Summary
In this edition we're trying to find out why some popular security and privacy services - known as VPNs - are disappearing from app stores in India.
Also on this week's Tech Life, we speak to the team behind a super-lightweight plane, powered by the sun's rays, that could be used like a steerable satellite.
And does talk of artificial intelligence make you worried about your job, or make you wonder what the future might hold ? Don't worry, it's not all gloom ! We hear from a historian who is taking a very long view of AI.
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Presenter: Zoe Kleinman Producer: Tom Quinn Editor: Monica Soriano
(Image: An illustration of Internet access via a VPN. A shield with the inscription VPN and a globe. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to TechLife from the BBC World Service with me, Zoe Kleinman. |
| 0:32.4 | Today we're trying to find out why some popular security and privacy services, known as VPNs, are disappearing |
| 0:38.8 | from app stores in India. We hear from the team behind a super lightweight plane powered by the |
| 0:44.8 | sun that could be used like a steerable satellite. And does talk of artificial intelligence |
| 0:50.1 | make you worried about your job or make you wonder what the future might hold. Don't worry, it's not all gloom. |
| 0:56.0 | I speak to an historian who's taking a very long view of AI. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm going to... We start in India where some VPNs have disappeared from app stores in the country. |
| 1:29.5 | A VPN or virtual private network is a secure way of getting online without revealing your location. They're used by people who want to protect their data and privacy and also to get around |
| 1:35.2 | some country's firewalls and access block sites. On the 2nd of January, the TechCrunch website |
| 1:41.2 | reported that more than half a dozen VPN apps had been removed from India's Apple App Store and Google's Play Store after an intervention by government authorities. |
| 1:50.8 | We asked Apple and Google why this was. They didn't respond. |
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