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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 Life: Have apps helped tackle the pandemic?

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09/07/2021 GMT

Have apps helped tackle the pandemic?

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Have apps helped tackle the pandemic?

Did exposure and contact tracing apps live up to the hopes for them?

Did exposure and contact tracing apps live up to the hopes for them? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones. Produced by Jat Gill.

Did exposure and contact tracing apps live up to the hopes for them? Plus, how ransomware-as-a-service is becoming a serious cyber threat. And new laws in the US could give people access to the information and parts they need to repair, rather than replace, their devices. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporters Chris Vallance and Cody Godwin. Produced by Jat Gill.

(Image: Hands of people at a picnic with their phones and face masks, Credit: Getty Images).

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