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How tech is transforming the way the world works, learns and plays

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Kickstarter raises $1bn in pledged money.

07/03/2014

Kickstarter raises $1bn in pledged money.

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Kickstarter raises $1bn in pledged money.

Kickstarter crowdfunding raises $1bn in pledged money. Will it hurt venture capital?

Kickstarter crowdfunding raises $1bn in pledged cash. Will it hurt venture capital? Also, a long-running call centre scam just got even nastier. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

Kickstarter crowdfunding raises $1bn in pledged cash. Will it hurt venture capital? Also, a long-running Indian call centre scam just got nastier. And is there a merging of robotics and wearable tech? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones. With special guest Avid Larizadeh, co-founder of online boutique Boticca, and members of the BBC Online Tech Desk team Neil Bowdler, Dave Lee, and Mark Ward.

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