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The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team started the year discussing the procure fallout from the storming of the White House and done it discussing IT and climate commerce, relating bees and datacentres alongside the capability
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- Brian McKenna,
Enterprise Purposes Editor - Caroline Donnelly,
Senior Editor, UK - Clare McDonald,
Enterprise Editor
Printed: 31 Dec 2021 9: 00
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team of Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna started the year talking referring to the online shenanigans surrounding the Trumpian insurrection in opposition to the Capitol Building in Washington on 6 January.
Invoice Goodwin also took the team, in a podcast in February, deeper into US and US-centric political conspiracy theories, and Karl Flinders appeared on the podcast to talk referring to the Put up Situation of enterprise scandal.
Wait on in April, Sebastian Klovig Skelton linked worker resistance in the gig financial system, the summer season saw a gentle discourse on bees and datacentres from Caroline, and the autumn conference season realized Clare talking referring to the high girls in UK tech.
Between these episodes, and one other which featured Beyoncé’s stand in opposition to info analytics excesses in the music enterprise, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, place in an look on the podcast, albeit at a take away, interviewed on-stage by Bryan Glick, Computer Weekly’s editor-in-chief. Puffins, counted by man made intelligence throughout their mating season, also figured.
The podcast “energy trio” of Caroline, Clare and Brian largely talked all year prolonged about their very hold areas of coverage: respectively, cloud, datacentres and IR35; diversity, expertise and retail; and info analytics and enterprise applications.
They, and other team members, talked in a more non-public vein about their experiences of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and its privations and compensations, as they did in 2020. This time spherical, we heard about Karl’s running exploits and Alex Scroxton’s anticipations of put up-lockdown visits to the theatre, as well to harbingers of Christmas, alongside side crafting and the spooky thrills of Halloween.
The team closed the year out, over two episodes, with reflections on IT and the climate emergency, in the light of COP26 in Glasgow.
1. Parler vs AWS, digital education, ambulance info
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna talk about the purgation of Parler, the traumas of digital education and the South Central Ambulance Provider’s expend of information to give a resolve to their operations throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
2. Disinformation and the US DNC emails leak controversy
The team are joined by Computer Weekly’s Investigations editor Invoice Goodwin to talk about the scheme of disinformation in the 2016 Democratic Nationwide Committee emails leak.
3. Put up Situation of enterprise Horizon and the subpostmasters’ justice fight
Karl Flinders joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald, and Brian McKenna to talk about the Put up Situation of enterprise Horizon system that brought havoc to the lives of subpostmasters.
4. Uber drivers’ resistance and the gig financial system
Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Sebastian Klovig Skelton to talk about the actual marketing campaign by Uber drivers for the most effective to be recognised as workers.
5. CyberUK, bees and datacentres, Crimson Gruesome digital mapping
Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Alex Scroxton, Computer Weekly’s security editor, to talk about CyberUK, bees and datacentres, and the British Crimson Gruesome’ expend of digital mapping to strive in opposition to Covid-19.
6. Computing checks, AI, water and datacentres
Clare McDonald, Brian McKenna and Caroline Donnelly talk about A-level and GCSE computing results, AI appropriacy and datacentre water consumption.
7. Chancellor Rishi Sunak listens to UK tech
Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick joins the podcast team to talk about his interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, at a Treasury Join conference.
8. High girls in UK tech, AI on puffin island
On this episode, the team discusses Computer Weekly’s annual programme to design shut the most influential girls in UK tech, as well to Newham Sparks, and puffin-counting AI.
9. COP26: IT and climate commerce
Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna are joined by Ryan Priest to talk about IT’s scheme in combating climate commerce, as well to YouTube’s non permanent expulsion of Novara Media from its platform.
10. COP26 reflections, tech sector reacts to Sunak on expertise
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna replicate on datacentres and climate commerce, the tech sector’s reaction to govt IT expertise investment, and the Put up Situation of enterprise scandal.
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