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Graham Fraser
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Senior Journalist with BBC Scotland News ✍🏻 🎥 📻 | Interested in Tech/Innovation/Science/Arts/Culture | Musician 🎵 | Love a good book 📚 | graham.fraser@bbc.co.uk 📧
Two Scottish tech projects are among 14 from across the UK that will benefit from funding designed to help boost local and regional businesses

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October 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some personal news - I am rejoining the brilliant team at BBC Scotland News.

Since last summer, I have been a Senior Reporter with the fab Tech team at BBC News on maternity cover, and I have had an amazing time!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Send me your story ideas for all things tech/science/arts/culture in Scotland!
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A man has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow.

I reported on the story for the BBC News at One.

Read more from Imran Rahman-Jones and Joe Tidy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Major US tech firms have pledged tens of billions of pounds worth of investment, with Nvidia's Jensen Huang predicting the UK will become an "AI superpower".

I appeared on last night's Scotcast to chat with Laura Miller about it

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September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Major US tech firms pledge tens of billions of pounds of investment in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have been reporting on the story on Radio 4 and Radio Scotland, and I really enjoyed making my Scotcast debut with the brilliant Laura Miller

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September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I was presenting this week's episode of Tech Life on the BBC World Service

- What happened to DeepSeek? @lilyjamali.bsky.social reports

- AI2027: Is this how AI might destroy humanity? @joetidy.bsky.social reports

- Alasdair Keane interviews Volvo’s tech lead

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August 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
There can't have been too many times in the history of the BBC where a reporter introduced their piece on the radio by playing ABBA on a tuba 😀🎵💃

📻 I spoke with Imogen Heap, Yael Naim, Deezer's Alexis Lanternier and Sacem's Cécile Rap-Veber about music and AI

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July 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Should children have a bigger voice in the debate about the future of AI? They are among those most likely to be impacted, and they are the least represented.

I interviewed Dr Mhairi Aitken of the Alan Turing Institute to find out more.

📻 19:01

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July 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I was in the presenter's chair for this week's episode of Tech Life on the BBC World Service

- The future of the internet is up for debate
- I interview Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia
- I speak with a teenage inventor of a toxic dust detector

Listen 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
July 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How do we solve the problem of hallucination in AI?

Maybe the answer is the AI saying 'I don't know'.

For Tech Life on the BBC World Service, I spoke with William Tunstall-Pedoe, the CEO of Unlikely AI and one of the minds behind the Amazon Alexa, to find out more.

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June 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Messi and Ronaldo don’t need to worry, but the robot can pass better than me ⚽️

Just one of the many cool things I saw over the past few days at SXSW London. Clip from Jasmine Rose Federer at WPP.

Great talks and not too much rain. My interviews will be broadcast soon 📻
June 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I was in the presenter's chair for this week's edition of Tech Life on the BBC World Service. We covered:

- Grief tech
- Tech solutions to food waste
- Making Formula 1 more eco-friendly
- Digital art

📻 Listen on BBC Sounds
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May 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It has been another busy day on the Tech news desk!

M&S cyber-attack developments
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK exposes Russian cyber campaign targeting support for Ukraine
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was on the BBC News channel earlier with the latest
May 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Skype ended this week. I reported on the story for a number of BBC News outlets, including the website and Radio 4's Six O'Clock News.

For Tech Life on the World Service, I interviewed some of the people whose lives were impacted by Skype (from 20 mins)

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May 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On this week’s Tech Life:

- Banking outages
- I find out more about the Digital Cooperation Organization, and the Saudi Arabian woman who runs it
- I meet a Space Architect (!) to find out how people could live on the Moon and Mars 🚀

Listen now on BBC Sounds 📻

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March 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It was a pleasure to present Tech Life on the BBC World Service this week.

I was joined by my two brilliant colleagues from the US - Lily Jamali and Ben Derico

📻 Listen now to the podcast on BBC Sounds

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March 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Very busy day - I spent the morning reporting live on the banking outage on BBC TV and radio, and in the afternoon I was writing about the end of Skype.

Read more:

Bank outages
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Microsoft announces Skype will close in May
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
An international law firm has blocked general access to several AI tools after it found a "significant increase in usage" by its staff.

Read all the latest:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have also been reporting on the story this morning on the BBC News channel and on BBC radio.
February 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📻 I was presenting this week's Tech Life from the BBC World Service.

On the programme:
- Does the robotaxi have a future?🚕
- I ask the experts how AI will impact your job 🖥️
- Eimear Devlin on a new music discovery tool 🎶

Produced by the fantastic Imran Rahman-Jones

Listen - lnkd.in/dwX34yvH
December 18, 2024 at 5:30 PM
I am very proud to say I am making my BBC Click debut this weekend on TV. My piece is all about AI and jobs.

Tune in on the BBC News channel and iPlayer.

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December 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM