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Engines of creation - and the people who build them

This was the year computers took creativity to extraordinary levels. Whether this is welcome news is entirely down to us, says Will Heaven

Culture

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Health

Video gaming disorder to be officially recognised for first time

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Humans

We are not amused: Victorian experiments not to try at home

Features

Playing Pac-Man

Technology

Robot that's the width of a hair masters Pac-Man and cuts cheese

News

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Technology

Uncannily real: volumetric video changes everything

Culture

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Technology

Children are becoming problem gamblers due to a legal loophole

Analysis

Pokemon road safety sign

Technology

Did Pokémon Go really kill 250 people in traffic accidents?

Analysis

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Health

Brain training game linked to lower dementia risk a decade later

News

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Humans

UK’s plan to tackle ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling lacks evidence

Analysis

Gamers

Technology

Gaming addiction probably isn’t a real condition, study suggests

Very few gamers really meet the proposed criteria for internet gaming disorder – instead they may play excessively to fill gaps in other areas of their life

News

Technology

AlphaGo's AI upgrade gets round the need for human input

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Technology

Beating the odds: the mathematics of gambling

Culture

Technology

App creates augmented-reality tutorials from normal videos

News

Technology

Enter the world of virtual dating with pigeons and dream daddies

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