Why TikTok Is So Hard to Put Down

May 23, 2022 | social media

If you’re one of the one billion people who spends an average of 50 minutes a day on TikTok every month, you might have wondered why it’s so hard to put down. It’s not because of poor self-control, but because of the way the app is designed. A...

S7 Ep 5 Silkie Carlo

May 23, 2022 | podcast

Silkie Carlo, director of British civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch joins to chat about the huge rise of facial recognition tech and what it means for our privacy and human rights. From biometric passports and unlocking our phones, to police real-time face...

Your Zoom Call Just Got Even More Uncomfortable

May 16, 2022 | AI

Imagine being on a Zoom call and the person the other end is getting real-time messages from an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s analysing your face and indicating when you’re bored, annoyed, or even lying. A creepy prospect, but one that sounds...

S7 Ep 4 Tim Spector

May 16, 2022 | podcast

Tim Spector, Professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College in London and co-founder of the Zoe Covid Symptom Study app – the world’s largest COVID-19 study – joins us to talks about this revolutionary community science project, downloaded...

The Real Threat from Deep Fakes

May 9, 2022 | AI

Humans can distinguish a computer-generated image of a human face from the real thing less than half of the time. Worse than flipping a coin. That’s the finding from a study published earlier this year in the academic journal Proceedings of the...