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Hello and welcome to TechLife, the programme about technology making an impact on your life.

I'm Chris Valence and this week we find out how a bit of laser-powered tech could be used to fight

the illegal trade in ivory by quickly telling if it came from an elephant tusk or the frozen corpse of an ice age

mammoth. It's such a lucrative business for the people that get involved that there are

actively people called mammoth hunters. And in the summer months they go out with essentially

giant flame throwers to deliberately melt the permafrost. Also today, researchers in South Africa test a chatbot designed to make it easier for people

at risk of HIV to share their lifestyle and health information.

And what do you do with a load of old laptops and tablets that nobody wants?

We speak to the man behind a community-based solution to e-waste.

Now many of our listeners, you may live in countries where elephants are native.

Here in Scotland, they're not so common.

But go back thousands of years to the ice ages and their relatives, the woolly mammoths,

were happily stomping around much of the northern hemisphere.

The mammoths are now extinct,

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