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The dark side of innovation: From dynamite to climate change

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The dark side of innovation: From dynamite to climate change

Cultural evolution defines us as humans, but its products kill as people weaponise consumer tech and climate change threatens Earth, argue two new books

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Rocket man: How I became a jet suit pilot

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Marcus du Sautoy at 51¶¯Âþ Live 2019

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Marcus du Sautoy: Can an AI be creative?

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AI recreates videos people are watching by reading their minds

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The skin

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Artificial skin could be used to make video games more realistic

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Hironobu Minowa (pictured), who demonstrated the battery at NTT’s R&D Forum in Tokyo this week

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Batteries as transparent as glass could power devices in your home

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We can now make animated 'sound holograms' that you can touch

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A campaign sign for Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Deepfakes are terrible for democracy, but Facebook is a bigger threat

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Massive solar panels in Chilean desert point to our renewable future

These futuristic solar panels in Chile’s Atacama desert are part of ambitious plans to go carbon neutral, as unrest forces the country to abandon hosting a UN climate conference

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UK police need to slow down with face recognition, says data watchdog

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Facebook has a plan to tackle fake news – here's why it won't work

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Timeline: A brief history of quantum computing from 1980 to 2100

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What is a quantum computer?

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