Would You Trust a Robot to Give Your Grandmother Her Meds?

Building successful human-robot interactions means learning a lot more about what it means to trust someone or something
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Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

Our sun will swell, our galaxy will collide with its neighbour and the universe could suddenly be swallowed by a vacuum bubble
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Prisoners’ code word caught by software that eavesdrops on calls

Plug a machine-learning system in to prison phone lines and you can find out secrets a human monitor would never notice
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Five in-home robots that could change your life

Whether you want help with cooking, cleaning or even dating, there’s a droid for the job. Here are a handful of home assistants who would love to serve you

Meet Zenbo, the Asus robot that costs no more than a smartphone

In-home robots to help with everything from cooking and cleaning to childcare and companionship have been the stuff of sci-fi for decades. But, with the unveiling this week of the Wall-E-like Asus Zenbo, this is the year that science-fiction could turn into science-fact, introducing home assistants that can talk to you, control your electronics and help out with the chores. Here are five that could be knocking at your door in the near future.

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Study of 1 million sites shows just how closely we’re watched

In a huge study, a pair of computer scientists from Princeton University measured how the top million websites track you. Here's what they found
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Why Should We Ban Autonomous Weapons? To Survive.

While debate has focused on moral and legal issues of autonomous weapons, too little attention has been paid to the material dangers of an AI-powered war
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In a world of cross-border cooperation, Brexit will harm the UK

The collective power of the EU amplifies the impact of the UK’s important science sector. A vote to leave would a damaging move, says Mike Galsworthy
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