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Brainwaves could act as your password – but not if you’re drunk
EEG authentication is touted as a potential biometric alternative to passwords, but a test involving shots of whisky suggests it won’t work if you’re tipsy
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How you can help micro:bit inspire more young inventors
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Poker AI competes to beat top players in no-limit game
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Humans
The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?
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Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics
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Physics
Quantum computers ditch all the lasers for easier engineering
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Health
Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled
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The inventions of our lifetime, picked by the people who know
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Quantum computers can talk to each other via a photon translator
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Glasses make face recognition tech think you’re Milla Jovovich
Printing bespoke tortoiseshell designs onto a pair of glasses tricks a face recognition system into identifying the wearer as a celeb
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Video games become political as US election looms
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Google’s neural networks invent their own encryption
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Dr House goes digital as IBM’s Watson diagnoses rare diseases
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Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze
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