US and China battle over tech
Rory Cellan-Jones analyses the rising tension between the US and China over trade and how it is affecting some of China's biggest artificial intelligence firms
In a week of rising tension between US and China over trade we hear how some of China's biggest tech firms are caught in the cross-fire. And Rory Cellan-Jones asks why Apple has decided to take down a Hong Kong mapping app? As Ada Lovelace Day spreads around the world to celebrate women in science and tech, the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's Zoe Kleinman asks its founder whether conditions have actually improved since the movement was first launched a decade ago? And Rory asks UNICEF why it is getting into the controversial world of cryptocurrency?
Rory is joined by technology writer Jamillah Knowles and by Mark Ward from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ tech desk
(Picture:A woman holds her mobile phone as a group of masked protesters run past in the Diamond Hill station in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong on October 7, 2019. CREDIT: PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)
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