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Chinese tourist town uses face recognition as an entry pass

Technology

Chinese tourist town uses face recognition as an entry pass

A face-recognition system built by Chinese web giant Baidu has started to authenticate visitors’ identities as they enter the Wuzhen tourist attraction

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Trump’s election stokes fears of future NSA surveillance abuses

Technology

Trump’s election stokes fears of future NSA surveillance abuses

Insight

The perfect cybercrime: selling fake followers to fake people

Technology

The perfect cybercrime: selling fake followers to fake people

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Your home's online gadgets could be hacked by ultrasound

Technology

Your home's online gadgets could be hacked by ultrasound

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Lo and Behold scene

Technology

Lo and Behold takes Werner Herzog on a tour round the internet

Culture

Massive botnet-powered web attack fuels need to step up defences

Technology

Massive botnet-powered web attack fuels need to step up defences

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Security agencies collected data unlawfully, UK court rules

Technology

Security agencies collected data unlawfully, UK court rules

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Ted Cruz appears on multiple TV screens with Google banner in background

Technology

The US isn’t giving away the internet – it never had control

Analysis

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Technology

Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?

Culture

data

Technology

How to profit from your data and beat Facebook at its own game

We unwittingly give away personal details whenever we go online – so why not take charge and even earn from it? A new wave of personal data services will help

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Technology

The internet is so vast we need to get theological to grasp it

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Technology

Do we need to rein in Facebook and Google's power?

Insight

Humans

We are gods of the future – but what will we do?

Culture

Technology

Troll hunters: the Twitterbots that fight against online abuse

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