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New data shows an increase in stalkerware use. This is software that grants a remote user the ability to monitor the activity on another user\\u2019s device without their consent, and can be preloaded in technology given as gifts. It\\u2019s an increasing problem around the world according to the cybersecurity form Kaspersky. Tara Hairston from Kaspersky and Sachiko Hasumi, Manager of Information Security & Compliance at UN Women highlight the growing problem as part of the UN\\u2019s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women this week.

Robots are not immune to bias and injustice\\nAn editorial in Science Robotics is calling on roboticists and AI developers to consider racial biases and inequalities when developing new technology. Professor Ayanna Howard who co-leads the organisation \\u201cBlack in Robotics\\u201d wants the robotics community to welcome and employ a more racially diverse workforce as current developers do not reflect the global population and both robotics and AI are therefore being developed without many people in mind.

Military tech adapted to find the blue whales of South Georgia \\nScientists who have discovered the return of critically endangered Antarctic blue whales to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia - 50 years after whaling all but wiped them out - used military sonobuoys to track the animals. This tech is usually deployed from aircraft into the sea to track submarines. The team looked at 30 years of data \\u2013 reports of sightings, photographs and underwater sea recordings \\u2013 to track the world\\u2019s largest mammal back to these waters. The new study follows recent research that humpback whales are also returning to the region. Lead author of the study, Susannah Calderan of the Scottish Association for Marine Science explains how they are using sonobuoys to track blue whales hundreds of miles away.

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Bill Thompson.

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Studio manager: John Boland\\nProducer: Ania Lichtarowicz