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How to Get Into the Games Industry–An Insiders' Guide
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How to Get Into the Games Industry–An Insiders' Guide

At this year's Bafta video game awards, one of the most telling moments was when Dr Who producer Steven Moffat took to the stage and declared "[Games] are going...

Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security

In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...

Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'
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Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'

Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.

Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser
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Grand Theft Auto 5: Inside the Creative Process with Dan Houser

We're four days away now. After a year of pre-publicity and a five-year wait since GTA IV, the latest instalment in Rockstar's gangland opus is almost upon us.

DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier

The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...

Bill For Compulsory Science Fiction in West Virginia Schools
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Bill For Compulsory Science Fiction in West Virginia Schools

A bill calling for science fiction to be made compulsory reading in schools has been proposed by a politician in West Virginia in order to "stimulate interest in...

Apple Buys Indoor Mapping Company Wifislam
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Apple Buys Indoor Mapping Company Wifislam

Apple has bought WifiSLAM, a company providing indoor mobile location services, which lets people figure out their location inside a building using the strength...

Youtube Reaches a Billion Monthly Viewers, Boosted By 'generation C'
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Youtube Reaches a Billion Monthly Viewers, Boosted By 'generation C'

YouTube has a billion unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month, equivalent to one out of every two people on the Internet—and the generationsmartphones...

Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border
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Drones on Display: Security Firms Go Hi-Tech in Rush to Seal the Border

From a distance, it looked like Wyatt Nease was using a handset to operate a remote control car.

Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...

­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future
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­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future

Paul Vogel is, in his own words, trying to bring the U.S. Postal Service "from the today world into the tomorrow world."

Youtube's New Los Angeles Complex 'a Wonderland' For Aspiring Film-Makers
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Youtube's New Los Angeles Complex 'a Wonderland' For Aspiring Film-Makers

It was the hangar which incubated Howard Hughes's aviation dreams, each aircraft model more fanciful than the last, and half a century later it is the launchpad...

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Tides Are Changing For Web Surfers

David Weinberger has a new book out entitled Too Big to Know in which he argues that one of the implications of a comprehensively networked society is that the...

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Welcome to the Desktop Degree

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, in 1995 to be precise, a scholar named Eli Noam published an article in the prestigious journal Science under the titleElectronics...

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David Karp, Founder of Tumblr, on Realizing His Dream

David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo. With a smattering of Japanese and a...

Secondary Schools Fail Teenagers Over Computer Lessons, Says Ofsted
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Secondary Schools Fail Teenagers Over Computer Lessons, Says Ofsted

Schools are jeopardizing the career prospects of thousands of teenagers by failing to offer compulsory classes in computing, a damning report by inspectors shows...

Programming Should Take Pride of Place in Our Schools
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Programming Should Take Pride of Place in Our Schools

If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taught, we're shutting the door on our children's futures.

Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site
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Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site

Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding.

Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker
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Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker

Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers.
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