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Google's AI can keep Loon balloons flying for over 300 days in a row

An artificially intelligent pilot created by Google and Loon can keep huge stratospheric balloons in the air for hundreds of days at a time to act as floating cell towers in remote areas

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Physics

Armoured liquid marbles connected together in a chain 1.7 metres long

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Health

Potent new antifungal discovered in the microbiome of marine animals

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Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?

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Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?

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Technology

Gel layer inspired by camel fur could keep food and medicines cool

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AI vision could be improved with sensors that mimic human eyes

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AI vision could be improved with sensors that mimic human eyes

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Health

What a Biden presidency means for covid-19, climate change and tech

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How covid-19 has exposed a huge computing disaster in the making

Technology

How covid-19 has exposed a huge computing disaster in the making

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Remote-learning technology just isn't good enough and won't be soon

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Remote-learning technology just isn't good enough and won't be soon

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Technology

Software can spy on what you type in video calls by tracking your arms

A computer model can work out the words the person is typing during a video call just by tracking the movement of their shoulders and arms in the video stream

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Mind

People easily distracted by their phones perform worse on memory tests

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Technology

Feels Good Man review: Reclaiming Pepe the Frog from the alt-right

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How a rural Mexican village built its own phone network

Culture

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Will robots and AI take our jobs in covid-19’s socially distanced era?

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