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Gadgets & Gizmos: A reactor on the moon, bricks on Mars, AI on your PC & a batteryless doorbell

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Gadgets & Gizmos: A reactor on the moon, bricks on Mars, AI on your PC & a batteryless doorbell
Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose through the latest tech. Samsung's phone takes amazing moon photos (by cheating), the UK is to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, NASA unveils its new spacesuit (disguised), Stanford develop AI for your own PC and AI can now create photos. There's a fortified plastic chicken coop to keep out foxes (that looks like an animal prison) and Lidl are selling a wireless doorbell that is entirely battery free.
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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The UK Budget & market nervousness over the banks

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The UK Budget & market nervousness over the banks
Russ Mould of A JBell thinks Jeremy Hunt delivering the Budget did his best with a weak hand. Essentially, there is no money when the national interest bill is £100bn. Market nervousness about contagion from SVB and Credit Suisse Russ puts down to money being cheap for far too long. It has meant that too many people have done risky, silly things. Nervous investors should remember the basics, sticking to disciplined companies with sound management. He also wonders if 5% is the new 17%.
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Russ Mould

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The Business of Film: Scream VI, 65 & The Oscars

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The Business of Film: Scream VI, 65 & The Oscars
James Cameron-Wilson discusses the UK box office numbers with Simon Rose, with total take down 5% despite two big new films. Scream VI takes the #1 slot but James found it boring, unpleasant and full of unbelievable characters. Sci-fi thriller 65, starring Adam Driver, slips in at #3 ("irritating and dull"). James made a plea for discerning cinemagoers to go to charming romcom What's Love Got To Do With It (#7) while they still have the chance. He rounds up the podcast with a discussion of the Oscars, both the results and the ceremony itself.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Bing hallucinating, a paint revolution, an eternal battery & streaming classical music

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Bing hallucinating, a paint revolution, an eternal battery & streaming classical music
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose of the latest tech innovations. A startup has worked out how to use data processing centres to heat swimming pools which cool the PCs in return. Bing's latest GPT upgrade has many improvements, but still hallucinates and makes things up. There's a revolution in the world of paint, better protection for windswept buildings, a keyboard hand heater, spirally-constructed wind turbines and Apple moving into the world of streamed classical music.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: The Budget, small boats legislation and the BBC & Gary Lineker

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The Budget, small boats legislation and the BBC & Gary Lineker
Political commentator Mike Indian discusses Jeremy Hunt's Budget with Simon Rose, though he considers it more a Sunak Budget than a Hunt Budget. With little not already briefed beforehand, he feels the most important intervention for most people was the extension of free childcare. He found nothing in it, though, to galvanise the UK economy or slow Britain's comparative decline. He also remarks on the Illegal Immigration Bill, with neither main party admitting how dependent the UK is on migrant workers. Lastly, he looks at what he considers the "farcical situation" between the BBC and football pundit Gary Lineker.
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Mike Indian

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The Bigger Picture: The immigration showdown, the Spring Budget & American isolationism

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The Bigger Picture: The immigration showdown, the Spring Budget & American isolationism
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University explains to Simon Rose why he sees an almighty showdown with the EU coming over the rule of law over UK asylum plans. He wonders if a "steady as you go" Budget might actually boost the Conservatives' electoral prospects. And, in the light of the Republican Party dividing over support for Ukraine, he discusses the long tradition of American isolationism, pointing out that the latest split is extremely worrying for NATO.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Creed III, Somebody I Used To Know & We Have A Ghost

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Creed III, Somebody I Used To Know & We Have A Ghost
James Cameron-Wilson takes Simon Rose through the latest UK box office numbers, up 22%, largely thanks to the arrival at #1 of Creed III. Taking £5m at the weekend and starring and directed by Michael B Jordan, James found it a polished, well-directed, crowd-pleasing movie. On Amazon Prime, he found Somebody I Used To Know, starring Alison Brie and written by her and her directing husband Dave Franco, watchable but undermined by an abrupt tonal switch from comedy to heavier drama. Netflix's comedy horror We Have A Ghost he found too ambitious for its own good and most definitely over-long.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla woes, exploring Mars's caves & a rolling bridge

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Tesla woes, exploring Mars's caves & a rolling bridge
Tech expert Steve Caplin discusses Tesla's non-Ford assembly line, Musk's dull investor day and a setback for his Neuralink. Breadcrumbs will be the key to exploring caves on Mars, it seems, while the iMAG could be the way to end uncomfortable endoscopies and 3D printing taking place within the human body could soon be feasible. There's a crowdfunded exoskeleton to help with hill-climbing (or even shopping or visiting museums) and on the River Lee, there's an ingenious hand-powered rolling bridge.
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: UK economic indicators & the hawkish Fed Chair

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: UK economic indicators & the hawkish Fed Chair
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor looks at some of the recent indicators giving a guide to the state of the UK economy, including the Halifax house price index and the RICS's house price balance. She also looks at the recent retail sales numbers and KPMG's jobs market report. But the big driver of the market this week has been the hawkish testimony to Congress of Fed Chairman Jay Powell.
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Victoria Scholar

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Persimmon & the housebuilding sector

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Persimmon & the housebuilding sector
Russ Mould of A J Bell looks at the results of Persimmon, the latest company offering a paper yield higher than 10% that turned out to be illusory. That the share price didn't fall further on terrible results shows that the market was ahead of the game. Russ looks at the sector as a whole. Some builders are trading at a discount to book value and sentiment will turn at some stage. But housebuilders are likely to be volatile and potential investors will have to be very brave.
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Russ Mould

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