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A message for today from last century's vast telephone exchanges

A telecommunications museum in Seattle, with a working exchange from the 1940s, shows how telephones brought us together – but also tore us apart, says Annalee Newitz

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SARS-CoV-2 could evolve into new variants that may evade existing vaccines

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Inhaled powder that coats airways can block coronavirus infection

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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Original Sin review: Was space flight tainted from the get-go?

Culture

A laptop sits on a desk, opened to the homepage for the search engine Google. A person's hands enter from the left, with one hand's fingers placed on the laptop's keyboard.

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Google's AI is best yet at answering medical and health questions

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Attention Span review: A welcome injection of evidence

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Attention Span review: A welcome injection of evidence

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

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Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of reality?

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A man replaces a magnetic tape data storage drive in an early model office computer, mid 1970s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Magnetic tape: The surprisingly retro way big tech stores your data

From family photos to particle physics data, we generate stupendous amounts of digital information - and much of it is stored on old-fashioned plastic cartridges

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Robot guides needle into lungs more accurately than human doctors

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Health

Drug that targets ACE2 receptors may work against new covid variants

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Where might James Bond go next, in terms of science and technology?

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If cyberpunk no longer fits our vision of the future, what does?

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