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Digital Planet, the Glossary

Digital Planet (previously known as Click and originally Go Digital) was a radio programme broadcast on the BBC World Service presented by Gareth Mitchell.^[1]

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Airplane

An airplane (North American English) or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC News (international TV channel)

BBC News (known as BBC World News until 2023) is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd.

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BBC News (TV channel)

The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bill Thompson (technology writer)

William George Thompson (born 6 October 1960) is an English technology writer, best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on Digital Planet, a radio show on the BBC World Service.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.

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Calculation

A calculation is a deliberate mathematical process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more outputs or results.

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Click (TV programme)

Click (formerly Click Online) is a weekly BBC television programme covering technology news and recent developments in the world of technology and the Internet, presented by Spencer Kelly and Lara Lewington.

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Cure

A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured.

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Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Gareth Mitchell

Gareth Mitchell is a Welsh technology journalist, lecturer and former broadcast engineer.

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Ghislaine Boddington

Ghislaine Boddington (born 11 October 1962) is a British artist, curator, presenter and director specialising in body responsive technologies, immersive experiences and collective embodiment, pioneering it as 'hyper-enhancement of the senses' and 'hyper-embodiment' since the late 80s.

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HD DVD

HD DVD (short for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is an obsolete.

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Jamie Bartlett (journalist)

Jamie Bartlett is a British author and journalist, primarily for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Radio programming

Radio programming is the process of organising a schedule of radio content for commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting by radio stations.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

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The Dark Net

The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld is a 2014 nonfiction book by Jamie Bartlett.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers.

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Website

A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Planet

Also known as Click (radio programme), Go Digital.