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Soldiers hide behind a building

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
DRIVEN's driverless car drives past a pedestrian crossing

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
Two robotic arms construct a chair

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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