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Cannons in a field in Manassas, Virginia

Technology

Big Tech and Civil War enthusiasts clash over historic US battlefields

Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world. Plans for more data centres are now pitting preservationists and big technology companies against each other

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Young woman smiling while riding on a bus listening to music on a smartphone

Technology

Experimental earphone can ‘hear’ commands user is silently mouthing

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Optical fibres

Technology

Fibre-optic cables could be used to spy on people a kilometre away

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A mission to grab a dead satellite

Space

UK wants to send a spacecraft to grab two dead satellites from space

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Alan Turing

Alan Turing
A chip from Google's Sycamore quantum computer

Mathematics

Quantum computers proved to have ‘quantum advantage’ on some tasks

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Technology

Serah Reikka: What’s it like to be a virtual influencer?

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Society

The rise of computer-generated, artificially intelligent influencers

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Phone low on charge

Technology

Batteries built with bumpy components work better in the freezing cold

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A cockroach robot

Technology

Watch this cockroach robot squirm through a tricky obstacle course

The Omni-Roach robot moves like a cockroach to scale bumps, dodge pillars and wobble through bendy bars, and may become a Mars explorer in the future

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Technology

Invisible 3D printed tags turn simple objects into gaming controllers

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Environment

Inside big tech’s $925 million plan to speed up carbon removal

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Technology

British Library robots look after old newspapers with new tech

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Technology

Can a phone app really be your therapist?

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