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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: Squeeze on Samsung

10/10/2014

Squeeze on Samsung

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Squeeze on Samsung

Samsung's shocking profit warning and its low-cost Chinese competitors

Samsung issues a shocking profit warning as it faces a squeeze from low-cost Chinese competitors in its mobile devices market.

Can Samsung bounce back from its shocking profit warning this week? We hear what an institution the company is in its home country, and why its electronics division is facing problems. 

The US military has been recruiting gamers to become combat drone pilots. We speak to the Oslo-based documentary film-maker Tonje Hessen Schei who interviewed some of those recruits for her new film "Drone".

The head of Europol's Cyber Crime Centre Troels Oerting tells us how only a handful of rogue programmers are behind most of the world's cyberattacks.

And is the importance of sound effects in videogames overlooked?

Broadcast live from the UK's Technopop science and technology festival in East London. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Dave Lee and Jane Wakefield from the BBC online technology desk, and special guest Paul McKnight from Vex Robotics.

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