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Autonomous aerial and ground vehicles go on parade.

Boffins use arcade game to research fight or flight reflex.

Microsoft attempting to 'divide and conquer' open source software.

The trial of the four Swedish men accused of copyright theft for running the Pirate Bay web site has come to an end..

1960 Hypertext Conventional wisdom has it that the Internet started off as an American defence and educational network, then Tim Berners-Lee came along and invented the World

Laser weaponry looks like becoming part of future army's arsenal, including non-lethal "flashes" designed to stop car drivers.

Essential criteria: Must think like the enemy, know the enemy and report to the American Government. Previous hacking experience considered.

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A Boston jury has ordered Joel Tenenbaum to pay a total of US$675,000 for willfully infringing 30 songs by downloading and distributing them over the KaZaA peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing network.

New technology claims to defeat latest spam techniques.

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Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

Stuart Andrews shows you how to set up and maintain the perfect backup routine.

Finally, Microsoft comes clean about the failure of Vista and detail their plans for the new features to be released under Windows 7.

Covering your PIN code with your hand is no defence against new malware targeting ATMs that has appeared in the Ukraine and Russia, recording card transactions at the machine, including PIN, security number and account details

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