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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Presented by Aleks Krotoski and produced by Jason Phipps with Alex Hern, Jemima Kiss, Charles Arthur and Samuel Gibbs

Tech Weekly podcast: love and the digital world

This week in Tech Weekly Aleks Krotoski explores the tender (or should that be tinder) side of tech. Yes, with romance in the air, new research backs up suggests matchmaking is a digital affair in 2014, with dating websites playing an ever-greater role in getting hitched. Amanda Lenhart from Pew Internet talks to Aleks about her team's report, which deals with technology, social media and relationships and follows their own research into finding love, published last year. Click here to read the full report.

Guardian tech writers Charles Arthur, Alex Hern and Samuel Gibbs join Aleks to discuss this week's tech news, including a notable break-up in the tech world as Sony falls out of love with the the laptop business. Plus: Flappy Birds becomes a huge global hit, implodes ... then becomes an even greater indie gaming hit.

Finally, Hugh Hancock creator of the first film based on Warcraft Machinima, Death Knight Love Story, talks to Jemima Kiss about the machinima technique of film-making.

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