivory Coast.

It actually was traumatic for me because I had a very important business meeting.

So first of all, to book the taxi, I had to go to the barbershop,

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