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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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We hear from Peter Gabriel, who is endorsing a competition to find a way of decoding animal communications using AI and then talk back to them. We get more details of the challenge from the chair of the prize, Prof Yossi Yovel.
Microplastics in our seas and drinking water is a real problem. Two teenage students from Texas have found an innovative way to get rid of the stuff using ultrasound. If you have not heard about the Global Digital Compact, we speak to someone who says you need to know about it.
And a traditional Indian instrument gets an electronic makeover.
Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer: Tom Quinn
(Photo: Musician Peter Gabriel performing in New York. Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
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0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
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0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to TechLife, the program about the technology making a difference to your life. |
0:34.2 | I'm Chris Valence and today we hear from the music legend Peter Gabriel. He's endorsed a |
0:39.7 | competition to find a way of decoding animal communications using artificial intelligence and then |
0:45.3 | talk back to them. Microplastics in our seas and drinking water. It's a real problem. We hear |
0:51.3 | from two teenage students in Texas who found an innovative way to get rid of |
0:56.4 | the stuff. If you haven't heard about the Global Digital Compact, we speak to someone who says |
1:01.3 | you really need to know about it, and bringing tech to a traditional Indian instrument. Drumroll, |
1:07.5 | please. |
1:14.2 | My hope is that when people come across these, |
1:16.4 | they would be more interested in Indian culture, |
1:42.6 | and in fact it will promote Indian culture even more. A few weeks ago on TechLife, we heard how artificial intelligence was helping human scientists interpret dog barks. |
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