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Europe vs Silicon Valley: behind enemy lines with the woman deciding Google's fate
Margrethe Vestager's decisions on Google, Apple and Facebook will shape the future of technology. But has the EU commissioner bitten off more than she can chew?
You can now get first aid advice from Amazon Echo's Alexa
Voice-controlled assistant Alexa can be used to help organise your time, tell you the latest FA Cup scores and teach you about space. Now it could help save a life.
This souped-up telescope scours the cold corners of the Universe where stars go to die
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array can detect some of the weakest signals from the farthest reaches of the cosmos.
High street banks are failing and they only have themselves to blame
High street banks are being hindered by their own systems. How can banking work to produce an equitable relationship between the company and client?
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Stimulating brain cells could stop people cheating, study finds
Non-invasive brain stimulation led to people cheating less in a series of experiments conducted at the University of Zurich.
The 2018, four-cylinder F-Type is the first in the Jaguar range being sold for less than £50,000.
Cadbury Creme Eggs are only on sale from January to Easter, but its factories fill 350 million chocolate shells with gooey fondant 364 days a year.
The maps come from a report which reveals the UK's accelerators and incubators provide £33 million annually in startup investment.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently won the Alan Turing Award – known as the 'Nobel Prize in computing'.
In March, plans were released for a 'spacescraper', Rosetta captured a comet landslide and the most detailed of dark matter was revealed.
The next revolutionary medical instrument? Your smartphone
With super-high resolution cameras, huge cellular bandwidth and vast storage, our phones are becoming unparalleled pocket-sized medical devices.
Venture capitalists must get more female friendly
An uncomfortable truth in the venture capital industry: it is harder for women to raise money than it is for men.
WIRED travelled to Alton Towers in Staffordshire to take a ride on Galactica, the world's first rollercoaster fully dedicated to virtual reality.
WIRED takes an exclusive tour of Nasa's rockets and robots - from yesterday to tomorrow.
Sport science and technology are helping athletes – professional and amateur – to optimise their physical output. WIRED explains how.
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