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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: Stranger than Fiction

19/12/2014

Stranger than Fiction

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Stranger than Fiction

Sony Pictures pulls the film The Inteview because of a cyberattack and online threats

Sony Pictures pulls a major new movie, The Interview, because of a cyberattack and online threats. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Dave Lee and Jane Wakefield.

Sony Pictures pulls a major new movie because of a cyberattack and online threats, but who carried out the hacking that led them to cancel it? 

Microsoft reveals a real-time voice translation tool for Skype users, and we give it a try. Gavin Andresen from the Bitcoin Foundation tells us the real potential for the technology in the coming year. And researcher Antonio Espingardeiro on how toys are bringing robotics into the home. 

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with Dave Lee and Jane Wakefield from the BBC Online tech desk.

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