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Spectrum

Spectrum

by Deutsche Welle

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Spectrum is a half-hour weekly with developments in the fields of science and technology. From advances that will change our lives to offbeat oddities, our team of reporters around the world keeps you up to date.


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Spectrum: A digital demonstration

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, May 20, 2013


What do we want? The right to return unwanted apps! When do we want it... as soon as we can download it! Plus: new disorders and the new "psychiatrists' Bible," cloned cells, e-cigarettes and life online in Russia.

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Spectrum: Mad for mobile music apps

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, May 13, 2013


This week we're not so much "deep and dirty" in the worlds of science and technology as we are lounging it in a miasma of repetitive beats and bleeps - a special edition on how mobile apps are changing the way we make music.

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Spectrum: Lighting up knockout mice

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, May 6, 2013


Visit the Czech lab where scientists are lighting up "knockout" mice in the name of gene research. Find out why "tweet now, think later" can land you in prison. And sit back and enjoy the science of coffee in Italy.

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Spectrum: How to buy tweets and influence people

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Apr 22, 2013


So we've all downloaded Twitter's #music app... or not... but did you spot the paid for tweets? Were they paid for? Also, get tips on how to cross the digital divide. And Google taps white space in South Africa to expand Internet coverage.

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Spectrum: Games, games, glorious… HTML5?

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Apr 15, 2013


As we enter the new age of HTML5, why are some games developers turning away from the language of the Web? Where are Europe's tech micro-multinationals? And get inside your digital memory.

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Spectrum: Virtual currency bubble

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Apr 8, 2013


Even in beta, the virtual currency Bitcoin is stuck in an experimental bubble, but its supporters still say it's the currency of the future. Also, a new bird flu in China, kickstarting the EU's tech startup culture, and the landmine detector that harnesses the wind.

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Spectrum: Fair play technology

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Apr 1, 2013


We've got goal line technology, the European Space Agency's Drones App... and we get into digital and analog music - learn how to build a DIY synth and hear from legendary inventor and WaveGenerator app maker, Wolfgang Palm.

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Spectrum: Fight for your right to IT

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Mar 25, 2013


Kapil Sibal, the Indian minister of communications and IT, tells us why it's impossible to govern the Internet, while his and other governments try to do just that. Also, why placebos don't work. And... the Raspberry Pi hits British schools.

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Spectrum: Cool yer boots

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Mar 18, 2013


We cool computers with a special non-conductive liquid and dunk a cell phone or two. We keep track of research cash from international firms. And we get the lowdown on the fat burning properties of Viagra.

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Spectrum: Need a taxi - get the app!

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Mar 11, 2013


Europe's bid to develop science and technology infrastructure in Africa. A taxi apps arms race is brewing. And if you think Australia's safe from soaring rates of vitamin D deficiency, you'd be wrong.

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Spectrum: Make drugs, not war

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Mar 4, 2013


In this special edition of Spectrum, we get deep and dirty with Europe's multi billion euro drive to resuscitate the drugs industry - to keep research going into new drugs and new therapies – with a major push towards collaborative projects into basic science between the public sector and the pharmaceuticals industry in the private sector.

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Spectrum: Sci-Tech in deep water

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Feb 25, 2013


Find out how to help autistic kids improve social interaction skills with virtual objects and a boy called Andy. European data protection agencies take aim at Google... again. And sharks beware, there are scientists about!

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Spectrum: Be alert and be alarmed!

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Feb 18, 2013


As the number of cases of a new - potentially fatal - coronavirus increase, the World Health Organization wants us to be alert to "unusual patterns." Also, meet the people who say Germany's Open Data portal is more like a closed shop.

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Spectrum: It's an ethical, bionic, pulsating hunk

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Feb 11, 2013


Try squaring ethical hacking, cyber security and the law...then shake hands with the one million dollar bionic man, and engage with pulsating, woven, vascular implants in Latvia.

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Spectrum: Brussels goes bling, bling!

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Feb 4, 2013


Science research is all about the billions in Brussels - a billion here, a billion there. But will member states pay up to make the Horizon 2020 fund 80 billion strong? Find out about future TV, and why your penis (if you have one) is like a canary in a coal mine.

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Spectrum: Bendable future

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Jan 28, 2013


We've got bendable phones, a little known revolutionary material called graphene, Mozilla's mobile OS, Spanish tech innovators Geeksphone… and a forensic pathologist wielding a drill.

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Spectrum: Last gasp of the graph

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Jan 21, 2013


It's crunch time - the EU wants companies to report cyber security breaches, but will it help? We're also delving into the problem with Facebook's Graph Search. And learn how scientists have got HIV to attack itself.

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Spectrum: Tracking… and transport technology

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Jan 14, 2013


Debate rages in the UK over how to track criminal activity online while keeping people's personal data safe. At the same time we track the developments in transportation engineering since 1863… And we keep tabs on startups in Dublin.

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Spectrum: Science like you never heard it

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Nov 12, 2012


We head to Karlsruhe, where science becomes funny at the finals of the science slam in Germany. We also get to hear on why poo is useful for scientists, and we meet the maker movement.

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Spectrum: 4G, 5G… who can keep count?

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Nov 5, 2012


As the "painfully slow" rollout of 4G (LTE) continues its trek across Europe, we head to the UK's 5G Innovation Center, where researchers are working on the next generation of mobile connectivity. And we find out how to start building our own 3D printer.

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Spectrum: Simulated science with smoke and water

Author: DW.DE | Deutsche Welle
Mon, Oct 29, 2012


Find out about a new, quick and cheap, nanotech test to diagnose HIV, concerns about pro-smoking apps on the Apple and Android platforms, and the new software that makes eye control possible on mobile devices.

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  • Published: June 2012
  • LearnOutLoud.com Product ID: S046324