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From Bitcoin to blockchain: Key cryptocurrency terms and what they mean

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Is your phone altering your memories? Modern phones edit all our photos with AI, from simple enhancements to hallucinated facial features. Is it changing our view of reality?

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The gadgets set to change your daily health and wellness - Tech Now test out new gadgets disrupting the health industry at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.

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How to identify AI-generated videos online -- BBC Verify shares tips and tricks on how to spot AI-generated videos circulating online.

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Eggie, Neo, Isaac and Memo are domestic robots. But would you let them load your dishwasher? -- Joe Tidy meets robots being trained to tidy up all your mess.

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Are You Dead?: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone -- A new bleak-sounding app has been downloaded in droves by many youth who live by themselves - and fear dying alone.

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AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing -- Social media has been flooded with fake, AI-generated images and videos. But will the majority of users actually care?

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The world's most powerful X-ray lasers

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The Secret Genius of Modern Life

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Dating Apps: The Inside Story

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Seven Days on Mars

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Can Scientists Save the World?

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Trump and the Tech Titans

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Penguins: Spy in the Huddle

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The TikTok Effect

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Britain's Railway Empire In Colour

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We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands -- A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.

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The mysterious singer with millions of streams - but who (or what) is she? -- Sienna Rose has millions of Spotify listeners, but fans don't know what to believe about whether she's real.

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The 'AI mirrors' letting blind people see themselves -- Artificial intelligence is helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time. The consequences are only just emerging.

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A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – now my deepest secrets are online forever -- Meri-Tuuli Auer told her counsellor things about her life she didn't want her closest family to know.

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Google staff call for company to cut ties with ICE -- More than 900 Google employees signed a letter opposing company links to federal immigration actions.

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Uber ordered to pay $8.5m over claim driver raped passenger -- The verdict is expected to influence the outcome of thousands of other cases against the ride hailing firm.

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Call to embrace AI or 'be smashed' by it -- The MP for Blyth makes the call at a conference in the town addressing A1's impact on everyday life.

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YouTube's $60bn revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push -- YouTube's total revenue last year surpassed that of rival streamer Netflix as it seeks to dominate TVs.

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Amazon shares fall as it joins Big Tech AI spending spree -- Major firms collectively announce $650bn worth of investment in AI this week, rattling investors.

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TikTok told to change 'addictive design' by EU or face massive fines -- TikTok says it plans to challenge the "categorically false and entirely meritless" accusations.

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Bitcoin falls to lowest level since Trump took office -- The price of the digital currency has dropped significantly despite President Donald Trump's public support.

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Amazon closing centre catastrophic, says councillor -- Independent council leader Adam Zerny says there were discussions with Amazon ahead of the decision.

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AI synthetic workers could expand Jersey workforce -- AI could boost Jersey's workforce without increasing its population, Digital Jersey boss says.

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ChatGPT boss ridiculed for online 'tantrum' over rival's Super Bowl ad -- Commenters said Altman's lengthy post shows "a nerve was well and truly hit" by Anthropic's advert.

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UK's £8bn research fund faces 'hard decisions' as it pauses new grants -- UKRI boss Ian Chapman said it had been told by the government to "focus and do fewer things better".

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Four-legged robot used in trial to monitor radiation -- The Cumbrian nuclear plant hopes to use the robot to swab hazardous areas instead of human personnel.

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Growing calls in India to restrict children's social media use -- Some Indian states have said they are examining Australia's law curbing social media for children.

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Amazon customers told to expect delays after flood -- The retailer says recent severe weather flooded one of its warehouses in Cornwall.

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Nintendo Switch becomes gaming giant's best-selling console in history -- The Super Mario maker said 155 million units of the console have now been sold overall.

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