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Welcome to TechLife on the BBC World Service, the program about how tech changes all of our lives around the world. I'm Imran Rahman Jones and today we've got three stories for you on the

influence of big tech companies on our everyday lives, from what we see on the big screen,

the small screen, and even possibly how we talk. We'll start with Amazon, who've recently

taken over creative control of the James Bond film franchise. It's raised questions over how

they'll use data on our viewing habits to help write the scripts

or even pick their star actors.

We analyse the characters and we make casting propositions.

Then we're talking about Google Translate and its role in preserving languages at risk.

We speak to a computer scientist about her years-long

campaign to get her native language onto the translation app. I was ready to give the project out

because no one believed in it. They saw it as impossible. And we'll end with YouTube, which has

just turned 20 years old.

We'll hear how it's changed the lives look at how big tech shapes the film industry.

Because in the last few days, one of the world's biggest film franchises, James Bond,

has been taken over by Amazon. Many fans were not happy with fears over how the tech giant

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