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Computing

Technology

Hordes of automated bots run the internet – can we bring them to heel?

Roaming chunks of code, pre-programmed to perform all manner of tasks, shape the web and our experience of it. What are they up to? And as they get smarter, how can we regain control?

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Technology

Computer vision can estimate calorie content of food at a glance

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Technology

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

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Technology

Email should be obsolete by now, so why are we still using it?

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social distancing

Technology

Public webcams are telling us whether people are social distancing

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Physics

Why old school technology could shape the future of digital computing

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Moore's law

Moore’s law
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Technology

How an artist made a concert from five 40-year-old Commodore computers

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Environment

To make smartphones sustainable, we need to rethink thermodynamics

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2019 becomes 2020

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A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now

The millennium bug is back with a vengeance, after programmers in the 1990s simply pushed the problem back by 20 years

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Technology

A computer made from DNA can compute the square root of 900

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Technology

A massive optical computer being built could outpace quantum computers

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Technology

The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened?

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Humans

Internet founder Vint Cerf looks to the next 50 years of his creation

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