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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Futureproof Extra: Sign Language Translator

For all that we like to mock it, Google translate is a really impressive and useful piece of technology which is allowing people from different linguistic backgrounds to communicate in a way that was previously not possible. There are of course still communities who cannot avail of this type of technology. One obvious example is the deaf community. But perhaps that’s about to change. Professor Alan Smeaton from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in DCU joined Jonathan in studio to discuss.