4.4 • 221 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Ahead of the Paris Olympics, Alasdair Keane hears how the organisation behind the event is enlisting an AI platform to tackle online abuse aimed at athletes competing in the event. Also in this episode Shiona McCallum meets the next generation of game designers and we find out about a project in Rwanda to improve the fit of prosthetic limbs.
Image: Paris 2024 Olympic Games logo is displayed near the Eiffel Tower (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
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0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
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0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
0:28.0 | Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service. |
0:31.2 | This is a programme where we explore how technology is impacting the world around us. |
0:36.8 | I'm Alastair Keane and for this episode, |
0:39.1 | I've been finding out how the Olympics are going to be using a new tech platform |
0:43.7 | to find and try to tackle online abuse aimed at athletes competing in the Paris Olympics this summer. |
0:50.8 | Online abuse has become almost ubiquitous. |
0:52.7 | It's been something that is sort of a norm in the |
0:55.8 | digital environment and it should not be. And oftentimes what people say is that they just have to |
1:00.9 | get used to it, they try and report it, they try and come offline. Also coming up in this episode, |
1:06.6 | we'll meet the next generation of game designers and we'll find out about the high-definition scanner |
1:13.3 | helping make prosthetic limbs fit better for people in Rwanda. |
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