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| From calculations made by the University of Twente, it appears that an attack on Bitcoin is easier to carry out than what has generally been...
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| A dispute over a monumental statue led to what has come to be recognised as the world’s first cyber war. In 2007 the government of Estonia r...
| The marriage between technology and capitalism is marked by extreme excesses. A report on biotechnology and gene therapy by the investment b...
| To prolong the life of my Nexus 5 phone, I installed different software on it. The hardware still works perfectly, but the software is no lo...
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| On the day before the independence referendum in Catalonia, the ICT centre of the Catalan government was raided and occupied by the Spanish...
| Robots programmed to make moral decisions can actually be more dangerous to the people around them. The extensive knowledge they need in ord...
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| When Guglielmo Marconi claimed a monopoly on the use of radio waves around 1900, he was thwarted right away by national states. In 1906, the...
| Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg bragged that his company will beat SpaceX in the race to put the first person on Mars. In response, SpaceX CEO...
| New, energy efficient materials that can replace silicon are necessary to support the future growth of micro-electronics. Not only are the l...