3 Aug 2023

Technology: School smartphone ban, Threads down, Tesla range overestimate

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 3 August 2023
Elon Musk and X, child with smartphone, Tesla charging

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Technology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about Unesco's call for a ban on smartphones in schools, warning policy makers against an 'unthinking embrace' of digital technology in education.

Mark Zuckerberg's Threads platform started with a bang, but it appears to have fizzled out.

The US is reportedly hunting hidden Chinese malware that could affect military operations and Tesla is alleged to have rigged its dashboards to overestimate the range of its cars - prompting so many range complaints it created a special team to cancel owners' service appointments.