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South Korean baseball team replaces its human fans with robot ones

A baseball team in South Korea has come up with a new way for fans who can't make it to a game to still be able to enjoy it: robots....

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The UK is working to educate internet users on the illegality of piracy

A new scheme aimed at redeeming the UK's illegal file-sharers from their law-breaking ways will see emails sent out to persistent offenders from next year. The government-brokered Voluntary Copyright Alert...

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Televisions of the future will be completely flexible

TVs are getting bigger and thinner every year, but today LG announced its plans for a paper-thin television panel that’s flexible enough to roll up and store in a tube....

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Millions of pounds is being spent to bring faster Wi-Fi to trains in Britain

It does seem as though we are unable to live without Wi-Fi hotspots in this day and age, never mind the fact that many of us already have some sort...

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Tesla might begin giving away its electric vehicle patents

This is kind of unprecedented, but Tesla might just open up its electric car patents to other manufacturers. On June 3, at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting at the Computer History...

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Invisible nanoparticle barcodes could help law enforcement catch criminals

The long arm of the law has the added advantage of technology working alongside them in order to uncover dastardly crimes that have been committed by nefarious minds. However, there...

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More competitors continue to enter the wearable tech arena

Google Glass might be the de facto champion of the wearable tech world at the moment, but this does not mean that other hardware manufacturers are going to sit down and...

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How four friends used Facebook to track down a missing child

When it comes to the social networking tool known as Facebook, it has its fair share of fans as well as others who prefer to remain off the grid. Well, in this...

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Dixons Retail to merge with Carphone Warehouse

Two high street store chains in the United Kingdom are merging, it has been revealed. Dixons Retail, operator of over 500 Currys PC World electronics stores in the country, will join...

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U.K. retailer Tesco is launching its own smartphone

British supermarket giant Tesco says it is planning to launch its own smartphone before the end of this year, as it looks to build on the success it has seen with the...

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