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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: Money and Power

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17/04/2015

Money and Power

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Money and Power

Your weekly status update on the technology business with Rory Cellan-Jones.

Europe gets tough with Google, "Moore's Law" turns 50, and a new cash machine that its claimed is more secure and cheaper to run. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

The European Union accuses Google of abusing its dominant market position in search to promote its own shopping service. We hear from a complainant and get a counterview from James Waterworth from the industry body CCIA. As "Moore's Law" on the pace of development in computer chips turns 50 years old this weekend, we speak to co-authors of the book "The Second Machine Age" Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee from MIT on whether future progress will depend more on software than silicon. Plus, a new cash machine that's claimed to be more secure, and more cost-effective for developing countries. And Zoe Kleinman tries to use Bitcoin in the Isle of Man.

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Leo Mirani of Quartz. Image: Rory Cellan-Jones photographed by a new type of ATM.

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