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Simon Rose

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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Simon Rose

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

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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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Simon Rose

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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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: Remote stroking & kissing, electronic bandages and a self-building igloo

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Remote stroking & kissing, electronic bandages and a self-building igloo
Steve Caplin delves into the latest tech, with the Chinese coming up with ways to stroke and kiss loved ones when not together. ChatGPT has been banned in China, there's a new AI app to try, an electronic bandage will dissolve after use, Metaverse property prices have gone south, there's a crowdfunded self-building igloo, the MoD is hiring sci-fi writers to predict the future of warfare, you can get a balloon ride to space for just £150,000 and the Kinks have asked Elon Musk to stop Twitter censoring the band's name.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: The best book title ever, AI authors & self-cleaning touch screens

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The best book title ever, AI authors & self-cleaning touch screens
Steve Caplin discusses the latest tech with Simon Rose. Apple's most famous designer has produced Charles III's Coronation logo, Microsoft's Bing AI doesn't know what year it is, Kindle's ChatGPT authors and the best book title ever, a sign language-reading app, self-cleaning touch screens for cars, a way of telling if you're overusing your voice, an alarm clock that shocks you awake and setting a spider (or lots of them) to catch a moth.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Internet Explorer, AI getting too frisky & autonomous fighter jets

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Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Internet Explorer, AI getting too frisky & autonomous fighter jets
Steve Caplin astounds Simon Rose with tales of the latest tech. Microsoft are killing off Internet Explorer, AI can change the style of video footage and synthesise voices while an AI virtual friend is apparently getting way too frisky with some users. Scientists have developed an automatic arm-stroker to redue stress, Lockheed Martin now have an autonomous fighter jet, the best restaurant in Montreal doesn't actually exist, physiological synchrony can determine how a date is going while goldfish turn out to have fantastic memories and sea squirts eat their own brains.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

Gadgets and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee Printers, Top-Down Skyscrapers

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Gadgets and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee Printers, Top-Down Skyscrapers
Steve Caplin dives into the world of tech, telling Simon Rose about plans for charging users of ChatGPT and problems with Google's launch of its rival, Bard. There's also a stunning phone camera, how driverless cars might better cope with crossroads, Twitter being sued by the Crown Estate, a portable coffee printer, why skiers with Apple watches are annoying the Colorado police and a skyscraper in Detroit being built from the top down.
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Steve Caplin

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Simon Rose

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why has the FTSE100 been hitting record highs?

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why has the FTSE100 been hitting record highs?
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor tells Simon Rose why, despite the general air of doom and gloom in the UK, the FTSE 100 index has been hitting record highs recently. She discusses recent results from Unilever, Shell & BP and points out the research suggesting that the UK might just manage to avoid a recession this year.
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Victoria Scholar

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning better and the latest AI innovations

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Bringing back dodos, learning better and the latest AI innovations
It's gadget time with Steve Caplin, who tells Simon Rose about plans to reintroduce genetically-engineered dodos to Mauritius. There's also news of journalists being replaced with AI, music being generated by text and an audio prompt, AI passing the US law exams, how a flashing light can help you learn faster, Google laying off massage therapists, a robot to pick flowers, an app for when your phone battery is dying and why stargazing may soon become a thing of the past.
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Steve Caplin

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI book narration & impressionism, CCTV-confusing sweaters & tech pot plants
Steve Caplin tells Simon Rose about a UK self-driving bus & hydrogen-powered plane, about AI narrating Apple books and impersonating anybody after 3 seconds, about jumpers that can confuse facial recognition tech, an American SUV for dangerous school runs, electrified spoons, a GE pot plant to purify the air and how Ferrari are making ther electric cars produce the familiar petrol engine sound.
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Steve Caplin

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