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Science & Technology:

LG launches fridges, washers and cookers that chat – By Leo Kelion – 05/14
World’s Fair: Isaac Asimov’s predictions 50 years on – By Kim Gittleson – 04/14

Bionic Olympics to be hosted in 2016 – By BBC – 03/14

Artificial intelligence: How to turn Siri into Samantha – By Leo Kelion – 02/14
IBM commits $1bn to new Watson supercomputer division – By BBC – 01/14
Singularity: The robots are coming to steal our jobs – By Jane Wakefield – 01/14

Robin Labs Builds A Rear-View Mirror Personal Assistant New Investor Pioneer – By Ingrid Lunden – 01/14

Star Trek to Siri: How Machine-Reading Revolution will dictate the future – By P Allen & O Etzioni – 12/13
Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014 – By Mark Anderson – 12/13

The Future of Wearable Technology: Smaller, Cheaper, Faster Personal Computing – By David Evans – 11/13

Terminator’ self-assembling cube robots revealed by MIT – By BBC – 10/13

Quantum Computing: Where Technology Is Headed This Decade – By Dr H Esambolchi – 08/13
Alan Turing: why the tech world’s hero should be a household name – By Vint Cerf – 06/13
Rice University Professor: SkyNET’s Gonna Take Ur Jerbs! – By Techdirt – 05/13
Are bionic superhumans on the horizon? – By Ramez Naam – 04/13
How are humans going to become extinct? – By Sean Coughlan – 04/13
Are great scientists always heretics? – By Dr Stuart Clark – 04/13
The speech recognition personalising our digital lives – By Spencer Kelly – 04/13

Privacy ‘impossible’ with Google Glass warn campaigners – By BBC – 03/13

Step inside the Microsoft Envisioning Center – By Steve Clayton – 03/13

Robot warriors: Lethal machines coming of age – By Jonathan Marcus – 03/13
Viewpoint: Megatrends that will change everyone’s lives – By Sarwant Singh – 02/13
Why life through Google Glass should be for our eyes only – By Andrew Keen – 02/13

TED 2013: SpaceTop 3D see-through computer revealed – By Jane Wakefield – 02/13

Dyson launches all-in-one hand-drying Airblade water tap – By BBC – 02/13
Robots Cook and Serve Food in This Chinese Restaurant – By Eric Larson – 01/13
Google’s Ray Kurzweil Is Building Your ‘Cybernetic Friend’ – By Gregory Ferenstein – 01/13
Predicting technology in 2013: Rise of the machines? Part 2 – By Fiona Graham – 01/13
Technology teaser: Who will call it right in 2013? Part 1 – By Fiona Graham – 12/12
Explainer: What is the ‘Internet of Things?’ – By CNN (Le Web Paris) – 12/12
Swimming robot reaches Australia after record-breaking trip – By BBC – 12/12

Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied – By BBC – 11/12
Viewpoint: Robots are moving to greater interaction with people – By BBC – 11/12
Will men and machines merge? – By BBC – 11/12
Will the internet become conscious? – By Jeff Stibel – 11/12

Skydiver lands safely after historic jump from edge of space – By Josh Levs, Dugald McConnell – 10/12

Bionic revolution: The tech getting disabled people into work – By Dave Lee – 09/12

This Piece of Glass Can Store Data Forever – By Casey Chan – 09/12

Robots and humans could ‘talk’ via new software – By BBC Tech – 09/12

On second thought: Maybe smartphones make us ‘SuperStupid’? – By John Sutter – 09/12

How smartphones make us superhuman- By John Sutter – 09/12

Harvard Has Doomed Us All By Giving Robots Skin – By Zach Walton – 08/12

Tiny transmitters that cost a penny to print unveiled – By Zoe Kleinman – 08/12

What we’ve done on Mars, and what’s next – By Elizabeth Landau – 08/12

Google Asks: Are We Ready For Robots Who Can Think, Act, Relate To Humans? – By Chris Crum – 08/12

Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn’t exist – By Robert Gonzalez – 07/12
Higgs Boson: The Musical! – By Matt Silverman – 07/12

Start-up attempts to convert Prof Hawking’s brainwaves into speech – By BBC Tech – 07/12

Alan Turing: The experiment that shaped artificial intelligence – By Prof Noel Sharkey – 06/12
Tiny Robots Mend Broken Hearts – By Susan Young – 06/12

Robotic Fingertip Can Feel Textures Better Than You – By Amanda Wills – 06/12

Gesture and voice: the future of ultra-thin laptops – By Ciny Sui – 06/12
Is 3D printing the key to Utopia? – By John Naughton – 05/12
Real-world beaming: The risk of avatar and robot crime – By Laurence Peter – 05/12
Paralysed patients use thoughts to control robotic arm – By Fergus Walsh – 05/12

The Big Idea: Robots should take our jobs – John Sutter – 05/12
Are humans ready to become digital? – By BBC Click – 04/12
Eureka moment: Does man or machine drive innovation? – By Michael Millar – 04/12
Web War II: What a future cyberwar will look like -By Michael Gallagher – 04/12

Futuristic Neural Networks Get Closer – Machines That Think – By Mike Tuttle – 04/12

Robotic Jellyfish Swims With ‘Smart Material’ Bell – By Sean Patterson – 04/12

The future of technology… who knows? – By Rory-Cellan-Jones – 04/12
Viewpoint: Over-the-top technologies drive success – By Victor Basta – 03/12
Robot realities fail fictional fantasies – By Quentin Cooper – 03/12
Faster than 50 million laptops — the race to go exascale – By Matthew Knight – 03/12
Innorobo 2012: Is the dream of having a robot companion over? – By Dave Lee – 03/12

Futurist Ray Kurzweil: We’ll someday accept computers as human – By Brandon Griggs – 03/12

Robotics: Run like a cheetah, dance like a stripper, draw like an artist edition – By Kit Eaton – 03/12
Using brain power to control tech – By BBC Click – 02/12
The world’s 50 most innovative companies – By Fast Company – 01/12
Why it’s time to worry about rise of the android workers – By Andrew Keen – 12/11
Gamification time: What if everything were just a game? – By Katia Moskvitch – 09/11

When will computers match the human brain? Kurzweil vs. Myers – By Aaron Saenz – 08/10
Are we on the brink of creating a computer with a human brain? – By Michael Hanlon – 08/09
The dawn of intelligent machines – By Maggie Shiels – 08/08
The coming merging of mind and machine – By Ray Kurzweil – 02/01