Euronews Tech Talks

The Euronews Tech Talks team heads to the iconic Atomium monument in Brussels. Nearly seven decades after its inauguration as a symbol of nuclear energy, the Atomium still sparks questions about potential dangers and its role in helping Europe achieve its environmental goals.

Typically, we start our episode series with a documentary, but this time we’re diving straight into the Q&A. Prepare yourself to get answers to basic questions like What is nuclear power? as well as critical ones, such as What should we do with nuclear waste?

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In southern Germany, Ehningen resembles any typical European family town—with a few local restaurants, a library, and children playing football in the streets. No one would expect that just a few kilometres away lies an industrial hub, home to one of the most groundbreaking technological revolutions: the first IBM quantum computing data centre in Europe. Euronews Tech Talks takes you inside on the occasion of its opening ceremony.

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Ever wondered how to stop accelerated ageing in astronauts, and if it could work on Earth? What's next for space labs? The European Space Agency may have the answer with Space Rider, a more time- and cost-efficient solution that doesn't rely on astronauts as test subjects.

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John McFall is the subject matter expert for a European Space Agency study aimed at fully integrating an astronaut with a physical disability into a long-duration mission to the International Space Station. He is the first astronaut candidate with a physical disability.

In this episode, we will explore how space exploration affects the human body and how scientific research in this area is fundamental to advancing medicine here on Earth.

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Dr. Jessica Studer has spent the last 3 months without seeing daylight. She is spending one year in one of Earth's most extreme places:Antarctica, at Concordia Station.

Her research will help us better understand how humans adapt to hostile environments and how isolation impacts their health and well-being. Additionally, it will shed light on what astronauts experience while traveling in space.

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What is quantum computing? How will it simplify our lives, and increase our productivity? What challenges does it face? Is quantum computing ever going to enter our everyday lives, replacing parts of our laptops and smartphones for quicker computations?

And the century's mystery: Is Schrödinger’s cat dead or alive?

We ask all these questions to two experts in quantum computing. Stephanie Wehner is a professor at Delft University of Technology and the director of the Quantum Internet Alliance. Mathias Van Den Bosch works at Thales Alenia Space.

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When Emma Müller, a 44-year-old German woman, wakes up each morning, she already has a detailed plan for her health status, dietary suggestions, and exercise recommendations to optimise her day. She works only three days a week thanks to her high productivity levels.

This could be the routine of an average European with advanced quantum computing. When? We spoke with experts on the continent.

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Raymond, Aline, Anne-Sophie, and Romain are four of the many Europeans involved in the building and launch of Ariane 6, Europe’s brand new rocket. And they also hold a crucial responsibility: each of them is authorized to press the red button to halt the launch. Why would they do so, and when? The stakes are incredibly high, as this launch signifies Europe regaining its independent access to space. How do they cope with this pressure?

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Europe's space sector is popping some long-awaited champagne: it has a new baby that is ready to take its first steps.

The new Ariane 6 rocket will close a dark chapter in European space history when the region had no workhorse launcher and no independent access to space. 

What's Ariane 6 like? What's new about it? What space adventures await? Marta and David travel to the European space station in French Guiana to tell us all about it.

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Quantum is the smallest possible amount of something in the universe, but it could spark the most significant revolution in medicine of the century. How? By accelerating the discovery of new drugs through quantum computing. 

Jean-Philippe Piquemal is one of the key figures driving this progress. As the director of the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Sorbonne University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), he sheds light on how quantum pharmacy will offer hope for challenging illnesses.

This episode is part of our mini-series on Health Tech Pioneers.

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Ida Tin, the Founder of the menstrual tracker app Clue, and the woman who coined the term for tech tailored towards women’s health and well-being: Femtech. Can you imagine this term didn’t exist before 2016?

This episode is part of our mini-series on Health Tech Pioneers.

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Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, a London-based plastic surgeon, once noticed that despite the increasing digitalisation, operating rooms lagged in leveraging their potential to democratise access to quality healthcare. This realisation led her to become what she calls an "accidental entrepreneur" and found her company, Proximie, to introduce technology in traditional operating rooms. 

With Nadine's story, we kick off our mini-series on Health Tech Pioneers.

