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What is a quantum computer?

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What is a quantum computer?

Quantum computers are machines that use the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform computations.
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A biased algorithm is delaying healthcare for black people in the US

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Internet founder Vint Cerf looks to the next 50 years of his creation

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Internet founder Vint Cerf looks to the next 50 years of his creation

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The greatest network the world has ever seen: The global internet map

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The greatest network the world has ever seen: The global internet map

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The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened?

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The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened?

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Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

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Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

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US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Live: UK's first space rover, Tim Peake and the real life rocket man

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Trevor Paglen exhibition highlights how prejudice is tainting AI

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City simulations

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AI can predict your future behaviour with powerful new simulations

If you were worried about what Cambridge Analytica could find out about people, wait until you see this. A new form of AI modelling promises accurate simulation of how entire cities, countries and one day perhaps the world will behave

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Screen time: How smartphones really affect our bodies and brains

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Real-life Iron Man on what it's like to fly a Jet Suit

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AI is learning to diagnose schizophrenia from a smartphone video

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Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution?

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