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surveillance cameras

Technology

How surveillance capitalism is changing human nature forever

Firms that turn behaviour into saleable data are reshaping society 鈥� and us, says Shoshana Zuboff as she discusses her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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sharks

Life

Don’t miss: Shark crime, optical games and dairy in the cross hairs

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oil wells

Environment

The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US

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video game screenshot

Earth

Don’t miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution

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VR T rex

Technology

The mighty T. rex comes to terrifying life, complete with feathers

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Chinese slogan

Technology

China’s great firewall and the war to control the internet

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Cryotherapy

Health

How celebrities have fuelled the amazing rise in pseudoscience

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Life

Don鈥檛 miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

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Afghanistan's Hindu Kush peaks

Life

The new Afghanistan war: Saving snow leopards and other wild treasures

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Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani

Technology

An AI has created music based on Bach 鈥� but will an audience notice?

An experiment at London's Barbican will pit an AI composer trained on the works of Bach against the original pieces in a concert called The Eternal Golden Braid

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Physics

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili: Why my debut sci-fi novel is true to science

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Life

Don’t miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

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Physics

Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein

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Earth

Don’t panic about The Uninhabitable Earth, a new book predicting chaos

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