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Hidden hatred: Why people people assassinate their own character online

Cyber self-harm: Police believe teenager Hannah Smith sent herself abusive online messages prior to her suicide last year

Phillip Hodson examines a form of self-harming for the internet age

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Google puts a Kinect motion sensor in your smartphone to understand the physical world

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Goat Simulator 2014 is the best video game about being a goat you will ever play

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Pentagon experiments with with electric shocks to keep drone pilots awake

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Why did Facebook pay a staggering $19 billion for WhatsApp?

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Hive review: A tentative foray into the internet of things by British Gas is convincing from start to finish

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Supernova insider: Astronomers look inside the heart of a dying star for the first time

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Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in House of Cards

Binge-watching House of Cards and Breaking Bad is 'good for you'

Boxsets could join art galleries as a 'restorative experience'
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This striking animation by NASA visualises the flow of ocean surface currents from June 2005 to December 2007

New British Library exhibition pays tribute to most amazing scientific diagrams in history

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Cecilia Abadie wears her Google Glass outside court

Google gives Glass advice: 'Don't be a glasshole'

Etiquette from the internet giant warns against 'standing in the corner of a room filming your friends'
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Supersonic jet to replace interior windows with giant electronic screens

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Bioshock studio to close, Ken Levine promises new 'narrative-driven' games

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Biotech boom: Cambridge Science Park

Silicon Fen: Why Cambridge is at the heart of Britain's economic recovery

From atop the Gog Magog Hills on one of those glorious East Anglian big sky days, you can just about spot the cranes going up on a daily basis in the city of Cambridge below.
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Last year it emerged that Angela Merkel's phone was bugged by the US

Surveillance revelations: Angela Merkel proposes European network to beat NSA and GCHQ spying

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Twitch Plays Pokémon is 'like watching a car crash in slow motion'

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Tron designer creates 'hyper bike' for Lotus

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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is hugely enjoyable

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Toukiden: The Age of Demons, Strider, gaming reviews

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Apple embraces snail mail: Steve Jobs to appear on US postage stamp

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The 10 Best coding websites

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Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity

Satellite Envisat could spark 'Gravity' style debris cloud

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Rhodri Marsden: Why wearable tech might just get us moving again

tech news
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Apple patents health tracking earphones

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HTC One 2014 (aka the HTC M8) leaked, dual-camera and gold colouring confirmed

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Online trolls are psychopaths and sadists, psychologists claim

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Shiny, happy people: the range of emoticons is now enormous

Emoticons: a :-) :-) thing

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Nike designer says Back to the Future style power laces will arrive in 2015

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Launched in 2009, over 100,000 projects have since been financed through the crowdfunding platform

Kickstarter hacked: Passwords, email addresses and phone numbers stolen

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Google buys audio password firm SlickLogin in an attempt to bump up web security

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Hand-held laser scanner creates 3D maps of crime scenes in minutes

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Flappy Bird tributes: Sesame Street, abstract electronica and a multiplayer free for all

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Utopia no more: Drug marketplace seen as the next Silk Road shut down by Dutch police

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Generation click: Search filtering does not always work

From bullying to pornography: How to keep your children safe online

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Google criticised for the availability of adult and abusive content in its Play store

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Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison demonstrates Facebook's expanded options for gender identification at her company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Facebook is adding a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them. Harrison, who helped engineer the project, plans to switch her identifier to

Facebook adds new gender options: 50 new categories include trans and intersex

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10,000 racist slurs posted on Twitter each day

But the majority were non-derogatory
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Study shows we react to beautiful mathematics in the same way as great art

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UK pornographers launch new site in response to 'overblocking' internet filters

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A worker inspects a target chamber at the National Ignition Facility in California

Meet the lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy

Engineer milestone brings scientists closer to fusion
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Guessing game: punters line up to place bets the old-fashioned way at London’s White City Greyhound Racing Stadium in 1943

'You bet me?' How a new generation of apps are combining social media and gambling

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US Army tests 'smart rifles' that turn ordinary soldiers into 'extraordinary marksmen'

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World's largest Denial of Service attack caused by vulnerability in the infrastructure of the web

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7 October 2013: A shot of officers in the newly formed National Crime Agency during a training exercise. The head of

National Crime Agency issues sex app warning

Police warn users of ‘hook-up’ apps like Grindr or Blendr to check partners are of the age of consent
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Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen: 'Game was an addiction that had to be stopped'

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An Iranian youth watches footage of Saddam Hussein's execution on TV in 2006

End game: Footage of real-life deaths has become a disturbing new online commodity

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Interior for United Nations North Delegates’ Lounge, New York – Designed by Hella Jongerius, together with Rem Koolhaas, Irma Boom, Gabriel Lester and Louise Schouwenberg

Designs of the Year 2014 nominations: From a floating school to a Lego calendar, these are a feast for the eyes

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‘Brilliant code is like poetry’ and it beats Sudoku

Get coding people: It's the new Mandarin, and it's not just children who can learn how to do it

