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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.

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Tech Desires

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What makes a tech company attractive? And lessons from the UK's 80s home computer scene.

What makes a tech company attractive? And the lessons for today's startups from the UK's 80s home computer scene. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones.

As Microsoft buys UK Artificial Intelligence firm SwiftKey, we ask leading venture capitalist Saul Klein what investors are looking for in a tech company. Plus we speak to Joyce Kim of Stellar on trying to slash the cost of money transfers in Nigeria. And Tom Lean, author of the new book "Electronic Dreams" tells us what today's startups can learn from the 1980s home computer revolution in the UK.

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with guest Marieme Jamme, and Chris Baraniuk from the BBC Online tech desk. (Picture: NASDAQ Stock Exchange in New York, Credit: Getty Images).

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