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Dogs and lamp posts go online
Japan is microchipping and tracking all its dogs At some point in the next decade, machine to machine communications on the internet will exceed those made by humans. When exactly this will occur is...
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The latest Hollywood movie inspired by Wikileaks already looks dated says Jane Whyatt ‘The Fifth Estate’ stars A-list celebrity Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the...
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Robots switch from war to chores
Defence contractor iRobot is turning minesweepers into vacuum cleaners iRobot’s SUGV on patrol with US infantry. Picture: iRobot As the US defence budget is cut and troop withdrawal continues from...
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Turing tribute misses high notes
A musical homage to the father of computer science Alan Turing has delighted gay campaigners but disappointed as an artistic experience.The much-anticipated new opera ‘A man from the future‘ takes the...
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Now code your own drone
Linux has launched a new project for developers to build drones and share the source code. A Linux powered drone Launching the DroneCode Project at Linux’s European gathering in Duesseldorf, Germany,...
View ArticleYahoo hack: US charges two Russian spies
Two Russian secret agents and two paid hackers have been charged by a grand jury in California for hacking Yahoo email accounts In one of the biggest ever data breaches, 500 million Yahoo accounts were...
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Expert dubs US X37 plane ‘flying hoax’
A top US defence expert has branded the US’s mysterious X-37 Orbital test vehicle an elaborate flying hoax, writes Bradford Davies. Photo: courtesy USAF. John Pike, editor of the online website Global...
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Scientists urge UN to ban robot weapons
Some of the world’s leading artificial intelligence and robotics experts and companies have called on the United Nations to ban the development of robots that kill people. Them or us? Who is bound for...
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Defence analysts dismiss cyber war fears
The claims that the UK and Russia are heading towards a confrontation in cyberspace have been dismissed by leading experts in cyber security. The Kremlin – photo courtesy of Alexander Gusev Speaking...
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The Robot is 100 years old – The PassWord radio show looks at its legacy
On January 25th, 1921, Karel Capek brought a new word onto the stage that is having a profound impact on the 21st century – robot. Derived from the Czech word robota which means slave labour or...
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