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A long line of people walk in the same direction along a roadside in a mountainous region of the border between southwestern Russia and Georgia.

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Hundreds of Russia's top software developers may have left the country

Almost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022

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Artist's impression of the Mars Rover.

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Curiosity Mars rover gets 50 per cent speed boost from software update

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DeepMind has made software-writing AI that rivals average human coder

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Science technology concept. AI (Artificial Intelligence).

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GitHub's AI programming assistant can introduce security flaws

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GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission

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Reading about Firefox makes it seem a faster web browser than Chrome

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Arctic source code vault

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World’s most essential open-source code to be stored in Arctic vault

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Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

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Kronos quartet

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A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital

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I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move

Donna Lu investigates the murky world of security tech. She finds cameras packed with artificial intelligence, fingerprint scanners and a live owl

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Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste

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Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality

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The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster

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The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images

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