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Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: 50 years of the microchip, 1bn Uber trips & filtering out noise on Zoom calls
In his latest look at technology, Steve Caplin marks 50 years of the microchip. Uber is about to reach its 1 billionth trip in the UK, while Tesla's app locked owners out of their cars. There's an LED-lit zebra crossing, Adele putting an end to album-shuffling on Spotify, which has added lyrics to its songs, 8 million of them. There's crowd-funding for a gizmo that cancels out spurious noise when you're working at home and the Japanese are using discarded adult nappies to heat public baths.
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Steve Caplin

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The Business of Film: Ghostbusters Afterlife, King Richard, Tick Tick Boom & Bruised

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Ghostbusters Afterlife, King Richard, Tick Tick Boom & Bruised
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the UK box office, with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, directed by Jason Reitman, storming into the #1 slot with £4.3m. King Richard, with Will Smith in a possible Oscar-winning role, enters at #5 taking only £570,000. On Netflix, James much admires Tick, Tick… Boom! with Andrew Garfield another possible Oscar nominee. He also looks at sports drama Bruised, starring and directed by Halle Berry.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Biden talking down the oil price & interest rates

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Biden talking down the oil price & interest rates
Russ Mould of A J Bell looks at the shakeout in UK energy companies and casts his eye across the Atlantic where President Biden has been trying to talk down the oil price. Noting that price rises might have something to do with the $14 trillion pumped into the US economy since the pandemic began, he speculates on what will happen to the oil and gas price with new exploration so frowned upon. He also looks at the second interest rate rise in New Zealand and, with 91 rises around the world so far this year, he wonders whether the Fed, BoE and ECB can continue to hold out.
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Russ Mould

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The Bigger Picture: Can Boris Johnson last, Migrant deaths in the Channel & Article 16 - again

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Can Boris Johnson last, Migrant deaths in the Channel & Article 16 - again
In the wake of a shambolic speech to the CBI, political commentator Mike Indian looks at the political future of Boris Johnson and asks if we are seeing the beginning of his end as PM. After the tragedy with a migrant boat in the English Channel, he suggests a possible solution. And he turns again to the Northern Ireland protocol and Article 16 and wonders whether, if there is a majority in favour in Northern Ireland, a United Ireland is a possible outcome.
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Mike Indian

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The Financial Outlook: How serious is UK inflation, Shell's simplification & Britcoin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook: How serious is UK inflation, Shell's simplification & Britcoin
Laith Khalaf, Head of Investment Analysis at A J Bell, asks if CPI rising to 4.2% indicates a return to rising prices or if it might prove relatively temporary. He looks at Shell's decision to ditch its dual-share class and commit to the UK. And he is intrigued by news that the Treasury and Bank of England are to consider a central bank digital currency, nicknamed Britcoin.
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Laith Khalaf

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The Bigger Picture: Tensions in Europe, the roots and reality of UK sleaze & inside the care crisis

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Tensions in Europe, the roots and reality of UK sleaze & inside the care crisis
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University looks at the mounting tensions in Central and Eastern Europe and asks what's going on and explains why Germany is so beholden to Putin's Russia. Delving into the roots and reality of sleaze in British politics, he wonders if we should have amateur or professional politicians. And he admires a TV programme in which Ed Balls looks at the care system, in a crisis towards which the country seems to be in denial.
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Professor Tim Evans

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Business of Film: Spencer, Cry Macho, The Suicide Squad & Sweet Thing

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The Business Of Film

Business of Film: Spencer, Cry Macho, The Suicide Squad & Sweet Thing
James Cameron-Wilson on the latest UK box office, down 29% week on week while October as a whole was stronger than 2019. Moving up to #4 as it goes wider is Spencer with Kristen Stewart a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination. Clint Eastwood stars in and directs Cry Macho but it arrives at #15. For home viewing, James recommends James Gunn's The Suicide Squad, one of the best films of the year and the black & white melodrama Sweet Thing, which swept him along.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: DIY Apple repair, DogPhones, satellite slinghots & 3D-printed steaks
Share Radio's Technology Editor Steve Caplin looks at Amazon's beef with Visa, banning its credit cards. He is open-mouthed at news that Apple is going to allow customers to repair their own devices in future. He also discusses DogPhones for dogs left alone at home, a device to detect offensive language in schools, a system to launch satellites by slingshot, why Tesla cars are shipping without USB sockets, why Marco Pierre White is to sell 3D-printed steaks, cow-free milk, the new Spanish right to speak to a real person at a company and the Egyptian thief who managed to steal a TV reporter's phone – during a live feed.
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steve caplin

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The Business of Film: Eternals, Finch, Army of Thieves & Passing

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Eternals, Finch, Army of Thieves & Passing
James Cameron-Wilson looks at the UK box office, where the latest Marvel film, Eternals, has opened at #1. Spencer, with Kristen Stewart – hotly tipped for award nominations – as Princess Diana, is #6 on only 183 screens. Tom Hanks stars in the post-apocalyptic Finch on Apple while, on Netflix, James reviews Army of Thieves (part of the Army of the Dead franchise) and Passing, written and directed by Rebecca Hall.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: US inflation at a 30-year high & oil capex at a multi-year low

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: US inflation at a 30-year high & oil capex at a multi-year low
Russ Mould, Investment Director of A J Bell, looks behind the 30-year-high numbers for US inflation. CPI is 6.2% but the producer price index is 8.6% with intermediate producer prices up 25% and raw materials climbing 57% year on year. While high energy prices are responsible for some of that, he also points out that the capital investment of the oil majors is, despite the high oil price, at around a 20-year low. He explains the reason behind this (is oil the new tobacco?) but wonders if oil should be written off as an investment just yet.
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Russ Mould

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