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Rise of the Human Exoskeletons
On the outskirts of Pisa in a back room of a modern block, a machine is waiting for its operator.
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The Special Effects Firms Transforming the Film Industry
If you are looking for a sure thing at this year's Oscars look no further than Gravity to win the best visual effects category.
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Avalanche Science: ncovering Snow's Deadly Secrets
Dr Alec Van Herwijnen has buried microphones under the deep snow in order to listen for avalanches.
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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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Virtual Games Bring Pinball to New Audiences
The flashing lights, cool sound effects and high-speed bouncing ball action have made pinball simulators a hugely popular genre of video game, not to mention big...
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Bitcoins and Virtual Currency: How Do Businesses Cope?
Bitcoin speculators have made millions of pounds in the last few months as the value of the Internet-based virtual currency has exploded.
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Google's Schaft Robot Wins DARPA Rescue Challenge
Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks to outscore its rivals by a wide margin.
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Google Glass Update Lets Users Wink and Take Photos
Google has introduced a new feature to its Google Glass, which allows users to take a photo with a "wink of the eye."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Maps Transforming How We Interact With the World
The modern map is no longer an unwieldy printed publication we wrestle with on some blustery peak, but digital, data-rich, and dynamic.
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Why Bluetooth se Is On the Rise
Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years. Named after Denmark's King Harald "Bluetooth" Blatand, who reigned in the first century AD, it is a technology that...
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Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...
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