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Broadband too slow in more than a quarter of UK homes – report

Internet ‘not-spots’ where it takes days to download a film

UK’s worst street for BROADBAND revealed – and it’s 2,000 times slower than fastest

China’s crackdown on video game addiction sparks global debate over censorship

DeepMind’s AlphaZero now showing human-like intuition in historical ‘turning point’ for AI

Machinegun robot prepares for battle

Like something out of Robot Wars: British Army reveals it’s testing mini sniper tanks with remote-controlled machine guns to attack enemies without putting soldiers at risk

Army unveils first unmanned vehicles including 35-tonne Warrior tank and amphibious vehicle called the Hippo

Alexa and Google Home have capacity to predict if couple are struggling and can interrupt arguments, finds study

Banks and finance firms report 138% increase in tech failures

Facebook gives £4.5m to train local reporters

Facebook launches £4.5m scheme to help fund local journalism

UK ‘wholly’ unprepared to stop devastating cyber-attack, MPs warn

Britain is ‘failing to take cyberwar threat seriously’

Ministers want to issue teens with ‘digital passports’ to prevent access to pornography 

British children could be issued with ‘digital passports’ to protect them from online porn

‘Worrying’ lack of diversity in Britain’s tech sector, report finds

Bank of England stages day of war games to combat cyber-attacks

China rolls out surveillance system to identify people by their body shape and walk

China creates AI newsreaders who can work 24 hours a day and read whatever editors type

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