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Disney Turns Away from Hand-Drawn Animation
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Disney Turns Away from Hand-Drawn Animation

Disney, the Hollywood titan which brought the world classics such as Fantasia, Bambi, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has admitted it has no current plans...

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...

'Eight Great Technologies' Benefit from £600m in Government Funding
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'Eight Great Technologies' Benefit from £600m in Government Funding

Science minister David Willetts has set out details of how most of the money will be spent.

­.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."

Detroit: After Decades of ­rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope
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Detroit: After Decades of ­rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope

The raucous scene inside the M@ dison building is not one usually associated with inner-city Detroit.

British Companies Bypass Immigration Cap on Skilled Migrants
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British Companies Bypass Immigration Cap on Skilled Migrants

Overseas staff coming to U.K. under "intra-company transfer" scheme surged to 29,700 last year, Home Office figures show.

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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...

'Geek' Perception of Computer Science Putting Off Girls, Expert Warns
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'Geek' Perception of Computer Science Putting Off Girls, Expert Warns

University of Southampton professor Dame Wendy Hall warns that girls still think of computer science as a subject for geeks and that this has proved to be a very...

Britain's Computer Science Courses Failing to Give Workers Digital Skills
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Britain's Computer Science Courses Failing to Give Workers Digital Skills

Britain is facing a shortage of workers with programming skills, fuelled by poor-quality training courses in universities and colleges, which has left companies...

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.

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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