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AUDIO: Criminals ‘caught by way they walk’

January 3, 2013 admin Uncategorized

The latest biometric techniques being pioneered to identify criminals and solve crimes now go much further than fingerprints, DNA, face and iris scans.

Professor Mark Nixon, of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, explains how looking at people’s ears and the way they lay their feet on the ground could help solve a crime.

He said: “we use computers to emulate human sight and we can apply that to recognise you [using various things. The things we’re working on is to recognise you by the way you walk or by the shape of your ear.”

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AUDIO: Is technology ‘transforming schools’?

December 28, 2012 admin Uncategorized

Today’s guest editor this morning, Melinda Gates, is a passionate advocate of investment in technical innovation for school pupils, and asked the Today programme to report on how it can help in schools with a high proportion of disadvantaged pupils.

The BBC’s technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, examines the role of technology in enhancing the quality of teaching in schools.

“If technology is not simple and reliable we will not use it,” one head teacher explained.

An academy principal explained that the use of technology starts with good teaching: “Great teachers use technology to do even greater things… they use the technology as a bridge.”

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AUDIO: Apple ‘had to let Google Maps back’

December 17, 2012 admin Uncategorized

Google has released a native version of its Maps app for the iPhone.

It follows Apple’s switch to its own map software which stopped Google powering the handset’s default app.

The move was widely criticised after numerous mistakes were found in Apple Maps’ search results.

The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones explained to the Today programme’s Sarah Montague that Apple “had no choice” to let Google back on to the iPhone.

He went on to add that the introduction of Apple Maps “has caused ruptures at the company”.

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AUDIO: Cultivating start-ups in Silicon Valley

December 16, 2012 admin Uncategorized

Many have tried, no one has quite succeeded in creating an equivalent tech ecosystem equivalent to that in silicon valley.

Saeed Amidi was landlord to Logitech, Paypal and Google, when they had five employees.

He explained to the BBC’s Jonny Dymond how he took a stake in many of his tenants companies and has now set up a tech home for the next generation of Zuckerbergs.

“We had a few very exciting neighbours and tenants,” he added.

“Silicon Valley is a great place to network… and we have tried to exaggerate that.”

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AUDIO: Why Apple shows US China trade paradox

December 11, 2012 admin Uncategorized

Both the US and China have a problem – China consumes too little of what it produces, and when demand for exports fall, its economy can stall.

America has the opposite problem – it produces too little of what it consumes

The BBC’s Simon Jack and Jonny Diamond have been looking at this co-dependent economic model from both sides of the Pacific.

Chris Anderson, former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, told them: “You can see the history of manufacturing in the back of Apple products.

“The back of the iPhone says: ‘Designed in California, assembled in China’. And that largely describes the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, which is to say that China had so successfully built a world-beating manufacturing model with initially cheap labour, great engineering, very dense supply chains, everything you needed to make an iPhone and products like it.”

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