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| The annual report of the Dutch Data Protection Authority  (DPA) signals that the Dutch government increasingly breaks its own privacy laws....

| Consumer grade EEG-scanners used in mind-controlled games can be turned against their user to extract private information, research shows....

| A wind-driven electricity generator without moving mechanical parts is adorning the lawn of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands....

| Who controls the Internet? To explore this question I participated in the five day NETworkshop Behind the Screens of the Internet. The quest...

| Privacy enhancing tools have a bad reputation when it comes to usability. Nathan Freitas of The Guardian Project demonstrated easy to use ap...

| The multiplayer game Throw Trucks With Your Mind integrates your psychic abilities as game controllers using EEG technology.  In the game t...

| ‘Science fiction has a pretty poor track record of absorbing scientific truths’, says science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds. ‘The most in...

| An infrared sensor wired to the part of the brain that processes tactile information enables rats to ‘touch’ infrared light. The successful...

| The patent system has a negative net effect on innovation and productivity, two economists conclude in a study. They propose to abolish the...

| Three Swedish electronic engineers started out with a simple idea. To make a printed circuit board fly. The first iteration of the nano q...