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How Online 'chatbots' Are Already Tricking You
Sometimes it's the promise of sex that fools you.
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More Google 'forget' Requests Emerge After Eu Ruling
A man who tried to kill his family is among the latest to request removal of search results from Google.
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What Is the 'right to Be Forgotten'?
Sixteen years ago, a Spaniard named Mario Costeja Gonzalez had hit financial difficulties.
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Hard Disk Pioneer Stuart Parkin Wins Millennium Prize
Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.
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Comet Lander Checks In with Earth
The Philae lander, which Europe hopes to put on the surface of a comet later this year, has been re-activated after three years in deep-space hibernation.
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Russia and kraine in Cyber 'stand-Off'
As diplomatic efforts are stepped up to ease tensions in Ukraine, security experts have warned that Kiev and Moscow are locked in a cyber stand-off.
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Inside the Google Earth Satellite Factory
Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.
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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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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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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
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Users of Hidden Net Advised to Ditch Windows
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.
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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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Raspberry Pi Gets Easier to Use With Noobs Software
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering downloadable software that makes its mini-computer easier to use.
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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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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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Electronic Warfare: The Ethereal Future of Battle
The voice of the foreign military commander is sinister and gloating.
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