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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: Social Media's growing pains

31/10/2014

Social Media's growing pains

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Social Media's growing pains

More adverts coming on Twitter, the tech sector in North Korea, and hacker culture.

More adverts coming on Twitter, the tech sector in North Korea, and a world expert on Anonymous and hacker culture. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

Twitter plans to carry more advertising, but will users put up with it? We ask Adam Bain, the company's Global VP of Revenue. What kind of tech industry is there in North Korea, a nation in which internet access is blocked for ordinary citizens? The BBC's Steve Evans finds out. And we discuss hacker culture and the Anonymous collective with anthropologist Gabriella Coleman who has written a book about the movement.

Our special guest is Victoria Richardson, worldwide mobile payments expert from the company Consult Hyperion. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Leo Kelion and Dave Lee from the BBC Online Technology Desk.

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