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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: High-Flying Tech

29/08/2014

High-Flying Tech

BBC World Service - Tech Life, High-Flying Tech

Google reveals it is working on pilot-less planes.

Google reveals it is working to create pilot-less planes. And what Amazon wants with videogame site Twitch. Presented by Zoe Kleinman.

First came driver-less cars. Now Google reveals it is working on planes without pilots. A key adviser to Facebook is urging the company to protect users from stumbling across gruesome videos by making them click their consent before they can view them. We speak to him and ask whether access to such content is justified in the public interest to reflect the state of the world around us. Why has retail giant Amazon stumped up nearly $1billion to buy a niche video-streaming service popular with gamers? We'll ask one of the stars of the site whether he's worried it will lose its character under Amazon's ownership. And as a video blogger who posted a film complaining about the misogynistic portayal of women in computer games herself becomes the target of hate messages and threats, we discuss whether her concerns are justified, and how to address them if they are.

Presented by Zoe Kleinman, with Leo Kelion and Dave Lee from the BBC Online Tech Desk and special guest Eileen Burbidge, venture capitalist from Passion Capital.

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