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Everyone and their cousin seemingly have a podcast, but not all podcasts are created equal. With new and returning podcasts coming on the scene every week, it can be hard to figure out what to listen to. This week's topics include refuge, tunnels, schools, Dolly Parton, and asteroids.

Game of Thrones might be over, but HBO is staying in the epic fantasy business. His Dark Materials, based Philip Pullman's popular YA series, tells the story of a young girl who runs afoul of a big conspiracy while searching for her lost friend. Here's everything that we know so far.

On this episode of Digital Trends Live, hosts Greg Nibler and Luke Larsen discuss the biggest trending stories in tech, including reviews of the Nintendo Switch Lite, the BBC’s new virtual assistant, KFC and Beyond Meat's team-up, a secret Air Force space plane's new record, and more.

The Queen's English is the British accent we know. But that's not how all British people speak. Some speak a far more accented English, so much so that virtual assistants may not be able to understand them. The BBC has a solution in the form of a new virtual assistant, and it's called Beeb.

Not content to simply have its own dedicated podcasts app, Google is now letting people find podcasts from within its web search, and play the most recent episodes inside a dedicated web-player. The move comes after the BBC recently decided to pull all of its podcasts from Google's platforms.

In the latest subscription streaming announcement, Discovery has unveiled its plan to launch a nonfiction on-demand service with the BBC, giving exclusive rights to stream such monster hits as Planet Earth and Blue Planet, along with Discovery titles. It's expected to launch in 2020 for around $5 per month.

In what is beginning to look like a power play over the control of content, the BBC has pulled all of its podcasts from Google platforms like Google Podcasts and Google Home, leaving fans of the content in search of alternatives ways to access their favorite podcast shows.

The BBC is asking the California Federal Court to help it discover who leaked footage from an upcoming season of Doctor Who, one of its most popular shows. The content was shared on the Tapatalk app, and the BBC hopes the court can compel the California-based company to reveal the source.

The BBC already offers the iPlayer Radio app featuring huge amounts of its content, but the British media giant has now launched a whole new offering with the same content but with improved functionality. The free app is designed to be a more modern offering and will eventually replace the iPlayer Radio alternative.

The BBC has expanded its Computer Literacy Archive with hundreds of documentary episodes from the 1980s and 1990s to showcase just how far we've come in computing in the last few decades and look back on classic hardware like the BBC Micro. The archive also includes 160+ classic programs that can be run in modern web browsers.

It was a year ago when a chaotic BBC interview turned Robert Kelly and his family into overnight stars. So, how's life been since?

'Black Mirror' is one of the most unique shows around, and Netflix knows what the fans want. The anthology series will be back for a fifth season.

The new pre-apocalyptic conspiracy thriller Hard Sun follows two London cops as they uncover the truth about the future of the world, a secret that powerful government forces are desperate to keep hidden.

The Centre for Argument Technology teamed up with the BBC to produce tools using artificial intelligence to sharpen your debating skills.

The creators of the award-winning Sherlock television series will reportedly take on a Dracula TV series next.

Twitter is now working alongside the BBC for its latest live-streaming collaboration, bringing coverage of the U.K. election.

Microsoft Research's Haiyan Zhang has created a wearable device known as the Emma to help a Parkinson's sufferer draw and write.

A BBC film crew had a lucky escape recently when Italy's Mount Etna suddenly erupted while they were filming close to the crater.

Love British TV? Then a new video-on-demand service called BritBox may appeal. It launched this week and offers a week-long free trial.

Orphan Black fans have a premiere date for the fifth and final season, when they'll get to see what happens to Sarah and the other clones.

A new BBC documentary series is hiding cameras inside animatronic animals to get an unusual glimpse of wildlife -- and their emotions.