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Think about what you did yesterday with your phone. Did you look for an address? Did you order food? Did you read a newspaper? Did you listen to a podcast? Did you open an app or take a photo? It's all registered. Today, it's almost impossible to live without leaving a digital footprint.

How can we be sure this very long trail of data protects us and does not violate our privacy?

In this special episode, we traveled to Vienna, the capital of Austria, to find answers at the Fundamental Rights Forum 2024.

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13 March 2024, Strasbourg: The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, is about to announce the approval of the AI Act, the first Artificial Intelligence regulation in the world.

In this episode, we meet the authors: Brando Benifei and Dragos Tudorache. Together, they made history in the world of AI. Regulators worldwide will look to their text for inspiration.

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The best-kept secret of Meucci, the Italian high school, is its green boiler. It's tucked away amidst the tall trees in its garden and a fenced concrete structure, but it has piqued the curiosity of its students about this promising new energy source.

Will hydrogen become the new petrol? Does it pollute? How much does it cost?

To answer their questions, we talk to Rosalinde van der Vlies, the Director of Clean Planet in DG Research and Innovation at the European Commission.

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The concept of trapping pure hydrogen in cells isn't just something out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Engineers are working hard on creating fuel cells for transportation that act like batteries, suitable for all sorts of vehicles like trucks. 

In this episode, we chat with Michael Perschke, CEO of Quantron AG, about hydrogen-powered trucks and how he uses cheese metaphors to explain how they work.

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It can be white, green, blue, pink or grey. It can be produced by natural gases, renewable energies, coal, nuclear power, and carbon capture. It stores and transports electricity. What is it? 

Hydrogen!

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and the European search for alternative energy sources, this chemical element has gained lots of attention. Some politicians and researchers even dare to describe it as the future fuel of Europe. 

But what exactly is hydrogen? 

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When Manfred began playing multiplayer online role-playing games in the late 1990s, he discovered a way to outsmart the system. Over 20 years, he became a master at finding loopholes and glitches in different games using a wide range of tricks. In this episode, he tells us how he made a fortune out of hacking.

In the special true crime podcast miniseries,Hacker Hunter: Next Level, we delve into the thrilling world of hacking. 

Join us across three episodes as we travel to India and the US to meet three extraordinary hackers:Anthony, Forsaken, and Manfred. These individuals have played a pivotal role in some of the most notorious hacking cases in video game history.

Hacker Hunter: Next Level is brought to you by Tomorrow Unlocked, the cyber immunity channel from Kaspersky, in collaboration with the Euronews Tech Talks team.

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Five unknown Indian players get the opportunity of a lifetime: joining one of the world’s biggest eSports organisations and competing internationally. And they're not just there to learn, but to win. They impress and give hope to the Indian Esports scene. Until, one of them, Forsaken, is about to take an action that will shake the foundations of the team and the legitimacy of the esports world itself.

In the special true crime podcast miniseries,Hacker Hunter: Next Level, we delve into the thrilling world of hacking. 

Join us across three episodes as we travel to India and the US to meet three extraordinary hackers:Anthony, Forsaken, and Manfred. These individuals have played a pivotal role in some of the most notorious hacking cases in video game history.

Hacker Hunter: Next Level is brought to you by Tomorrow Unlocked, the cyber immunity channel from Kaspersky, in collaboration with the Euronews Tech Talks team.

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When four friends realized they could hack one of the most popular video games ever invented, it wasn't long before serious money started rolling in. They didn’t hide; they believed they were doing nothing wrong. However, the FBI would end up raiding their homes. Discover the story of one of the biggest gaming hacks in history.

In the special true crime podcast miniseries,Hacker Hunter: Next Level, we delve into the thrilling world of hacking. 

Join us across three episodes as we travel to India and the US to meet three extraordinary hackers:Anthony, Forsaken, and Manfred. These individuals have played a pivotal role in some of the most notorious hacking cases in video game history.

Hacker Hunter: Next Level is brought to you by Tomorrow Unlocked, the cyber immunity channel from Kaspersky, in collaboration with the Euronews Tech Talks team.

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Is hacking illegal? How can it be harmful? And can it be beneficial for society?

