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	Podcast:		As It Happens from CBC Radio
	Episode:		Is the world ready for a wearable, AI “friend”?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:55:53
	Publish Date:		2025-09-08 23:10:00
	Description:		A new wearable A-I pendant called Friend -- which is meant to be your friend -- has turned out to be more of a frenemy at best. A tech writer tells us about his toxic relationship with it. Russia unleashes its largest-ever drone attack on Ukraine. A shaken teacher in Kyiv tells me about how he escaped from his apartment building, when it became a target. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate in eastern Pakistan; a reporter there describes the apocalyptic extent of this year's monsoon-season flooding. The '80s rock group Foreigner makes things awkward, by RSVP-ing as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding band, even though they weren't invited in the first place. Toronto is in a cat-and-mouse game with vandals who have cut down a speed camera seven times now. A local tells us a second camera pointed at that first camera hasn't made a bit of difference. Growth opportunity. Scientists uncover a clue to the evolutionary origins of the thing protruding from the forehead of a ratfish -- a fleshy, bulbous appendage equipped with teeth and used, disturbingly, during mating. As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that warns you not to click on this attachment.
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