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A Japanese engineer researching how animals move is building a robot that can run like a human being. Ryuma Niyama is attempting to crack the code of human propulsion, an achievement he says will one day lead to more efficient prosthetics.
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A three-dimensional computer generated film shows, for the first time, what happens in the brain as it loses consciousness.
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Amateur video footage shows the immediate aftermath of Russian plane crash. There were 52 passengers and crew aboard the Tupolev-134 when it went down on Monday night.
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Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet.
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Rebecca Black has officially pulled her "Friday" video off of YouTube.
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Japan's parliament enacted legislation Friday criminalizing the creation or distribution of computer viruses to crack down on the growing problem of cybercrimes, but critics say the move could infringe on the constitutionally guaranteed privacy of communications.
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Gaming giant Sega has become the latest hacking victim to have its user data exposed with over a million customers affected.
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A man has tracked down his stolen bike after he put pictures of the thief on the social networking site Facebook.
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Chinese internet giant Alibaba has announced that it is reorganizing one of its websites, Taobao, into three separate units.
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Israel's Arava Power Company has unveiled the country's first commercial solar field. The firm, which is investing almost $2 million on building a series of plants across the Negev desert hopes to start a "Solar Revolution" in the largely arid country.
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Germany's new Cyber Defense Center was officially opened by Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich at a ceremony in Bonn on Thursday.
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The Swiss Solar Impulse takes off from Brussels for a flight to the International Paris Air Show.
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Pablo Picasso's 'Jeune Fille Endormie' is one of the artist's most celebrated paintings. This summer, the portrait of Picasso's lover, Marie-Thérèse, will go under the hammer at Christie's auction house in London.
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Mr Lockhart, who joins Facebook next month as Vice President of Global Communications, represents the company's latest move to enlist Washington insiders.
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Facebook is planning an IPO that could value the company at as much as $100 billion, according to CNBC sources.
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The poor, West African country of Togo is not the first place that springs to mind when considering the science of robotics, but one aspiring scientist is on a mission to change public perception.
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Audi and MIT's SENSEable City Lab have teamed up to design the car navigation system of the future - a 3D display that will sit on the dashboard.
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ATMIA, the ATM Industry Association, is an organisation with more than 2,000 members in 60 countries around the world.
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Confirming rumors that surfaced over the weekend, Apple has started selling the unlocked version of the iPhone 4 in Apple Retail stores.
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You didn’t expect Anonymous to take the recent Spanish police action against them lying down, did you?
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