Shiona McCallum visits a semiconductor plant making super-thin and flexible chips. Canada's AI Minister talks to the BBC. And drone tech is monitoring fire-damaged landscapes. You can view Shiona's report on thermal drones here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKSkIDMZcmcPresente ...عرض المزيد
Virtual data centres in space
Where should data centres be built? We talk to an entrepreneur hoping to build a virtual data centre in space, by using computing power that's already up there - in satellites.Also this week: A Facebook whistleblower, whose story inspired a new movie, talks to us about social med ...عرض المزيد
You're probably reading this on a device connected to the internet, while listening to this episode. But how did the digital files that make up this description, and the digital sound files that you can hear, appear, on demand, on your phone, tablet or other device? How are you c ...عرض المزيد
This week Digital Planet looks back on some of the stories we’ve covered in 2020; electricity from Lake Kivu on the Rwandan/DRC border, internet shutdowns across the world, contact tracing apps during the pandemic and how technology has changed digital death rituals and allowed u ...عرض المزيد
What can you do with petabytes of earth observation data and scalable compute infrastructure to help support decision making at the continental scale? Simon brings together representatives from Geoscience Australia, the South African National Space Agency and AWS to talk about Di ...عرض المزيد