Posted 9 weeks ago

After more than two years and 1127 posts, the technology blog is moving home. We're merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and

Posted 9 weeks ago

The creator of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has made an odd request: for a kind of rating system to help people distinguish sites that can be trusted to tell the truth, and those that can't.Be

Posted 9 weeks ago

Nokia's cellphone anthropologist Jan Chipchase - interviewed in depth here - blogged this week about the etiquette of connectivity. When is it OK to whip out a phone or laptop, and when is it not?Chip

Posted 10 weeks ago

You've heard, of course, of digital rights management - used to control how you play, copy or otherwise use media files like music.Now Apple wants to apply that concept to your sporting wardrobe. In U

Posted 10 weeks ago

Last week, DARPA issued researchers with a plea for help: help us make liquid coal economical and environmentally sound.It's easy to see the logic here - the US Department of Defense guzzles its way t

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Posted 10 weeks ago

There's always been a bit of confusion between the UK and the US over who contributed most to the invention of the electronic programmable computer. It is heart-warming, however, to see some leading l

Posted 10 weeks ago

Fans of US TV series The West Wing, which until 2006 portrayed the inner workings of a fictional White House, might have experienced d j vu on reading my colleague's article last week on how scient

Posted 10 weeks ago

Today sees the debut of a simulation that rolls together evolution, astrobiology, architecture, sociology and AI into one big, all-encompassing computer model of life. But this is not a project runnin

Posted 11 weeks ago

Google may have a lot of political power, but it unusual to see it being used openly. Now, however, the corporation is currently waging a very public campaign, and appealing for help from you, the pub

Posted 11 weeks ago

The helicopter in the video below may look dangerously out of control. But it is being piloted by a piece of software able to perform the chaos manoeuvre shown for indefinite periods.Researchers in

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