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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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Learn English Online: How the Internet Is Changing Language
Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing.
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North Korea: On the Net in World's Most Secretive Nation
There's a curious quirk on every official North Korean Website: a piece of programming that must be included in each page's code.
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Robots Ride the Ocean Blue
When superstorm Sandy was rampaging across the Caribbean and mid-Atlantic, heralded by gale force winds, torrential rain, and surging tides, people rushed to get...
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Can Disguises Fool Surveillance Technology?
Stick on a fake moustache. Add some glasses. Dye your hair. And perhaps pop on a hat.
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IBM Chip Aims to se Light to Speed up Internet Services
IBM researchers have developed a chip that makes it easier to move data via pulses of light instead of using electrical signals. The chip could offer a way to...
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Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Phones 'out By 2013'
Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper.
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Risk of Robot prising Wiping Out Human Race to Be Studied
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.
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Time-Lapse Code Wins Raspberry Pi Contest
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has named Aaron Hill and Ashley Newson the winners of its summer coding contest for teenagers.
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Risk Profiling Software Tackles the Terrorist Threat
The U.K. branch of an American company has developed a hi-tech software programme it believes can help detect and prevent potentially dangerous passengers and cargo...
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X-37b: Secrets of the .s. Military Spaceplane
In the early morning of 16 June, 2012, a top-secret spaceplane made a picture-perfect landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Two-Ton Witch Computer Gets a Reboot
The world's oldest original working digital computer, the Witch, has been restored after a three-year effort and was recently put on display at The National Museum...
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Two-Tonne Witch Computer Gets a Reboot
The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire.
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Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think
Mocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye...
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Mars to Earth: How to Send Hd Video Between Planets
"It once was a small step... now it's six big wheels," exclaimed Curiosity's Twitter account after the Nasa rover landed on Mars in early August. The message itself...
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The End For Keyboards and Mice?
Apple's iPhone and its rivals may have introduced touchscreens to the masses, but now a raft of technologies promise to change the way we interact with computers...
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Faster Chips 'cut Cloud-Computing Bills'
Researchers at Deutsch Telekom Laboratories and Aalto University have found that customers of Amazon's EC2 cloud service do not receive the same level of performance...
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Why Modern Maps Put Everyone at the Centre of the World
Got truly and outstandingly lost recently? Enjoy the feeling while you can, for it's becoming an increasingly difficult task.
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Can We Trust the Code That Increasingly Runs Our Lives?
Imagine how different the first pictures sent from the Mars Rover would have been if there had been a software failure.
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