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Bots Now 'account For 61% of Web Traffic'
If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research.
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Sony Files Patent For 'smartwig'
Sony has filed a patent application for a device called a SmartWig with hopes of becoming a major player in the wearable technology sector.
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How Do Game Companies Share Massive Files?
Electronic Arts' multi-player shooter "Battlefield 4" exploded onto the computer games scene earlier this month, giving players a realistic taste of military combat...
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Tim Berners-Lee Says 'surveillance Threatens Web'
The Internet is threatened by a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warns Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
A team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough that brings quantum computing closer to real-world use.
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Quantum Memory 'world Record' Smashed
"Qubits" of information encoded in a silicon system persisted for almost 100 times longer than ever before.
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Superfast Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot 'wins' Every Time
Japanese scientists have developed a robot that can choose a hand shape for the rock-paper-scissors game almost at the same time as a human.
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Google Launches Build-Your-Own-Phone Project Ara
Motorola wants to allow users of its smartphones to customize the device's components. The company has been working on Project Ara for more than a year, and has...
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'li-Fi' Via Led Light Bulb Data Speed Breakthrough
Several U.K. institutions are collaborating on the ultra-parallel visible light communications project. The researchers have used a micro-LED light bulb to transmit...
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Can Technology Help Avoid Stampedes?
It seems the cruellest and most unnecessary of deaths—to be crushed in the midst of a crowd.
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Roller Coaster Technology: 'bigger! Faster! Scarier!'
Alton Towers in Staffordshire has just opened the world's first 14-loop roller coaster, called The Smiler, while in Abu Dhabi, Ferrari World claims to have the...
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IBM nveils Computer Fed By 'electronic Blood'
IBM has released a prototype of a computer modeled after the human brain that uses liquid both to fuel and cool the system.
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Electric Cars: Hidden Habits You Are Sharing with Firms
You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.
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Bbc Plans to Help Get the Nation Coding
The British Broadcasting Corporation will launch an initiative in 2015 promoting software programming in the United Kingdom.
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k to Create New Cyber Defence Force
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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Harvard Plans to Boldly Go With 'spocs'
Harvard University is moving beyond massive open online courses to small private online courses.
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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
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Empty F-16 Jet Tested By Boeing and .s. Air Force
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.
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Music Site Chatbot Wins AI Loebner Contest
A chatbot called Mitsuku was judged most convincingly human artificial intelligence program of the contestants in the Loebner contest.
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