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Podcast: Tech and Science Daily | The Standard
Episode: UK 2G switch-off warning, Britain’s airborne climate lab grounded, sodium-ion battery cold-weather leap, TfL refreshes Baby on Board badges
Description: London gets a tiny-but-mighty commute update as TfL redesigns the Baby on Board badge — because sometimes a bit of visual signalling does more than a thousand glares. Alan Leer also breaks down the government’s latest numbers on getting a million people online, plus what the UK’s 2G switch-off guidance means for older phones and those sneaky “smart” devices you forgot even exist. After the break, it’s a proper science gut-punch: Nature reports the UK’s main airborne climate and pollution research aircraft is being switched off. Then we end on a brighter note with a Nature Communications sodium-ion bat...