Babbage: Taming the tech titans

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Babbage: Taming the tech titans
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:26:36
• Published: 2020-12-16 18:43

This week the EU unveiled its plan to rein in big tech—the draft laws target the American giants, but European firms may not benefit much. Also, how a failed study has revealed a promising new gene-therapy treatment for blindness. And, which science stories were overlooked in a year dominated by covid-19? Kenneth Cukier hosts 

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