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Face value

Researchers recently claimed to be able to use AI to infer the inherent 'criminality' of faces. It's an idea with a long, dubious and dangerous history

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Ideas aren't everything: Naivety

Fortune and fame lie behind many inventors' efforts, but for reasons fair and foul, some don't exploit their work for financial gain

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Ideas aren't everything: Corporations

When inventors and big business collide, the former often lose out

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Ideas aren't everything: Cash

No money, more problems – history is full of unsung inventors who failed to secure the investment to make big plans happen

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Ideas Aren't Everything: Hubris

​Some ideas are best left on the cutting room floor. A key to invention is knowing when to quit

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Ideas Aren't Everything: Paranoia

Promising inventions often get derailed - Rhodri Marsden's new series looks at how this happens. Part one: paranoia

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The filter bubble

Digital technology lets us all be artists but does its guiding hand sap our creativity and lead to cultural homogeneity?

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The future according to Wikipedia

​Wikipedia's pages contain a reliable account of world history. But what about the future?

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What is common sense?

Sifting through the rhetoric of a stock phrase