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China's censored Google is an ethical catastrophe
The Great Firewall of China is the largest-scale internet censorship operation in the world. The Chinese state says the ...
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Watch this immersive light show made with astronomical data
As a scientist, I was recently involved in bringing my work to the big screen. This was not a Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster ...
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Sorry Elon Musk, but colonizing Mars isn't going to happen
Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonizing Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure to transport millions of people there. This was seen as highly ambitious but technically challenging in several ways. Planetary protection rules ...
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Here's how Fortnite hooked 125 million players
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Patricio O’Gorman, technology consultant and professor at Universidad de Palermo. If you have kids, you’ve likely heard about Fortnite. The wildly popular online battle game has amassed over 125 million players and hosts more than 3 million ...
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How bad AI marketing led humans to take on robots' jobs
This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. The ...
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Scientists are using solar powered MP3 players to fight diarrhea in the rainforest
URIDU, a German non-profit social enterprise, is using educational and inspirational music in the fight against the spread of diarrhea in remote regions of the Central African Republic and Congo. The songs, which are played using the solar-powered MP3 players URIDU developed, are ...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo's electronic voting machines worry security experts
The technology company, Miru Systems Co., have growing concerns about the South Korean manufactured electronic voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo's upcoming 2018 general elections. Apart from their vulnerability to hacking, there is a possibility that the QR ...
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Google wants to bring free Wi-Fi to Nigeria next year
Google has announced that it will be providing free high-speed Internet access via Wi-Fi hotspots Nigeria. Known as Google Station for Nigeria, the program aims to provide high quality and high-speed Wi-Fi hotspots across Nigeria in partnership with 21st Century, one of the largest ...
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Uganda is trying to ban internet porn
It appears that Ugandan authorities are tightening their grip on how the Internet is accessed and used in the east Afrikan ...
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Prepare yourself: Facebook could be the future of national census
Every ten years, governments around the world conduct their national census: a count of the resident population. This is ...
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The Earth's magnetic field is reversing more than ever. Here's why
Andrew Biggin, University of Liverpool and Mark Hounslow, Lancaster University Underneath our feet, deep down in the Earth, ...
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AI may soon save a ton of cute (and ugly) animals from drug testing
As cold-blooded and inhuman as it may sound, animal tests are an integral part of modern-day drug and chemical compounds ...
