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The UK wants to force promising tech grads to join the GCHQ
The British government has announced a new program that might be implemented in the future which would require the most promising tech graduates in the UK to work with the GCHQ (the...
London is implementing driverless trains in the Tube
London is getting ready to welcome new Tube trains for the next 40 years. Last week, London unveiled the new cars to the public for the first time, and when...
Mantis shrimp inspired this cancer-detecting camera
Nature is truly an inspiration for budding scientists everywhere – otherwise, how else would ordinary man get the inspiration to actually take to the skies in the past, so much...
Google Glass has been banned from every movie theater in the UK
The UK's data regulator may have clarified that Google Glass shouldn't be singled out for special measures over personal use, but that isn't stopping domestic companies from enforcing their own...
The European Union wants to make roaming charges a thing of the past
More European mobile operators should offer free international roaming, following the example set by U.S. operator T-Mobile, a European Commission vice president said Monday. After enforcing a series of reductions...
For the first time ever, a computer has passed the "Turning Test"
Since programmers began seriously grappling with the impending reality of intelligent computers in the 1950s, pioneering Inventor Alan Turing said that the first big milestone would come when we cannot...
New electronic membrane could keep your heart beating indefinitely
It’s a poetic fact of biology that everyone’s heart is a slightly different size and shape. And yet today’s cardiac implants—medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators—are basically one size fits...
How Google plans to change the way we buy tickets
Google is working on a top secret travel price comparison service, the Irish Independent reports. The company will partner with Irish budget airline Ryanair, according to the report, and the service will go live in late...
Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet
Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a...
iPhone 5S: Thieves may mutilate owners to access fingerprint-reading handsets
Thieves have mutilated victims to gain access to phones equipped with a fingerprint reader, an expert has warned. Yesterday, Apple launched its iPhone 5S, which includes the Touch ID feature,...