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Steve Caplin, Share Radio's technology editor, looks at the NHS Covid-19 app falling foul of Apple and Google for privacy violations. There's also Google Pixel helping smartphone zombies, soaring PC sales, Amazon's virtual shopping patent, a contest to pedal over the channel, how human hair is helping improve solar cells, a new way of cooling computers, Segway's cool-looking motorbike, a built-in bike lock and yet another attempt to improve on the QWERTY keyboard.

James Cameron-Wilson gives us a preview of the films that will be in cinemas when they reopen on May 17th. He reviews four films currently available to stream. The much-garlanded Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan, Antebellum is heavy drama, Palm Springs is a new take on the Groundhog Day premise while Sound of Metal has been nominated for six Oscars.

Russ Mould, Investment Director at A J Bell, marvels at the recovery of the FTSE to a higher level than it stood before the pandemic hit the UK. But how secure is its current level and where will it go from here? Now with a 3.5% yield and dividends growing rapidly, Russ assesses the FTSE's growth prospects and says that your outlook will be coloured by whether you feel the UK is out of the pandemic woods yet or not.

Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the longest-serving consort in British history. He discusses whether Covid might end up boosting the UK economy rather than harming it. He wonders why Scotland's ruling politicians are so unsympathetic towards business. And he looks at a new book that says that Western historians of the Second World War have always underestimated the importance of the Russian role in defeating the Nazis.

Tim Price of Private Value Partners explains why he thinks technical analysis - particularly trend-following - may be a more useful discipline than fundamental analysis. He recounts the anecdote of the true-life counterparts of the film Trading Places, with so-called novice investors, called "turtles", taught an investment system, with many of them becoming hugely successful. He points out the downside of index investing and believes that the early warning of problems with the world's burgeoning debts may first be seen in the foreign exchange markets, which central banks are not big enough to control.

James Cameron-Wilson marvels at the encouraging box office news from the United States where Godzilla vs. Kong is top of the heap, despite streaming on TVs simultaneously. He reviews the movie, which features some big names as well as the giant titular stars. In the UK, it's only available online. James also reviews the Doug Liman sci-fi movie Chaos Walking, with Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley and the new Netflix film Run, starring Sarah Paulson.

Share Radio's technology editor Steve Caplin discusses LG pulling out of smartphones, why lab-grown meat needs spinach as scaffolding, a sunlight-catching ball to enlighten basements, an Icelandic innovation for making online meetings more like the real thing, why bees are sniffing out Balkan landmines, a smart knee brace and how Japanese scientists have proven just how annoying texting pedestrians can be.

Steve Caplin looks at Volkswagen's bizarre April Fool's joke, how Uber users can now request electric, how wine tastes after a trip in space, the world's first lab-grown caviar being made in Devon, the robot self-portrait selling for $688,000, an antenna powered by 5G signals, an app mapping the world's radio stations, a gadget for sharpening disposable razor blades and what can be discerned by eye tracking.

James Cameron-Wilson on the encouraging signs of an appetite for cinema in the USA where people have been flocking to big-screen viewings of Tenet. He reviews The Mauritanian, a true story directed by Kevin Macdonald which did not pick up any Oscar nominations, Minari, an American-set film in the Korean language which got 6 nods and Sky's documentary Tina on Tina Turner.