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ERWIN is able to show 5 different emotions

Introducing ERWIN, the robot with feelings

Meet ERWIN, the robot designed to bond with us.
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How to get rid of Google: Alternative services and privacy settings to try out online

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Duolingo: The future of language learning that puts a tutor in everyone's pocket

Seth Stevenson talks to founder Luis von Ahn about his dream of delivering free language lessons to the world
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Satya Nadella said he learned much of his managerial style from playing cricket as a schoolboy in India

Microsoft picks Satya Nadella to replace Steve Ballmer as chief executive

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Flappy Bird's Dong Nguyen: 'My games are designed for offline competition'

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Steve Jobs' personal mouse found in 30-year-old time capsule

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The handsomely designed Motorola Moto X

Motorola Moto X: Listen up - your phone is paying attention to everything

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A picture of the Jade Rabbit moon rover taken by the Chang'e-3 probe lander on December 15, 2013.

China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has ‘come back to life’ – but remains in critical condition

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A woman swims in Brazil. Sony have targeted their waterproof MP3 player at swimmers.

Sony sells waterproof walkman in bottle of water

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Safer Internet Day: One in four children share personal information with strangers online

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Rhodri Marsden: the embodiment of irresistible masculinity, obviously

Rhodri Marsden: It won't be long until impulse purchases will be a case of 'think it, buy it'

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Dyson has entered a technological race with other researchers around the world. The Twendy-One household android (pictured), being developed by Waseda University in Japan, is expected to go on sale in the next few years

A robot in every home: Dyson enters race to provide ‘advanced household androids’ for all

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The emoticon :-) was first posted to a digital message board in 1982

Happy days: Human brain now registers smiley face emoticon as real facial expression

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Flappy Bird has proved to be a surprise hit in the competitive mobile phone game market

Game over! As promised, Flappy Bird app creator removes addictive smartphone hit from app store

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Sony: The best and worst gadgets

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Fable has received an enthusiastic re-imagining for its tenth anniversary

Gaming reviews: Fable Anniversary; Consortium; Might & Magic X Legacy

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Today's Google Doodle celebrates the start of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

Olympic Charter: Google wades into Sochi gay rights row with Doodle

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The Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California

Twitter tumbles after posting first results

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The 'Durr' watch's only function is to vibrate gently every five minutes

Rhodri Marsden: Smartwatches? Some of them don't even tell the time!

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Galaxy S5 to arrive 24 February, but questions remain over Samsung's future

mobile news
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A gamer poses with his copy of the console game Grand Theft Auto 5 at the midnight opening of the 17 September, 2013. GTA V has since become the biggest selling game of 2013, according to its makers.

GTA 5 named the biggest game of 2013 after selling over 32 million copies

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The four-storey structure in San Francisco Bay

Google told it must move 'mystery barge' from San Francisco Bay

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Patients accessing the site were sent adverts and malware

NHS website bombared with malware

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From bullying to pornography: How to keep your children safe online

How do we grant our children access to all the good the internet offers while keeping them safe? As Susie Mesure discovers, we are having to learn parenting anew

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Goat Simulator 2014 is the best video game about being a goat you will ever play

'If you don't like dumb simulation games then you probably hate having fun'
Pentagon experiments with with electric shocks to keep drone pilots awake
Kim Dotcom plans to appeal against court ruling that raid on his New Zealand home was legal
Supernova scrutiny: Astronomers look inside the heart of a dying star for the first time
Game firm which promised Facebook and Tumblr users it could reveal who viewed their profiles fined £45,000
Satellite Envisat could spark 'Gravity' style debris cloud
Flying Cyrus: Flappy Bird knock-off with Miley dodging wrecking balls becomes No.1 iPhone app
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul loses 80,000 Twitter followers over new internet law
HTC One 2014 (aka the HTC M8) leaked, dual-camera and gold colouring confirmed
Video: Flappy Bird's final levels
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Tron designer creates 'hyper bike' for Lotus

100 bikes will go on sale available in three different liveries
Hive review: A tentative foray into the internet of things by British Gas is convincing
Hidden hatred: What makes people assassinate their own character online, sometimes driving themselves to suicide?
Rhodri Marsden: Why wearable tech might just get us moving again
Binge-watching House of Cards and Breaking Bad is 'good for you'
When does laissez-faire parenting become neglect?
Emoticons: a :-) :-) thing
From bullying to pornography: How to keep your children safe online
Spike Jonze's film Her tells the story of a man who falls in love with his computer - but could it be more than science fiction?
Valentine's Day: Spare a thought for Super Mario's forgotten ex-girlfriend Pauline
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Toukiden: The Age of Demons, Strider, gaming reviews

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Bioshock studio Irrational Games to close, Ken Levine promises new 'narrative-driven' games
Gaming reviews: Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition; Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII; Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks!
'You bet me?' How a new generation of apps are combining social media and gambling
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Flappy Bird's been taken down - here's ten of the hardest games to break your thumbs on
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