Prepare for an exploration of human dilemmas in the digital realm through three notorious hacking cases in video game history.

In the special true crime podcast miniseries, Hacker Hunter: Next Level, we delve into the thrilling world of hacking. 

Join us across three episodes as we travel to India and the US to meet three extraordinary hackers:Anthony, Forsaken, and Manfred. These individuals have played a pivotal role in some of the most notorious hacking cases in video game history.

Hacker Hunter: Next Level is brought to you by Tomorrow Unlocked, the cyber immunity channel from Kaspersky, in collaboration with the Euronews Tech Talks team.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year for retailers. With Christmas around the corner, shopping soars: groceries and drinks for dinners, toys, electronics for gifts, and clothes for events. It seems wild not to believe that capitalism is in perfect health... 

However, former Greek Minister of Economics Yanis Varoufakis not only thinks it's in decline but claims it's already dead. Who killed it? Well, according to him, Amazon and Alibaba, among others.

This is an extract from the new Euronews podcast My Wildest Prediction.

To continue listening, visit the My Wildest Prediction feed on your favorite podcast app. 

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The alarming speed at which deepfakes generate fake news is concerning. They can recreate videos of politicians or television presenters, manipulating their mouths to utter words they've never spoken.

How can we protect ourselves? Can a single photo published on social media ruin our lives? Is there a way to regulate it, or are we living in the wild west?

We posed these questions to experts in debunking fake news and privacy protection in AI.

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In a future dominated by driverless cars, will your grandchildren need a driver's license?

Alex Roy, a former executive at Argo AI, a U.S. autonomous driving technology company, is also a rally race driver who asserts that autonomous vehicles are inevitable. Soon, driverless cars won't be the exception but the norm.

However, he also argues that human driving will never disappear. How will these two predictions coexist?

This is an extract from the new Euronews podcast My Wildest Prediction.

To continue listening, visit the My Wildest Prediction feed on your favorite podcast app. 

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Identity theft, non-consensual porn content, scams, misinformation... Can AI deepfake technology really be used for good?

We speak with John Egan, the CEO of L'Atelier BNP Paribas, in an attempt to find some answers: 

“It's like talking about knives. If we're only discussing knife crime, we're not going to talk about how knives are used in the kitchen for cooking, right?"

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Renate Nyborg was Tinder's first female CEO, but she left the popular dating app with a mission to use technology to combat loneliness. She is launching a new app, Meeno, that utilizes AI to help solve relationship problems. She also predicts that the future will involve fewer online dating experiences and more real-life encounters.

In this first episode ofEuronew's new podcast My Wildest Prediction, Tom Goodwin discusses with Renate Nyborg her boldest predictions on love and chatbots.

If you want to listen to the rest of the conversation, go to My Wildest Prediction’s feed. You will find a new episode every other Wednesday starting from November 22nd.

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It was a quiet Sunday when Spanish journalist Marian Rosado was browsing her Instagram account and suddenly stumbled upon an unusual Instagram live broadcast.

The well-known gynecologist Miriam Al Adib was revealing a very personal and shocking situation: her 14-year-old daughter just told her somebody used an app to take her photo from social media and made it look like she was naked. 

This is just the beginning of a scandal that placed a quiet town in southern Spain in the spotlight.

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Do you want to experience Hell or Purgatory?

We put on our virtual reality glasses at Italy’s Museum of Cinema in Turinto gather questions about the metaverse: How do the experts believe the metaverse can replicate all the features of the real world? How can you even access the metaverse? Is it open to everyone? Is there a potential risk of life in the real world becoming unbearable as the metaverse continues to advance?

We get the answers from two specialized professors in digital transformation and innovation, Martin Butler (from the Vlerick Business School) and Peter Zemsky (from theINSEAD Business School).

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If you're not a teenager deeply immersed in Roblox, Minecraft, or Fortnite, you might be wondering what you're missing out on in the metaverse.

We spoke with three experts in the field of virtual reality (VR) education: Matt Sanders from Meta, Christopher Mallet from Bodyswaps, and Alexander Nick from GoStudent. They elaborated on the benefits of acquiring diverse skills in a VR environment, ranging from learning a foreign language to honing job interview preparation.

