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Plants that suck metals from the soil can be farmed to make our tech
Farms that grow metal-rich plants are cropping up around the world and promise a greener, less destructive alternative to mining for rare minerals
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Uber and Lyft operating in US cities linked to rises in car ownership
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Demis Hassabis interview: Our AI will unlock secrets of how life works
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2020 in review: Revenge of the Y2K bug as lazy fix takes down software
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2020 in review: The year governments slapped down big tech
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Hordes of automated bots run the internet – can we bring them to heel?
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First virtual all-day event: What is the future of food?
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Are these the strangest Amazon book recommendations of all time?
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Voice assistant recordings could reveal what someone nearby is typing
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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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Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?
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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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