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Gadgets & Gizmos: The 500th edition – the good, the bad and the truly weird from 10 years of the show

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: The 500th edition – the good, the bad and the truly weird from 10 years of the show
For the 500th show, Steve Caplin takes a look back at some of the highlights of 10 years of Gadgets & Gizmos. He covers sprayable sleep, cows imitating zebras to ward off mosquitoes, crows collecting cigarette butts, NFTs, self-parking slippers, KFC chicken-tasting nail polish, the first human head transplant, the Skunklock noxious bike lock, Refrigerdating, the robot dog flamethrower, ant populated gin and how to make pain relief pills 10 times more effective.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Starmer & the EU, Is Reeves' growth speech enough and Trump & Gaza

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Starmer & the EU, Is Reeves' growth speech enough and Trump & Gaza
While "Never Here" Keir Starmer thinks the UK can reset its position with the EU, political commentator Mike Indian believes the government is viewing the stagnating EU with rose-tinted spectacles and that this will not be a panacea for our financial troubles. Despite talking about it a great deal, the government has done little so far to promote growth and Reeves' recent speech highlighting a third runway at Heathrow will do little to change that. We need a better-connected country and should be encouraging local mutuals. Mike finds Trump's ideas for Gaza irresponsible and risks plunging the region back into conflict.
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Mike Indian

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: IntelliAM & UK consumer trends

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: IntelliAM & UK consumer trends
Finlay Mathers of Edison Group thinks investors should keep an eye on IntelliAM which uses AI software to provide solutions to target inefficiencies for companies in the FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods) sector. Able significantly to reduce the time equipment lies idle, it is small but has really great growth potential. He also looks at the way profit forecasts in the consumer sector are proving more resilient than their underperforming share prices would suggest. He discusses which sectors and companies are doing well and will continue to succeed.
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Finlay Mathers

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The Bigger Picture: What Labour is getting right (& the Tories wrong) and Trump's Executive Orders

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: What Labour is getting right (& the Tories wrong) and Trump's Executive Orders
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that there was much in Rachel Reeves's recent speech, including her desire to see expansion at Heathrow, that was sensible and should have been done years ago by the Tories. But there was no realisation that her Budget had been disastrous, particularly on taxation. The Conservatives, though, are going about opposition in totally the wrong way and should recognise that there is a higher calling. With Trump's issuing of so many Executive Orders – so many his opponents will have trouble pushing back on all of them – he feels that America has almost discovered a monarchical system of government. But although some Europeans may be envious of the can-do spirit, he worries whether the polarisation of American politics may portend darker days ahead.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Flight Risk, Bank of Dave 2 - The Loan Ranger & the Oscar nominations

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Flight Risk, Bank of Dave 2 - The Loan Ranger & the Oscar nominations
James Cameron-Wilson says that box office is down 21%, although A Complete Unknown remains #1. The Mel Gibson thriller Flight Risk is #4 with Michelle Dockery and Mark Wahlberg excellent in a well-produced, tight piece of hokum which actually drew a round of applause in the cinema. On Netflix, James found Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger with Rory Kinnear, about the iniquity of payday lenders, superior to the first film. It's more believable and he was perfectly engaged. He also discusses the Oscar nominations, including the snubs, the disappointments and the surprises.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: DeepSeek and how to circumvent Chinese censorship

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Gadgets & Gizmos: DeepSeek and how to circumvent Chinese censorship
Share Radio's tech guru Steve Caplin discusses the Chinese AI DeepSeek, which he finds as good, if not better, than previous AI programs. Although it is heavily censored when it comes to China, Steve explains how you can get around it, even to read about "Tank Man". There's also an omnidirectional bike, a motorbike-cum-dirt-bike-cum-snowmobile, a watch with a mechanical snake, an expensive watch-winding gizmo and a fantastic-looking Dutch super sub.
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The ramifications of Deep Seek for UK investors

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The ramifications of Deep Seek for UK investors
Russ Mould of A J Bell looks at the disruption to US AI stocks caused by the arrival onto the scene of Deep Seek. If it indeed turns out to be cheaper to train and run, then it throws an enormous spanner in the wheels of the American tech stocks. It also shows just how incredibly volatile those highly-priced shares are. Russ recalls that after previous tech bubbles burst, those stocks went into the deep freeze for long periods. In the UK most of our silicon tech stocks have been taken over so we are less affected and perhaps the inherent value of the UK market will offer some protection.
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Russ Mould

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The Business of Film: A Complete Unknown, Wolf Man & Back in Action

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: A Complete Unknown, Wolf Man & Back in Action
James Cameron-Wilson reports on box office -13% but still up on 2024, with Wicked becoming last year's most successful film with £59.6m. The musical biopic of Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, with Timothy Chalomet and Edward Norton is the new #1. Despite great performances, with little narrative momentum, it might be mainly for fans. The tedious and unbelievable Wolf Man limps in at #7. James found Netflix's spy thriller Back in Action, the return from retirement of Cameron Diaz, all very silly and over the top, despite some good stunts. The Oscar nominations were coming out during recording so James gives his first thoughts on who's in and who's out.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Digital driving licences, AI videos & AI screenwriting and a robot turtle

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: Digital driving licences, AI videos & AI screenwriting and a robot turtle
Steve Caplin on the latest tech. Digital driving licences are coming to the UK. BT's 60,000 car charger plan produced just one – and it's out of order. There are bird-watching binoculars with stabilisation. The YouTube video on the founding of Porsche looks amazingly expensive – but it was all done with AI. There's a crowdfunded long-throw projector for giant screens and a smaller projector which folds to fit in your pocket. Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver, thinks AI's plotlines are better than humans can come up with. And Steve discusses a robot turtle for tracking marine animals and an underwater drone for treasure hunting.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Trump's return as President, UK infrastructure & how safe is Rachel Reeves?

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Trump's return as President, UK infrastructure & how safe is Rachel Reeves?
Political commentator Mike Indian says that Trump's return to the White House represents a pivot back to US isolationism which leaves a void to be filled and means a less secure world. Despite outward appearances, he feels that Trump's Presidency should not be seen as normal. The UK Government's removal of legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects is, he says, a welcome development. While the Chancellor is under pressure from increasingly nervous money markets, Mike feels it is too early to write Rachel Reeves off yet, pointing out that her fortunes are very much bound up with Sir Keir Starmer.
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Mike Indian

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