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12:15 PM.Foley is the art of recreating sounds that then get added back into films or TV shows or video games to make them sound better. Amy Barber and Jonathan Bruce work as Foley mixers, editors and artists… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:01 PM.Foley artists, the sound of silence, frogs and noise, and China's plans to dominate the entertainment industry. Audio

1:50 PM.How on earth did a French tyre company get into rating restaurants?! Alex Mayyasi's written a history of the Michelin guides for priceonomics.com. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:40 PM.Dr Chris Smith with the latest science news and a chemical key that could be used to unclog arteries and fight heart disease. Also the secrets of the honeyguide bird and a new way to store data using… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Sam Hickmann's designed a smartwatch targeted at children. It aims to prompt them into doing their chores and managing themselves, and its crowdfunding campaign has just closed having raised about $1… Read more Audio

12:50 PM.Peter Griffin on Pokemon Go!; the game's now banned in many countries over concerns about US-sponsored surveillance. Meanwhile a Pokemon-based dating app lets players hook up in real life. Plus what… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.Jeremy Jones of Auramer Bio is aiming to shake up traditional medical testing technology, using short lengths of DNA called aptamers. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Dan Lyons was a senior tech journalist who lost his job and joined a tech startup run by people half his age. As well as helping his work as a comedy writer on the hit TV series Silicon Valley, his… Read more Audio

1:42 PM.Writing obituaries is a dying art. Memorialising the lives and the deaths of the rich and the famous tends to be done online, often in 140 characters or less. One place where the tradition and the art… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.When you bend your knees, do you ever hear cracking and popping? Research engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a knee brace that records the sounds inside your knee joint… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.It's been described as 'an anomalous sound heard around the world', a low frequency noise documented by thousands of people, including hundreds of reported cases here in NZ, since it was first… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Simon Morton meets the many people stumbling about as they play Pokemon Go, and tries to find out why this blockbuster app might change gaming forever from New Yorker writer Om Malik. There's a visit… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:40 PM.George Block of consumer.org.nz reviews the best dehumidifiers on the market that can cope with New Zealand homes and conditions. With many models on the market being tested in tropical conditions… Read more Audio