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Repercussions of the UK banning Huawei 5G equipment, Twitter hack post-mortem and the top 5 tech gadgets under £50

Tech News Digest with Lucy & Larry

English - July 20, 2020 20:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MB
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Previous Episode: Top 5 ways not to look like a total idiot on a video call. Plus: Germany's new anti-privacy law, fintech struggles, and much more!
Next Episode: Have contact tracing apps failed? Is OpenAI a misnomer? And will we all soon be banking with bitcoin?

This week, Lucy & Larry discuss: 

The UK banning 5G equipment from Huawei
(https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/07/16/americas-war-on-huawei-nears-its-endgame)Europe's ban on data from Europe going to servers based in the US
(https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/16/europes-top-court-strikes-down-flagship-eu-us-data-transfer-mechanism/)The Twitter security incident
(https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html)OpenAI's GTP-3 is indistinguishable from humans at writing stories.
Check the link for examples to see how good it really is!
(https://minimaxir.com/2020/07/gpt3-expectations/)

Then there Larry's top 5 gadgets to tech up your life - all for under £50.

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Music attributions
Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Your Call by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5018-your-call
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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