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animal intelligence

A promotional image for the video game with the title on a background showing one of the many possible worlds the game creates

Technology

When infinity gets boring: What went wrong with No Man’s Sky

It promised the world. In fact, it promised the universe, but just hours after the year’s most hyped game was released, players complained they were bored. Why?

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The Knightscope robot

Technology

The threat of robot guards is not enough to stop people stealing

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Technology

Smart medicine is coming of age, but will doctors bite?

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Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

Life

Endangered dolphin with broken blowhole learns to mouth-breathe

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silicon chips

Technology

Move over silicon: Machine learning boom means we need new chips

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Zoltan Istvan, head and shoulders, pictured in black and white with clouds in the background. He's white, square-jawed and arrogant-looking

Humans

Meet the US presidential candidate campaigning for immortality

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money

Technology

Australian AI spots dodgy deals that look like money laundering

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AI hacking duel

Technology

Autonomous AI guards to stalk the internet fighting hackers

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poker

Technology

How winning at cards can help you win at life

Features

Person looking at Twitter

Technology

Scammer AI can tailor clickbait to you for phishing attacks

Tweets automatically crafted and aimed at you could be the next weapon scammers use to trick you into clicking links to malware

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Technology

Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles

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Health

Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down's

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Life

Genius crow's tool-bending behaviour may be natural to its kind

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Life

Crows are first animals spotted using tools to carry objects

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