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A new wave of apps say they can improve your friendships – can they?

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A new wave of apps say they can improve your friendships – can they?

Always forgetting birthdays? Terrible at staying in touch? New tech promises to turn you into the best buddy ever. We put it to the test

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Health

Brain ultrasound scanner could speed diagnosis of head injuries

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Wind turbines

Technology

Wind-powered turbines could clean pollutants from our air

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Robot plants made from origami mimic transpiration to track the sun

Technology

Robot with origami leaves can follow the sun like a real plant

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Will Instagram filters alter our view of beauty and who we are?

Technology

Will Instagram filters alter our view of beauty and who we are?

Culture

China is using mass surveillance tech to fight new coronavirus spread

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China is using mass surveillance tech to fight new coronavirus spread

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Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about

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Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about

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Menlo Park suburb looking out to Palo Alto in Silicon Valle

Technology

How a flawed mentality led to Silicon Valley’s meteoric rise

Culture

What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

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What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?

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What are the ethics of CGI actors – and will they replace real ones?

James Dean is set to be the latest actor to star in a film long after his death, but the rise of true Hollywood immortality raises big ethical questions

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Environment

The aviation industry has a plan to make planes green. It won't work

Insight

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Phone number theft through SIM-jacking is on the rise in the UK

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AI system is better than human doctors at predicting breast cancer

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Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel - if we can make it

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