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403. Fungi, women in prison and Facebook AI

403. Fungi, women in prison and Facebook AI

Update: 2024-10-25
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Will fungi get their own kingdom, alongside plants and animals? Do we send too many women to jail? And what is Meta doing with facial recognition? Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Holden Frith, Rebekah Evans and Suchandrika Chakrabarti

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