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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.

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Tech Life: Streams and Satellites

26/06/2015

Streams and Satellites

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Streams and Satellites

Taylor Swift forces Apple's hand while Google launches a free music streaming service.

Taylor Swift forces Apple's hand - Chris Cooke of CMU analyses who's winning in streaming. Sir Richard Branson on why he's backing a constellation of 600 communication satellites.

Taylor Swift forces a backdown over royalties from Apple - Chris Cooke of CMU on who's winning the music streaming battle. Sir Richard Branson on using a constellation of 600 communications satellites to connnect remote parts of the world to the Net. And Dave Lee sits in on the recording of match commentary for the next FIFA videogame. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Sydney Padua, author of the graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage".

(Picture: Taylor Swift, Credit: AP).

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