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Leonida is a 13-year-old, and almost every day, he enters a metaverse. There, his avatar meets the avatars of some of his friends in the real world, and together, they travel from world to world. Does this mean that THE metaverse already exists? And if so, why do we want to be there?

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Will humans ever be born on the Moon? Until then, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer answers questions about life on the International Space Station, humanity's last frontier. From daily routines to his deepest fears, from his diet to his daring first spacewalk. The questions come from France's largest planetarium at Vulcania Theme Park.

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“Whenever we expand our capabilities, we want to go places.”

While in conversation with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforettiand Lead for Life Sciences, Angelique Van Ombergen, India made history by becoming the first country to land near the lunar south pole. 

With that space exploration milestone in the backdrop, we envisioned a near future with the Lunar Gateway already operational, serving as the first international station on the moon, as we delved into a captivating topic: Can humans feasibly hibernate for long-duration space travel?

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It's been more than 50 years since humans first stepped onto the Moon—a landmark moment that remains unmatched. But even though we’re not all taking weekend trips to the lunar surface, don't think for a second that space exploration has slowed down. In fact, it's picked up steam. In this episode, we're journeying through Spain, France, Germany, and the UK to uncover how the work being done up there is making our lives better down here. 

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If all their processes are so secret and protected, how can we ensure blockchain is not used illegally? What is blockchain competing against? What is the purpose of Web 3? And how much do blockchain technologies pollute? 

Our team attended one of the biggest theatre festivals in Europe, the Festival d'Avignon, and answered these questions while exploring blockchain through theatre. Please take your seat and enjoy this far-fetched comparison.

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Blockchain is more than just Bitcoin. It has applications across various domains, including paying taxes and creating art. One of its most ambitious proposals is a censorship-free Internet, where our privacy is not compromised while browsing. 

In this episode of Euronews Tech Talks, we hear from two tech experts.

Maria Paula Fernández believes that Web 3 holds the promise of a superior Internet and Dr Alex Preda discusses whether it is already a reality or still in the realm of utopia.

Both experts address the elephant in the room: will crypto ever achieve mainstream adoption in Europe?

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Cryptocurrency has been talked about for years. You might even know someone who has invested in Bitcoin or one of the thousands of other ‘cryptos’ that exist. But has cryptocurrency and its blockchain technology fully landed in Europe?

In this episode, we look at Europe's so-called “Crypto Valley”, discuss trust in decentralised banking systems and see how renewable energy sources are changing Bitcoin mining in Europe.

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How is ChatGPT affecting the workforce? Can it tell us where to buy illegal drugs? Will artificial intelligence become smarter than humans?

Our team attended VivaTech, one of Europe's largest tech and start-up fairs in Paris, to gather concerns and questions surrounding generative AI technology. Then we asked experts to respond to those queries.

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The risk of apocalyptic scenarios and human extinction has been an unavoidable part of the conversation around AI programmes like ChatGPT since its release. But are these concerns being blown out of proportion? 

In this episode, we hear from two experts: Dr. Sabine Hauert, a robotics-specialised scientist who envisions a future reminiscent of Wall-E rather than Terminator, and Dr. Matthew Glanville, an education-focused mathematician who is less concerned about students cheating than he is about them underutilising the technology.

A new episode is available every other Wednesday.

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In the months since, ChatGPT emerged, Europeans have become newly empowered. In this first episode of Euronews Tech Talks, an Italian programmer delegates code-writing, a French artist reinvents her practice, a Cypriot student brainstorms, and a German teacher ignites minds. 

But as the AI revolution unfolds, and the stuff of sci-fi becomes reality, we wonder if we’re in for a happy ending, or something else.

A new episode is available every other Wednesday.

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Join us on Euronews Tech Talks every other Wednesday, starting from June 14th. We delve into the pressing questions that shape Europe's digital future, covering topics ranging from Generative AI and space exploration to blockchain and net neutrality.

With explanations, engaging Q&As, and lively conversations, the podcast goes beyond discussions to explore the impact of new technologies on our lives. 

Subscribe nowand embark on a journey through the world that awaits us.

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