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Technological and digital news from around the world.

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Amnesty's Video Validation
Amnesty International's online tool to help validate videos showing human rights abuses
22 Jul 2014,28 mins
BrainWriter
The technology enabling a paralysed artist to draw using his brain waves
15 Jul 2014,28 mins
NIME Pioneering Electronic Music
A report from New Interfaces for Musical Expression on the latest in electronic music
08 Jul 2014,28 mins
Facebook Emotion Manipulation
A report on the outrage over Facebook research into mood manipulation
01 Jul 2014,28 mins
ICANN and Domain Names
ICANN's plans for the future of domain names and policing the internet
24 Jun 2014,28 mins
Big 'Servers' at Wimbledon
Videos showing 360 degree views of tennis matches revolutionise coverage of Wimbledon
17 Jun 2014,28 mins
Goal-line Technology
World Cup football just got more accurate as Brazil 2014 introduces goal-line technology
10 Jun 2014,28 mins
Privacy or Freedom of Speech?
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on the 'right to be forgotten' online
03 Jun 2014,28 mins
TV White Space in Ghana
The TV White Space project in Ghana potentially offers that country greater connectivity
27 May 2014,28 mins
Is Estonia e-Voting Unsafe?
Is Estonia's e-Voting system, as critics claim, open to cyber attack?
20 May 2014,28 mins
Finland's Tech Boom
Click reports how the fall of Nokia has led to a technological start up boom in Finland
13 May 2014,28 mins
BASIC Turns 50
BASIC the computer language that revolutionised the world of PCs is fifty years old
06 May 2014,28 mins
Rex: Exoskeleton at Naidex
The exoskeleton enabling a woman with severe disabilities to walk and fend for herself
29 Apr 2014,28 mins
WWW 25 Years On
Reflections on the creation of the World Wide Web and the connected information age
22 Apr 2014,28 mins
FutureEverything Manchester
The tech festival in Manchester envisages the year 2018
15 Apr 2014,28 mins
India's Electronic Voting
India's electronic voting machines court the undecided with a 'None of the Above' button
08 Apr 2014,28 mins
Smart Citizen Pack
Technology packs that put citizens, not government, in charge of monitoring environments
01 Apr 2014,28 mins
Danah Boyd: It's Complicated
Danah Boyd on why teenagers using social media is nothing to worry about
25 Mar 2014,17 mins
CERN: Story Matter
CERN collaborates with hackers and filmmakers on new ways of telling the story of science
18 Mar 2014,17 mins
SXSW Highlights
Highlights from SXSW festival, including a device that registers your cardiac fingerprint
11 Mar 2014,17 mins
Iran's Internet Freedom
A battle in Iran over restrictions on citizens' use of social networking sites
04 Mar 2014,17 mins
Wearable Technologies
Google Glass, life-logging cameras and the future of wearable technologies
25 Feb 2014,55 mins
Her and Cleverbot
Where are we going with our relationships with computers?
18 Feb 2014,17 mins
NSA Under Surveillance
EU Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding plans to protect citizens from NSA attention
11 Feb 2014,17 mins
Project Daniel
Using 3D printing to make a prosthetic arm for a boy who lost his arms in a bomb attack
04 Feb 2014,17 mins
Keeping Firefighters Safe
How sensors in the boots of firefighters help locate them in burning buildings
28 Jan 2014,17 mins
The People's Operator
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on a new ethical mobile phone operator
21 Jan 2014,17 mins
Brain Scans With a Smartphone
The app that can take EEG brain scans to enable the correct diagnosis of seizures
14 Jan 2014,17 mins
Consumer Electronic Show
Smarter mobile phones and invisible, wearable technologies vie for attention at CES
07 Jan 2014,17 mins
3D Printing
Is 3D printing set to revolutionise manufacturing?
31 Dec 2013,17 mins