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Learning to read with Mr Robot

Projects to introduce robots into the classroom are being tested around the world. Could a new breed of social robots teach our children?

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Whitehall's revenge: Will the Government Digital Service be broken up?

The unit that transformed how the government provides services online acts like a tech startup. This is refreshing, but what accounts for its success may also be the thing that undoes it

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AI: What else could intelligence be?

We design machines to think and act in ways that only mirror humans.​ That's too restrictive, limiting what AI might be capable of, says Alex Taylor

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What cities in the post-Brexit era could learn from a 14th-century trading bloc

As national unions fracture over the spoils of globalisation, will we see the resurgence of city-state alliances, like the Hanseatic League?

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How drugs, prosthetics, algorithms and human endeavour will merge in the future of sport

Our anxieties about performance enhancement are really anxieties about our deep bodily connection to sport, says Pat Kane

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Hot desks: Creating space for design thinking at IDEO

The international design and innovation consultancy applies its famed methodology to its own office space

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Blackboards in the Jungle

In the Calais refugee camp, makeshift schools are springing up, catering to the needs of students of all ages

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Bumps in the road: The ultimate self-driving machine isn't here yet

Comment: Driverless cars are further away than the overexcited tech press would have you believe. Here's why

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Hot desks: A club to celebrate the 'sheer joy of stuff'

The Institute of Making at UCL is a space for hands-on creative discovery, where the arts and anthropology collide with science, engineering and architecture

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The forgotten women of the Proms

Data visualisation: female composers often featured more frequently in the early 20th century than they do today