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Police forensic team

Austerity has put UK forensic labs in crisis and justice at risk

25 April 2018

Thousands of criminal cases are under review, forensic labs are failing to meet basic standards and some are just going bust. Where did it all go wrong?


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Vibrating wristband warns you when to button it at parties

25 April 2018

Careless talk costs social lives, so we made a gadget that will help you navigate any conversational minefields


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Russia cuts off Google and Amazon by trying to ban Telegram app

25 April 2018

Russia has unintentionally knocked out several major cloud services in ongoing efforts to cut access to secure messaging app Telegram


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The US army has made a virtual North Korea to train its soldiers

20 April 2018

The US army has built a system that can quickly create virtual locations for soldiers to train in. It took only three days to make North and South Korea


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Driverless cars are dodging pedestrians and pheasants in Oxford

20 April 2018

Autonomous cars are preparing to drive from Oxford to London. The thorny route includes motorways, pedestrian packed streets and an occasional pheasant


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Watch robots assemble a flat-pack IKEA chair in just 9 minutes

18 April 2018

Two robotic arms make assembling flat-pack furniture look easy. Faced with a pile of IKEA chair parts they work together to piece it together


A group of young people in Shanghai holding a rainbow flag take a selfie

Millions of censored web pages discovered in massive study

18 April 2018

Masses of web pages censored in China, Indonesia, Iran, and Turkey, have been discovered. They reveal the content each country is most intent on blocking


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Big tech can digitally erase us – do we need new protections?

17 April 2018

In an age when a person's online presence can be quickly removed by technology corporations, there's a case for a new right… to be remembered, says Jamais Cascio


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