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Cambridge Analytica, Trump and Facebook – here’s what we know

19 March 2018

A former Cambridge Analytica employee has claimed the firm accessed Facebook data without permission, and used it to target ads for the Trump campaign
Chemistry bots collude on Twitter to speed up their experiments

Chemistry bots collude on Twitter to speed up their experiments

13 March 2018

Communicating on social media has allowed a pair of robots to conduct chemistry experiments together and get faster results

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