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Fixing a smartphone

Trying to fix broken gadgets

Have you ever tried to fix a piece of technology that you own and come unstuck? Well that’s what happened to John ... Because in a lot of cases we buy these things, we think we own them, but actually we can't do anything with them that ... University of Cambridge When trying to mend something you own doesn't turn out to be easy... Trying to fix broken ...

internet cafe

The World Community Grid

... so, what the grid is, anybody can join.  It's using your own PC or computers that you own to join a network of computers and those computers are ...

Facial recognition scan

Where should facial recognition be used?

... That's the kind that you would use to unlock your own smartphone. That's not a very high risk use of facial ... proper oversight. But they should put pressure on their own MPs, to say, well, what is happening much more seriously. ...

Cyborg mask

How to become a cyborg

... the possibility of simply not remembering anything in your own brain, outsourcing the whole lot to a much more accurate ... something I've experienced in terms of connecting from my own nervous system to a robot arm. From that though, when you ...

Freckled face

Ukraine using Clearview Facial Recognition AI

... has centred as much on the company’s furthering of its own self-interest as it has on the potentially game changing ...

A smartphone

Going mobile: Ten years of the iPhone

... vision, and that was that everybody one day would have and own a mobile phone. Most people thought I was slightly mad ...

Building Better Bearings

... is associated with steel balls, we don't actually make our own steel balls anymore.  They're pretty much commodity ...

Lightbulbs

Bendy screens and hoverbikes: the tech of 2019

... on the side of our cola cam which will actually have your own message on it. Hello Peter. Drink me. Georgia - And what ...

graphene_screen

The future of graphene

... So, will you really see it in chips? Maybe on its own - no, I don't think so. But perhaps as a hybrid. So you ...

Artist's impression of the 5km diameter central core of SKA antennas.

The Square Kilometre Array

... of what we can do and also of course, it changes our own perception of what we can do.  We've already seen that a ...

Presents under a tree

Can technology help buy the best gift?

... gifting occasions and motivations, so if I can buy for my own children versus buying for other people’s children , if ...

AN example of a chip and PIN card

Securing the Internet - Chip and PIN

... get paid and in the end we do all our experiments on our own cards. Dave -   Fair enough.  So, is this possible to ...

All singing, all dancing robots

Making a chatty robot

...  At other times, it's trying to estimate feedback on its own and then what it does is it tries to analyse which ...

DJ Spooky at the Sundance Film Festival, 2003.

Sonic Pi: coding tunes in the classroom

... than just a gimmick?  Could children go on to build their own websites or apps, having played around with Sam's ...

early dating

Dating: past, present and future

...  So I don't know really - I think it's each to their own and you take each situation as you go. Khalil - Nowadays, ...

Timandra Harkness - Big genes, big data

... by Bloomsbury Sigma. And also a quick reminder that my own book -   Herding Hemingway's Cats: understanding how our ...

The M7 car of 1968 gave McLaren their first Formula One wins. It is driven here by Bruce McLaren at the Nürburgring in 1969.

Formula One - Science on the Starting Grid

... in order for the sailors to really tune and optimise their own equipment. Meera -   So, cycling and sailing ...