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Rachelle Abbott and Rochelle Travers

Cop 28: World’s ‘most important’ climate summit begins - Tech & Science Daily podcast

World leaders have gathered in Dubai for COP28 but can a climate summit in an oil state facilitate change?

King Charles III and Rishi Sunak will be in attendance, along with dozens of other prominent global figures, and some 70,000 other attendees.

Climate activist and campaigner, Greta Thunberg, has previously called these UN climate summits just “blah, blah, blah”. The world will be watching closely to see what can be achieved at this year’s event.

Spotify Wrapped 2023 has landed. There’s a new global artist of the year meaning Bad Bunny’s three-year reign has come to an end.

The popular shareable personalised data roundup, has got a few new features this time for its users too, including “sound town,” that matches you with a city which shares a similar taste in music based on what you’ve listened to over the past 12 months.

In other annual tech round up news, Apple and Google have named their apps and games of the year - but there’s a surprising omission. There’s been criticism online over why ChatGPT was not chosen for either tech giant considering its global impact.

And the rest

Elon Musk has slammed advertisers that have left X warning they will kill it. Some firms have paused advertising on the platform formerly known as Twitter amid concerns over antisemitism.

Study finds PrEP, the preventative HIV drug ‘highly effective’, a disc vital to forming stars and planets found outside Milky Way in astronomical first and Edinburgh Zoo pandas say bye to the UK.

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