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Future Cops: How Technology Is Set to Change Policing
The sci-fi vision of police officers rushing to the scene of a crime before any crime has even been committed may be rather far-fetched but technology is increasingly...
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What Would Happen If All Satellites Stopped Working?
We may not always realise it, but we depend on space technology orbiting the Earth.
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U.S. Spy Chief Clapper Defends PRISM and Phone Surveillance
U.S. spy chief James Clapper has strongly defended government surveillance programmes after revelations of phone records being collected and internet servers being...
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Html5 Webpage Locks 'would Stifle Innovation'
The Electronic Freedom Foundation objects to the World Wide Web Consortium's plans to include ways to digitally lock media in HTML5.
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German Railways to Test Anti-Graffiti Drones
The idea is to use airborne infra-red cameras to collect evidence, which could then be used to prosecute vandals who deface property at night.
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How to Hack a Nation's Infrastructure
I'm watching a live video feed of people visiting a cafe in London.
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Why Google and the Pentagon Want 'quantum Computers'
Imagine a computer that can teach your mobile phone to recognize any object it sees, or one that can instantly find optimal travel routes for thousands of planes...
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Robot Truck Platoons Roll Forward
Imagine cruising down a three-lane highway and rounding a bend to find four trucks rolling along in single-file. They are all traveling close together—perhaps too...
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Radical Roads Drive Robot Cars
Los Angeles has completed the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system, synchronizing its 4,400 traffic lights.
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Will We Ever… Communicate Telepathically?
In a lab at Harvard Medical School, a man is using his mind to wag a rat's tail.
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China to Create Home-Grown Operating System
China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.
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Internet of Things: Trash Talk Signals Mobile Future
Wander through the historic streets of the Roman city of Bath in the U.K., and you might sense that they are smarter than average. And you would be right.
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Facebook 'likes' Predict Personality
Researchers at Cambridge University used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation.
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Lars Rasmussen: The Brains Behind Facebook's Future
For a man that made his career out of helping millions of people find their way around, Lars Rasmussen is frank about his own navigational shortcomings.
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The Road to Uncovering a Wartime Colossus
The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner...
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Self-Driving Car Given Uk Test Run at Oxford University
Oxford University researchers have developed a self-driving car that uses lasers and small cameras, rather than GPS, to direct the vehicle along regular routes. ...
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Behind the Scenes of Latin America's Internet 'brain'
It may be one of central Miami's most recognisable buildings, yet only a few people know what goes on inside the sturdy concrete block with massive spheres on its...
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Computer Science Part of English Baccalaureate
Britain is adding computer science to its English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and will count the subject as a science option toward the qualification. A panel of technology...
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Computer Code Frees S to Think in New Ways
Throughout this past year, U.K. Education Secretary Michael Gove was on a campaign to replace the British schools' ICT curriculum with a computer science program...
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