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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: Girl Power and Solar Power

18/07/2014

Girl Power and Solar Power

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Girl Power and Solar Power

Jane Wakefield on the latest stories in the tech world.

Microsoft's future becomes clear - it involves major job cuts. Why women in the Middle East seem to fare better in tech than their western counterparts. And a ride in a solar car.

As the big tech companies renew their focus on business computing, Microsoft's future becomes clearer - it involves major job cuts. 

Also, why do women in the Middle East seem to do better in getting into tech than their Western counterparts? And, we ride in a solar car called STELLA and consider how soon we could be buying fully solar-powered vehicles.

Presented by Jane Wakefield, with special guest Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan, senior researcher at BT and the company's most prolific female inventor. Also featuring Dave Lee from the BBC online technology desk and LJ Rich from BBC TV's Click.

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